Link building is what most bloggers target when there arises a necessity to compete and outrank their competitors in their niche. Backlinks are so much necessary for any blog/website for at least the following two important reasons:
- You need backlinks if you want your site to gain authority from search engines like Google. This also in turn helps in boosting your rankings in SERPs and hence to increase traffic.
- You need backlinks if you want to gain authority in your niche; that is if you want people to recognize you as an expert in your niche.
But there’s something you need to accept as a “fact” here. Simply “a bunch of links” doesn’t mean backlinks, actually. Since most bloggers are after “quantity” they neglect the most crucial aspect of link building – quality.
Most bloggers think link building as buying a Fiverr gig which promises thousands of backlinks (even with proof, doesn’t matter), or as going on a link exchange or a sponsored link buying campaign.
Having one thousand links from crappy websites (like link exchanges, blogroll or footer links from those sites that sell loads of such links) is not even comparable to having 10 high quality links.
Now I’m talking too much about quality. So you ask me what “quality” is, right?
Let’s get to the point.
Google values the following links as quality links
Links that come from within highly relevant content
Google is so much after relevance. That is why it had to slap so many sites that were ranking for a keyword merely without any relevance. Let me explain.
Let’s say you search for “dark chocolate” and lets say the following two sites pop up in page #1 on Google -
- A page that talks about the properties of dark chocolate, its health benefits and about where one can buy dark chocolates, and
- A page where a woman (on her personal blog) talks that she ate dark chocolate this morning and threw up and thinks that she is pregnant.
Which of these two pages will be useful to you? If its is the second page, your search would have been something related to pregnancy. But you were searching for dark chocolates.
So if you click on the second page and skim through the content, you will soon find that it is irrelevant and hence will click the back button – Now a bounce is registered!
Here’s where relevance comes to picture!
How does it relate to our quality link building?
Let’s say you have a blog post that talks about link building tips. If you write a guest post about the difference between nofollow and dofollow links on another blog that is in internet marketing/blogging/SEO/link building niche and if you link to your “link building tips” post from that guest post, this is a high quality backlink (considering other aspects of that blog, see below).
If you write a guest post on a diet/fitness blog and include the same link to your blog post in the author byline, that is still a link, but not a relevant link.
If, however, you are creative and if you can insert relevant anchor texts you can still get a quality link. For instance, on your guest post related to diet/fitness, if you can somehow manage to insert the keywords related to link building and then link to your own post the link will be valued by Google. But it is not always possible to do this without hampering reader experience. Although, it is not impossible either.
Remember, Google values relevance and any link that comes from thematically related pages/posts are valued high.
This is why guest posting is so important because you have total control of everything, right from choosing the blog, to what you are writing about and what page of your blog you will be linking to. You can make your link building campaign as relevant as possible.
If you are neglecting guest posting for some reason, you are missing out. It is important that you start it as soon as possible.
While you are having that thought, don’t forget to check out my guest blogging guide that teaches you every little and big aspect of guest blogging.
Links that don’t come from pages that are low in quality
If there are too many irrelevant outbound links, if that blog/website publishes articles just about anything in the world, and if that blog links to bad neighbourhood, these affects the quality of that blog.
And this in turn demotes the quality of your backlink. Hence when you’re trying to get backlinks, aim at good quality sites. You should look for blogs that
- offer quality content
- don’t do too much irrelevant outbound linking (like a big bunch of “sponsored links” in the footer to various irrelevant sites)
- don’t have too many ad blocks (yes this affects the quality of the site as well)
- are not link farms or content farms (those blogs that simply are part of a link wheel and link in and link out for money)
and so on.
Natural link building
Google also monitors your link building speed. You need to build link in a natural way in order to be respected.
How can you be unnatural? Simple. Just by doing aggressive link building.
Lets say you get a bunch of Fiverr gigs that deliver thousands of backlinks. So you get a few thousand backlinks to your domain this week. But you won’t be able to get those Fiverr gigs (or other equivalents) for the rest of your life. So there will be no links the other week. And then you may again go for a big number (possibly through another auto-submission software). And then there won’t be any links for the next month. If this is your pattern, it will trigger a red flag; you are being unnatural.
In addition, if your domain is brand new and if you already have a thousand backlinks, that is unnatural too!
So make sure how many backlinks are natural as if a human can handle it.
Naturally, you can build quality backlinks with blog commenting, guest posting, participating in forums and there are quite some other ways. But you will be able to build only a hundred or a few hundred (if you have a team working for your sites) links per week. If you are doing it by yourself I’d say hundred is itself a big number.
Don’t go for automated bulk submissions or buy bulk links.
If you are into building backlinks for a brand new domain, you should think about setting up a link wheel. As Pat explains here you should have two layers over your domain and do the linking in a hierarchical manner.
I realize that Pat is talking about bulk submission to article marketing directories. But you should note that he is doing bulk backlinking to the top layer and not to the core blog/niche site.
Quality link building takeaway
Don’t just build links. Aim at building high quality links. This way you will not only be able to gain recognition from search engines like Google (and hence boost your rankings) but you will also be a respected authority in your niche according to people.
How is your link building strategy? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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Jane,
First, thank you for the imagery of the pregnant woman throwing up chocolate. It may take a while to get that out of my head, lol.
Second, you are so helpful. Bloggers that write about “quality links” don’t always break the subject down to why. When we know why, it easier to take action and know why you are doing it.
It makes so much sense to guest post about the subject you write about. And to comment on blogs related to yours.
Thank you for such an informative post. I may have to read it again to get every bit of onfo out of it.
~Allie
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Twitter: problogsuccess
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Allie – I don’t get your feeling on “pregnant woman throwing up chocolate”. Hmm… are you prego or TTC?
Anyways, knowing “why” also makes it easy to identify our readers problems and come up with solution in the form of killer content.
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I’ve never been tempted by buying links, I think sooner or later it will lead to some bad luck with the google gods.
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I’ve thought that too but the issue is I have a competitor for my ecommerce site that seems to be doing just that with lots of bulk blog comments on irrelevant site and directory listings etc… and they’ve been on position 1 of page 1 for lots of competitive search terms and this has been for well over a year now. Even their title tag and mata description is keyword stuffed!
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While they may be able to add some links and authority through commenting/directory listing, I do not know of any sites that have prospered by purchasing thousands of back links from link exchanges. I guess it’s possible, but probably not worth it in the long run.
BTW I think it’s great that you were able to link to a post of yours about chocolate after reading the example in this article. Was that on purpose?
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Thanks for the great post Jane. I agree that high quality links are important. Right now my strategy is providing relevant comments on other blogs (like this one) as well as quality content on my own two blogs. I don’t do any research at the moment to find where I can comment and get the best links, I just leave comments when I believe I have something relevant to add.
Just starting out, I think all bloggers just want links. Once you get more experience, you realize that you would rather have a relevant link than just some text on a page, such as with link sharing.
Thanks
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Twitter: problogsuccess
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Alan, you’re right I totally agree that every blogger is very keen about links. There’s nothing wrong with that attitude, after all the competition to get a top position on Google is getting tougher by the minute. But then being too keen about links and ignoring the quality of our contribution to the blogosphere will badly hit our reputation.
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I have never bought backlinks in bulk, nor do I like the process as I delete them from my blog on a daily basis. Backlinking takes time and hardwork, but in the end, if you write good content the backlinks will come naturally.
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Twitter: problogsuccess
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Paul buying backlinks is a sure no-no. But the time and effort spent on white hat backlinking is worth it. Although it is true that when you write good quality content, natural backlinks will come, they won’t be enough given what your competitors are doing to rank high!
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Great post. The fact that you have total control in guest posting is very powerful. You choose the topic you write about, the actual content, the category and authority of the host site. It may not feel like a worthwhile or efficient process, but my partner and I got one of our sites from a PR0 to a PR5 in five months, mostly from guest blogging.
There is simply no substitute for quality. If Google believes your site delivers quality, you can build enduring SERP placement.
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“If Google believes your site delivers quality, you can build enduring SERP placement. – That’s so right Mike. It just takes some hard work to get good SERP position the white hat way; but hard work always pays great!
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Nice post! Very detailed and informative. Yes, Backlinking the natural way might be slow and tedious but its one of the best and proven ways to enhance your link value.
If you rely on automated software then you might very well reach page one of Google with an abundance of links in a couple of days…but Mr. Google riding on his Panda will catch up with you soon and give you a Kung fu kick that will send you and your website to the depths of hell forever.
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Sanjay that’s right. Automation will lead to quick results but then also a quick and hard slap. All we want is a consistent and robust growth!
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Twitter: christophrrice
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I’m not one to buy links, but I worked for a company that engaged in this activity and never received that slap … in fact, they’re actually doing well. Again, I’m a strong proponent of organic linkbuilding and putting in your dues as opposed to “paying” your dues, but this type of result makes me question whether it’s merely a scare tactic Google has created in order to fight the manipulation of their algo.
It’s not enough to get me to start buying backlinks, but it’s changed my view a bit … I used to think Google would absolutely find you and ban you, but now I think it’s more of a high risk gamble. Some win. Most lose.
What do you guys think?
Twitter: Life2Learning
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You share some great information on link building here. I have created an alert for your plugin and I am thrilled to comment on like-minded blogs. thanks
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Great post Jane. I agree with most of your commenters. It is not worth the risk, using bulk backlinking. No matter if you just find 1-5 fresh backlinks on a specific day, they are probably worth 10 times more than automated links.
And using Google advanced search it is possible to find good blogs and forums with right keywords (and that are CommentLuv enabled!)
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Per you can also use Andy’s Commentluv enabled search engine!
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The key is to focus on getting relevant links with high authority. Anything less than that is wasting your time. You spend the same amount of time getting poor links as you do trying to get good links. Might as well spend that extra effort to get a strong inbound link.
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Yes Rob, the more relevant your links are the more worthy they are. Although irrelevant links are not totally out of the equations, getting relevant links will help you squeeze the most out of your efforts.
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Twitter: familybizguy
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There’s so many ways to get quality links. The problem for most people is just knowing where to start. It should all appear natural to google… but that doesn’t mean they can’t be intentionally created. That’s one way blog commenting combined with commentluv can be a good thing.
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See, this is the stuff that newbies never seem to find. I’m not sure why that is. It just seems that crap advice seems to be more accessible.
I personally was directed towards getting as many links as possible from wherever possible when I first started. So I wasted so much time doing useless stuff – that I thought was going to have a big payoff, and it turned out to just be a lesson on what not to do.
Hopefully some newbies can find their way to your post and bypass the year (or years) of doing stuff that just doesn’t work.
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I see where buying links is very tempting and honestly if done in moderation, I see how they can fill out a website’s link portfolio. It may or may not be money wasted in vain at this moment (only the search engines really know), but I think Google is showing us where the future of SEO is.
Google wants their social network to be not only successful, but necessary. By allowing Google+ pages to show up in organic results I can see how a well developed Google+ page could be the ticket to drive traffic through Google even over high quality links. But again, this just applies to Google and as Bing is slowly proving, Google is not all that matters. I do see a very social web coming up on our heels where SEO and SMM start to blend into one another more prominently than they do at present time.
But for now I still see techniques like guest blogging to be the best way to build quality links.
Absolutely…quality not quantity and unique relevance. I am so glad those bad sites were slapped as finally I have been rewarded with valuable targetted traffic to my sites that are deserving. Good article with sound points Jane. Will look out for your new posts here again.
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Guest blogging is a great way to get backlinks I use Technorati to find the top blogs in my niche those that have a lot of non spammy type blogs linking to them and get listed high in Technorati’s directory then approach the owners of those blogs for guest posts.
People say a good combination of dofollow and nofollow is wise too. I haven’t really ran any tests on this, but the thought is too many dofollow links look unnatural too. It is actually easier to get hundreds and even a few thousand links in a short time period and not even realizing you are doing so. There are some WordPress plugins that contribute to this.
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Hey Matt and Louis,Google is far smart enough to trace such kinda activity. Sure your bad competitors may get a week or two to be on top position, but I\’m sure a Panda will be waiting to slap them soon. lol.Jane.
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Yeah, I agree with you. Most of the time, I do blog commenting and forum posting, with that i can build a quality links for my site.
Twitter: problogsuccess
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Earl the good thing with blog commenting and forum posting, as opposed to other methods, is great not only to build links but you can also build relationships at the same time!
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You spend the same amount of time getting poor links as you do trying to get good links. Might as well spend that extra effort to get a strong inbound link.
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Well said Vijay!
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Twitter: faqspedia
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great share jane , backlinks from the relevant article really improves rankings
Twitter: adam7one
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I’ve been playing around with websites and blogs for about 8 years and have never really been serious about any of them when it came to link building, I have always made a bit of money from then and created a few back links, but have never really had any idea about how to do it properly.
So I have a couple of questions and if anyone can answer them it would be appreciated.
For a new site, approximately how many back links should I be aiming to create on a daily basis?
If I have back links from too many bad quality sites, will that lower my results in search engines?
Thanks for the help
Adam
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Twitter: problogsuccess
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Adam, there’s not strict number you should be aiming at. As long as you are doing it in a consistent and “natural” (non-bot style) manner you should be fine. Hundreds of backlinks one day and nothing for the next couple of weeks might sound unnatural.
And for your question about backlink from too many bad sites – yes if its too much Google may consider that you have bought it. But you also get such links from scrappers and content stealers which you can’t absolutely do anything about. I’m sure Google knows this. So it should be OK.
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Hi Jane
I have never believed in buying backlinks. One of the first advice I got as a blogger about building backlinks was the following:
It takes time to build a large number of backlinks, but If you can get just 2 links each day you will have about 60 in a month and more than 700 backlinks in a year. In that way Google will also respect you because your numbers of backlinks will slowly increase. I think that is the right way to go about it, but it does of cause take a lot of hard work.
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Twitter: problogsuccess
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Thomas, yes you are exactly right. IMO there’s not easy-peasy and automated link building strategy that can work without ringing the bells at Google. Hard work is involved but it does pay a lot (and also gains us respect
)!
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Twitter: esther98
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Super article on backlinking. It’s a very difficult thing to do. I spend a lot of time writing and wish I could outsource the backlinking
These are some very important tips on back-linking. Thanks for putting this together.
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hi Jane,
Extremely grateful for people like you helping novice like us, we just started a business and almost felt victim of one this SEO companies offering us 100s of back-links.
What we can’t understand how are they allowed to sell you something that does not help you as they say it does, but does the opposite.
We penalize false advertising, don’t we? why this is not applied to this companies?
thanks once again keep it up.
Twitter: RingLawnCare
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This is why yo hear so many SEO’s talk about, SEO being work. Natural is the only way I go, and you really need to research your niche for the best links to build a successful campaign. If you are quick to fall for schemes of paying for links, you will lose in the end. I like your word “Hence”…so Hence all the failed blogs and websites.
Simple, yet time consuming research will benefit you for the long haul. Thanks Jane for the well thought out article.
If you are going to pay for something, pay for a guest blogger on your site or something.
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Twitter: enstine
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Hi Jane, this will really educate readers of this article. Most of the link packages sold on fiverr don’t even work. Often, you will get miserable links from some PR0 sites with spam contents. I think these sellers are just doing anything to get money. It’s good to invest time and build links naturally .
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Twitter: stevescottsite
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Jane,
you are so right. Many people are so concerned about quantity of QUALITY when it comes to link building, but in truth since Google Panda, low quality links coming from known, “spammy” sites can actually penalize your site rather than help it. It is far better to build links by hand and with a degree of care if you really want to send your blog or site in the “right” direction.
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Twitter: infinatecashflo
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Jane,
You have some awesome tips here for link building. I know so many people who do mass article directory submissions and huge chunks of linking by paying for the, these are the ones that get a huge Google Slap.
So it is like you said all about being natural in your link building.
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I think with the last Google update, the value of links coming from article directories is limited. Also, too much of link buying can attract a google penalty. The website even disappears from the search results. I believe then one has to file an appeal with Google after getting the link removed from other websites.
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I have been wondering if Authority Link Network is worth the time or is actually damaging my link quality. The sites all have page rank but when you look at the amount of traffic they get, Google doesn’t send them much. So is PR or traffic more important, seems like traffic to me.
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Steve, I’ve not personally used ALN. But Build My Rank is something similar. As to these kind of sites, you can’t expect traffic surge (although you may get some); these are focused on building backlinks for your site and hence boost your ranking.
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Link building is really difficult, and it’s difficult not just because of getting high quality links, but simple links. In addition, if we develop a link strategy as single bloggers, we have to take in count blogger teams creating.
Just one more thing. Content matters? Is it important for Google?
Good post!!!
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Hi Jane,
Awesome post about link building, its not easy to create good and same niche backlinks but do work hard on regular basis find do-follow blogs.
One thing i want to ask would you please tell me No-follow links will Help ?
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I prefer to build links naturally. That way, we will feel more natural to build a blog. I also would be providing quality content for my readers. Thank you for sharing
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Twitter: jimmieluthra
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Thanks for the info. Proper link building is difficult and once we succeed, Google is sure to follow.
Thanks again.
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Twitter: inmobee
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Eventhough backlinks are essential for bloggers, as someone said, if ur blog has good and interesting content, backlinks will come naturally
The best links that you can get are ones that are naturally linked from your niche blogs. Not like a guest posts but real contextual link about why this blogger found your website and article useful and why he will be reading it again. It will bet many visitors that will ready your blog and of course there will be link made perfectly for Google
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Twitter: dailywaffle
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Interesting post. I find commenting on good quality sites like this one are good for backlinks and I thought the information about being in control of the links and content for guest posting was very valuable!
Thank you!
Twitter: Healthyone_org
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Right now I am doing few guest posting every month and few blog commenting daily. I used to submit to some directories, but for last few months stopped it.
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Great article. I love and agree with all your concepts of quality link building, especially opting for quality and relative blogs when guest posting. Obviously, if a blog is of low quality and too congested to be of relative importance, that will negatively impact your backlinks as well. Thank you for sharing.
Twitter: dotcomstreet
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Great post on link building Jane.
Also I would like to add that you can also use your keywords while commenting on Com Luv Enabled Blogs. For eg. Name @ Keywords. So you can comment and get quality anchor tect backlinks at the same time !!
Twitter: dotcomstreet
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Great tips there on link building !
Also you can also get quality links from various micro blogs and article directories ! I also believe that natural link building is the way to build quality backlinks for Google.
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Building quality links is very important, I personal don’t really like buying backlinks, though I do it sometimes when am lazy.
BTW, dropmylink.com is a good place to find good link building sites.
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You have done an excellent jod with this article and i mean it.I am a new blogger and all these advices-tips are really helpful to me.Speaking about link building strategy, i have already take some directions, from SEO manager, on how to do this and this article comes to confirm these directions.Building links in a natural way is the best because first of all,we are human and the softwares can’t give the personal touch and attidute that everyone has.Thanks for sharing.
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I prefer to write good content and build links naturally. Great article on link building thanks for sharing.
Twitter: coooolsahu
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Jane its a very interesting to create back links and hence enchance you PR….
but just commenting and guest post is important or else somthing..???
please do replyy
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I wonder how search engine bots would determine if a back link is from a similar or relevant site. For eg. In the pregnancy example you gave, I really don’t think the search engine bot would know if the page is about pregnancy or dark chocolates. I think such kind of topics can fall in to relevant blogs. The problem is when you get a back link from a site that talks about spiritual stuff and yours is a NSFW or adult site.
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Harshad, in the example, I’m sure bots can easily find that the whole site is about pregnancy! If there’s just one sentence that talks about dark chocolate, while Google has other relevant web pages that talk almost fully and in detail about chocolate, Google will favor the latter in SERPs. Matt Cutts has said this himself in one of his videos (not the exact example though, LOL). In such case, computing relevancy shouldn’t be a problem.
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Thanks Jane… Back linking is a newer goal for our site. We never thought of buying links, for us it’s been about reading and commenting. While I’ve read a lot of blogs regarding back links to learn as much as I can, this was one of the most relatable blogs that I’ve read about the subject.. Thanks for making things a bit clearer than others who blog on the subject. Our back linking practice has been, search for blogs that are relevant to what we do (social media, web design) read, learn and comment. We typically take a few hours a week to dedicate ourselves to this and have added a feature where we know have guest bloggers on our site… Anything that you would add? Thanks Jane.
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Thanks for the useful tips. Link building has been difficult to me. I haven’t touched guest posting and consistence has also been a problem. Hope I would be able to get rid of these problems soon.
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Twitter: ShreeCy
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Hi Jane,
Link building is an effective part of SEO and it is really tough to build good quality links. I have been trying to get a link back from .edu sites, but I am not sure about the approach I should make. Can you help me out in this regard?
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unproper linkbuilding can hurt site ranking.. build it naturally through commenting is the best way to gain good backlinks. However it is very time consuming.
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Twitter: LindaCampb80
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Variable links is important, while building links by commenting does have impact – I find that including links from different media types, such as video, articles, general directories and even forum comments in combination provide the best results
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It is never easy to build quality backlinks. Blog commenting do provide you backlinks but they are generally nofollow. For dofollow links, I prefer article writing and blogging at web 2.0 sites.
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Vineet I think the beauty about commentLuv is that you get backlinks and if you leave comment on solid blogs like this, you don’t only get backlinks. you also get traffic to your latest article
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Some webmasters make blog links do-follow. Also, it is always good to have a mix of both do-follow and nofollow links.
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Enstine, there is no doubt blog commenting has been made extremely powerful by commentluv.
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wow this is so interesting for newbie like mei think i will use this to up my site in seo
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Hey Jane! Your example of Dark Chocolate is very good becuase that’s how Google quality raters look at websites for ranking in Google. I was reading an eBook that is actually Google quality rating guidelines for their web spam and quality rating team. It is a good example!
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Twitter: thewebexecutive
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The problem is that a lot of the ‘low hanging fruit’ quality dofollow opportunities fade as more and more people take advantage of them.
For example, it used to be great to perform a local stunt and have a news site report on it. However due to a high number of people trying this in the late 90s, news sites stopped posting link backs.
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I’d rather have 10 good links than 1000 bad links..
Twitter: sanjaykhemlani
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Link building is one of the hardest time consuming work every webmaster has to take, I’d say do little things everyday and check what you have done over the weekend. Good read Jane!
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Twitter: arnabmaitys
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What an example to start with! I never knew what bounce was after checking my analytics, but now I know. Tell me something, if someone bounces off my site, is it taken as a discredit by google? Actually I haven’t done anything about it, its just the way google has indexed the page
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Twitter: amtwiter18
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wow..so good the post …i like it…blog walking
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Twitter: clarekelway
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Wow! There is so much to SEO, I am not sure i will ever learn it all! However, I am aware of the quality of back-link issue. I didn’t know that the keywords I use affect google. I have a health blog and spend a lot of time commenting on people in the home business/internet/social media arena so that’s an issue for me – thank you for making me aware of this.
I have just started a second blog in Social media so it will be fun to see how that goes given I know much more now!
Clare
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Excellent post. My site has only been up for a few months and I’ve been tempted to use a Fiverr gig to generate some backlinks so I can improve my ranking on Google. I’m glad I read your post first. In your view how many links per day or week is natural to Google?
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Twitter: Elena__Anne
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Great article Jane!
Individuals or companies try to fool Google through SEO. They risk being banned by the biggest search engine in the world! End even if they rocket their site to the top, the “day of crisis will come”. Google will change the algorithms to get rid of bad content blogs and maybe affect the good ones too. Google must be our partner not our enemy. Jane your tips are very useful for having a blog with quality. Thank you for sharing.
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This was an awesome article. When I first started blogging, I didn’t understand the importance of SEO and link building. Now I see it’s critical to your online success. I really appreciate the information that you have provided here and look forward to reading more of your work.
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good topic this
now natural link building takes longer, but does pay off,
as far as a natural take to it, SEO will benefit from time and care taken with placeing links and building a network
thanks heaps
james
Twitter: hostingrating
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Nice blog regarding SEO.
I believe if you’re doing too much blog commenting, it might not be good as well.
Hundred blog commenting per week may be too much.
Twitter: acetheme.com
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This is really useful information, my site is new, this is exactly what I should be doing to improve my SEO, thanks again for the post.
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Twitter: i_affirmations
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I’m new at blogging and online marketing. This is very useful information. I really don’t want to buy links and am glad to hear that building quality links is the way to go. I want my websites and products to be quality so my links should be quality too!
its nicee
i am neww to link building i get more knowledge from the topics.but link building takes more time and some are using softwares.
Twitter: EBScribblings
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Hi Jane,
Quality beats quantity every time – but there’s absolutely no reason why you can’t have both if you work at it hard enough (hard work always pays off in the end). Autosubmission of thousands, or tens of thousands, of links, comments, forum profiles etc. might look like a good shortcut – but it’s unlikely to be effective in the long run.
I think that you also need to modify your link building approach based upon the age and type of your blog/site. Older sites, which have some PR and an already existing collection of backlinks will be able to tolerate a slightly higher rate of baclink generation.
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I agree completely. The four cornerstones of your SEO should be 1) A solid understanding of your niche, 2). Solid keyword research to fill in the long tail keywords within that niche, 3) A solid tightly linked structure within your website where each article leads your reader into one or more other compelling articles and, 4) A solid backlink building strategy based on quality commenting on other blogs and forums, as well as guest blogging on blogs within your niche.
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They are really helpful! Sometimes building effective and non-spammy backlinks really needs some experimentations and patience to succeed.
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Yes, relevance of your backlinks is the key.
Twitter: e2wnet
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Hello, thanks for this article but some questions arise, how much linking to others affect you. For example if you link to high quality sites that are relevant to the subject help.
Does submission to web directories help? And is it worth the money to submit in premium directories.