Backlinking Strategy That Works

April 3, 2012 - PRLog -- Your backlinking strategy is one of the most important blog tools to employ when marketing a new blog idea.  Blogs cannot survive on content alone in the giant ocean that is the internet.  Therefore, I'll share the backlinking strategy that I employ with all of my blogs including each specific site I use, the cost, as well as a description of the site or tool.  You may have heard of the terms "positive SEO" and "negative SEO" which are becoming more and more prevalent with the algorithm changes that Google has recently been implementing to eliminate limited-content blogs, to put it nicely.  The backlinking strategy that I utilize will help to nullify the impact on your blog if you've been part of one of the blog networks to recently be shut down.

To clarify, blog networks still hold a place in your backlinking strategy, however they should no longer be relied upon to serve as your only option.  I mainly focus on a handful of article directories, press release sites, and established, high page rank sites within my niche.  Additionally, I do have several of my own blogs with domains that I've purchased from GoDaddy after finding available high page rank domains on Expired Domains.  I highly suggest that you do this with your bog as you can add a completely new blog for no more than the cost of a annual domain registration fee, although it definitely isn't required.  This is optional and is the only component with an associated cost.

First, I will generally spin my articles for free by using Content Professor which is the quickest and easiest spinning tool that I've found on the market.  I don't go crazy with spinning tools like some do as I think duplicate content is found all over the web.  When you think about huge news stories that break from AP or Reuters, they don't spin their content and it sure doesn't seem to affect them at all.  However, it doesn't take long to create a spun article and be able to submit a different version with every submission.

PRLog -- This is a free press release site.  I submit just about every single article I write to them for publication.  I receive more traffic referrals from PRLog than any other site I use.  You are allowed three backlinks per article and I take advantage of that with every submission.  I've had several of my posts on PRLog rank #1 in search results after posting with them.

Amazines, EzineArticles, GoArticles, ArticleBlast, and Technorati are the main five article directories in which I submit my articles.  Each one of these article directories allow you to include backlinks to your site.  I receive the most referral traffic from EzineArticles, however my articles on Amazines receive more views than any other directory.  

I also have several other basic Wordpress blogs that I've created in my own blog group in which I've set up RSS feeds so that each time I publish an article on my money sites, a copy is also published on my other sites.  While these aren't high page rank sites by any means, it still creates more pages that contain my URL and keywords which point back to my site.  My main site is http://www.freeta.co and is where I re-post all of my articles to have them in one location.

Lastly, I spend time to continually find established, high traffic websites that are in my same market to submit my articles.  The only sites I will submit to will be ones where I'm allowed to contribute on my own schedule, not based on their requirements, I must be allowed to have backlinks to my blog, and I don't want to exchange links.  No offense to anyone else, but I'm not looking to build their sites any more than necessary.  I am already submitting my content for publication on their site which I feel is a fair exchange.  When I search through my backlinks by using Domain-Pop (again for free), I regularly find that the niche sites I submit to contain many more backlinks to my site than compared to the amount of articles I've actually submitted to them.  Find what other free blogging tools we use at http://www.blogideas.co/niche-blog-tool-belt.

Optional Backlinking Strategy Component: As I touched on earlier, blog networks are becoming less and less stable with Google cracking down on many of them.  One of the more advanced blog networks that appears to be unaffected by these recent changes is ArticleRanks.  You can either purchase credits to submit articles or add PR1 or higher blogs for ArticleRanks to publish content on in exchange for submission credits.  The later is the option that I choose as it costs about $10 per year for a domain compared to about $360 per year for the amount of submission credits that I would need.  I think this makes the most sense, don't you agree?

I've been able to implement this strategy with several successful blogs and had them rank on the first page of Google search results within 6 weeks with my quickest occurring in 8 days!  While I'm always fine tuning this strategy, this is my standard protocol with every article that I publish.  Thanks for taking the time to read my strategy.  I truly hope you find it helpful for your own blogging adventure.  If you have another strategy that works for you, I'd love to try it out.  Get in touch with us at http://www.blogideas.co.

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