Which way of Link Building is best for seo and long term results

[Modi]

Hi - Have started off with a Automotive site - www.mycarhelpline.com based in India 15 months back

• Have achieved close to daily visitors of 2500+ in numbers

• Have made do follow links through - Article submission in high pr directories, couple of press releases, high pr forum submission, directory submission with high pr (though yet to get link from yahoo, botw n dmoz) and couple pf backlinks in high other pr sites

Need to know

- Best way to create backlinks - is article writing the best way to create backlinks - as against paid directories and paid press releases. I Can target 350 articles in high pr article directories for 6 mo - Ezine, Selfgrowth, Articledashboard n others

• How can i achieve my target of 10,000 daily visitors. What link bulding strategy do i need to adopt - as am finding difficult to explore sites where i can build backlinks except articles

There are other Auto sites - heard of getting 40K unique visitors on daily basis

Pl suggest . thnx

[KeriMorgret]

What do you want your long-term results to be? I'd stop building links for the moment. Most are crap links right now -- if you sat down with a rep from a search engine, I don't think links like http://www.txtlinks.com/19/Business_and_Finance_Weblogs/72/ and http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/tips-to-eliminate-fear-of-public-speaking would they pass the quality guidelines?

The site comes across as quite confusing when I try to examine it. The title tag and some text says it's for India, but it's on a dot com and it looks like the site is trying to hide the fact that it's for India and instead hoping you'll click on one of the many ads. It's hard to find information from the actual site, given the number of ads on the page.

If this were my site, I'd verify it in Google Webmaster Tools and see if there were any warnings about either my links or the quality of my pages. Google has started cracking down more recently on sites with a ton of ads on them above the fold. If it were my site, and I was wanting to attract visitors from India, I would also set that as my geographic target in Google Webmaster Tools.

I'd go through and make sure that my content was unique and valuable to the visitor. I'd ask if it was something that someone would want to link to, then go out and tell people about the content. I'd also tell them about my point of difference / unique selling proposition. Let people know what they can get from your site that they can't get from other, similar sites. As you build links, build them for your users, not for Google. Ask yourself if you would want to explain these links in a reinclusion request, or if you would want to remove them later. It's easier to never make the link then try to remove it later.

I know this wasn't the answer you were looking for, but you need to make sure the site is something that can earn natural links.

[Modi]

Hello Keri,

Thanks for a detailed inspection and time spent to analyse it.

• Here, in India - a site with a .com is what is considered generic and is typed naturally instead of country specific .in or .co.in extension. Does having a .com impacts the rankings as searched in India. (Under webmaster - the geogparhical location is set as India only)

• For warnings etc - we do regularly check google webmaster and yes takes very seriously for same. However - if we remove ads (which we learned from some major adsense enabled sites - these are the best practices - for monetizing and ad positioning ) pl suggest if we are doing anything wrong here. There is just one banner ad above the text fold and one link unit

• By building links, 100% with you - but how to build do follow links from external sites - which is the best way to make backlinks - through Articles or other means

Thanks once again for time to analyse and suggest. Hope to get response for above. Thanks

[Gamer07]

I would get rid of the Google Adsense links right under your main menu bar. Why do you want to send your visitors to another site as soon as they visit your site? It will decrease your pageviews, pageviews/user, and will increase your bounce-rate.

And you'd better convert your content url's to clean url format.

For instance your forum links is now: index.php?option=com_easydiscuss&view=index&category_id=0&Itemid=78

a forum URL like /automobile-forum would work better for you.

[KeriMorgret]

Have you looked at our blog section on Link Building? We have a lot of posts there that talk about many different ways to earn valuable links.