Question about WhiteHat Quality Link Building Technique!

[andishm]

Hello,

I am using Opensite Explorer as well as Link Builder from wordtracker to find good links which either link to my competitors or either links pointing to top 20 sites in my niche keyword.

Then my team follow each link and find

Directory Links

Forum Profile Links

Bookmark Links

PR / Article Sites Links

Guest Blog Post Sites Links...

Then we make links manually to those sites for our websites as well. Is this a good whitehat strategy for long term good SEO, i believe opensiteexplorer's high page authority links shall worth in a long run.

Also I timely post article to my blog and then distribute it to my twitter as well as run few social bookmarks on my article posted on my blog.

I want to know community that am i doing SEO for link building in right way or any suggestion there from honorable SEOMOz Members.

I know content is key however we are an ecommerece sites mostly thus we need to timely create backlinks as well to stay in competition.

I will wait for feedback of honorable community if we are on right direction for SEO or not?

[Matt-Williamson]

Do you mean that you are copying your competition and putting links to your site on forums and on blog sites?If this is the case then I think the links are of little value and can actually lead to penalties in the SERPs.

Please see this response to a similar question regarding these types of link: http://www.seomoz.org/q/blog-comments-good-for-seo

Also see this Q&A for sensible link building advice:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/drowning-in-a-sea-of-link-building-advice