Comments on: Efficiently Building Backlinks

By: Techie

Techie — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 06:29:27 +0000

Profile links and blog comment links may be devalued but I think there are still some great sites where getting these links are worth it. For example here at TechGeeks I go through all the members with under 15 posts and if they have any links anywhere (signature, their “about” page, website URL field, etc.) I remove them. Right now it’s also set up not to allow website URLs to be shown to guests. Since blog comment moderation is also strict, we have few external links but Google must give them some great value to be so “unique” and “valuable” that they are the few we link to.

If your site isn’t a blog I think you just need to exceed people’e expectations and ask them to share their stories with friends. For example, if you tell a person their product will be delivered in 3 – 5 days but deliver it the next day, they’ll love that and they’ll recommend you. If you charge someone $10 and then give them a 20% off coupon on their next order you’ll still be making money but they’ll love your service. You just have to stand out from the competition and get people to love you if you want to be recommended.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:58:04 +0000

With the Google Panda updates a new set of problems have brought me to the conclusion that backlinks are pretty hard to come across nowadays. Due to scrapebox, Google has gotten picky about blog comments. Due to SENuke and Xrumer, profile links have now lost weight. Due to BMD, social bookmarking has kinda lost its value.

Your editorial idea is good and definitely my point of focus right now. What can a site do that isn’t a blog in order to get these? I sure am not of interest to the general blogger because I’m clearly a landing page and they wouldn’t want to help me make money. What it comes down to is, what can I do for them?

What I once considered white hat link building is really no longer white hat. I will have to come up with new strategies and the in content links are definitely something I’m currently interested in.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 04:54:05 +0000

I think what the writer means is that you don't have guarantee that your blog comment will be approved. Always check for moderated blogs. Unmoderated blogs are always full of spam comments and Google doesn't like "bad neighboring". Also with blog comments you can not always use anchor text because many moderators also see this as spam eventhough you contributed to the story. That's the downside of blog commenting. The upside is that you can find many blog pages with high pr and with forum threads it's not possible to find many. But with commenting in a forum you will definitely get your anchor text seen. And i think that's the most important thing when building backlinks.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:54:20 +0000

Very good ideas, simple but effective. I read that the creator of zen habits did the same thing when he started out. He just left comments on different blogs, but not the, "click here to check out my site", kind of comments; but the kind of comments that truly made people question and ponder. One day he said that a blogger had posted a link to one of his articles and then he suddenly had a flood of traffic. I guess we can all learn something, in that if we forget about trying to create backlinks and try to leave value, in this case a good comment. It may somehow come back 10 fold. Nice post!!!

By: Kamil

Kamil — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 03:23:33 +0000

That's the problem this days ,it is just harder and harder to find decent blog like this one. Most of the blogs are nofallow. But I agree blog commenting it is a good way to get backlinks only if you really read post and write a comment with some sense. If it is interesting enought someone may even visit your website.:)