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    Link building? I really dont get it is there an easy way

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    • SoFlaWeb
      SoFlaWeb last edited by

      I have not seen Raven Tools mentioned here.

      I am not affiliated with them in any way (other than a satisified customer). And I acutally use their toolset more for reporting than actually tracking links. But I find it easier to utilize their system (and their toolbar) to add an track links than an excel spread sheet. You can always export to excel if you want to do some more indepth analysis.

      There is some learning curve to get everthing setup, but the additional features are well worth (just the reporting alone was worth it for me, saves me lots of time every month)

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      • shandaman
        shandaman last edited by

        Hey My Friend,

        What the others are saying is true there is no easy way. But depending on the competition for the keywords your after it can be easier then some are stating. Just remember slow and steady wins the race.

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        • Thos003
          Thos003 @SoFlaWeb last edited by

          I agree. Being able to track links you've aquired and monitor links you may be working on is a big plus to Raven's tool belt.

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          • blackrino
            blackrino last edited by

            The best thing that I have done so far is article building. Than again they do say now that it's not "good" to share your content across the web and that google will only use the first article. So sometimes I change the article around a little bit. The trick is to actually put GOOD content up! Don't put crap out there that no one wants to read. If you put good stuff out there people will link to you. I have over 10,000 links to my site and most of it is from people reposting my blogs! I also get a lot of traffic from this.

            I'm not a big fan of the link farm (you post of mine and I'll post on yours) type deal. I think it's cheesy and it can actually get you in trouble.

            About linkmarket, that's a site that does definitely look like it can get you in more trouble than help you. Put it this way, I've got 10,000 links (and a lot of them are high quality) and I didn't pay for one single link. Granted I agree that when you do the article building way there is potential to get some low end links, but it's better than nothing.

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            • SteveOllington
              SteveOllington last edited by

              One of our tactics is to try to be really helpful about stuff on topically relevant forums and blogs. i.e.

              1. We have a client who sells a product to combat penetrating damp.
              2. We find forums and blogs where people are having problems with penetrating damp.
              3. We research a proper answer for them ourselves.
              4. We answer their questions and recommend the product via a keyworded anchor text link.

              As long as the post or comment we've made is a valuable contribution and provides a solid, well researched answer (so not spam), then the forum mods don't seem to mind the link staying there 🙂

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              • eyepaq
                eyepaq last edited by

                I've used linkmarket for about one year - the results were great at that time (2008). It stared to fade as far as results and I've stop using it since it's on the gray area with a lot of dark tones. In today market / SEO i don't advise using it due to the current in place procedures.  Everything that is working great and gets abused will eventually move fast or slow to the dark edge and cross the border...

                Now it's the social network session that is looking good. This will also move across the border and become a so called black tactic soon (as soon as to many people are using this and abuse of those signals).

                Just my opinion on this matter.

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                • tomcraig86
                  tomcraig86 @rhutchings last edited by

                  Amazing answer. Put in the groundwork, and soon you'll be unstoppable!!

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                  • PrivateNameAM
                    PrivateNameAM last edited by

                    2 things seem to work very well:

                    The first is to use BOOKMARK pages.

                    The second is to use MORE of these BOOKMARK pages.

                    The great complex issue of link building is actually simple!

                    Example > http:// url. (REMOVE) org/bookmarks/

                    or  www(REMOVE) buzzster DOT com

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                    • krishrun
                      krishrun last edited by

                      Perhaps you could use service Like BuildMyRank.com ,,, though I am new to SEO and not sure how useful it may be

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                      • BrianFL
                        BrianFL last edited by

                        It's always best to have direct control of the sources you purposefully build links from. Anything else just doesn't work out as effectively.

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                        • copykatrecipes
                          copykatrecipes last edited by

                          I began to note, whose blogs had follow V nofollow links, and I would spend more time on the blogs that had the follow links.  I would spend more time on comments with blogs that had a link that would pass juice.  Blogs that use CommentLuv are follow links.

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                          • Marcus_Miller
                            Marcus_Miller last edited by

                            Variety is key and we tend to use the following as a starter:

                            • local, business and niche directories
                            • google discussion search (as above, find problems, get client to help with answers + a link)
                            • article marketing across a few sites but with a few quality articles
                            • content on the site itself that we find discussions relevant to the content and then link to it from the blog/forum etc
                            • competitor research (opensiteexplorer) to identify potentials linking to our competitors

                            It's different for each job, usually requires assistance from the client to do social stuff (forums, blogs etc) and always, always, always take a good bit of time and needs a structured approach.

                            Half the time, if the links easy to get, it aint worth having! So, think not in volume, but in quality. Get 10 links a week and you have 500 by the time the year is out and you are in a much better position.

                            Cheers
                            Marcus

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                            • LabadieAuto
                              LabadieAuto last edited by

                              How much could we all benefit if everyone in this thread traded a link for with each other?  That would be powerful and make link building a little easier!

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                              • tylerfraser
                                tylerfraser last edited by

                                Guest posts are really good.

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                                • Hallam
                                  Hallam @rhutchings last edited by

                                  Ryan hit it on the head there. Getting links is all about the legwork - and organisation is the key. Make your site and the content on it linkworthy or you will be abnging your head against a brick wall!

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                                  • markwrightseo
                                    markwrightseo last edited by

                                    Hi Mozzers! First post here! One thing that I've found great for link building is blogger outreach. Identify a list of blogs in your niche, and see what they can do for you. I work on an e-commerce site so we look for blogs to do unbiased product reviews with a few backlinks in exchange for the product. Now that I've built a relationship with some of them, I've worked out regular, monthly reviews to keep the links flowing. Hope this is helpful.

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                                    • Hallam
                                      Hallam @Pavlicko last edited by

                                      I use the Whitesprk Tool quite a bit - I also find the Local Search toolkit super helpful:

                                      http://www.localsearchtoolkit.com/

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                                      • IPINGlobal54
                                        IPINGlobal54 last edited by

                                        I have seen/used/tried several tools over the years, and as many have said, the vast majority have not made life that much easier or have been full of spam.

                                        I have used Adgooroo "link insight" with success (no, I am not an affiliate) but it is a bit pricey IMO. Once you have it running the quality of links it will find are impressive (it only pulls back the top 10% of links it finds), but it still requires the leg work to gain the links themselves.

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                                        • robotseo
                                          robotseo last edited by

                                          I have always stayed away from sites like link market however in doing some competitor research one of our main competitors seems to have a number of links from linkmarket so maybe it does work, but for how long it works with Googles war on spam is another question!

                                          I'm afraid the only way to get high quality backlinks is hard work

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                                          • KrisRoadruck
                                            KrisRoadruck last edited by

                                            Easy

                                            Cheap

                                            Safe

                                            Pick any 2.

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