Hi, For those that wish to divulge, can you give an outline of the steps you take in starting and implementing a link building plan for your site or a clients website? Thanks
LOL, I'm new at this so I'm not a good example, but here is what I do. Maybe this will help other newbies, but if I'm doing something wrong, hopefully the pros can pick this apart as a study to help too. Anyway, the first thing I do is make a website. Then I use Digg and the other top social bookmarker sites to try to get a backlink. Then I use EzineArticles and write articles with my keyword in the anchor text. Then I do a search for related blogs and post informative comments with a link back to my website. I also do a search for related forums. Become an active member, be helpful, and put your link in your signature and do NOT try to promote your site too much. Just focus on being helpful and gaining trust.
always start with a plan. analyze your competition to see how many backlinks they have and plan accordingly. you can keep an excell spreadsheet to track your link building efforts. dont go crazy with link building, take a slow and steady approach. if you build 100 links thins month, try to build 150 links or so next month, then 200 links month after. if you do directory submissions and social bookmarking this month, then next month you can do blog commenting and article submission, etc. use several diferent methods of link building and keep building links.
Aww... now I feel unorganised - I better make a plan before I start my next project - so many ideas just in my head
I dedicate time to backlinks daily, weekly, or monthly based on which site I'm promoting. In some cases I'm already on the first page for all primary terms so only a minor amount of monthly maintenance is needed. In all cases, I keep a record of the following information in an excel sheet: URL of link, anchor text, PR, F/NF (following?), type of page (blog, article, forum, etc...) Since I take the time to find places to link, I link regardless of whether or not there is a nofollow code. I do this because some sites have stripped out that code so there may be a chance (however slim) that a former link with the nofollow code may some day become a dofollow link. Plus, most of my links are relevant to the page I post to so even without following, the link may result in direct traffic.
1) I comment on blogs primarily Do follow blogs. I don't limit myself to them because you can build a reputaion and possibly get a link in the blogroll of a no follow blog you comment on a lot. 2) I post on forums like this with my blog in my signature. -This is my first post here so no signature yet 3) I submit to blog carnivals. I have had three articles that have been linked to so far, Hey it's a start. 4) Write quality stuff and hope people like it and link to you Seven months of using this strategy I went from a brand new blog to a PR of 2 which just showed up a couple of weeks ago. Ned Carey
directory submissions social bookmarking reciprocal forum links posting comments in blogs uploading e-books to download.com
1. Write something so profound, that everyone cannot help but link to it. 2. Provide a service so useful, that everyone cannot help but link to it. Actually have done #1 several times. It is amazing how many links appear for one hour's worth of work. In one case, a single article has surpassed the PR of the homepage because of the links going to it. For that one site, it is only thing it is known for. Still working on number 2.
I build backlinks through article submission, press release distribution, and signature links from forums.
Before start all bunch of link building, submit press release on High PR & free popular domain. Such as theopenpress, i-newswire, prlog.org, 1888pressrelease etc. Cheers.
I start out with what I call "low-level" links like directories, social sites, forums, etc. After about 6 weeks, I feel I have enough SE trust to start getting more quality and higher PR links. For what it's worth.
Recently I am experimenting with the following link plan: 1: Create 20 web2.0 property's pointing at your money site and interlinking to the ones that are attached to the highest PR domains, like Squidoo/Wordpress/Weebly for instance. 2: Blast the web2.0's with xrumer profiles, scrapebox blogcomments, social bookmarks and articles. This to increase the PR of the blogs fast. As you decide what content to leave on the sites they can get pretty valuable 3: Social bookmark your moneysite on all the major sites 4: Build articles, I would use Article marketing robot for that and only submit to the PR1+ sites, to prevent to mass spam 5: Place many blogcomments on high PR pages, make sure they don't have more then 100 outbound links, to find these pages analyze the backlinks of your competitors, once you find a blog you can also reverse engineer other websites that posted there, especially people that make short comments like: "great blog thanks for sharing" can be an intersting source for more high PR backlinks. 6: Submit a press release for your site, there are several free options for that 7: Submit the site to appropriate webdirectory's Especially the blogcomments on high PR pages with a low ammount of outbound links can be very effective. I wanted to add a graphical view of it but I'm not allowed cause of low post counts, I will upload it later on!
Wow, that's a lot of great information ^! This is my first post, and i'm new with building websites, so bare with me. I first started with using fiverr gigs to build backlinks but that's a little costly when you think only 3-5% of the links actually stick. Right now I just focus on doing manual backlinks and seeing what my competition is doing. My problem is that I am in two very tough markets. One is for fitness and the other is about wealth and luxury. What do you all use to check your backlinks? My webmaster page on google said i have about 8 backlinks but alexa.com said i only have 1.
Link Buy Video Posting Post Reviews Profile Creations Social Networking Classified Posting Press Release Submission Article Submission Site Reviews Link Exchange here you can see the result seomasterplace.com
Some must have tools to help you building links and locating high PR pages to post on: - Scrapebox - Bookmark Demon - ArticleMarketingRobot Ofcourse you can also sign up to some monthly plan that does these things for you but it can get pretty expensive in the longterm
This is how my complete linkbuilding plan looks! The ones at the bottom, ALN, BMR, ADR, PR, are all paid services that I would use in case the above isn't sufficient.