Comments on: Are There Any Great Link Building Activities Left?

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:03:18 +0000

Hi Richard,
Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts!

Having the right wordpress plugins on your blog is certainly essential as well as all of the basic SEO strategies as well.

Thanks again & Take care,
Nick

By: Richard Frost

Richard Frost — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:51:40 +0000

My current focus is on obtaining top-quality links from highly-regarded blogs, especially .edu blogs. There are two hurdles to be overcome.

The first is getting past the moderator. While my comments always add something meaningful to the thread, some mods are very wary of anything that looks like it’s being done for SEO purposes. I have had my URL edited out of the comment so that just my name appears, unclickable. And I’ve had all my comments deleted when I submitted three in one day to the same blog. (It had multiple posts and I actually found them interesting.) While we would like to have anchor text, that is becoming next-to-impossible to get away with; you have to settle for just a plain old link and be happy you got that!

The second issue is getting the link recognized by the search engines, and this applies to all other forms of link-building, too. With approved blog comments, I try pinging the blog’s URL through a couple of RSS aggregators. But I am amazed at how many links don’t get found at all – including links from major article directories. This is extremely frustrating.

Given the difficulties of building good links that actually get noticed, it is vital to ensure that all your on-page factors are spot-on. Using the right plug-ins with a WordPress blog go a long way.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:21:18 +0000

Hi Reonne,
Thanks for reading and your comments! Great points, moving forward with integrity (in life and in business) is so very important!

By: Reonne Haslett

Reonne Haslett — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:16:37 +0000

I would also just like to add to your comment about “overdoing”. I started my blog two years ago and write about one post per week. It has steadily grown over the months and now I have followers. None of this was “planned” on my part. I just wanted to get my message out to the world. It’s like anything in life…move forward with integrity.

By: Reonne Haslett

Reonne Haslett — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:14:16 +0000

Sometimes I think it’s better to stay naive in the network marketing department. If you are writing an honest blog, with integrity, then people will be in touch. It’s the scammers and spammers that make things difficult. I only link with people/sites who I trust and/or feel passionate about. It’s also a “thank you” for some help in any way, like creating a community. To me that’s the power of having a blog…creating an online community of like-minded folks. WordPress has the worst spammers. I have to go through 50 comments to find one that’s not somebody trying to boost their clicks. Thanks again Nick for your insights and advice.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:29:23 +0000

Hi Willy,
Thanks for reading and your question. Good point, either way, I personally do not recommend buying links, of course if it is “no followed” and could generate an increase in visitors then it all of a sudden becomes a good quality link.

Hi Irina,
Overdoing in my mind means, something that is not natural. For instance 1,000 blog comments in a month or 35 press releases or 1,000 articles…none of this is good marketing, but just linking for the sake of linking, which is not a good practice to follow. Anyway, hope this helps and thanks for reading!

By: Irina Ross

Irina Ross — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:37:40 +0000

Hi Nick,

‘…Also, never abuse any type of link building activity. If a particular source of a relevant link is generating visitors to your website then continue, but don’t overdo anything…’

What does ‘overdo’ mean? How many times per week or per month should one put links on a third party website? I found some bulletin booards that are relevant to what our business does and drive traffic on our website. I post there different content almost everyday. Is this wrong?

By: LEAD

LEAD — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:21:04 +0000

Hi, I have a blog. I think blog is not less than a website. I m working SEO of my blog itself. I m using an outside template for that. Do u thing adding meta description to it will work? I m also working to make useful posts for readers. Thanks

By: Willy

Willy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:06:08 +0000

Hmmmm, but then again, how would any of the Search engines even trace that it is a Paid link if the criteria is based on the mentioned 4 points?

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:20:24 +0000

Hi SEO Link In,
Thanks for reading and your comment. Quality is certainly much more important with link building…

By: SEO Link In

SEO Link In — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:33:16 +0000

Great article! I think overall you have to quality in every aspect of link building in order for the link to stick. If the content is poor, regardless if it is a comment, article submission, blog entry, or any other method, it all must be of quality. Quantity may get your up there, but quality is the key to a successful campaign. Thanks for sharing!

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:48:31 +0000

Hi Ruben,
I would evaluate all of your in bound links and would conduct a link audit, using Google webmaster tools. If you have any paid links pointing to your website, I would recommend that you remove them and then start building relevant links from many different (non paid) sources over time.

I hope this helps and thanks for reading!
Nick

By: Ruben Zevallos Jr.

Ruben Zevallos Jr. — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:19:49 +0000

I´m working to create some linking growth for my sites… but I´m afraid to Google think that are paid or link exchange… I have 2 new services… a directory and some gadgets… and I request a banner or reference to my web site… is there are good o bad?

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:08:16 +0000

Hi Barbara,
Thanks for reading and your comment!

This is a very tough question that I would need to analyze for you before I could give an educated answer on. If you would like for me to help you with this, please feel free to give me a call or an email.

Thanks,
Nick

By: Barbara Korabel

Barbara Korabel — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:28:15 +0000

I made one huge mistake two years ago by changing the name of my website to make it a shorter URL. Since I lost the ranking I’ve never been able to get it back even though I changed it back to the old URL. Now I don’t want to make another mistake by buying a number of domain names that point to my website and using one of the them instead of the permanent website name.Will this cause a problem?