Off Page SEO – 12 Awesome Techniques To Build Backlink To Your Website Part 1
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Last week I talk about 10 critical factors for On Page SEO that you can apply immediately. Hopefully, you have already optimized your page. If not please spend 10-20 minutes to make some tiny changes to your page because today I’m going to show you how to explode the power of SEO by utilizing the other part of SEO – Off Page Optimization. If you have your on page SEO done for your site, it will be a lot easier to harness the full power of off page SEO, which a lot of people refer to as backlinking process or building backlink to your website. There are tons of ways to build backlink to your website. Here I will just list out top 12 popular ways.
12 Techniques To Build Backlink To Your Website
1. Article Directories
Create an article with your links within the resource box. Typically 2 links are allowed to be located in the resource box.
Top Places to Submit Articles
- www.Ezinearticles.com
- www.Buzzle.com
- www.ArticleBase.com
- www.GoArticles.com
- www.Bukisa.com
- www.SearchWarp.com
Tips
- To automate the process and highly leverage the power of article marketing, use Article Marketing Robot to create accounts, spin and submit to
10,0002166 article directories automatically! - Grab the RSS of each article directories for RSS submission.
Download the trial version of Article Marketing Robot and see the results yourself!
2. Web 2.0 Sites
Post your articles to these Web 2.0 sites below. The links can be placed within the article body.
Top Places to Submit Web 2.0 Sites
Tips
- Grab the RSS of each article directories for RSS submission.
3. Social Bookmarking Sites
Submit your URL of your money site, articles in the web2.0 and article directories to the social bookmarking sites. You can put the anchor link in the title to link back to your site.
Top Places to Submit Social Bookmark
Refer below for a comprehensive list
Tips
You can also use this free resource – www.Onlywire.com to semi automate the process. You just need to register all those sites and fill in your username and password. OnlyWire can post the bookmark to all the sites you registered at OnlyWire.
4. RSS
Submit your Blog RSS, Web2.0 RSS and Article Directories RSS (i.e. www.YourBlog.com/feed) to RSS Aggregators. If you have a static html page, you can convert it to RSS format using feedage.com.
Top Places To Submit RSS
- www.FeedAge.com
- www.FeedAgg.com
- http://www.postrank.com
- http://www.bloglines.com/
- http://www.bloghub.com/
- http://www.plazoo.com/
- http://www.icerocket.com/
5. Press Release
Write a press release and submit to press release sites. You can leave your full URL or links with your anchored text within your press release.
Top Places To Submit Press Release
- http://newsreleaser.com/
- http://information-online.com/
- http://www.freepressrelease.com/
- http://qualitypressreleaser.com/
- http://www.i-newswire.com/
- http://pressexposure.com/
Tips
Choose the press release that accept anchored link instead of only URL, to fully explode the power of press release. When your press release gets syndicated and so does your anchored link.
6. Whois & Stats Based Sites
You can submit your site to these stats based / Whois Sites to create a backlink.
Top Places To Submit Whois & Stat Based Sites
- http://www.quantcast.com
- http://www.thegetpr.net/addurl.html
- http://uptime.netcraft.com/
- http://websiteshadow.com/
- http://www.webtrafficagents.com/WebSitevalue/WebSiteWorth.aspx
Tips
Automate the process by using the following resources:
- http://www.imtalk.org/cmps_index.php?pageid=IMT-Website-Submitter
- http://www.backlinkgenerator.net/
- http://www.webmasterdeck.com/tools/wsbacklinker/
Big Tips
Try out SEO Link Robot to fully automate the 6 tasks mentioned above such as mass article account creation /submission, social bookmarking account creation/submission, RSS account creation/submission, press release account creation/submission, create link wheel, submission to whois & stat based sites, pinger, etc…
7. Social Network
Post your links (contents such as article, web2.0 article, your blog, etc…) to social network sites.
Top Places To Submit To Social Network
Tips
There are tons of sites like Facebook or twitter, just go to www.pixelpipe.com or www.ping.fm to register some or all those accounts to help you to submit to tons of sites that you register at 1 go.
8. Forum Signature
Setup your signature in each of your forum you participate. When you make a post, your signature with your backlink will be displayed. Some forums do require you to have at least x number of post before you can add your links in your signature. So, do find out first before you do that.
Top Places To Submit To Forum
Tips
Go to BigBoards.com and find the forum in your niche and start backlinking.
9. Forum Profile
In some of the forum, you can put your URL in your profile page and those profile pages are visible by public without login. Hence, a backlink is created from the profile page!
Top Places For Forum Profile
Using Google to search for High Page Rank forum. In Google, search the following string:
- “powered by expressionengine”
- inurl:/member/register/ “powered by expressionengine”
- “powered by MyBB”
- inurl: /member.php?action=register “powered by MyBB”
- “powered by phpfox”
- inurl: /signup/ “powered by phpfox”
- “powered by vbulletin”
Tips
Install SEO Quake Firefox Plugin – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3036/ to easily identify the high page rank forum site. Refer the illustration below:
10. .EDU & >GOV Backlinks
Some .EDU & .Gov sites allow for people to comment or participate the forum.
Top Places For .EDU & .GOV Sites
Using Google to search for .edu & .gov sites allow you to participate and comment. In Google, search the following string:
- site:.edu inurl:CreateUser.aspx
- site:.edu inurl:register.aspx
- site:.edu inurl:”wp-signup.php”
- site:.edu “powered by expressionengine”
- site:.edu “powered by vbulletin” inurl:”register.php”
- “leave a comment” site:.edu
- “reply to post” site:.edu
Tips
Do not spam the forum/ blog. Provide useful comments. Otherwise, it won’t be surprise for you to get banned by the forum/blog owner… Now, you can use my free backlinks tool to search for sites relevant to your keywords and build backlinks on platform ranges from .edu, .gov, Angela backlinks, Commentluv, Keywordluv, etc…
11. Document Sharing Sites
Document sharing sites allow you to upload your documents in .pdf, .doc, .ppt format etc…You can leave your link in the description field.
Top Places Of Document Sharing Sites
Tips
Put live links in the document itself so that people who are viewing the document can click through the link while they are reading the document.
12. Power Point Sites
Upload your powerpoint slides to the sites and put our link in the description field so that you gain a backlink.
Top Places Of Power Point Sites
Tips
In order to fully utilize the article that you submitted to article directories or web 2.0 sites, just convert the article to slides to save you some time for content generation
There are 12 techniques to build backlink to your website as mentioned above, which you can be easily implemented without costing you a dime. Of course you can speed up the process a lot faster by leveraging some of the tools I mentioned. Next week I will introduce more of backlinking strategies that are not that common but are extremely powerful.
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To Your Success,
Ming Jong Tey
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Comments on Off Page SEO – 12 Awesome Techniques To Build Backlink To Your Website Part 1
is article spinning really kosher? i don’t want to dip into black hat seo.
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article spinning is totally white hat. All you do is to make your article as unique as possible. You are welcomed to submit the original article to as many directories as you like. However, not all will be indexed by Google and most of them will be put under the supp index of Google. That’s the reason of article spinning or rewriting.
To survive SEO link building is an integral part of the overall development of SEO, and has become increasingly important. SEO link building is recognized as a major factor in the development and SEO SEO Stretegy to survive the Google Content algorithm agriculture.
@ILIA Capacitación | cursos sence: Link building is the backbone of SEO, on top of the on page factor. If you want to game on SEO, link building is a must.
Hey MJ; Once again thanks for more great info. You’re my personal SEO guru! Also,I took a picture of the last two lessons you gave me,so I can reread and use the info I got from you. The pictures won’t leave my computer,until I delete them. Hope all is going ok with you,and “you rock” too. Talk with ya soon RG-S
@rusty garner-smith: Hey RG, you are welcomed. Thanks for your compliment! I’m glad that you enjoy my posts
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Ming,
Nice list of resources you have put together for back linking here. Like you say link building is a must to compete. It is important to do it in a natural manner and not get flagged by google…but doing it in some way is really not an option if you want your posts to rank.
very comprehensive list here!
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@Steve@Earn Money Online: Thanks Steve. Definitely agree, natural link building is key else will get slapped by Google
So, a link diversification (i.e. don’t just focus your link building only on buying gigs on Fiverr that use Xrumer to deliver 10k++ comments links, etc…) is important as well.
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This is an awesome resource you have put together Ming!
I love these posts because I can just bookmark them straight to my backlink folder and refer to them later
A few here I have not heard of.
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Question for you: What do you think of AMR? (Honestly now
Does it submit to the bigger directories (not Ezine obviously as if they even get a whiff of spun content…) and also, like article demon – do you find the number of successful submissions AND the value of the existing articles/links deteriorate over time?
Can’t have everything I know, but hey – a man’s gotta ask – right?
Good to read you again mate, sorry it’s been so long between drinks
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@Alex: Thanks Alex. Great to see you here again (though it’s been a while, lol)! Glad that you enjoy the post
Ok, here comes my honest opinion 
1. I will need to correct the number of article directories in my post above. It used to be 10,000++, they have reduced to 2166 (up to today) due to dead links, inactive, tech issues, etc…
2. Out of 2166, I only successfully registered 935 directories using DeCaptcher. They do support Death by Captcha, ImageTyperz, Antigate. I haven’t tried others service. So far only DeCaptcher and Death by Captcha.
3. Out of 935 directories, there are around 230 directories with PR1-PR5 (ArticleAlley is included), the rest are PR0.
4. So far, I only submit to those directories with PR1 and above. I usually get around 130 submission successfully every time.
5. Since you ask that, I just run another submission to the PR0 site to see how many successful submission I will get in total. And the results —> 251 submission
6. AMR is maintained regularly. They have a forum site as well (articlemarketingrobot.com/forum), where you can request the new features (yes, they do implement it). Vince (the creator) do reply your support email or pm (if you are on Warrior Forum) and help you to sort out problems. This is the thing I love the most. Bear in mind that it is not a monthly subscription.
7. You can backup your database (your spun articles, account details, etc…). If I am not wrong, you can also import other article URL that works into AMR and let it do the submission. I haven’t personally tried this but there are information in the forum.
8. I recall when I did the submission to 9000++ sites before, I did get only 900 submission successfully (it is a shame, only 10%). Theoretically, I can import the URL to my current database so that I can have around 900 submission successfully. I’m just too lazy to play around the database…
9. I didn’t check the approval rate. I noticed that there are lots of them are auto approved. However, there is a function in AMR to let you extract the live links and author feeds (This is GOLD). I took them and build 2nd tier backlinks with bookmark and RSS. Yummy link juice.
10. Results? It works. It did help me to rank a squeeze page for a internet marketing keyword (exact search volume around 2400/month). I am actually surprised that a squeeze page (I should say a video squeeze without bullet points) can also rank…I will say this is by brute force linking effort, lol
10. Ok enough said. In conclusion, for this latest AMR version, out of 2166 sites, I have successfully submitted to 376 sites (125 PR1 and above, 251 PR0)
Hope you satisfy with the above
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Hi Ming, the article is amzing but my biggest concern is determing where to really invest our time. I think for bloggers Twitter offers amzing oppottunities but again i’ts all about preferences. I spend a lot of tiem on blog engage looking for article that interest me and where I can comment. By far this has been the largest and most benfits resource for me. I don’t have time to hit even half the sites you mentieodn here and if you do I don’t’ know where you find it.
I thank you for sharing all the great resoprces as well it’s definslty a great list to bookmark and save for future referecnce. I’ll add it to my saved list on blog engage.
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Wow, that’s an awesome reply Ming – certainly earned yourself an affiliate commission there – so when I trial it (which I will) I’ll be coming here to clickety click
Bookmarked now as this is not only the link page I need but a bloody good honest review of it.
Thanks again Ming
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That is a really comprehensive list. While I know there are automated solutions to generating backlinks, I still prefer the manual way. I can control the number of backlinks, and where the backlinks are located if I do it manually.
The Google search strings you provided will come in handy with helping me find sites.
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@bbrian017: Hi Brian, thanks for your compliment. This is really encouraging! Time management is definitely a big one for all of us. There are literally tons of resources and methods. The best thing is we don’t really need to implement all of them to reach our goal. Most of the times, I will stick to a few of my favorite methods and when I have time, I will try out a few more for testing. Tweaking here and there…
Glad to know that you enjoy this resources
Great to see you here!
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@Alex: Glad you satisfy, Alex
Hope this provides some insight about AMR for those who would like to give it a try 
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@Paul Salmon: Hi Paul, thanks for stopping by
There are something that I would do manually such as commenting, submission to top rank article directories, tutorial sites, Paid press release sites, etc…
If you love the search strings, you will love my newly added Free Backlinks tool on my blog that will help you to search for various kinds of foot print such as commentluv, keywordluv, .edu, .gov, Angela backlinks, etc…Give it a try and let me know what you think.
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I agree with everyone that have commented before me. You are a very hard worker Ming and I love reading your blog and all you offer. Thanks and keep it up.
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@Rob White: Hi Rob, thanks for your compliment
Glad to know you love my posts. That makes my hard work well paid off 
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Hi Ming,
FIRST time to your blog,
FOUND lots of useful information,
FOR sure I will want to
FREQUENT your site to learn more!
Thanks!
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@sooreneccs: Thanks for stopping by, sooreneccs:) Nice to meet you too.
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Thanks for posting this, it is my first time visit here. Anyways I personally only do web 2.0 or forum profile links (I heard those 2 are the most effective ones) but I am not pretty sure but it has been doing great at the moment.
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@Mitja97@ MW3 Strategy Guide: Hi Mitja, web 2.0 sites are still pretty powerful but forum profile are not as effective as before, at least that’s how I feel. However, a good mix always give you the best results!
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You forgot to mention commenting on other blogs. This is really an easy and quick way to bring traffic and back link towards your blog.
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@Mohsin Ali Waheed: I have covered under the .edu .gov section and also in my complete 24 backlinking strategies report.
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I got the new way of getting way of finding .edu links. Really i like this beautiful post to upgrade my seo knowledge.
@nifty: Glad you enjoy this post! Put even 1 or 2 techniques into good use and you will definitely see the results!
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Hi Ming,
I love your post specially forum signature Y ,edu part to build backlinks. Waiting for the next treasure post for all loyal readers.
Regards,
Zenith
@zenith: Welcomed to my blog, Zenith. Glad you enjoy this! The edu links are very powerful! Feel free to check out my other posts and let me know what you think. I am here to help
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Hi Ming,
I like your post because it help me to find backlinks for website. As you know that backlinks from authority websites are very useful.
Regards,
Chetan
@chetan: No worries chetan. Glad you find it helpful. Feel free to drop a note here if you have any queries.
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I already knew about a lot of this methods, but a couple of them were truly new, thank you for this post
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@Michael: Welcomed Michael. The more backlinks the merrier
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This is the most helpful and clear information I have come across in my quest for knowledge about off page seo. I can’t thank you enough for the help this has given me in my attempts to find guidance to improve our position in SERPS. We only went live about 9 months ago and have tried various suggestions from the “gurus” (most of whom were basically using hype to sell ineffective black hat tools!) so it is was great to find this list and the advice you have given. THANK YOU……
@Steve Roberts: Welcomed Steve. Just pick a few techniques that you are interested and give them a try
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Hey Ming, thank you for the great input with a list of websites, i really didn’t know that sites like scribd and slideshare also can get you a backlink
, thanks again, keep up the good work !!,
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@Rohan Advani: Welcomed Rohan. The doc sharing sites are overlooked sources since you can get backlinks + direct traffic from them. The backlinks from the pdf are “dofollow” too. Thanks for stopping by.
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I love your article Ming. You did really good. I did not know anything about the Document Sharing sites you mentioned. and also with the PowerPoint site. Very great information from you, and it is really a big help. Thanks.
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Hey Thanks Ming
, will surely try this technique! keep up the good work buddy 
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@Gray: Thanks Gray. Take advantage on them while they are overlooked. You will be surprised there are tons of people searching/ reading the powerpoint / pdf everyday. Most of them contains great alexa allows your uploaded documents have significant exposure.
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Your tips are very useful. I have to say this is all new to me as I am new at being a webmaster but I find your tools really helpful. I am optimistic that it will be a great help in optimizing my backlinks. I was wondering, I am new to this site and so I have to ask you… Have you thought about putting up a video how-to about this? I am quite sure that a lot of people like me will be most appreciative.
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@Anujsharma: It is a good idea and in fact I thought about when I published this post. Unfortunately just need to find some time to get them done. Thanks for reminding
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Submitting whois & stat based sites automatic process is interesting but is this coming under black hat techniques? because search engine hates automated process right.
I am using this by manual. please tell me is it workout?
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@Claire: It is definitely not a black hat technique. Automated process is fine as long as you are adding value, just like article submitter. People generally have 2 choices to speed up the process, to go for tools or outsource. Both can be scaled up comparing to do it manually.
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@Ming Jong: Fine. Thanx for your response Ming. Let me try it. and I have doubt in that doing once in a process is enough? or have to do once in a week or month using the same websites. is this is a regular practice?
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@Claire: I generally use those links for indexing purpose (i.e. when I start a site) though you do gain backlinks from them. I just use it once. Take a look at this post –> How To Get Backlinks To Rank A New Site and you will have a better idea on the backlinking process.
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Yes I am processing those what you have mentioned in your blog. then What are the process should follow to get quick ranking for Competitive keywords? and Let me your experience about submission of directories and social bookmarking?
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@Claire: I have laid out the process of backlinking in the post I mentioned above. The key is to build quality links consistently.
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Thanks for the lists of Google search strings for High PR forums.I am having a little difficulty in searching for forums to use.
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@CrisC@yateley estate agents: These little tricks will let you easily to find relevant and useful forum for backlinking purpose.
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these tools are really useful for me , i love signature y specially ,,,,thanks for it
Ming –
As time is an issue trying to do so many things. Do you object to using a tool like ScrapeBox which uses Proxies to blast out comments to blogs, with about a 10% return.
Ming
How is that Commentluv working for you. Wondering if you have written any detailed reviews regarding functiion and how effective it is.
@arun: Welcomed Arun. There are lots of clever search string that we can use in Google that makes out life easier! Just love them.
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@Mike: Hi Mike, I personally don’t use Scrapebox. However, if you do, make sure you do not point back to your own money site but to some web2.0 sites to pass the link juice. I do prefer contextual backlinks, which is considered the most powerful backlinks you can get, by tapping on blog network and article marketing. I do use commentluv but I haven’t written a detail review on it. Don’t expect a lot of backlinks benefit from commentluv as the main purpose is to power up your commenting effort and draw people to click directly to your recent blog post. You can definitely draw lots of direct visitor if you provide useful and insightful comments.
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The link below your name in blue and below Claire’s name that is Commentluv in action am I correct and is that an extra link per post.
You are correct Mike. What people usually do is to select the most relevant post so that people might be interested to read more.
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I’m still dont know ,what the first step I will Use after Publish article.
Write article at diroctory,press realase orr social bookmarking
@Adi: After your first published article, you need to make sure it is indexed before you do anything else. Take a look at How To Get Backlinks To Rank A New Site for better idea of backlinking process.
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These techniques rock. I have gotten results using most of these. I have used slideshare, squidoo and docstock. These have all been pretty useful thus far for me. But you have some techniques I’ve never new existed. Like the Who is technique. I myself wrote a post similar to it called How To Optimize Your Blog but it was as extensive as this one. Good stuff.
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@Jose Diaz: These are solid proven techniques that will bring in results when do it consistently. Great to know that you are using some of them
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Hi Ming,
This is a lovely list of authority backlink builders. But after penguin update article sites and blog networks are not going to help us much. Am I right mate?
Thanks,
Abhijit.
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@Abhijit: Hi Abhijit, blog network and article directories are still effective. Recent Punguin update penalize the excessive anchored text without much variance, despite the deindexing of some well known blog network.
Think about this, if blog network is useless, why would Google spend so much effort to deindex them? In order not to be penalized, it is wise to vary the anchor text as much as possible to look “natural” if you are into SEO game. For example, if your main keyword you want to target is “dog training”, you might want only 30% of your anchor text as your main keyword, another 30% for your website name, and the rest supplement by naked URL, “click here”, other “LSI keywords”, etc…
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Must say thank you so much for this information. Though I know most of these tactics and strategies and have used some of them, the links you have provided are really invaluable. Again thanks!
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@Chadrack: Welcomed! There are a lot of awesome free tools just waiting us to harness their power
Do the research before hand and the effort will worth our time.
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Hi Ming,
I like the technique to find relevant blogs.We can find .edu or any kind of blog which we need to find particular niche.
@vishal: Hi vishal, google search string is very helpful and we can use them to our advantage. By doing so, we can easily pick the relevant blog to comment
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Hi Ming,
After Google’s Penguin updates we KNOW that links from PHP sites and article directories are no longer valued by Google. Whilst the PR for sites like articlesbase.com is still showing as 5, all the juice has been taken out of these sites rendering the links virtually useless. Same goes for many non human edited online directories
With this in mind I’d be interested in hearing your justifications for businesses continuing to use this practice. Given Google now values original content as king (and syndicated, duplicate content virtually as spam) then I’m not sure how submission to article directories can have any value whatsover in any form of SEO practice.
Thanks.
@Chris Jones: Hi Chris, though I still do SEO, I completely abandon the SEO for new site, i.e. I abandon the adsense business model or other affiliate sites to rank for certain keywords. I only maintain my old sites.
Why? Simply SEO is a risky approach. I don’t want to go into arguing black/white/gray hat SEO methods because eventually Google defines that. I don’t want to let Google control my business.
Ranking a site takes time and effort. I still use article directories to get links and also other non human edited sites. The approach is to build 1st tier link (i.e. link directly to money site) on quality sites such as ezinearticle, press release site, web 2.0 sites, blog comments, private blog network, etc…Then 2nd tier backlinks (backlinks to 1st tier links) from software like Article Marketing Robot, blog networks like ArticleRanks, to channel the link juice back to the money site.
Another key after Google Penguin is to vary the anchor texts as many as possible to simulate “natural link building” process. My anchor text profile is around 40% main keywords, 40% LSI, 20% generic keywords (i.e. URL, click here, visit, etc…). Some people (like Market Samurai team) suggest 20% main keyword to be on the safe side…
SEO is ever changing, so whatever is working now is not guaranteed to work tomorrow. Hope this helps.
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Thanks for your reply, Ming
nice blog ming, i think inforgraphic is also a good option for link building as we know it is an spam free technique so we will gets benefits from it. what do you think about it
@Deepak jha: Infographic is a good choice to go get some viral links / traffic in Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest. It does require a lot of testing since majority of the infographic in the IM niche won’t go viral or attract a lot of “likes”. So, really depends on your niche.
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Hey Ming thanks for the wonderful techniques to build backlinks. I am a newbie blogger and am looking forward to build some quality links for my website. Looking forward to do some blog commenting and forum submission.
@Pushkar Kohli: Welcomed Pushkar. Beware of the anchor text profile when you are building backlinks after the Google Penguin update. I have updated a generic guide about anchor text variance when doing link building incorporating the Google Penguin Update, check out the post below:
http://www.mingjongtey.com/seo/how-to-get-backlinks/
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hi, the fact is the type of “SEO” you are advocating may have worked in 2011, it does not work now! You cannot get to page 1 on Google with low-quality backlinking, you no longer get the cumulative effect of a ton of quote “diverse back links” to get to page 1 on Google. It just no longer works and I am tired of people advocating doing it. SEO is pretty much dead. I just heard a hour audio interview advocating doing the low-quality diverse Backlink thing. It just may take a longer time he said like maybe up to a year. Wrong! Yet people will try it and waste a year!
Automatic link building the longer works either. Blog networks will get you delisted in Google. You can no longer use article ranks and other blog networks. EMD’s only work to flag you to Google. In 2013 up is down as far as SEO goes.
By the way the first part of your free PDF on keyword research is excellent. Your hundred dollar a day plan would have worked up until maybe February of 2012. It no longer works!
@Tom: The SEO tools are as good as how you are going to use them. Having $147 /month automated tools will not guaranteed first page ranking because ultimately it is how you use them count.
I totally agree that SEO has changed a lot ever since and blindly doing backlinking will not help at all. I wouldn’t say it is dead, lol…
One should have a proper SEO plan before doing any backlinking else it will only hurt the site. I recommend you to have a read of my post below and pay attention to the Google Penguin update section as this is key to make/break the ranking.
http://www.mingjongtey.com/seo/how-to-get-backlinks/
Glad you enjoy my keyword research portion
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Another awesome resource! I feel like I hit jackpot on the tactics you shared above, Ming Jong. Much love on finding .edu sites =)
@Jerome Ibuyan: You are welcomed Jerome. Take action now and put them into good use, you will see the results! Edu links are powerful and work great for SEO!
Check out http://www.mingjongtey.com/free-backlinks/ to help you find powerful edu and other backlinks
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I thing articles website don’t have more value now. SEO is changing, Google need more quality links not auto approved links.
another great and invaluable content,I am heading to my blog to start applying them.Thanks Ming!
@Zack Roberts: SEO Is constantly changing. A diverse range of backlinks with a wide range of keywords are necessary.
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@EMMANUEL: Good on you! Keep me updated how you go with some of these techniques!
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These techniques are helpful but daily google changes lots of things on daily basis . So now a days we have to create links very carefully .
@Preet: Absolutely. You will need to stick to a proven SEO plan before you implement the backlinking strategy!
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