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Over the last few years there have been a few SEO strategies that you could use to boost your website to the top of Google. But a lot of things have changed with the advent of Panda and other updates that Google has released over the last 18 months.
A lot of these SEO strategies are not as powerful as they once were, like link wheels for example are just not going to cut it in 2012.
Another powerful SEO strategy that still works today is a backlinking. Backlinking is a very powerful strategy to get good traffic and rankings. There is only one thing you have to take into account and that is not all backlinks are the same and some of them are just a total waste of time.
There has been one buzz word around the Internet about backlinks and that is “it’s not the quantity but the quality” or “not all backlinks are equal”.
These quotes are very true I am going to show you in this article that in 2012 there are some back linking strategies that are a total waste of time, money and effort.
All of the strategies below I have tried so I’m speaking from experience.
1. Buying backlinks
Buying backlinks is a total no-no in my opinion and it can be quite dangerous for your website. There are many services online today that can get you tens of thousands of one-way backlinks to your website for $10 but you don’t know where those backlinks are coming from.
I have heard many horror stories on forums over the last 6 months where Webmasters have purchased a”10,000 back link scrape box blast” from Fiverr and their websites disappeared from Google overnight.
There is no shortcut in getting backlinks it’s best just to do it manually because if you use one of these so called back linking services you could potentially destroy your website.
Don’t get me wrong I know there are some exceptions to the rule.
2. Mass Article Submissions
This in my opinion is a total waste a time because you end up with 100 articles posted on 100 different article directories so Google will not indexed all of them because they are duplicate content. Also most article directories are always of a low quality so the page rank is usually low i.e. PR 0.
I know that someone who offers a service that will post your article to 1000 different article directories sounds tempting but if I was you I would just use Ezine Articles or Go Articles.
3. Directory Submissions
There are thousands of article directories that have sprung up over the last three years but just like most article directories they are of a low quality. The only directories that Google really pays attention to are Dmoz and Yahoo page directory and the rest I will not waste my breath on.
I think that Dmoz is no longer accepting directory submissions so the only way to get a Dmoz listing is to purchase an expired domain that is already listed there.
4. Profile Links
Profile links or signature links are not as powerful as they once were, they have become a low quality backlinks. Around 18 months ago I purchased 5000+ profile links to my website and I had a report that went along with the links so I could check if they were live. 18 months later and not one of the profile links have been indexed by Google.
Only high quality sites that allow profiles to be created on them get indexed.
Basically any back link that can be self-created without any moderation has dropped in value and profile linking is one of the types.
5. Mass Bookmarking
Anything that has the word “Mass” in a sentence when it comes to creating backlinks just steer clear from it altogether. Out of all of the thousands of bookmarking websites only 10 of them are worth submitting your URL to like Digg, Stumble, Reddit etc the rest are a waste of time.
As a side note there are some powerful bookmarking sites that have appeared over the last few years like Blogengage, blog interact, Bizsugar etc.
These bookmarking sites are wonderful places to post your article to because they are a bit more niche targeted than your average bookmarking website.
One of the added bonuses of these bookmarking sites is that the admin/owner of the site is reachable and most of them accept guest posts.
Before I forget there is a powerful article by Ben Jackson on Mitz’s Website with some solid backlinking strategies on it. If you want to build backlinks the right way I suggest that you read it.
Do you agree or disagree with what I have said in this article? I would love to know your thoughts and experiences on the subject.
I agree you really have to be careful with the products which suggest mass bookmarking. I have heard time and time again that quality governs quantity. Submission to 2.0 sites such as Twitter, Friend Feed and Typepad are important. WPSyndicator is a tool and cheap tool for this. I tend to find high authority websites within my niche and submit commentlov comments. Always best to check if URL is working probably for your shared post using commentlov. Thakns for the advice and shall read the 18 link builder article. All the best
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Hello Paul, I have never heard of WPSyndicator before I just use onlywire and PingFM to syndicate my posts to the top sites automatically. When it comes to backlinking I just use CommentLuv because I think it’s the best thing since sliced bread. I think that this year guest blogging is really going to take off because Bloggers/Webmasters are going to realise that when you have a backlink within the body of the content it is a “quality link” and worth much more than 500 PR n/a links any day.
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Totoly agree with your post. Then what things that I muct do to increase the backlinks? I know many reputed seo companies which doing directories submission. Are they wrong?
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The best backlinks I’ve gotten so far have been from sites with commentluv. Better yet, Does anyone know how many backlinks does it take to get google pagerank?
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It is true that most of the earlier strategies will not work any more. Google may rather penalize for such old strategies. Writing a guest article on quality sites may still help. Likewise, commenting on good sites can also perhaps be useful for traffic and backlinks when it is Dofollow.
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hi there Ashok, Google are definitely killing off most of the old SEO methods for people still insist on using them like link wheels For example. guest blogging on high quality websites is definitely a strategy that we need to adopt in 2012.
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Is google plus is really helpful like facebook page , as I get the result from facebook like page but not get any result from google plus…………….
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Google plus will start to rise this year as they lure webmasters with SEO benefits and possible rank rises. I love the rel=author thing…Google plus has got my vote
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Rajit,
getting good results from Google + will take time as people their are pretty less if compared to facebook, while Google is taking +1′s into account for sure after its new social search & changes in their privacy policies. So many bloggers have suggested to concentrate on +1, Diggs as they are getting more preference for serps not Facebook likes..
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I think that this year you’re going to see Google plus rise in the social network battle because they are getting more and more Webmasters on their side.
Webmasters want better rankings etc Google can entice them/us to use Google plus more because of the benefits
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Hi Kezanari, I agree with your post, and I actually think Google tightening down on the old SEO “cheating” is a good thing. I am pretty new to affiliate marketing and I’m just working on getting my site to rank for the first time. As I research what others have done to build links on their sites I routinely come across a bunch of crap. Links on sites that are written in Japanese with 1500 comments on one page, or fake blog posts put together for the sole purpose of adding links to other sites they are trying to promote. Has Google figured out how to find these yet, they use english words but it’s just garbage, not even readable. Is this the link wheel you were referring to?
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Yes believe me Google can read those jibber-ish comments left by spammers and believe you me you don’t want your URL amongst that madness.
No link will is when you connect websites together and have them all pointing to your website. This used to work 18 months ago but now I wouldn’t bother. Link wheels are considered as black hat SEO and Google does not like these methods.
Just stick to white hat methods i.e. unique content, quality backlinks and more interaction
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Hello Kezanari,
I agree that linkwheels are no longer as powerful as they once were. But if you focus on quality 2.0 sites like wordpress, blogger, squidoo etc you can really build some quality and relevant backlinks to your main site.
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Hi kezanari, one profile link that is great to have it on your Google+ profile. Another great site that where the profile links are indexed is Xeeme. I haven’t seen any others that are worthwhile. Thanks for the tips.
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most definitely Ileane there are a few profile links that are still great to have by large majority of them are a waste of time for backlinking purposes. I think that Google has well and truly slammed the door on profile links, but that’s my opinion obviously.
Great article. I simply dislike all the mass posts I see on different sites. It’s so annoying and no wonder Google doesn’t index them! I feel like those sites are duplicates of each other and have the same articles, lol. Anywho, well written and informative article.
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thanks Sue I also think that this article is great as well (“,) but like you said Google don’t really indexed a lot of these self-made links anymore. Matt Cutts said that Google is trying to weed out the spam and get all the quality websites ranking high. you will find out that Google will not index the same article more than eight times from different websites it normally puts them into supplementary index.
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Any strategy that is going to create a huge jump in backlinks in a short amount of time will cause problems. I too have read the horror stories about sites dropping from search rankings by doing that.
Slow and steady.
Guest posts and using CommentLuv on sites with good PR has been helping for me. But that’s a slow path. I’m not searching for an overnight path that will only result in being dropped just as fast.
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some sound advice there Troy. Comment luv and guest blogging my be slow but it gets results and also SEO is for the long term. You just need to get your website to the point of “compound” where you have great traffic and readership everyday without doing anything.
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I, or we, need to hear that. It may be slow and it is great to hear some reinforcement that the slow-n-steady approach is “sound”. Thanks so much – that just fueled another post, or two.
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Any time Troy I like to adding value to people where possible.
Thank you for your insight into SEO that works! In trying some of the guru stuff …. I’m not so sure I got any results. CommentLuv is effective though. And your right I’ve gotten a fair amount of traffic guest blogging.
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Guest blogging works wonderfully the secret is that you have to submit your articles to strategic websites like here for example if you want maximum impact.
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I agree. Anything that can be created without moderation is slowly dying out. Just look at the power of article submissions. They totally tanked. You can count on Google to slowly start destroying spammy SEO techniques one by one.
I think content is still king but manual link building is crucial. There is just no way for Google to say what content is good and what content is bad without looking at metrics. Until they can SEO professionals will always have a place.
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you are right here Mark, Panda gave the big article directoies a good kicking and they just about survived. the lower autority directories got wiped out.
content and link building is very important BUT it has to be quality.
Nice list for the new year. With so many changes this past year to the ranking systems it is wise to not utilize these spammy type of links anymore. Gone are the days of xrumer and scrapebox blasts. That is of course unless you know how to use them properly. Any thoughts on link wheels and pyramids in 2012?
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I agree you Jake, 2011 was a pivotal year for SEO. this year you’re going to find that less and less of the old style SEO will not work it’s time to update our strategies. Link wheels lost their relevance a long time ago It still amazes me today why people still use them. http://kezanari.com/the-death-link-wheel.html/
and when it comes to link pyramids and all that “spinning content” business it’s more hassle than anything else. You be better off Spending your time Writing five guest posts on high-quality websites instead.
I was wondering about profile links. I’ve heard it being recommended over and over again but I just didn’t think it would result in any value. Thanks for sharing that you have yet to see on indexed – you just saved me some time and possibly money.
And I have to share that I just had a page get picked up big-time in stumbleupon. I’ve had 19k views in the past week alone. It has allowed me to see where my visitors really go on a mass scale, even though they are the ever quick to click stumblers. So stumbleupon has just gone up a few (thousand) notches in my book and I feel it’s worth submitting to just as much as twitter, facebook, digg, and google+.
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Believe me Bellaisa this article has definitely saved you money and time when it comes to profile backlinking. profile back links used to work but SEO Nuke (SEO Software) killed that one off.
Wow congratulations on your webpage going viral on StumbleUpon you must of got some crazy traffic. The only thing is that viral traffic from bookmarking websites is that it’s only short lived most of the time. you get a massive spike in traffic and it leaves as quick as it came. Hopefully this does not happen to you. Like you said it is always worth bookmarking your articles at the top bookmarking websites and not with the thousand other rubbish ones.
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Agree with your points. I prefer going for guest posts, posts in web 2 sites to get backlinks.
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guest blogging will definitely take off this year Nirmal because I’m hearing a lot more talk about it in a lot of forums. one of the strategies that I am adopting is guest blogging and commenting on people’s articles basically trying to add as much value as possible because it has been paying off
Seo and backlinking seems to be changing fairly often, and Google is changing some algorithm. I personally don’t like to go with one backlink type. I like to mix it up a bit. Not only do I get tired of doing the same type of backlinking over and over I think it is a good idea to mix it up in case things change in the world of seo. Where if you do all or nearly the same type all the time and Google says hey those are worthless now hopefully you have other types that you have been doing to fall back on or will make up for some loses.
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Ray I replied to answer A few comments below but I forgot to press to reply button.↓↓
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Hey man, thanks for what you said. I have been learning different SEO strategies for 1 year, but still didn’t get any good rank in google. These strategies you mentioned above, in my way, are the same as you explained. As about buying backlinks, so i totally agree with you, because we even don’t know where we are getting these traffic, just know we bought some backlinks from some provider.
am not preety good in English..
Sorry for my English
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Your English is fine Zeshan and you are right about buying backlinks. for every good backlink provider their are on the market there are 10 bad ones maybe 20. A lot of website owners think that they can just buy 10,000 backlinks and then there website pops up at number one in Google. when it comes to SEO strategies most people are two years behind so Webmasters will still continue to use the methods in this article For a good few years.
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Hi there I Ray, Like the The whole world of SEO Is changing so rapidly is hotting up especially now Yahoo discontinued their link service.
It is a good idea to mix up your backlinks but At the same time there’s no point in having backlinks to worthless and irrelevant websites. But who knows in a future maybe Google might fall in love a profile links again (which I very much doubt) but there again who knows when it comes to Google
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Hi, Robert! I don’t like paying for backlinking either! I’d rather find blogs from my niche and negotiate a link exchange. Great article, awesome tips. Thanks!
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Hello Jack, Manually back linking your website using CommentLuv plug-in is definitely more powerful Than Negotiate With another Webmaster for a link exchange. But it doesn’t hurt to mix up your links.
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I am quite confused about what to do for back linking before i read this article. But this post is very helpful. Thanks for this information hope it will be work for my new blog.
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I am happy that this article has helped you out Prakash.
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HI there, Nice article and advice for bloggers to avoid grey hat seo. While its good to avoid them, remember that its not really mandatory and it will not hurt your ranking in anyway until google puts a black mark again the sites that link to you. With all said and done I am an SEO and I know what SEO’s do in the industry to get ranking. SO I guess you can say that all these will still work very well.
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Thank you for your comment Eddie, it’s always best to stick with white hat methods because it’s the safest route to take. When it comes to backlinking you have to take care, the methods above use to work well but those days are over. some people may still be getting success with these methods but it will be very limited success.
I’ve been saying for a long time that submitting your site to directories is just a waste of time. After all, I’m not sure search engines would look at directories to be a great resource so they might not even index the lot of them.
But, I do believe that niche directories are great especially if the owner of the site put a lot of thought on how the directory is constructed.
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Noel I totally agree with you about directories but don’t get me wrong there are some quality directories out there You just have to do some research to find them.
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Totally agree. The best way to make someone enter your site and gain relevance y google is to have a good product and relevant content.
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It’s true Inmobee you can never go wrong with quality content.
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Helpful article Kenzanari,
Good thing I don’t do those “mass” stuff anymore. Profile links on G+ is a must too.
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hi there Sanjay,having a profile on websites like Google plus, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc is definitely a must but people still seem to build profile links on these other forums and websites that will not help your ranking one bit.
The days of mass submission are quickly drawing to a close Google have made sure of that.
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You are absolutely right about article directories, but I recommend making a list of top 20 or top 10 article website. Post a good quality article in them not the same article you will notice traffic and results.
Profile links! two words “Stay Away”. I have seen xrumer services for profile links and I pitty on webmasters who purchase the service. It actually hurt your rankings. As number of bad quality links defeat number of quality backlinks.
Same for social bookmarking only a list of top 50 can be good, but same like profile link blasts. It is a bad service.
I have a different opinion on paid links. It is like when you are not caught you enjoy the rankings and I have seen big companies using this method to promote their products and services. For small webmasters it is a poision because it is easy to detect, but for companies like Lexus, Pfizer etc they can hide paid links in hundred thousand mixed links.
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sorry But your reply is below
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thank you for your comment Ahmad, most definitely submitting your articles to one of the top 10 article directories is still a great idea. It’s just mass submitting your articles to 1000 different article directories is a Waste of time.
When it comes to xrumer and Scrapebox services only a newbies will be affected because they are just joining the market.
I agree with you the social bookmarking there are only a few that are worth you submitting your URLs to.
Yes there are quality services out there that can link built for you but there are more Joker SEO services than quality ones. You just have to do your due diligence if you do decide to buy back links or other SEO service
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The info stated at tip number three is new to me , i tried submitting to DMOZ for several websites in the past (and will do so in the future). So the statement that they wouldn’t accept new listings comes as a bit of a suprise to be honest.
Why are you thinking they stopped accepting ?
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I’m not sure why Dmoz are not setting any more submissions to It’s directory but I know they haven’t been accepting For at least two years now (I may be wrong). so if you want to get into Dmoz you have to buy an expired domain name that is already in Dmoz.
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I have just recently started trying to promote my blog a bit more and find this post very interesting. I have checked out all the ‘magical’ ways to promote and even purchase traffic and have so far avoided all of them – according to this post it was a very good move. I only signed up to CommentLuv today so it will be interesting to see what happens from now on.
Cheers for the post – a worthwhile read in my opinion
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Gazev You may good decision in not subscribing to the so-called silver bullet solutions when it comes to traffic. using CommentLuv is a good move because it definitely helps you to get some decent comments on your website. I must that the CommentLuv community is great.
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Kezanari;
Thank you for a very valuable article. There is so much good advice in it. I will definitely bookmark it to read again. I have been working very hard doing guest posts to get Backlinks and after reading your article I will pay close attention to those sites that allow the linking in the content rather than the profile.
I have long been a follower of James Martell’s and on this site in the summer he posted an article about this very subject – 5 Reasons You Should AVOID Article Marketing Like the Plague He has recently returned from an Affiliate summit with more of the same news. In an email series about this he said “Matt Cutts, long time Google employee and head of the infamous *webspam* team, is on record as saying he’s not a big fan of article marketing.”
James went on to say:
“The problem is that very soon that same article resides on numerous
sites, many of which are known offenders in publishing spam.
Sometimes you’ll get an immediate lift, but as soon as Google’s
algorithm detects a pattern of mirrored or duplicate content your
article will be filtered as spam.
And they will not only penalize the publisher, but the recipient of
any backlinks embedded :: {which would be YOU}.
These types of backlinks have zero value and are known as junk
links.
The real danger is that sometimes these penalties may cause
irreversible damage for your site’s chances at future high rankings.”
I think that with all of you warning about the dangers of article marketing we should all be very careful about this practice.
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Hello Pat Thank you for your comment, having a link in the body of an article is Probably One of the most powerful list back links you can have.
It is true James has got some powerful articles on the website. Also when Matt Cutts says he doesn’t like something we better listen (in my opinion)
yes when you submit your article to thousands of web directories using software it’s all Duplicate content. Also if it is a Spun article Google can read and assess synonym changes and it knows if it’s spun or not (70% Of the time).
it is also true that you may get an immediate lift from some of these back linking strategies but once Google sniffs out spam pointing to your website you will get hit hard.
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If you have your article at a place like EzineArticles it may get picked up by the autoblogs out there, which will have dozens or even hundreds of copies of your article (some spun, some not) out there.
But I doubt that Google would punish you for that. If so, we’d all be mass submitting articles with links to our competition. Google’s smart enough to know that would happen. So, at best you wouldn’t get any link love from the spammy sites. We can’t control who links to us.
But watch out for trackbacks! They may be getting trackbacks from you that Google will penalize you for.
Ultimately, I believe that building backlinks should be something that we do for each other, not for ourselves. Find quality articles in your niche or a related niche. Write an article about the same topic and link to it. If we all do that then we’ll see natural linking patterns that lead to reader satisfaction (Google measures that as best they can).
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hello Bill, it’s true that people can republish your articles hundreds of times so Google would not penalised you for this. If you’re article shows up in searches more than 10 times Google will normally Put into a supplementary archive. But like you said you Won’t get any link love at all from those extra postings.
I like your statement about how we should build links for each other and not for ourselves. I think this is a great idea because what goes around comes around.
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I agree with most all of the points, but disagree with the directory links. Sure, buying a mass of directory links to unrelated categories is a BAD idea! But buying directory links to targeted, highly relevant directories to your industry can be a great plan and will not only increase traffic – it could result in sales!
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that’s my whole point Andre it’s better to submit your URL to Strategic directories but most people opt for the mass Directory submission which does more harm than good. If Google sniffs automation your website could get penalised.
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I thought for sure you were going to write that comments were no long worth writing as a link building strategy as is often cited in these kinds of lists. But you didn’t go there. It would have been very ironic on a site for plugin that is all about getting link juice from comments.
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hey there Steve, Blog Commenting is great for back links and traffic especially to use CommentLuv (“,)
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I’ve never understood buying backlinks. I’m sure a lot of people do it because why else would there be so many advertisement for the practice. I’ve actually not done any of the practices you’ve mentioned other than reasonably using Digg or Stumble Upon. But when I used those bookmarking services, I did not use them correctly.
Good thoughts for 2012.
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There is definitely a market out there for back linking services Brian. I just find that A lot of people that use them all website or business owners that don’t understand SEO or just newbies trying to cut corners. Digg and stumble upon a great bookmarking websites to use but just avoid rubbish ones with no PR.
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Thanks. If you can ever explain a good way to use Digg effectively, I’d appreciate it. It seems like they changed their site to become more social a year or or two ago and after that, I was lost.
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Hi there Brian when it comes to digg you have to get at least 5 Duggs for your URL to get noticed. I used to have 10 Separate accounts so I could digg my URL 10 times (don’t tell anyone) but that was some time ago. Now I can’t be bothered with all that.
A better idea is just to build up a network of blogging buddies where you can share each other’s work is a lot easier.
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I remember getting advice to set up at least 20 accounts at sites like Digg and StumbleUpon. Then you would digg or stumble each post with 10 of the 20 (mixing it up each time).
I thought about it and it really defeats the purpose of bookmarking sites so I gave it a pass. 1 account only for me!
It does make sense to have buddies who share each other’s work. But I think it should be natural and you probably wouldn’t want to always share each post or it starts to look funny to the sites.
Hi Robert,
Great insight on backlinking. I have had absolutely no success with any of these methods. I did consider paying for backlinks, but then thought better of it. I am glad I did. I guess the best way is the old fashioned way, interact with the world.
Thanks for the great article.
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Thank you for your comment David, This is exactly what Google want us to do and that is to be human. That’s the whole reason for the Rel=Author To show that there It was actually a human that authored the content.
You will find out that Google is slowly shutting down all the old methods. But people still cling to them.
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Kezanari,
Great point on all of these. These have all either LOST thier power or the results have decreased to the point that it is questionable value.
Furthermore many of these “automated” type processes can actually accrue a lot of penalites for your website.
It just isn’t worth it.
“some” of all of these may be worthwhile. (Profile links, article submission, bookmaking) But the important thing is that they are done “originally” on the big networks that actually have some value. Not mass produced copies to tons of valueless networks.
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you hit the nail right on the head with that comment Steve and I couldn’t agree more.
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Re: Article Marketing – yes mass DUPLICATE article marketing is out. I’ve been using a product called Article Samurai and have had really amazing results so far. Basically it comprises both an article spinner and syndicator, so you create 100′s of UNIQUE versions of your article and spread them over lots of sites. Yes, these are not the highest quality sites, but google still seems to like it because you get a lot of link diversity which contributes to your overal trust factor in google’s eyes.
It’s only been released a couple of times in limited releases, so I don’t think it’s available now.
Twitter: kezanari
I’ve heard of article samurai and others like it but “in my opinion” instead of spending hours spinning an article to 100% unique and then posting them on low quality sites (that may not be around by the end of the year) you should just create five unique articles and posts them as guest posts on high-quality websites.
I am in the SEO and blogging niche it will be far more better for me for my articles to be accepted on SEOMOZ, Comluv, Problogger etc… Than one spun article submitted to thousands of low quality websites.
If you have your articles posted on Thousands of low quality websites Google will begin to follow those links back to your site and That will get alarm bells ringing.
Just watch out for automation in 2012
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Hi David
I think that you will find that the automated content and automated linking tools will be less and less valuable as the SE up their game. Google wants to see natural links and value to readers. Having thousands of spun versions of an article will be easier to detect as time goes on since they all have the same links and the algorithms will be increasing their ability to see that they are spun.
Also, users “vote” for these sites by the time they spend on them. Google measures this.
Like Robert says, focus on good quality articles at good quality sites — guest posts or article directories within your niche. Build for the long term. Organic link building will survive the fads.
new methods are coming into effect for sure
and i agree with alot of the comments
but its automating the system to much…well thats my theory
haha
James
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I have been listening to Matt Cutts for a little while now and what you will get from him is that he doesn’t like automation or any thing that tries to manipulate the system.
So these sorts of tools are the ones that the upcoming Google updates will be refined to Seek and destroy.
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I totally agree with you Robert. One thing I’ll add though; something I’m getting ready to implement.. I’ve heard of some top seo guys sending buying links for Web 2.0 sites. Apparently some of those sites are known to get tons of links.
Just load them up with decent spun content using the best of the best article spinner.
You then link back to your money site from there. It may not be as effective as it use to but I’m sure it will do something. Especially if you have a pretty decent web 2.0 site that gains authority..
and this is thinking long term.. If it really picks up and gets some authority, I’d just buy the domain and keep up the great work..
I feel you on the buying links though.. I, for some reason, have never really been into buying backlinks. I’ve done it in the past but once I found out what it was, I refrained from it..
I do however buy 10 – 20 edu links from a reputable SEO company every now and again. nothing big that will show up on Google’s radar..
Great post dude…
Twitter: kezanari
hi there my friend nice to see you joining in the conversation. Some web 2.0 properties are pretty good to get links from but just watch out for that spun content especially If it leaves a big footprint.
the only thing I find is that all that spinning articles and creating web 2.0 properties is all hard work, as well create five solid articles and posts them at seomoz or mashable because you will probably get far more better results.
Just like me I also bought back links in the past like I Mentioned in the article and still waiting for for the results LOL
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Thanks for the tip… Will do
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Watch out for my next blog post because I mention you and your website On it!!
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Buying backlinks is one the worst strategy. I totally hate it. Google is strict against this hope new bloggers don’t follow it for instant success!
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Wow sham I like the way you went straight to the point. It’s a shame because I know that at least 80% of new bloggers will try to cut corners and by backlinks always money looking for the silver bullet solution.
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My strategy has mostly been posting on quality blog and guest posting, so far it has worked out pretty well.
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Hi there Ryan that my strategy as well and it’s working great. What I like about it the most is that you get to network with like-minded bloggers and most importantly add value.
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I have been working for a month to get backlinks, but so far only one has been reported. Seems like some luck is needed along as above. Thanks for your time
Twitter: kezanari
hi there Michael, what you have to do is
1.collect all The RSS feeds from the website will your link is located.
2. Go to rssmix.com to combined with your RSS feeds into one.
3. Get your new RSS feed from RSS Mix and then Ping it at pingoat.com/
4. also submit you new RSS Feed to rss aggregators like feedagg or plazoo.
if you do this Google will index your links quick fast.
I’m here to help if you get stuck
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The importance of directories have faded away and getting into dmoz has almost become impossible. I completely agree with your take on buying paid links. I have seen a lot of sellers on forums doing it and on personally reviewing a few links, I can say that it’s quite dangerous and can also drastically affect the rankings.
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thank you for your comment Cheolsu, what you will find is that A lot of people that are offering back linking services are just newbies looking for their first sale. Like you said it can be very dangerous, if you value your site you cannot let someone who don’t know work on it.
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Hi Kezanari
I put in a submission to DMoz the other day – they do say it may take months but seem to be still taking them? It has been very confusing for people like me who only started learning just over a year ago because all the strategies that you are saying not to use were the ones that SEO people were promoting back then, but times change and sometimes they change very quickly!! So it is good to follow people like yourself and Ben and Mitz as you all have your fingers very much on the pulse and I appreciate that you teach us the new ways to go.
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Hello Jan, I wouldn’t hold your breath with DMoz I’ve been holding mine for the last two years and my website has still not been accepted into the network.
There are a lot of people in the SEO niche and a large percentage of them just follow the crowd and there is only a small percentage that you should actually listen to.
Newbies will still continue to buy all these types of SEO services for at least another two years because they heard that it works when really they go.
2011 was a pivotal year for SEO because the Google Panda update changed everything. so my advice would be that anything to do with mass submissions stay away from it.
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Thanks! I have wasted time with those directories and having an article mailed to many sites. I will check out the good strategies for backlinking.
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Hello Chuck, just like you I wasted so much time with directories and mass article submissions my conclusions are that always the time.
Hi : I like to hear your opinion on how does Panada affects backlinking – really not impact at all ?
what should we do differently for backlinking bcos of Panda
Twitter: kezanari
Hi there Desmond, looks like I’m going to have to do is write another article on what back linking strategies do work for 2012 (“,)
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Hi Kezanari : I look forward to your article. can u keep me updated when its up. thanks and have a great day ahead.
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most definitely
GOOGLE gonna getcha for buying those back-links! Thanks for the impressive article K!
I will follow you to the light like I do here on ComLuv, WordPress website builder, iblog 4 dollars and pro blogger!
This reassures my efforts are forthright and true just from simply reading this article, thanks man!
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believe me Bryan you are in the minority because the majority of people online know nothing about SEO and they will continue to use the strategies that I have spoken against for a good few years to come.
You will find when it comes to SEO most people are at least two years behind.
Had I personally not made it my mission to build my landscape website (http://www.ringlawncare.com), I would be absolutely clueless. Believe me Robert, I don’t claim to be a “Know it all”, but I know what works for my sites and one’s I build. Still continuing to follow you buddy!
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I agree and hope that you are correct being that we don’t use any of the above techniques.. We plug away blogging a few times a week and then spend some time making comments on blogs. We’d been stumbling upon commentluv more and more and looked into it and invested in the premier package this weekend. Just mad sense!
What I would ask is what is your strategy with the @ after the name and your approach with that anchor text.
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Me personally I think that using CommentLuv plug-in is the way to go because you get great interactions on your blog posts.
I use Robert@Internet Marketing by what I beginning to find out is that having real people interacted on your blog is more better than 500 UV a day with no interaction at all. But just my opinion.
I’m getting to a point where I’m not too bothered about anchor texts anymore because people seem to find my blog from every direction apart from my anchor text.
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Thanks for the great insight. I agree with you, Google is all up for quality rather than quantity. Hence, it is a safer bet to manually insert your backlinks rather than using anything “mass” because it will only give the opposite effect, which obviously you are not looking for. True…it is a slower and tedious process, but it will get your webpage to good ranking.
Twitter: kezanari
Hello Jennifer, like you said quality is much better than quantity. Manually back linking to take time but at least you know where your links are coming from and By The consistent you can build up a thousand of powerful backlinks to your website within a year.
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What about Blogging commenting? Is it ok to comment on Dofollow Blogs for Getting backlinks. any effective way to commenting? Forum linking also avoided after Panda?
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suraj blog commenting is fine especially with CommentLuv because You are more or less guaranteed that it will be a do follow link but the same cannot be said about blog commenting. You can still do for linking but they have to be from relevant forums but they are low quality back links.
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YAY! Let’s hope you’re right, and let’s hope that sooner rather than later marketers figure out that these linking methods are finally dead and will stop trying to find ways to rank all their sites at #1 within 5 minutes by spammy, crappy linking methods and blasting garbage all over the internet! Maybe they’ll have to put the social back in social bookmarking, and people will actually read and visit and comment on the blogs they’re trying to scam a link from. Fingers crossed! LOL Maybe they’ll even ::gasp:: try adding genuine, quality, helpful content to their splogs to actually get them to rank naturally, instead of the spun, unreadable slop they’re trying to post now.
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Hello Suze, I hear you loud and clear! I have to confess that I used to be one of those people you are describing your comment. This is the whole reason why I know that certain methods don’t work any more because I used to do them.
The reason why there is so much rubbish on the Internet is because people want to cut corners and make fast cash which every person knows doesn’t exist.
Google is cracking down on these methods and even more so this year. White hat is the way to go in my opinion.
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Yeah, there’s no easy way to get great backlinks. Content and contribution still win the day.
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hello Phil, I agree you 100% but I think you’re missing one more ingredient and that is consistency.
so consistency, Content, contribution still win the day (“,)
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Very good list. The best links are always from relevant sites. And the best way to go about it is to do it a natural way. May be slower but it’s safer.
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hi there bloglady, like you said “The best links are always from relevant sites” but over time you will always end up on top.
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Hi Kezanari,
Really interesting read, I knew it would take much more effort to build links, nothing will work better than quality and naturally as what guest blogging offers!
I remember someone who build a social bookmarking site, then he copied the whole site 100 times so he end up with 100 site on different domain names, then he started to offer bookmarking services on fivver.com claiming he can get you 100 links for only $5
That was not good at all!
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hey there Hesham thank you for your comment. Copying 100 sites is crazy hard work, the lengths people go just to make a quick buck.
By the way I And halfway through Writing a guest blog That I will be sending to you soon.
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I totally agree with you.I have been blogging for last 3 years .I came to know that mass article submissions never help you.You need to wok hard otherwise no choice.
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hi Aadith, The methods above did used to work but Google have just crack down on it big style. So like you said you need to work hard it’s better that way and more rewarding especially when you start to see results.
Hi kezanari,
I completely agree with you.Your share will help many SEO newbies like me which are constantly searching for updated and effective information.keep up the good work
Twitter: kezanari
hello Ashish, I’m happy that you have found this article of value. Believe me SEO is constantly changing but if you stick with quality content and quality backlinks you will win every time.
This is interesting-While all everybody else is touting that they can get as many backlinks as possible in the shortest time, this article counter all of this and says that it doesn’t work. Honestly, i think some of the things like directory submission, article submission still works. Just read the article by Ben jackson (Which is really good. In fact better than this article) and you will see that.
Twitter: kezanari
hey there Zac, You’re right that directory submissions and article submissions still work but they have to be strategic and not mass posted.
Ben jackson Article is great but my article is only giving you the straight facts of what you should not be doing this year.
Hi Robert,
Buying backlinks is totally not called for. Google is surely going to penalize those sites. With blogs being so popular in present time, guest posting and commenting in do follow blogs are definitely good way to build backlinks.
Twitter: kezanari
I definitely agree With you Bedashree. The strategies that you have mentioned in your comment are the ones that I am Ramping up on this year.
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Hi Robert
Thanks for mentioning Ben’s fantastic article. This is a great article here too! I agree with all of your points, especially those profile links…absolutely worthless!
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ha ha Mitz I got the mentioning tips from one of your articles And they were great.
And like you said those profile links are absolute trash.
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Good article, I haven’t worked in SEO for long but I agree that ranking using the above techniques is harder than it was. The Google algorithms are becoming much smarter and now it’s more about quality and originality. As for mass article submissions, I thought most companies that offer to upload your articles spin them as well? Not that I believe much in that either, spun articles are always obvious!
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Hello Karin your artwork is really nice. You are right Google are becoming smarter and smarter with every update release so they know how to sniff out the low quality content.
There was a time when you could spin articles and posts them to multiple networks and get a massive amount of link juice to your website by those days are over.
It’s best just to stick to quality content and back links in my opinion.
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Thanks – and I think it’s GREAT that these methods are timewasters, because that means we can focus on more important things! (Like actually creating value, adding something precious to this great worldwide web)
Twitter: kezanari
John does exactly how I think, we have to add some value to people. I have found that adding value where possible has helped my website grow over the last few months. I have also built some nice blogging relationships with other Webmasters just by Contributing.
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Robert I agree with you totally. I think now sites like Pinterest do carry some recognition in Google indexing eyes.
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yes there are some site’s that still carry weight BUT a large majority don’t. just n=make sure that you only submit your content to sites that have PR and authority
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Oh, you’re so right about not buying backlinks. I’m so glad I never did it!
There’s a lot to be said by doing things the old-fashioned way… like leaving blog comments and such. When you do that, you’re not only building a backlink; you’re building a relationship. Sometimes those relationships can net you far more profit than website visitors.
Twitter: kezanari
Around a year ago buy links I guest was okay but Google has cracked down now Angie.
I Agree with you 100% that building relationships with people is far more beneficial than slamming people with a whole load of spam just for backlinks.
Totally agree with the mass article submissions point. Ezine articles works just good.
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Ricardus Like you said mass submission is a little bit pointless now but well-respected article directories still work great.
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Thank you Kezanari for validating what I’ve been taught in some recent webinars. Especially the no no’s of purchasing backlinks. I feel reassured I am Getting the correct information.
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I’m a happy that this article has helped to increase your understanding of backlinks
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I recently started as an Internet Marketer and I’m a student and was thinking about this mass backlinks to my newly created site. You saved a lot of money and time and alsomy website! Thanks mate
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I saved you more than a lot of time and money Kajal, I saved your new website from being penalised by Google and thrown into the sandbox. Good thing you read this article
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Hi Kezanari,
how about technorati, which automatically add/bookmarks our post to their directory?
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Sugihartono, there are many bookmarking services you can still use like technorati,Digg and stumble etc.. but just their way from the low quality bookmarking sites.
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Dmoz is maintained by volunteers, and each volunteer only has access to the part of the directory that they manage. Some sections have active editors who will review sites quickly. Others have inactive editors, or even no editors, in which case I’m not sure who ends up reviewing submissions. It may be that they just sit there collecting dust until someone gets approved as an editor.
So how long it takes to get a site into dmoz depends heavily on where it’s going.
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Thanks all that good information about Dmoz Kelson, I think you have enlightened a lot of people.
Well I guess the minimum wait for a SEO blog to be approved is 2 years+ LOL
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Hi Kezanari,
You are right that web-masters and blogers should not waste time to make backlinks with these 5 ways.
Backlinks should be made only in natural ways and on relevant websites and let search engines do their work of indexing and ranking.
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hi there John, I am happy that you agree with me. And you also right that creating links naturally is the best way.
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Long time ago I skipped doing directory submission, forum posting and blog commenting and instead concentrated my efforts on guest posting, link biting, purchased some decent related sidebar links and so on and still find myself after competitors in Google results.
After so much time wasted doing only these quality link building tactics I got back to so called spam and find my ranking improved dramatically for all my sites I tried this approach. The main thing is to have as many different links from different websites as possible but this include having really good links from Dmoz, Yahoo directory and some authority blogs. You have to mix everything up to get the best results.
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it’s true Mike that link diversity is very important. But be careful if you are spamming people because all it takes is one person to complain to Google and then your website will be manually viewed and this can cause all sorts of problems.
I used to also spam websites for back links 18 months ago and I found out that even though you get a boost in the Serps it’s always short lived.
I have read in quite a few forums where people have spammed for back links and their website ends up in a constant Google dance.
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thank you for your post i readed your post where you written that buying backlink is harmful for my website since i am new to blogging i was going to by backlink but after reading this post i changed by decision.
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arun it is a good thing that you read this blog because if you purchased any back links for your new website it will just disappear from Google for months.
If you have a new website the best thing to do is Build a view back links through blog commenting and then build from there.
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I’m still finding my way around backlinking. I’m reading articles to see which ones make sense. I see your point here and will make sure I don’t make these mistakes. I once bought a ‘job’ where someone was going to submit my site to 100 directories. He never did it. The good thing was I bought this job with Paypal and they were able to get my money back for me. This has put me off the whole thing. And if it doesn’t even work – good thing it turned out the way it did
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what you said annelg it is a good thing it turned out the way it did because you could potentially hurt your own site.
As a blogger I don’t see the point of buying back links because you are trying to build relationships with people. that’s my opinion anyway.
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Its a very simple rule .. do everything manually, MASS = JUNK. People don’t want to accept the fact that some really legit work might actually be worth a lot more than mass dumping. I do agree that these tricks wont work in 2012 but in my humble opinion, they have stopped working for a long time now.
Twitter: kezanari
I Agree with you 100% Jamie and that is these methods haven’t worked for a long time but in this article are just trying to be nice.
as you already know yourself A lot of people especially Newbies are always trying to cut corners as we know that doesn’t work.
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I agree with every single word you\’ve written here. Unfortunately as long as there are people who still believe in getting things the easy way there will always be a market for that kind of services that provide nothing but junk backlinking services. I do all my backlinking manually and yest it takes time, but it pays off in the long term.
Twitter: kezanari
It’s so true Aljonaid that people are always try to cut corners in an attempt to get things without working for. But like a Say all the ” most people with websites are two years behind the trends.”
So this basically means people will still be Using the methods in my article to at least 2015
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Hi Paul, I totally agree with doing backlinking manually, although i have heard of a site called AMarketingAutomation.com which gives your real baclinks. Personally I have never used it as there is a monthly fee involved. The other think I do also is use the do follow plugin for firefox to make sure pages I leave comments on have do follow enable otherwise your just wasting your time. Anyway Paul great article, look forward to more, cheers
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Hello Steve, There are a view back linking services out there that are really good but they are far and few between.
And using the Firefox plug-in is a great way to find do follow back links.
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I totally agree, manual submission is the way to go. I have still notice some results using profile links so I guess their not totally useless. The ultimate way to get good back links is guest blogging!
Twitter: kezanari
This plug-in is definitely a great way to get top-notch back links Joshieand it’s true you many get a few good results with profile back links but that all depends on the quality of the website of where your Profile that link is.
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Excellent Post Kezanari – Thanks for pointing out what doesn’t work as well as sharing a link with tips for what to look for in a good backlinking strategy!
Joseph
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Thank you for your comment Joseph and unhappy that this article has helped you.
you have great five strategies to get goodlink for build our blog
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Hi there erwin I am happy that you like this article (“,)
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Hey Kezanari,
You know what my friend, i’ll have to agree on all the points you made here, I for one when got started around seven years ago did pretty much all this and more, with not much results; sure I got a little bit back but nowhere near as much as i’d hoped in traffic.
The correct way like you say is to provide value and help others out their who are struggling, plus a very good way that I know of getting great backlinks is by socialising on Facebook and Twitter.
Thanks for this awesome post.
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Hi Abdul, I find the giving as much value as you can to your visitors can be very rewarding. and I’ve been getting some great traffic from social networks like stumble Facebook Twitter etc
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Great article!
I ahve to admit it is tempting to buy into these mass back link companies especially when you do a backlink search for your competitors and see they have over a 1000 links – upon further inspection most of them are form rubbish sites that aren’t relevant.
I take it google ill eventually discount these links?
My site is twinkleclean.co.uk – if anyone has nay cleaner related sites they wanna exchange links with let me know.
I run and own a few website and its been tempting to just buy these links. You need to be into SEO for the long haul i guess.
Roberto
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Hello Roberto, SEO is definitely a long-term strategy.
nice cleaning website you have there. I have found a few opportunities when you can improve your website. One of them is That you need some keywords on your website because you have none and you should move your blog from blogspot and put your blog directly on your website.
also don’t bother doing link exchanges because That’s a waste of time.
if you want more help Roberto e-mail me at Robert@kezanari.com
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I think the backlinks from forum footers depends on a few things. I’ve placed a link to my site in the footer of a forum I use, and found it did give me a boost in terms of pagerank, so I could see a benefit there. It took me about half a minute to implement the link and I had a few hundred backlinks to my site. The years of posts I’ve accumulated on the site provided me a boost, but there weren’t thousands upon thousands of links appearing out of nowhere.
You’ve sort of covered it when you mentioned not buying backlinks: It’s the same principle. Buying 5,000 links back to your site in one go is suspicious and Google will notice it and react accordingly.
Ultimately in my opinion the best way to improve your off-site SEO is with backlinks from good quality, meaningful content. That’s why I use ComLuv!
Twitter: kezanari
Thanks for sharing your experiences with us Matt, you can get some link juice from forum signatures by it all depends on what forum you are linking from. It’s all about PR and quality.
CommentLuv is a great plug-in to use to Manually build great back links to your website with the added bonus of relationship building with other bloggers.
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Agree with you, never buy links, Google hates such methods. Thanks for such useful post. I’ll take care of these things.
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it’s true Rajesh and that is Google hates these mass back linking methods and like Matt said above Google will find them and react accordingly.
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Anytime you get hundreds or thousands of links for a few bucks, you’ve got to realize that there’s no way they can be quality links. Too many people want to do things the easy way rather than the smart way.
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I couldn’t agree With you more Beth, the sad thing is that there are so many people With websites today are always trying to cut corners to success.
I have not yet heard a successful blogger say that the road was easy to build a quality website or blog with hundreds Even thousands of loyal readers.
It will takes hard work that you said
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I tried using some of those mass submissions, and never really had much success. But building my back links naturally has had a great impact on my rankings. And I mostly stick to Comment Luv anymore, since it’s a lot easier to use, and I can trust the links that I’m getting.
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Regarding “mass article submission”, in my article marketing activity, I post the same article to multiple article directories. In my case, there are about 8 article directories. Backlinks from all article directories that I submit to show up in Google Webmaster Tools. Furthermore, some of my articles are syndicated by other article directories and the only way I learned about their exisitence was in my GWT metrics showing backlinks from them. Perhaps by “mass”, you mean significantly more than 8.
I agree and disagree.
These methods should be avoided on a mass scale.
However, some of them are alright if done selectively and if the content distributed is of high quality as well.
A very interesting article I would agree duplicate content in a number of article sites is not good and google is now down grading these sites as link farms which is not good for the affliate marketeer
I have seen a lot of previously well ranked sites drop down the rankings in the last year or so due to them relying on the old dubious methods you mention. Thanks for the warnings and good tips.
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You know last year the Panda drove me nuts. So much so that I wanted to quit my SEO business. But as I researched and studied Matt Cutt’s videos, blog posts etc… I learned exactly how to go about creating a new backlinking strategy.
Basically any type of backlinking that can be called Spam-linking, which is still being done should be taken out of our SEO strategy. I’m sure to some degree there are people still using it and getting away with it. That won’t last forever.
I think that if you write quality article content, it’s still worth posting to good article directories. The key is to provide top notch quality content. I’ve had 1 article in EzineArticles.com that has driven a lot of traffic to my affiliate site, not because of the backlink ranking a keyword for me, but rather because the article content was excellent.
SEO should be “part” of our strategy to drive traffic to our websites, but not THE strategy.
Nice thread Kezanari, I found it through Andy’s comment luv search engine.
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You do have some good points. But I agree to some extent but disagree. Bought links do work. However if the website selling links is not blacklisted then buying links should not be a problem. Article submission often works but not to a great extent, ezinearticles is the best but has declined in quality. If you ping all the pages with your links on then it some link juice will be passed on to you. Forum profiles are waste of time, I personally don’t like it. The key is quality content on your own site combined with link building and avoiding black hat techniques.
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I totally agree, with everything you listed to get backlinks.
I would also avoid the following:
-Building links too fast
-Using spammy resources
-Taking part in link exchange
-Building links around one phrase
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Totally agree with the 5th. Whenever someone shares any of my posts on stumbleupon that article immediately gets lot of traffic.
I would not rule out the no follow backlinks. I made a few comments on no follow blogs and they do show up as backlinks sooner or later. If a blog has good page rank and is no follow I will still make a comment. The only other way I do linking is by doing a link exchange.
Some good advice. I fear people will continue to buy millions of cheap backlinks and wreck their site in the process, but the more people can get the message out, the better.
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Due to the nature of our products, we have a lot of aggregator sites linking to us. These tend to be spammy sites and I’m worried that these links may negatively affect our Google rankings. Do you know of any way to block these sites from linking to us? I can’t see how it could be done, but if there’s a way I’d love to know what it is.
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so agree with people here I use comment luv for back links I was lucky because I was going to use build my rank but at the last minute decided not to
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Buying backlinks is perfect for desperate users with lots of money to throw down the drain. Most of the time you’ll get thousands of automated nofollow links on pages that aren’t likely to be visited any time soon. I also agree that directory submissions are already set in their content. It would take a behemoth website with tons of popularity to get placed on something like DMOZ.
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Great post. It’s always difficult to strike the right balance when link building. Build them too fast and google will slap you for it. Build them too slowly, and your competitors may outrank you. Great information. Thanks.
Good article but it’s depressing…
Can’t wait to read “5 linking strategies that will rock your world in 2012″
Cheers
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Kezanari, thanks for sharing this useful information. I’m looking for back links for my blogs and really wanting to know the best way to get them as everyone is offering something. Now that I know where not to get back links from I am headed over to Ben Jackson’s post on getting links.
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Hey Kezanari,
I completely agree with you on these items, however I do think that submitting articles, that is ‘Good’ articles is a good strategy. Of course submitting the same boring article in mass is not the right approach at all.
But submitting guest posts, informative, value-based articles is always a good method for delivering quality backlinks. I think folks often confuse this.
Great post!
Liz
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Great stuff, Kezanari. The trouble is that there is so much SEO info out there that people read as fact that once was true. You could take any of the points you make and Google them to find other people singing their praises – the first thing newbies should be advised on when researching SEO is to limit the search to posts just from the last month then they at least have a fighting chance of not starting out down the wrong track. Do you agree?
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That’s a really good point Mark. I have only been involved in IM for less than 2 years and even in that time the SEO game plan has changed dramatically. One of the big things when I started was to do commenting and use keyword links and now apparently that is a no, no. It’s hard to know what to do!
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Exactly, Jan. You got to find people you can trust and stick with them, not an easy thing to do!
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I disagree about directory submissions, submitting to directories still works if you do it properly
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Thanks for this advice, i was considering buying links before. i will do it manually and gradually.
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Looking at when this was written.. who told you about Penguin?!?!
Thanks, I’ve taken note of a few of those tips and I’ll be putting them to use on my blog.
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I agree with most of what you said, wherever ‘mass’ word is linked with your trafic boosting ways, it is most likely to be panished by big G. Once you get noticed, no one would want to affiliate with your content-a most unforyunate thing to happen with any blogger.
For an example, if you submit your bookmarks through auto-bookmarker software without taking into account the number of bookmark links you get everyday, your content is most likely to receive a backlash.
Thanks Kezanari for your sane suggestions
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Totally agree with you Robert. Its a shame, but there just isn’t a “fast” way. As you said, anything with MASS in the title is generally not going to work.
Of course, the big question is – what is the next great strategy to use????
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Simply put: Google doesn’t want anyone to game the system. We are supposed to work for our pagerank, which makes a lot of sense.
Thanks for the post!
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The best backlinks are the ones you have to work for – either through visitors linking to your content because they love it or a great guest article that you’ve written for another site (not article directories). Alot of quality sites came to the top of the SERPs with the Penguin update – which is great for everyone.
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So would you say that is still worthwhile being a premium member of a quality moderated forum and adding a do-follow signature link is still worthwhile? I guess this might only be worthwhile if the forum was relative to your niche perhaps?
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