Build Backlinks on this site? - Advice Please

[Prime85]

Hello,

I am trying to build some backlinks to my E-Commerce site and was wondering how you all view sites like this: http://www.bookmark4you.com/

If I were to put a listing for my company/site on that site, would that be considered a good backlink or a bad backlink (in terms of Google's guidelines)...

There are a bunch of sites like these, online directory or bookmark sites, and i was wondering what the general opinion is on using them for backlinking purposes.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

THANKS!!

[matbennett]

No, these really won't help I am afraid.  The fact that you can just type in your address and add a link is the very reason why they won't help.  If you think about it, what logical reason is there for a link like that being any indication of your website's quality or authority?

I'm not saying that it never worked. However you shouldn't expect that to work now. In fact if you did too much of that sort of thing it could be damaging.

[Prime85]

Thanks for the quick response.... would you be able to provide guidance as to where i should be building links?  There's only so many press release sites out there...

Thanks

[matbennett]

wow - big topic  Seriously, it;s a big topic and very dependent on your niche.  Any answer that I can give that applies to all sites in any niche is probably not that great an answer.

However start by understanding who links to your competitors and why they do that.  open site explorer is a great tool to find those links, but the "Why?" you'll need to use your own imagination for. When you understand that you can find new targets and try to get them to link to you.

Here are a couple of resources to get you started, but also search seomoz for more on link building:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-link-building

http://www.seobook.com/archives/001792.shtml

http://www.slideshare.net/paddy_moogan/35-ways-to-get-links-in-35-minutes-paddy-moogan-at-mozcon-2012

[Prime85]

Thanks...

Last question, how about commenting on blogs (both industry related and not).  I will be providing real value to the conversation and in the field where it says "website" i put the e-commerce site in there..

Is that a No-No?

[matbennett]

It's not a no-no, but the benefit you get from it is likely to be limited.  Blog commenting can be useful, but it's pretty limited as a link building method these days.

[Prime85]

But i won't be penalized for it, correct?

Thanks!!!  You've been a great help

[matbennett]

Like most things - you need to apply some common sense to it.

A few blog comments that get linked: Great.  A few thousand and it might get a bit risky!

[Prime85]

once again, Thanks!