Comments on: Reasons for Not Being Good Link Bait

By: Backlink Booster

Backlink Booster — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:22:38 +0000

Good post Nick, and I completely agree that having lots of quality backlinks to your website is key to ranking high in search results.

There are two ways to build backlinks:

1. Actively
2. Passively

The first part of your post focuses on how to passively get backlinks to your website (i.e., good content), which is a key to any link-building strategy. However, like you mentioned in your post, most websites will fail if they sit back and wait for people to link to them for the reason you mentioned above (i.e., nobody knows you exist).

As a result, you need to always be actively building backlinks. You mentioned using social media, article marketing and press releases as methods of building backlinks to your site. These are all excellent strategies! So is commenting on blogs (like this) and forums, but be sure to actually take the time to add something of value to the conversation and never post comment spam. It’s not just a waste of time, it’s also rude to the blog’s owner and readers.

Anyway, keep the posts coming. They provide very useful nuggets of information that website owners can benefit from.

Have a great day!

Tom

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:21:45 +0000

Hi SEO Essex,
Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts!

By: SEO Essex

SEO Essex — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:37:53 +0000

Link building is essential if you want to rank high in Google, as those on the first page get approximately 42% of the clicks, which is a high percentage, it doesn’t leave much traffic for everyone else. However, like you said, you can’t receive the right reaction without good content, people may look at your website first but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are definitely going to buy from you. Your content it most important where that’s concerned.

Great post Nick, thanks for sharing.
You hit the nail on the head here, it’s very important to remember that content is king.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:44:58 +0000

Hi Rory,
Thanks for reading and your comment!

At the end of the day, link building and producing good link bait is about building your online brand and reputation (and getting great quality links in the process!).

Thanks again & Take care!
Nick

By: Rory

Rory — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:12:07 +0000

Great tips Nick. Content is King still rides high in the web world, which I’m very glad about. We are a web design company in the UK and try daily to write & record helpful posts for other designers and tips for company’s how to improve their online campaigns. Of course we are a commercial web design company, who’s main revenue is from other companies paying us to do this. But we feel making a strong name for ourselves online is more important and want to be know as a company who people can trust.