Link Building Plan Need some tips

[azokaei]

Okay so I want to start focusing on SEO for my Web design company and I have been reading and reading and am now working on my off-page optimization and have some questions. My words are competitive words and a few of them are finally increasing to top 500 and a few in top 100.

My current MozRank for my domain is 2.28, but my mozbar shows my homepage to be MozRank to be 3.35

Link Building Plan

-Around 50  Directory submissions to high PR directories and high MozRank domains

• Free listings
• Paid Listings

-3-5 articles written for guest posts

• Around 25 Local Business directories such as brownbook.net, whitepages, etc

-Around 20 dofollow forum profile creation and backlinks from signatures

-Squidioo Lens Creation( I will be creating high quality content related my website which would be web design, internet marketing, seo services.)

-Hubpages Creation

My question is should the content used on squidioo be 100% original, like can I post the content to other directories as well?

-Article Directories

Okay so from what I've read this is method doesn't really give much benefit with the recent updates, is this true or should I still at least submit some articles to article directories. I am also confused wouldn't distributing your articles to article directories be considered duplicate content?

20-25 Blog Comments on related blogs that support dofollow blog commenting, also will build some nofollow blog comment links for link diversity

[BeardoCo]

Here is my opinion on each of the items you are in:

I am not a fan of directory submissions.

3-5 guest posts is a good idea as long as the site you are submitting to has a lot of traffic and isn't super spammy with other guests posts.

I am a fan of local business directories - it will help you in your local footprint and will allow you to build some authoritative links.

Forum and signature backlinks are abused and overused.  The only time I would actually consider using this is if the forum site actually provide you leads (For example, a business message board, marketing forum, business community)

Squidoo Lens are now No Follow and also contain a ton of spam.  I think you would be better of building a blog on your website and building original content there.

I still think there is value in blog commenting as long as you are providing diverse anchor text and valuable non spam links.

[Francisco_Meza]

** I think you would be better of building a blog on your website and building original content there.**

YES! I totally agree. Start using the best content on YOUR own blog.

1 directory submission to BBB will probably be WAY more effective than 50 wack article directories.  Also look into joining the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce if you are in OC. Real companies join those organizations. Google knows that. Also, spammers won't want to spend the money to do that stuff.

What Wil Reynolds Real Company Shit video from Mozcon: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/2012-mozcon-videos-are-here

[BeardoCo]

Another great idea for receiving backlinks is to become a "sponsor" for a charity or host local meetup meetings online.  If you can get your company noticed for donating to charity or sponsoring an event you will get massive backlinks just through news articles and stuff like that.