Comments on: Link Building Sources That Are Important

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:27:45 +0000

Hi Pierremarie,
Thanks for reading and your comment. Agreed, most companies who have not engaged in link building before or very little can actually get value from these types of activities of course the higher profile type activities are better but take more resources, effort and if you don’t have the basics down then start there.

By: Pierremarie Gustave

Pierremarie Gustave — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:48:27 +0000

I agree with Ammon.He gives me some good ideas about getting links through local newspapers. The internet is bombarded with so many articles that say the same thing over and over. Unless you get some breaking discovery in your field, whatever you write has been written many times before. Of course anything will help, but a lot of of articles, press releases, blogs are just a waste.

Nick–good job.

I will certainly do some of these things.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:46:18 +0000

Hi Barbara Bruce,
I do not recommend link exchanges, as a white hat (or by the book) SEO professional, I recommend that you start with the SEO starter guide by Google that contains great information for you that might help:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf

Hi The Better Brokers,
Thanks for the great question, you may consider doing some link building competitive research before you put together your monthly link building strategy. Here is a recent blog post that I wrote that contains some good competitive research tools:
http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2010/01/15/competition-tools/

Hi Ruben,
“do follow” links are important, but build your links naturally by marketing your website. You would be surprised how many “no follow” links show up in Google Webmaster Tools!

Hi Charles,
Please look at the comment above by another reader and SEO expert, Ammon Johns, he has some good additional information for you. Thanks for reading!

By: Charles Knight

Charles Knight — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:15:42 +0000

I am on a lot of local directories which rank highly with google and My business is on the first page on a few keywords.
Strangely, my articles on ehow, don’t register on Google. Maybe article sites aren’t as useful as what everyone thinks.

By: Srinath

Srinath — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:11:56 +0000

Very nice insight Nick,

We all learn that we should do all that you have stated here. Most of us stop at learning and working out a plan and fail to implement. Thanks for the eye opened.

Regards

Srinath

By: Nimish

Nimish — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:34:07 +0000

Hi Nick.
I have started my new website.But I am not being able to do link building for my website.
Please help how can I start.
I have done the SEO well but lack in link building please help and reply..

By: Ruben Zevallos Jr.

Ruben Zevallos Jr. — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:15:34 +0000

When do you talk about links… do you mean all links or just rel=”dofollow” links?

By: Ruben Zevallos Jr.

Ruben Zevallos Jr. — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:14:52 +0000

I´m doing a linking building without a hurry… but I do not see much at my web site result… I do not believe in Black or Gray Hats Technics… but my concurrents are doing it…

By: The Better Brokers

The Better Brokers — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:53:10 +0000

Thanks for the tips.

Many of our competitors have bought into link exchanges we thought were link farms… pay $299 per year and your url appears in 49 directories, $99 a year for 12 directories… etc etc.

And these competitors are at the top of the searches for real estate in our market. Our site being new is obviously a drawback, but to compete, would you suggest buying into a reals.com subscription like them?

Thanks

By: Barbara Bruce

Barbara Bruce — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:31:42 +0000

I still don’t “get it” on how to link pages other than a Links Page. Anyone have any advice on this? I wouldn’t want the links to show on my product pages. How do you avoid that?

By: Jayme B.

Jayme B. — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:15:46 +0000

This article has been very helpful! I recently made and published a website for my parent’s construction company, because until recently they have always done business by word-of-mouth. The frustrating part is, the site is hosted by “Yahoo” and when I search for the site using Yahoo, it’s not showing up at all! I’ve been listing it everywhere I possibly can! So, I will try your tips, and hopefully see some better results!

Thank you!

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:04:39 +0000

Hi Ammon,
Thanks for reading and pointing out the typo (which has been fixed). Excellent additional points!

Hi Lorraine,
Yes, directories are rapidly becoming much less effective and many local directories are good to help your local search efforts more than for link building (such as Google Maps, Yahoo! Local), because at the end of the day, it is about visitor generation! Thanks for reading

Hi Anita,
Thanks for reading and the kind words

Everyone else, I am happy to help out

By: Website Promotion Blog

Website Promotion Blog — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:54:50 +0000

Interesting post and covering lots of areas where quality links ca be made. Thanks Nick.

I specially like the press releases which allow you to include your keywords as anchor text within your copy. This is extremely helpful for your link popularity.

By: Anita

Anita — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:31:07 +0000

Morning Nick. I subscribe to quite a few newsletters to pick up juicy info but none comes close to yours. Again, thanks for making important points simple and for re-motivating me to keep chipping away. I too do most of these though not as often and I’d like. Please keep the tips coming. You do a great job.
Thanks

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:59:57 +0000

How long does it take to see results. I have made comments, written an article, active in forums. I have only seen a few hits from this.