Link Building, A Lesson Learnt The Hard Way
The Importance Of Link Building: I know, you’ve heard it a million times, you might do it once in a while, you may not be the most avid link builder…But I am here to tell you that you must use every opportunity to get a link on another site. This post will explore various techniques of highly aggressive link building and why it pays to be linked to masses of blogs.
Stop Thinking About SEO…Just Link Already: Stop it, maybe you are SEO obsessive, you come across a low or no PR blog and you close out of the page. Why? Well, you like to link to sites and posts that have a lot of PR and you just think that a blog with no PR is useless. Wrong! A blog may not have PR for a huge variety of reasons, and you cannot dismiss them.
Google PageRank or Not, Link To It: You never know what will happen to the blog posts you place a comment on or link to, for all you know they might get some PR in a couple of months time…this is where you have to think strategically. If the particular blog might get some PR in the future, why not be one of the first to comment on the post and invest in some future PR for your own blog.
I Lost My PageRank: Yes, a couple of months ago my blog’s PR suddenly disappeared, it was at the point I realized that link building was not and will never be a one off thing. This is why I try and comment on every possible occasion. Is it your first time at a blog? Make a comment. The comments won’t only help your PR but it will make you get indexed in search engines more and more and more, until the day Google realizes, you deserve more PR.
Keep Commenting, Keep Inter-Linking, Keep Track-backing: It does not matter if the blog does not have PR, if it is a decent blog with reasonable quality content and it looks promising, make a comment, make two, three, four comments even, the blog owner will love you for that, and you will be happy with yourself. Building links is all about making an investment in your own blog’s future. A passive investment that will yield you many returns in the future.
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This is good advice - just as you can never have too many referrals, too much money, or too much freedom, there is no maximum limit on the number of inbound links a website can have. Even without factoring in the SEO considerations, links are like little seeds that can be planted on other websites, and as long as they are allowed to remain, will always have the potential of bringing in at least a small amount of traffic. If the website that hosts your link grows over time, so too will the traffic to your site.
Of course, just like planting packs of seeds in a garden, not all of them will take root and grow into anything substantial. Some websites get taken down for various reasons, while others are abandoned by their owners. But this is one area where quantity has a quality of its own - if you throw enough links out there, some of them are bound to stick and grow into significant traffic streams. If you do this enough times with a site that has good content on it, your income streams should grow over time as well.
The note on your PageRank loss was interesting - I didn’t even notice this at first. I also seem to have lost my PR as of about three days ago. I’m not sure at this point whether or not this is permanent. Last October I lost PR for about three weeks (from 1 to 0), but later that month it returned and I wound up with a PR 3. I had remained at PR 3 ever since then.
Interestingly, in spite of the zero PageRank, my traffic from the search engines has actually increased, and my SERPs at Google have not been affected. I’m hoping that the recent PR drop is just a glitch, because if it is not I would like to know why my site is being penalized. I haven’t been doing anything that should trigger any penalties and have even been using nofollow on affiliate links (but not comments).
Karlonia, a very interesting PR predicament indeed. But I did not let this burst my bubble, I decided to be even more proactive in acquiring backlinks and linking to other sites to attain some trackbacks.
I will be making this a continuous process throughout the life of my blog because I believe it is quintessential. I should definitely post another article about obtaining good backlinks from high quality sites. Thanks for the tip.
A high percentage of my traffic comes from the Google organic searches people make. This is always very good to hear, and I have also seen Yahoo start making the climb which is a very good sign indeed. Thanks a lot for your comments Karlonia, they are always very much appreciated indeed!
Great advice smallfish! I agree that we about dismissing the blogs or websites without a PR. Unfortunately that’s what a lot of people do mostly because they trying to fast track.
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Thanks for your comments Tech, I tend to delete comments with only two words in them etc…This is because it is easy to identify them as trackback seekers. It is always important to maintain a high degree of quality control on your blog.
Many thanks,
Fabien
Fabien,
generally you are right, when your goal is to maximize the traffic to your website. But, when you consider to focus your traffic more to the visitors you really want to get your site, you cannot put simply the links everywhere.
Luke
Luke, thank you for your comments…this is the thing, I did not make it clear in my post that you should not simply go and link at every blog you see - there is always a limit. I just want to ensure that if you come across a good quality post from a reasonable site, consider commenting on it. I will definitely have to clarify this in my next post. Thank you for pointing it out.
Commenting really works. Untill last month, I never commented on a blog and I had PR0. For the last one month, I started commenting on all occassions (in about 25 blogs) and now I have PR1.
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Thanks for your comments Jim, It is so true though, commenting on other reasonable blogs works wonders for PageRank, I think it is something everyone should be practising on a daily basis.
I hate thinking about SEO…not that it isn’t important,but it just takes up too much time when I could be commenting or thinking of better content to write. Besides I’ve gotten indexed alot faster by commenting on blogs and forums rather than constantly worrying about how a page is or isn’t formatted right for the engines or if I made the alt text right or a whole bunch of other things…I know these things are basically important,but it’s just not fun and appears to be not as productive as interacting with comments,forum posts,etc.
I must agree with you, sometimes you just need to dump the SEO and comment on other blogs, get active in forums and build a community. After all, the blogosphere is very community oriented as it is, so it is very important to keep this sense of community.
Good post. It seems like every link has some value. If you are at a site you like, and you have something of value to say why wouldn’t you comment.
I’ve definitely added you to my favourite link list. Btw, just wondering if you plan to get the Wordpress plugin of ‘notify me of future comments via email’? So that at least I can check out the comments and replies.