khalid

I know the threads "How do you build backlinks" have been done over and over on numerous forums but most of them are old so I thought I'd ask around here. Understandably there are hundreds of ways, each with people preaching their method is the best.

Personally for me I've tried the following methods (in no particular order) to build backlinks...

• Links from other sites in the same niche - most effective in my opinion.
• Article distribution to hundreds of sites - effective but what about the duplicate content, will the links get ignored?
• Directory submissions - i've always done this but never seen any real benefit.
• Social bookmarking - recently tried this and one of two of the bookmarks came up in the SERPS so I guess it helps. If you get something on the front page it definately generates a lot of visitors and backlinks.
• Blog commenting - fairly new, never really tried as it is not widely accepted.
• Blog reviews - I once spent $100 on reviews from min pr3 siteswith no real benefit.
• Text Link Ads - tried this too, spending $100 with no real benefit.
• Forum signatures - have over 2,000 posts on some forums, dunno if this helps

That's all I can think of now, what about you?

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kkkrisss

Paid links also works

dtothec

Quite an effective method (depending on the site I suppose) is to use Yahoo siteexplorer to see what sites are linking to your competitors websites. If they are directories / sites of a similar nature that you could get a link from, this works quite well in some cases.

Directory submission is probably the easiest but as you say sometimes doesn't give great results.

Personally I think blog commenting is best - especially if you can find blogs on authority sites!

Arleigh

Yes, commenting on blogs is also another good way to gain backlinks though most of blogs now have put nofollow attribute on comments. There are only few blogs that provide dofollow links on their comments section.

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loredan

Here is an article that covers most basic aspects of the link building

Link Building Basics | Zyas

Hope this helps...

Thanks

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tifosi

If the article has a permalink to the article on your main site then it gets looked on more favourably, and be selective about how many sites you send the same article to - no more than 4-5.

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Aotearoa

Look for it getting harder to get into any directories that actually vet submissions. I own a few directories & I'm getting badly spammed by directory submission so-called services.

Other than simply ignoring the submission guidelines, they are now usually supplying worthless reciprocal pages that aren't linked from the submitted site. This, together with the massively increased submission count, has increased my workload and decreased my tolerance to the point where I now look at new submissions with a viewpoint that I'll probably be deleting them.

Where a few months ago I erred on the side of approving (on-topic) links, I now err on the side of deleting them, and I've probably deleted a few legitimate submissions.

I'm sure other directory owners are feeling much the same as I do.

Takwa

I tried linkmarket link exchange and now closed my account. The reason is I get request and requested about 10 sucessful links then after a week how many of my links do I see on the 10 sites ? a big fat ZERO.

Which make me sick, can't belive there are so many of these ****s around that only wants to take and not give.

I will stick to approaching webmaster direct or in forum, at least they're a bit more trustworthy.

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