Is Back Link Building still Good Practice

[JonnytheB]

Since all the updates from Google I'm unsure as to whether I should be pursuing good quality back links and how many per month?for my website www.polesandblinds.com . We don't have a very large back link profile and its at least half of some of our competitors, we are currently active on blogging and the 4 main social sites.

Many Thanks I look forward to your suggestions/advice/criticism.

[DavidKonigsberg]

You need back links its still a huge ranking factor- just try to do real marketing that gives you a bi product of links. If you want to know from a strict link building perspective you can do  nich directories, valuable blog comments , Q&a, Guest posting on real blogs - Just try to add value and get links from industry related real places not sites made for seo.

[EvolveCreative]

"and how many per month?"

Don't think that way.That's not how it works. Keep your blog going strong and then promote. Pictures and images will be big for you. Try to get them from your customers (pay them a little). Run a contest - Submit your pictures for a chance to win!

Something like that.

[JonnytheB]

Hi David

Thanks for your response, everything you've said makes perfect sense and its confirmed what other seo experts have been saying to us.

Thanks again

Jonathan

[JonnytheB]

Hi Dave

Sound advice, we've been thinking of getting our blog readers and customer to submit pics etc, we just need to put our thoughts in to action.

Many thanks

Jonathan

[mark_baird]

I'm in a similar positiand if not worse link wise. I have been trying the "link bait article" method. Been creating rich content with videos, images and long form quality content and it seems to be working. It's early days yet but traffic is rising. As yet conversions are not up and no links but it has only been 2-3 weeks since our first good articles went live and they are ranking well and driving traffic. The thing I noticed is that if I add a video to the content and submit video site map to google I get it on page 2-3 in about 20 mins! Epic speed at climbinthump the SERP's.