For the past 9 years, I have spent the majority of my time as a SEO. Whether it is helping other companies or building out my own sites, at one point in time I ranked for some of the most lucrative keywords on Google.
Online poker, credit cards, online dating, forex trading, and hotels were just a few of the terms I ranked well for. And I wasn’t just on page 1 for these keywords, but for some of them I ranked within the top 3 results.
And unlike most SEOs, it didn’t take me years to do this, for many of the terms I mentioned above I was able to rank within a few months.
My big secret
So how did I do all of this? By building legitimate links.
Now don’t get me wrong, like most SEOs I have bought text links… and probably over 7 figures worth of links throughout my SEO history. The problem with buying paid links is, you’ll rank really well in the short run, but sooner or later you will get caught.
Trust me, I have had a ton of sites that I personally owned that got banned from Google… so take a page out of my book and learn from my mistakes. Don’t waste your time buying links.
If you don’t believe me that buying links isn’t worth the risk, here is a quick statement that Matt Cutts from Google’s Webspam team gave me:
Google continues to take reports of link spam, including paid links that pass PageRank, very seriously. I put out a call for linkspam reports in March and we’ve been investigating all those reports. We do use that data to improve our algorithms, but we also take manual action on those linkspam reports. In fact, we’ve been developing new tools to help us tackle paid links that pass PageRank and other types of linkspam.
Link building doesn’t have to be painful
There are a ton of ways you can build links without spending thousands of dollars. Here are a few tactics that have worked for me throughout the years.
Send out emails
It’s painful to send out emails asking for a links, but it’s really effective. If someone is linking to your competition, they’ll probably be willing to link to you.
All you have to do is send that website owner an email like this:
Hi John,
I know you don’t know me, but name is Neil Patel and I’m with KISSmetrics. I noticed that you link to a few of my competitors such as Omniture so I thought I would take a shot in the dark to see if you would be willing to link to us as well.
Don’t worry, KISSmetrics isn’t another me-too analytics solution, which is why your website readers will see value in us. Unlike some of the other solutions in the market place, KISSmetrics allows you to track, optimize and improve your conversion funnels with a simple and easy to use report.
Thanks for taking the time for reading this email.
Have a great day,
Neil
And before you start sending out emails, if you can’t figure out who links to your competition, all you have to do is go to Yahoo and type in link:http://yourwebsite.com within the search box.
Write great content
Lists, how-to guides and even white papers are a great way to build links. As long as the content you are writing is really good people will end up linking to it.
For example, Passages Malibu, a drug rehab center wrote a detailed article on illegal drugs. The article isn’t sexy, but it breaks down every illegal drug, where it can be found, the side effects, and how to spot if someone is high on that specific drug.
Good articles like that will always get links. It may not happen within a few weeks or even a few months, but over the years it will end up being linked to.
When you are trying to write good content make sure you are:
- Thorough – you have to write really detailed content. If you don’t cover all of the aspects of the topic you are writing on, don’t bother publishing it.
- Write good headlines – if no one reads your content, no one will ever link to it. So make sure you come up with a creative headline, as it will increase the odds of someone reading your content.
- Include pictures – no one likes reading big blocks of text. So make it easier on your readers’ eyes by including pictures.
- Spicing things up – writing factual content isn’t enough to build links. Write on up and coming trends and information that others haven’t written on. And make sure you do not regurgitate the same information over again.
Don’t forget the basics
One easy way to get more links is to submit your website to popular directories. Directories like DMOZ, Yahoo, and Best of the Web are good sources of links as long as you are submitting your website into a related category.
For example, if you have a tech website, you wouldn’t want to submit it to a financial directory. Instead you would want to submit it to a tech directory.
If you are looking for a list of directories to submit your website to, you can find them here.
Write a guest post
The easiest way to get a blogger to link to you isn’t to pay them, but instead it is to write a guest post on their blog… similar to this.
In every guest post you publish, just include a short bio that describes you and your company. And obviously, link your company name to your company website.
Here are the steps you need to take to become a guest author.
- Go to Technorati and search for related blogs.
- Once you have a list of related blogs do a bit of research and come up with some content ideas that may be useful for their readers.
- After you have some topic ideas send the blogger an email asking if they are currently accepting any guest authors. And within that email tell them the content idea you have and how it would be beneficial for their readers.
- If you are accepted to be a guest author, great! If not, move along and approach other bloggers.
Conclusion
There are tons of ways you can increase the amount of sites linking to yours. It isn’t rocket science and it doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg like these link building tactics.
I know the tactics I mentioned above aren’t fun and sexy, but they work. Try them out… trust me, you won’t be disappointed.
This amazing course will teach you, step by step, how to double if not triple your traffic over the next 30 days.
It seems like everyone says not to buy links, but everyone that says that, does it themselves. Talk about mixed signals. When a competing site has hundreds of thousands of links, there is only one way to reach that volume, get some AMAZINGLY incredible viral stuff going, but even then, you probably still have to revert to a little buying, but I would never (wink, wink).
Enjoyed your talk at BlueGlassLA.
It is more like the people who tell you to don’t buy links used to do it in the past, but don’t do it anymore. In this case the advice would be fine in my opinion.
I obviously have in the past which is why I was letting you know that it only helps short term… in the long term, you’ll be screwed.
Hi Neil,
Thats a fantastic article. I have a question. Its been long since I have submitted my website to DMOZ but it is not yet approved(I submitted in relevant category though). Any help in this?
I don’t think you can write off buying links completely. It’s how you do it and who you are buying from that matters.
It’s like everything else, if you’re going to go bonkers with something, you’ll probably get caught and penalized for it.
Be smart and selective and you can still find long term success with bought links.
From my experience, buying links leads to trouble. Just my 2 cents
You are absolutely right. Buying links helps you now but eventually Google will find you and punish you. It is really not worth it…
It’s not worth it… especially after you put in a lot of hard work.
Yeah and it’s never guaranteed that those links won’t cease to pass link value in a future…
Not worth it
Exactly… you can get screwed eventually and left with nothing.
Have also read about being sabotaging competitors (vice versa) with paid links, wonder how do we handle that? Is Google able to differentiate?
You are right. You can buy links, you can be on the first page but eventually those links will get you in trouble and you will realize that you spent your money in vain.
Yes, all that money will eventually go to waste.
Yea there has defintely been a big change in the way most SEO’s are now moving away from buying links. It used to be such a huge thing but so many people are changing their tactics nowadays.
thanks Plumber Sydney
Thanks Stuart. The problem with buying is… everyone gets caught. The natural way takes longer but works.
Everyone gets caught eventually. It just depends on whether the site you are SEO’ing is one that can be easily replaced or not. If you are looking for long term success then you have got to play by the rules otherwise you risk all your hard work going down the drain.
What is your take on the latest paid for craze – linkwheels where A links to B and B links to C that links back to A again (highly simplified of course, but that is the gist of it….)
I feel that we’re still talking about paid links here, and sooner or later they’ll get figured out….
I am not a big fan of those. Most of those sites are spammy and your chances or getting caught are pretty high.
Some great work there I enjoyed the read and am also managing to rank page one with some of my blogs, I have detailed it all on my own site if you don’t mind I will let you have a look, nothing fancy, we know you can’t trick your way to the top but you can use a logical fashion and sound ideas and you will get there I promise:
http://powerbuildermarketing.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/ranking-on-page-one-of-google.html
nICE INFORMAINT THNKS
I haven’t bought TONS of links in my career, but now I’m paranoid after reading the statement from Matt Cutts. No longer will I try to take short cuts.
Do you have any thoughts on pinging services like these: http://bit.ly/a0PbV5 (link to Fiverr gig)
Thanks for the email template too, I like how you go about asking for links.
I haven’t used it. It kind of looks spammy…
I wouldn’t use those pinging sites – anything done in automation is usually disliked by search engines as it is seen as “Black Hat”.
Yes, exactly.
Maybe he didn’t knew it, or he knew it and wanted to do some damage
Yeah probably!
You say in one heading “link building doesn’t have to be painful” and then you follow it up with “I know sending emails are painful”. Hate to be obvious man, but your article of how to do this is nothing but painful and you said it yourself!
“Over Years” it will happen? That’s an easy sell to the boss man who wants results yesterday! “oh boss, just give it a few years and we’ll do well” isn’t going to fly.
Again, Obvious Man will be ‘obvious’ and point out that to be buddy buddy with Mr Cutts requires you to say crap like this in your article. Look at Rand and Seomoz. It just is a shame because you’re supposed to be a guy that people look to for answers and you’re just stating the company line of Google. They’ve been saying this same thing for 5-6 years but people still buy links and do it successfully, and until they change their algorithm, everyone will continue to do so. Chances of getting caught are less than 10% if done right.
You mention getting several of your sites in trouble, but when you use high profile sites to buy them, like TLA, what do you expect? There’s plenty of other places to do it without such risk and/or do it on your own.
Just my two cents.
Señor Obvious Man
When people are getting caught they aren’t just using services like TLA or Conductor. I have seen people get caught even when they manually hit up websites and pay them for a text link.
You are right, in which most sites that get caught are too greedy and the knowledge I blog about is basic. But the basic stuff is what we tend to forget, and I hate to say it, but it works well too.
You are too harsh on Neil
He just pointed out something that will eventually happen. If you buy links you are assuming a risk, although it’s a small one, it’s a risk…
Thanks John… yeah it’s very risky and can ruin all your hard work.
Neil has no fault on this. But Obvious Man is obvious
Even though you’re on the search engine’s mercy, it indeed might take a few years before you can actually get into the first page with your huge competitors…
Especially with those highly competitive key words.
I’m with señor above. These are good guidelines to follow, true. However like many industries of the past and present you can buy many things with “white envelopes” including links.
Be smart, careful and stay under the radar.
You can try staying under the radar as long as you want, it’s just letting you know that you don’t have to risk your entire website and all your hard work for taking the easy way out.
The more work you are going to invest in your website (either time, or money, or both), the riskier this strategy gets.
yes, that’s definitely the case, so you must chose wisely.
So what you are saying is that if I use TLA my site will get in trouble by google? Just want to know as I thought about using them.
It can…and it probably will if it hasn’t.
You can still risk and use it if you are in a hurry
In some cases, like this one, it is better to be patient.
You must be, especially in this industry.
Very cool stuff. I have gotten some negative results with asking for a link via email but, then again, I might have just been dealing with jerks.
It’s a numbers game… ask enough people and you’ll get positive responses.
thats the same as most of your efforts with SEO, it’s all a numbers game. Just keep building more links, jsut keep putting up new content, just keep moving forward…
yaa its an ongoing process not like build the links once and relax. I think Google likes continuous link building.
Yes… you can’t just do it and stop… it’s a process that takes time.
I find the sending an email to other publishers is one of the most effective method. It all in the wording of the mail.
I agree with you. Emailing really helps.
It’s just a numbers game.
I agree with you on the wording. If you make yourself appear genuine, then the blogger/webmaster will most likely want to be a part of your success.
Just don’t come across as desperate or spammy.
Yes, it all depends on how effective you write your emails.
Sending emails is worth it but be careful not be marked as a spammer though. That would hurt more than would help.
You folks really have me re-evaluated our link building scheme. It looks like we’ll be adding “emailing for link” as an additional channel for links.
Thank you all.
L
You’re link building scheme?
Once that happens… you’re pretty much done.
Hey Neil I really love your blog and always appreciate how you tell it straight in your post..but in this one it does seem like you didn’t have enough info to actually encourage people to NOT want to buy links. It seems thats how you were successful to get it done in months and NOt years as you say. Probably my least favorite article on the site..either way I will be reading more. I really think you should go back and reevaluate this article..
I agree with the above comment. With all my simpathy for Neal I don’t think this post explains how to get to first page for very competitive keywords in a matter of months. Plus I think there are many other techniques not mentioned.
But then again, Neil makes this point himself: “If you don’t cover all of the aspects of the topic you are writing on, don’t bother publishing it” …
There are plenty of techniques…. you can take a look at some of the last few articles that talk about link building.
Like this one…
http://www.quicksprout.com/2010/07/14/how-to-use-game-mechanics-to-improve-your-seo/
The goal of the post was to break down how you can build links in a cheap way.
I’ll try to do better with my next blog post.
I think that you didn’t truly understood the meaning of this post…Neil was just trying to warn you about the risk of buying paid links and he didn’t promised anything about making it on the first page in a few months…
Right, I’m letting you know that they’re are consequences and people do get caught and punished.
“Always learn from you mistakes” but never repeat it. This is really a key for SEO.
If you’re not learning from your mistakes, you’re running around in circles.
I think it’s more than just learning from mistakes it is alter your course and being responsive to change that enables us to keep achieving the best we can in the SEO industry. Learn to adapt to the change around us as it occurs and we can stay on top of the game.
This rule is good for everything you do in life, not only for SEO. The more complete sentence would be “Always learn from your mistakes, but most importantly, learn from other peoples mistakes”.
Yeah, if you can learn from other people’s mistakes, you’re much better off (save yourself time and money.)
I totally believe in content and yes as much rhetoric as it sounds, “content is king”… my website has some very solid organic traffic only because of consistent and quality content… because I don’t do much about it, other than bringing good content and keeping it easy to share…
That’s fantastic. Keep providing good content and you’ll naturally create more and more back links.
Thats perfectly true Neil.. Its been almost 2 years since I have created my website and now when I see my stats I find that people usually gave my website as reference to other people which means indirectly they are building links for me. This is possible only through quality content and good SEO.
And that’s what it’s all about. More of that will ultimately help you grow.
But where do you start? I mean once people are finding you I see how great content can create a snowball effect. But what about with a new site? You just have to email people?
You have to create a lot of great content, comment on other people’s sites, and use social media to get friends to share with friends.
As far as Google goes, it is better to play on the safe side. After all, how are you going to beat hundreds of engineers and PhDs…
They are becoming more and wise with catching people… so why not start the naturally process now, rather than taking the risk of them finding out later.
Always perform white hat things. Black hat is always harmful. And today all have known about black hat and its harmfulness so many have stopped trying. And secondly white hat gives results if tried perfectly and strategically.
You don’t want to spend so much money and then wind up having to shut the site down.
Exactly, you spend lots of money buying paid links and Google and will eventually catch you and all will be ruined. Why risk it?
Yeah… some people spends several thousands…only to one day get caught and have it flushed down the drain.
Maybe the feeling of being on the first place is to strong for some people and they don’t care if all that money were spent in vain. But I think that they don’t realize it until is too late.
Yeah, it’s something that comes to mind later on for a lot of people
Another two good ways to get legit links are news releases and getting listed in your local chamber of commerce.
Perfect… very simple and effective ways to start building. Thanks for sharing that.
Can you please give more insight on news releases?
News releases typically only work well if you have something of high value or importance.
Interesting ideas with the news releases, although I don’t know how much would help getting listed at the chamber of commerce.
Definitely… can’t hurt.
No doubt buying links is not advisable by Google as per their guidelines. But as you said if i mail to any website related to my business, website and linking to my competitors and that website ask for money to link back. Will these kind of links will be treated as Paid Links by Google or any search engine?
I can understand if you pay any arbitrary website for getting back links to improve your Page Rank that for sure can be identified as Paid Links.
If they ask for money, then yes it is a paid link. If they don’t ask for money then it isn’t.
I wouldn’t have thought that too many people would have needed this sort of calrification… It is quite simple really – you exchange money for a link, it’s a paid link.
lol, yeah, as simple as that.
The reason why so many people have issues computing this is because they see it as one single link to their site.
Do you honestly think someone linking out for money is going to link just to you? You competitor’s and their gramma’s money is as good as yours and it won’t be long before your link profile turns up sour.
exactly… and if it does, you’ll feel like all your time effort and energy was wasted.
Does the same apply to DuckDuckGo search engine?
I am not sure what you mean by this…
Nice article Neil. It seems that every one of the major SEO’ers advise against buying paid links. Building a natural link profile i believe, helps both your website & your friends network
It does… and it’ll keep you going strong and powerful in the long run.
Agree with much of what you said, but emailng for links of one the cheesist and amateur thing a business person can do. I get get a 25 plus of those emails a week. The people asking for the links sound helpless – like they have not a clue how to give first (share of yourself with good insight, info, commentary) as the true way of achieving seo success. Worse yet are the people who are hired to ask for links.
Sure something can work. But it doesn’t it’s not tasteless and unprofessional.
Tell that to the 4 interns I have calling up for links all day. And not with the scripts they run off of. Also, who designed the email/telephone pitch? Was it customized before they made the call to the blogger?
When I’m scoping for links, the idea is to get involved in the site before you go asking around for some love. Be one of the regular commenters for a month.
And please don’t try and slap a $5 article on some poor guy’s site. Quality matters. And no one links to sub-standard content. Or XFactor style sites.
Well said. I agree that if you become a regular on the site it becomes so much easier for you to get more links.
Thanks, Neil! I’ve read all of your posts in the past few months, and I definitely will continue doing so. This blog is a very valuable resource for people like me, getting started in the web business.
Thank you Olav, happy to hear it.
Another great article, Neil! I’ve passed it on to my students through Facebook -> Twitter -> LinkedIn
Thanks for sharing Nora!
Neil,
I’m a one-person company who has been developing and promoting a site in a very competitive marketplace. But it’s just too much for one individual to find organic google juice. I can do the development or I can do the marketing, but not both at the same time. What do you recommend?
Marketplace Slaman?
Differentiate and then specialize. If you want to sell blue widgets, then start by becoming the authority/ranking for size 2 blue widgets …
Unless you’re in web design or something. Then PPC is the way to go.
It is and you just need to learn how to do it correctly.
I thought about buying links but after reading this, I realize now that it’s not worth it.
I’ll try your advice since I’m a new site and hopefully start building those relationships.
Just like buying links will get you in trouble with search engines, does buying traffic also has the same effect. And how legitimate are these traffic sending websites; who promise to send 10′s and 1000′s of hits for a very cheap amount.
Yeah, buying mass traffic has got to be one of the most useless inventions ever created. Unless your using a targeted method (either geographically, keywords or otherwise) you’ll just be wasting your money,
Buying traffic… the quality of the traffic won’t be worth it. It’s very short lived.
& won’t convert worth jack.
Didn’t work in 2004 and doesn’t now.
Hi Neal, I read the article you mentioned on illegal drugs and realised the importance of writing good content which is useful for the readers.
Also, sticking to the basics holds very important indeed…the guest post idea and the steps are something new that I learned here…
Very useful write-up, Cheers!
Thanks for your insight Neil, I never have purchased links but know other SEOers that have and still do. It’s actually amazing they are an SEO company and paying “$100.00 a month” in an “advertising” section but really it’s just a paid text link. The Guest Blogging seems to be the latest craze right now with info graphics.
And one Google employee already discouraged guest blogging in the past. I wonder if they will start discounting these links too in the future.
Do you have a link to that Daniel? I’d be interested in the article that states what you have claimed.
hmm, yeah it would be interesting if you have the link.
Yes, very odd indeed.
Considering their enterprise blog does it themselves @ http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/three-tips-for-start-ups-considering.html
Link to that post please?
Thanks for sharing that.
I dont think guest blogging can harm your site. Its not blog hat SEO. Even Neil has said in this post that you should write guest posting. It really helps..
It depends, but yeah it can help
Right now I am figthing to get to page one with honest SEO techniques. I am a bit frustrated as there are very spammy sites on page one for my keyword right now an mine is around page 10.
I see why people end up resorting to spammy tactics as it seems to work for the most part.
Your site is just a me too of the first one. And the second one. And the third, fourth and seventh one. If I was in your place, I’d redo my site – make it look less like a general store for now. Then I’d pick up an interesting product like the Antenna-aid bandage off of there and hype it up.
Send every decent to small time tech blogger you can find a couple of these. Or better yet, cal them asking what color they’d like for one of these and then send it to them. Ask them to blog about it a week after they got it – good, bad all is welcome. Chop your commission from that product in half and give it off as cash back. Advertise as the lowest price online. Look up Gizmodo’s & Engadget’s comments. Look up Tech websites that got dugg during the last year. Send Walt Moss and Ars one for kicks as well! Make a YouTube video!
Six months down the line, become a general iPhone Case store.
It is understandable that it may seem too much, heck it probably is unless you have a couple grand. But then, try buying 50 PR5 links from TLA and see how much that costs!
BTW, did you go ahead and get every free link that everyone on the first 4 pages have? Just checked out your competition and just look them in in Y!’s Site Explorer. They are in places for free, where you should be as well.
Also, as per my experiments, dashes don’t work for EMDs which is the primary reason sites like iphone4cases.com are even there. So get yourself one of those as well.
Also, since you are an affiliate, why not target buying keywords? They will convert way better than anything else on the planet.
iphone4casesguide.com
buyiphone4cases.com
cheapiphone4cases.com
I need to shut up don’t I?
No, I think you did a great job explaining that, thanks!
Hey Neil,
Good stuff…one thing I’ve been wondering about lately.
I see a lot of blogs with url’s like http://blog.domain.com
Are incoming links to your blog more effective if your blog is at a url like http://domain.com/blog/ instead of on a subdomain?
Brian
It can work either way. Whether you use a sub domain or not, you can rank well if you have good content on your blog.
I think you left out one big piece: patience.
Folks think weeks, but in SEO, check points should be months.
yes, and that’s as truth for SEO as for business building. There are no shortcuts, just be patient and keep working.
Never any shortcuts, no matter what magic pill is out there.
Consistency will be another point :=)
Some people just work hard for days, and they do not see any result, they give up.
As long as everything is being done consistently, with patient, the results will come one day.
Be patient is definitely easier said than, but just know that it wont happen overnight.
I agree with that 100%. It’s definitely not going to happen over night.
I definitely concur James. The hardest part for me to deal with my SEO clients, has been the patience part. But SEO is not possible any other way. You must have patience…
Yes, you definitely need to have patience… it’s a long process.
Great post Niel! These are all good ways to help someone write and maintain a good blog. You don’t need to buy links just find the right place that teaches you how to get them.
Exactly… you can easily do it the right way. Go back to the basics.
people often forget the tride and true methods that worked back in the day still work today as well.
Hence why they’re tride and true lol
I Do many things but I noticed that its can get rank on only one data center or regional specific but how can we achieve rank on Global searches lets me now
Give it more time. Once your sites get more links you’ll start ranking on other datacenters.
Yes I totally agree with this… buying links is dangerous. But who is to say one of your competitors is not emailing google hundreds of times saying that you are buying links?
you are right there are plenty of ways to sabotage competitors. You just need to do your best to follow the rules and play by the book and hope for the best.
I wouldn’t ever suggest to sabotage others but when it gets done to you it is frustrating. The best thing is not to retaliate and work on your security. Vindictiveness gets you no where and isn’t good karma!
Yes, do to others as you would do to yourself
At the end of the day, cheaters always get caught.
I’m sure many competitors are saying that, but you want to do it right the first way, rather than start all over again.
Thanks for the resources. Finding quality sites to link back isn’t always the easiest process. I still can’t believe people think that buying links is acceptable…especially after reading your article!
It’s not the easiest which is why most people can’t do it.
The key is to get a variey of links from many different sources. If you focus all of your attention on one place and that site goes down, so does all of your popularity and link value.
-Joshua Black
The Underdog Millionaire
Exactly, which is why it’s so important to diversify.
Ok,
So google is a private company and wants to provide the best service for it’s people. So, it makes sense to say no to paid links as people with money can just dominate the search engines thus providing a bias service which does not suit google.
I understand that but I’m confused on the definition of paid links. I know the simple answer is paying someone for a link but isn’t this what yahoo also offer for $300 a year? A link?
I have also seen many top SEO companies offer link building services. Isn’t that just buying links in a indirect form?
Can someone clear this up for me please?
Thanks
Paying a person to have an anchored link that goes to your site is a paid link.
I like this post very much, It’s key behind the seo and how to rank on the front page of google. I tried to submit in dmoz.org but i can’t do it properly. I can’t find the submit button, will you please help me to submit in dmoz
regards
It’s a little tricky, but you need to go to a specific category. Try emailing their help for assistance. Or search for forms online that tell you exactly what you need to do.
maybe an obvious question but im asking it anyway: website A agrees to link to website B for free because they are a friend, have built relationships etc. website A also links to website C for a fee. How does google know the difference?
Sometimes they can tell because if website C bought a link from website A, they probably also bought links from 100s of other sites. And one of those sites is probably known for selling links, so then they start looking at all of the other sites that are linking to you.
You said that paid link directories are bad, but the link you provided to a list of link directories is a “pay-per-link” directory. Seems a little contradictory?
Some of those directories are free.
And even with the paid ones, if you ask nicely they may include your site for free.
As for the Top Directories List link, they have a “free” category.
Some of them are trusted and the others aren’t. DMOZ gets away with it because that’s their ‘processing fee’ for keeping their standard high.
Can your spiffy directory pull the same stunt? Sure, but it’s a lot of effort and you have to prove that you’re legit. Same reason Mahalo gets away with scraping and you don’t. Further reading – http://www.seobook.com/black-hat-seo-case-study
I only go to directories to find websites to get my content on nowadays, but that’s just me. I’m a sucker for editorial links, nothing else rocks my boat.
Replace Mahalo with DMOZ and you’ll get my point.
Most people who try to “pull a Mahalo” and spam up Google will likely fail because they lack
• the public relations & affiliations needed to attempt to legitimize such a strategy
• the willingness to lie just to get a bit of media ink
• the public relations & media savvy to pull such a major bait and switch without getting caught
• the domain authority to make it work algorithmically
Nº3′s just spite, but the rest are real reasons why it doesn’t work for everyone.
SEO is a lot of work…. it’s definitely no walk in the park.
It’s all about building long term value. If you can do so people will link to you and your rankings will increase…
This is realy a good post about getting ranked on the first page without paying for links. Netcrew has used these techniques several times, and I can assure you, it works!
That’s awesome… I know it works, that why I recommend it
Yes Neil, this article has a good idea for SEO. As I always wish to have a lot of knowledge for this SEO. I really thank you for sharing some of your ideas. In my life all I do is to set and play in my computer and I don’t have any job to feed my family and also my self. But when I discover this internet marketing, I decided to do so…. For now, I am still not earning online, but I am doing the best that I could for my future…. Thank you again Neil…
That’s what counts… stay consistent.
I have been steadily building my links for the past week an have gone from page 14 to page 6 in Google. Yay!
Been targeting any buying long tails?
Why don’t you do full scale product reviews instead of the 100 page description you’ve got there? Comparisons?
Exactly… that should help you with quality and traffic flow.
wow, good for you! That’s a huge increase.
To everyone bashing Neil about acting like a Google puppet, take a second and remind yourselves who makes the rules for this game.
Is buying links effective? Yes it is. Very effective. It is also something against Google’s guidelines.
And that is why Neil deserves props for the way he’s penned this one down. None of the usual it is ‘immoral’ B.S. I’ll not repeat all the reasons why you shouldn’t do it. Neil makes a great case of it all in the comments above.
Here’s a SEOmoz article titled 8 Ways to Buy Links Without “Buying Links” – http://www.seomoz.org/blog/8-ways-to-buy-links-without-buying-links
I love ‘buying’ links myself. Want to know how I do it? I hire a journo or someone reasonably well known in a niche, pay them $200 for an article that’d make the reader clamor for more and then I get it onto the big player’s site on that niche or into some city newspaper. (Does wonders for your or your client’s repo as well.) I’ve even managed to get one of my site’s quoted in the NYT a few months back with a similarly well written piece.
Don’t think ‘buying links’ think resource allocation to acquire links.
Thanks for that Wishal. I’m simply giving you the tricks of the trade….that aren’t against the rules.
Great article. I’m glad to see what i have been doing is the right thing. It took a few months, but we made it to the front page of google!
Good for you! That’s awesome. What keyword do you rank for?
Writing great contest will always push your blog to the first page. This has helped most of my articles even when I’ve not written any guest post or done much link building. Thanks for the great post.
The better the content, the more readers which in turn boosts the quality of your blog overall.
“If someone is linking to your competition, they’ll probably be willing to link to you.”
Great advice there and we’ll def be trying this out!
Exactly… it’s a process but it’s worth it.
Thanks for the advices Neil.
I have one question though. I guess you know about the different tools and softwares we can get in this business like f.i. Article Submitters to build links. What is you opinion about them, and do they really work?
I don’t think they work… else everyone would use it
Thanks Neil, great post as always and worthy of linking.
One of the problems is that your competitors might have a lot of spam backlinks (acquired by anglela’s backlinks, or automation ..), so always best to filter and use Matt Cuts’s “Would the page you are getting a backlink from annoy the user” rule.
Right and very true. Great point.
Being new to the blogosphere and website worl in general I have done lots of information digging for the best way to build backlinks. I have never paid for a link and would never have thought to as I have always seen those as worthless links. That said I have found this article informative and shall tweet it.
I would like to add that all of my sites rank 1st for my chosen keywords.
That’s awesome Albert! Good for you!
However, I know some people who use links to see the classification of SEO and never optimize the site itself only for the results and money, and we believe that not only false, but no ranking.
Yeah at the end of the day, the people that don’t do it right, won’t have the results.
Hi Neil,
All the things, you told,are very effective. I ahve also heard about profile Links. Are they useful?
What do you mean by profile links?
The things you told above are genuine stuffs but if everyone just does what you said then i think we wont be able to rank high for already ranked keywords … it will be very difficult for new sites to rank that way .. for start-ups wise link building might be helpful to get good SERPS and traffic ..
Most people won’t do it… which is why it’s so effective.
Another two good ways to get legit links are news releases and getting listed in your local chamber of commerce…
Yes, very simple and easy ways to do it, thanks for sharing.
I just creating an article and post it in my blog everyday. And yes I do even rank in google with in the first page. But it is not enough, so I guess this post really help a lot.. Thank you Neil.
Good for you! Ranking on a few keywords is great but imagine if you ranked for many more… thats what counts.
If you put the time into planning, it does not have to take years to see results in SE rankings. Create a ten word, keyword list and focus on making your website titles and subjects mention these words. You can research what words are searched more often or their “relevance.”
Taking the grass roots approach for a long term vision will trump your competition’s short mindedness in the end. It took a year for my current company to optimize key areas of our thousands of pages. Take time to build the infrastructure and if you plan right, you will see a big difference in the short term, but achieve more long term success.
Know what your competition is using to SEO themselves.
Exactly… take the time to learn it and you’ll be able to see it growing much faster.
Nice article it shows that the honest way is the better one, i also think that you have to be patient.
Patience is just the beginning lol.
this is really interesting now i am trying to used this kind of techniques. because some of my sites penalized by google for some penalties.
Oh, ouch…. it’s difficult getting out of it.
Perfect timing. Was about to buy some inbound links. Thanks for the explanation.
Yeah, glad you found out about this then.
I like the simple email you send asking for links
It’s simple and it works amazingly!
It is simple and very efficient in the same time. Be careful not being marked as spam though. That can have much more negative impact.
That can ruin you almost completely… and quickly.
I asked many times to sites owners to link my sites but all of them wanted links to their site from me.So I think it is not very useful opinion.
Well you need to keep on going… it may not work for everyone, but it’ll work for some.
Hi Neil,
Seriosly, I can confirm that this method does work, used it on many occasions with huge success. As you say, stay well clear of paid backlinking especially when you can use this method for free.. Got you bookmarked Neil..
Thanks for the post. I hope you don’t mind me using your email template. By the way, did you get my email link request?
Thanks Davina, I appreciate it. You’re more than welcomed to use any template I have.
I think Google don’t like link exchange any more. so, what happen when we exchange or buy links like that.
any way, thanks for your share! however, I think the content is most important thing to promote a site.
The links are what works with google but just don’t bother trying to game it, it wont work.
I already saw many websites being penalized by Google so they are really looking for paid links.
yeah they are, so be careful.
As far as Google goes, it is better to play on the safe side. After all, how are you going to beat hundreds of engineers and PhDs…
I agree, you wouldn’t want to mess up something good you’ve created.
Another great SEO lesson Neil!!! Guest posting is awesome for your blog. If you are able to convince many bloggers to allow you to do a guest post will help a lot in ranking up your site.
It’s hard and a lot of work, but it’ll be very helpful.
until recently, i didn’t know that you could be banned from Google…at least not for things like this.
the linking game is an important one, for sure. asking for links and getting great content out there have been helpful for me.
guest posting is THE way to go. i’ve blogged about it…even had an opportunity to guest post a few times!!
Yeah so even after you put in a lot of hard work, you can technically be banned for buying links. Not worth it.
This is a great post on what it takes to really dig in and do quality work and be rewarded for it.
The problem is, it’s in Google’s best interests to show the organic results that display adsense because of the revenue they get from adwords – hence the eHow’s and other content farm fed sites can build content quicker faster and for dirt cheap.
That can be, but not always necessary.
Nate,
Thank you for this post. You’ve really convinced me out of paying for links for short-term gain and putting business at risk for the long-term.
L
I’m glad, so now hopefully you start doing it the legitimate way
Very useful information in this article. I haven’t paid much attention to rank well in Google (I’m stuck in 2 since I launched my Twitterlive tool in January 2010) mainly because a high ranked site not always means it is good but because it has tons of links to it. I’ve paid more attention to spread the word about my tool and to rank well with Alexa which is more relevant in terms of web site traffic.
Having said that now I want to concentrate more in ranking better with Google, but seems to me that back link alone don’t do the trick because I have a fair amount of them.
Google is indeed hard to figure out.
-S
Sergio,
I’m also curious in understanding how Alexa amounts the “traffic” to one’s site
Can you shine some light on this topic?
-L
Now that Alexa is a company part of Amazon.com it has become a very useful tool for people who wants to advertise on popular web sites. Alexa collects the data through their browser “tool bar.” You would be surprise to know that a lot of users have this tool bar installed on their browsers.
-S
Oh, I see. Now I know why so many search engine or analytic model want you to install their “tool bar”. Thank you Sergio!
-L
Very simple concept
It is surprising…. and obviously not completely accurate.
Do you mean how they measure site traffic?
They are extremely tough to figure out, which is why it’s so difficult to rank for certain words or phrases.
The tip about contacting website owners, within your niche, can be extremely potent. Often, If you just ask someone politely, you can often get some VERY high quality on-topic links.
Yeah, it’s great how that happens! People just need to give it a shot.
I really like the idea of guest posting – many blog owners seek guest bloggers to write for them.
I remember “back in the day” when sending out emails asking for links was widely accepted…not sure if I believe it is still the thing to do. I have sent out several such emails recently and the owners of those sites seemed to act as though their site was too good for my link. Hmmm…what do they know ???
It’s always beneficial and gives you a break at the same time.
Well..you have to do your research first. What kind of links can you find on their site ? How is their style of writing and would your own style “fit in”?
Exactly, that’s all important info that you need to put some time, energy, and effort in to learning.
Great article. I have been following your blog from quite some time now and I have seen you putting stress on content writing and not buying links but text links is a cumbersome job. I am not sure whether it is worth the time and especially when you are a one man army in your website.
It is worth the time as it’s what will keep you going on in the long run. It is difficult and annoying but it needs to get done.
Hello Atul,
Really appreciated this article and reading about your experiences. I like to come back to visit your site and learn more.
-Bryan
P.S. – I’m in OC too.
Sounds good!
This is one of the most honest SEO article I have seen through out my 6 years working in the SEO industry. Most people will just tell you to buy links, but experience is worth a lot money and that is something you cannot buy. But instead of selling mine, I would like to share mine here.
I too was crazy in the boat of promoting my own sites and ranking crazy high for keywords. I have tried every black hat trick in the world (buying links is blackhat…). Whether those links were on entire sites, or whether those were on donation pages of top sites including phpbb and others. I had links coming from PR 9 domains… Those were quick success. You will rank high for 3 months, 6 months, and a year tops until you will get under the watchlist. Your site will be removed from Search Engines, you will lose your Pagerank, and lastly you will lose a significant portion of your income if not all because of it.
I agree that bosses want results and that is because most bosses are morons who don’t know about this industry. SEO is “Branding”. You cannot create a brand in a matter of weeks. It takes YEARS for GOOGLE to become what it is. Don’t get me wrong, I expect results as well. You can get great results in 3 – 6 months with just organic linking, link-baiting etc. For one of my site, it has a Pagerank 6, it ranks high in the niche’s top keywords (just about any keywords we want it to), and it is just one year old. When did it start ranking high? Within three months we started seeing results. Haven’t paid a single dime in advertisement. I have links coming from top sites including Wired Magazine, Mashable, TechCrunch, Problogger, Webmonkey, Smashing Magazine etc. Most were obtained through the technique of link-baiting and also some were obtained through the method of emails. It requires a lot of work, and I would be another person in the boat of saying “content is king”, but I would also say that your “site’s layout is the kingdom”. I think a good reason for my site being mentioned in top sources which I mentioned above was because it looked good. The fact that it was credible looking gave the site a consideration in the eyes of top editors. If you have a site that looks UGLY, then don’t even bother showing it to people. Because people hate ugly sites. And good looking sites buy credibility.
What Neil shared above in terms of sending emails is the strategy not only used by SEO experts, but also SEO SPAMMERs as well, who use this at least hundred times more. So you are competing with 100 spam emails that look just like yours. Now how can you make yours stand out?
Be Personal, don’t make the same pitch everywhere. Create custom pitches. HAVE A FREAKIN GOOD LOOKIN SITE. Be thorough in your email. Explain how it is benefiting them to link to you. Always thank the webmaster / editor.
Good Luck.
Thanks for the very thorough insight, it definitely makes a lot of sense. People just need to get it in their head that you can make it happen, but it just takes a lot of work.
Hi! This is the first time I comment to your blog.
I have a question
“If I use 10 kinds of automatic link building tool to your website, let`s say give your website 20,000 of spam links and link from top page to your blog. Will your blog be penalized?”
If possible, I can establish SPAM SEO company.
Example, Your website appear the top page when search “Online poker”
My client website is No,2. They want to appear No,1.
I will not try to pick my client website No,1.
I will try to your website down…. How do you feel? It can`t be.
The 1st, Mr, Matt,cuts says that
Q: I’m worried that someone will buy links to my site and then report that.
A: We’ve always tried very hard to prevent site A from hurting site B. That’s why these reports aren’t being fed directly into algorithms, and are being used as the starting point rather than being used directly. You might also want to review the policy mentioned in my 2005 post (individual links can be discounted and sellers can lose their ability to pass on PageRank/anchortext/etc., which doesn’t allow site A to hurt site B).
So, he said link seller will be punished but buyer can`t punish.
This is the question of mine.
So that I think your website banned reason was not buy links. By another reason I think.
Thank you! Your blog is wonderful!
am I the only one thinking WTF here? If he started a spam company it wouldn’t get all that far before someone found a way to block him.
You shouldn’t ever spam the company, always respect them respond accordingly.
Your blog can be penalized. I would be really careful because even though you may get away with it in the short run, in the long run you can get caught.
Slow and steady wins the race.
I am also a SEO! I havent any word to appreciate this post…..Really i am impressed from this post….the person who create this post it was a great human..thanks for shared this with us.
I appreciate that comment. Hopefully it helps
my site is the top spot for “unblock at school”, which according to Google keywords gets 50k searches a month. However, I am only getting 5 unique max from it.
So even if you manage to get your site to #1, it doesn’t mean you’ll make money…
Yes because 50k searches doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone clicks the first page.
I like the email template you are sharing here. Will perhaps give it a try and see if I was able to get a few links from that… I have not emailed anyone to ask for linkbacks yet.
It’s tedious but it works and does the job.
Great post. It’s so tempting to buy links, so it’s very interesting to see this post. I noticed that you refer to getting articles on other blogs as your main SEO strategy now. Me too. And you’re right, sending out link request is paaaaaainful as heck. lol
It is… but it’s better to do it the right way then get caught with the wrong way later and have everything stripped.
One other thing that I meant to say was, that I focus a lot on low competition keywords to help with rankings. I am a keyword research “genius”… lol. But I tell you for big keywords…it’s tough not to buy.
That’s always the best thing to do when you’re trying to build up.
Seo is one of the simplest arts in theory. Everyone says all you have to do is write a few articles or place a few forum profiles. But in practice it is not that easy for some major keywords you need links in the thousands, sometimes even the hundreds of thousands. My brain is still working out an effective way of doing this on a consistent basis
There is definitely much more that…. but what you described is a great way to start.
Its not an easy task to bring the keywords in top which has more competition which we need to build some quality back links for it.
Yes but it’s better doing it the right way, then getting your site banned later.
It was a good lesson on why we should not buy text links. It was under speculation by me but I guess in the end it might just not be worth it.
It’s really better to do it the legal way from the get go.
I have been tempted to buy links but the downside is simply too great. Nothing beats old fashioned methods you mentioned like asking for the links, writing articles – or “how to” guides, and listing your web site on various directories. Thanks for a good article that breaks it doen to the basics
That’s the best way to create a business for long term success.
good post…buying links is tempting but google is not stupid and they wll catch up with you in the end!!
Exactly… at the end of the day, if you’re doing something you’re not supposed to, you’ll be caught.
Buying links is never the way to go unless you want to get banned. While I don’t believe I could get to page one that quickly I have quite the competition to knock out. These tips should really help though, thanks.
Exactly…. do it the right from the get go, rather than wasting your time and money.
I would really stick on the ‘ natural and legitimate links’ period! Would cost time but no money involve. The math is simple, if you have good articles/content like this site, you would probably be linked to other site who would find it informative and useful for other users as well. Thanks Neil for this very nice and informative article! God bless!
Yes, exactly. You’ll have a solid foundation built for success on the web.
Commenting on do follow blog for some link juice is considered ethical or not if you are taking part in discussions ?
I think that’s perfectly fine so long as you’re leaving relevant comments.
Excellent Article Neil. I really don’t prefer reciprocal link. I never ask another person to link to them, because normally not every person will agree to us.
Really, i don’t prefer buying links. Buying links is a waste of time. But i really till now don’t understand why still google does not ban sites which sell links. Just i google, several keywords like buy text links. Lots of people just selling links.
Why don’t Google Ban them? Why adwords are still allowing to advertise to sell text links?
I don’t have an answer other than these sites are slowly getting banned over time. I would just focus on building high quality back links.
So I totally understand that purchasing links is not a good long-term strategy, but what does that mean, exactly?
Is it not a good long-term strategy to buy links indefinitely or is buying links for a few months then stopping still considered “long-term”?
In other words, will 6-month-old links or even 2-year-old links come back to bite you WHENEVER Google finds them? In other words still, does Google have some sort of statute of limitations for paid links they discover — will they penalize you if they realize you’re no longer actively buying?
They can penalize you whenever… that’s why even if you get away with it now, you can still get caught later.
but i m updating posts in my blog regularly and getting links also, but still it is in unranked, can you give me the solution
Is your site brand new? If it is, it takes a few months before it starts ranking.
my blog is one year old, but still it is unranked, got many pr links.
I would have to agree links take a while to build over time this seo article is nice….
It’s a process and just something to do on a consisten basis.
The best websites are those that are built to last – by offering something valuable in the first place. That’s what makes others want to link to them.
Thanks for the post, Neil.
Very true. They should provide valuable content that’s beneficial for people searching it.
nice article….
thank you for shared…
Thanks for reading
Greetings Mr Patel,
This is really a great post and very helpful and we agree with your view. We need to be natural in our activity and if we able to share good information across the network then it will by default generate lots of links and trust vote.
For an example: The content you wrote here liked by so many users and hence they are referring the content and this effectively increasing the backlink, trust vote for you and for your site and also helping in online branding which is essential.
Thanks again for your great content.
- Matt
from http://www.ourscompany.com
I completely agree. Creating quality content is essential. Branding is also a very important component. Thanks for your input.
There are some good points but no one is gonna know for sure how google rates certain factors for sure, they are mysterious. For example i went and submitted my site to 800 directories the other week, and i noticed a jump in my rankings just from that for “directory submission”.
Haha, interesting. Yeah there is no sure fire way just a lot of strategies.
In my opinion writing great content is what will get you the audience, everything else is secondary.
Content is definitely king.
It will always remain a mystery on how Google rank the pages and indexed sites. Nowadays it’s very difficult to create links and post to sites, owners and authors are very strict when it comes to filtering and approving of comments. If your fortunate enough, you won’t be treated as junk or spam. Hope to hear more suggestion from you Neil.
Definitely, great points. Good luck, you’ll get to that top page I am sure!
I’ve been working with Seo for some time now I’m not a web master but i’m interested in how to rank well in search engines
I think Neil is right don’t buy links
Yep, couldn’t agree with you more.
Great guide man!
I use some different tactics to get the links, but good content and frekvently updates to your site is a good thing!
Thanks, I am glad you enjoyed it
I have managed to get several sites to Nos. 1 or 2 on the first page against about 24 million competing sites without buying links. In fact when you look at some of my sites the amount of links they have is pathetic, but I believe that the old cliche “content is king” is dead right.
Awesome, I agree content is King.
Stay away from link firm and bad neighbors, get good back links from good sites is the best way to reach your goal.
Definitely, you have got it.
I have a question about the emails: do you actually send them out from the same domain as you’re promoting? If so, aren’t you worried that someone might mark the message as spam?
I usually send them out from a gmail address.
I haven’t bought TONS of links in my career, but now I’m paranoid after reading the statement from Matt Cutts. No longer will I try to take short cuts.
Definitely try and build links organically. It is better to be safe then sorry.
Legitimate links are the only realistic way to go, even if it does take a long time and is time consuming.
Absolutely, the best way is always the most difficult.
Hi Neil,
Thanks for such a nice post. I am doing SEO for a site since last 4 months. I brought that site form third page to second page. But suddenly it got de-ranked from second page top to the bottom of second page. Please can you help me on this?
Thanks,
Gabrielle
This happens often and is the name of the game. I think you should find the root of the problem and fix it. It might be that some of your links are no longer valid. Or your competitors have begun a more robust link building program.
I think legitimate links back are the key to the ranking. If you were de-ranked it is probably because you are having to many links too quickly.
Hello Neil,
great information you provide here, can you clarify something for me?
When you say dont buy links does that mean directory links? I submit my site to directories all the time, is that dangerous from an SEO perspective?
Definitely not. Submitting your site to directories is a great starting point for any link building campaign.
The more and high PR backlinks more are the chances of getting more. If a newbie starts asking for guest posts, send emails, there are very less chances of getting backlinks. Linkbuilding for starters will become long and tiring.
Yep, link building will take time and effort. However it will be worth it in the end.
Goone – I agree. For a newbie it is always long and tiring, but then it does get better. One day you will see your site ranking in google pretty well.
What a great article! It’s true, using black hat methods or paying astronomical fees for some marketing company to backlink the heck out of you won’t rank you a “winner” in your expertise. The key is good content, use of keywords, and interesting content. Nicely done, bravo!!
Thank you Cindy,
Glad you agree, it is all about the content and key words.
Thanks for the post, we are currently trying to follow it step by step to help our SEO positioning.
Awesome, let me know if you have any questions as you go
Great read Neil,
So I get that paying for links is a bad option in the long term, but what if i only want to get a good amount of traffic/ranking for a short term (e.g. 6 months). What would you suggest? Going to these websites that apparently submit hundreds of links or pay someone for SEO optimization?
I would suggest paying someone with the time and resources to optimize your website and build links. You can contract out to firms for 6 months, and if you decide to continue service you can extend past that amount of time.
Hi Neil,
Thanks for sharing your secret. I’m new in seo field so I will follow your secret to get top ranking in search engines. Specially I would like to say thanks on content writing techniques.
Regards
John
Thanks, let me know how these tips work out for you.
Looking into submitting with the Yahoo! Directory. For 299$ a year, is it really worth that much money?
Cheers,
I think it is. It’s a great link.
There is a right way to rank on Google page one things like title description and domain name are huge factors to get on Google page one websites get hit constantly from Google Panda and algorithm changes its best left to seo experts to get results
Yep, you have got it.
Hello Neil,
Very much appreciated hence it’s very convincing and practical. I know several Ineternet Marketers waste their hard earned money to buy backlinks without knowing the fact that it’s not going to work on the long term. Once again thanks indeed for this valuable post.
Thank you Sajan, glad you liked the post.
Hi Neil,
Can you help my site rank better on the search google?
I also have getthinamerica.com
Thanks
Hey Carl,
Check out neilpatel.com.
Everyone has good seopack to boost google ranking?
I used http://topseopack.weebly.com
And my site now rank page 1 after 3 week.
Sorry my english
It’s wonderful service. I just received 13000 backlinks in 3 days. Thank you so much. I hope my site will rank up..
I haven’t heard of this site, I will have to check it out. Thanks for sharing.
This is a great way to rank higher but surely this would take longer as the process involved here can be quite time-consuming but I guess you’re right in saying that is a very organic way to rank higher on Google – so, thank you for this, much appreciated!
It will take longer but be worth it in the end.
I’ve got my site on page one of Google for the search terms I aimed at, but intend to keep working to stay there. Finding out who links to what site is interesting, but typing in ‘link:http://yourwebsite.com‘ seems a bit flawed (or I’m missing something here) – for example, for sites I know have links elsewhere, it shows nothing at all, yet testing it with say, google.com works. Any thoughts?
I wouldn’t worry about those results as they don’t show everything. Use Google Webmaster Tools.
I got my bounce house rental wet site to page 1 of google many times and fell off do to stupid things like changing my host provider from foreign to local or my web builder randomly added extra letters in the site after i published it. Many times i fell off of page 1 on google and had to recover. It is not easy to stay at the top! links are very important to page 1 rank. I thank everyone who writes on forms about improving your rank in search engines. I think reading a lot is the best thing a person can do. This helps with learning. Thanks for your advice.
Indeed it isn’t easy, and I agree. The best way to learn is to read and ask questions.
Increase content for website instead of spam links.
Exactly.
what about buying blogroll links? could that get you banned if you only buy a few?
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THIS ONE IS A NICE ARTICLE…. you have a good knowledge!!
really beneficial for me…
Thanx for sharing
this is useful information….
Really beneficial for me…
Neil Patel Thanks for sharing
this is useful seo strategy…
Neil Patel our site just got ranking on 1 in just two months
your the best
may i ask you one thing, how to make comments for backlink
hey neil,
this post sounds good. i will definitely try these all. great contents.
Thanks.
Matt
Question about approaching other bloggers and wanting to write a guest post for their sites: How do you know you can count on them to just let that link to your site on their blog? What stops them from removing said link and pretending they wrote that article?
This Article has worth in link building…Thank You admin
dont forget to use blogging services…..
like,
opera
livejournal
blog
blogspot
Xanga
Myspace
There is a big problem with SEO’s and the way search engines work. They work for $ so therefore they have to generate it.
Besides DMOZ – Yahoo and Best of the Web are PAID links.
Google has the same. So dont buy links unless its from us?
And now when searching (for almost anything) you will get
sites that offer nothing but links to sites that actually offer what you are looking for. And these sites of course offer paid advertising. IE Will put your link at the top for $.
Doesn’t matter if it is half way around the world.
So WHAT is relevant? What makes what right?
Google flexing their “authority”?
Imagine this: use Geo IP?
Search format : (zip code) (distance) (keywords or phrase)
So if your looking for a electrician
355555 40 miles general electrician home wiring
And ALL it brings up are those bushiness that have websites and are located within 40 miles of the zip code you inputted.
Nothing more.
No PAID links from ANYONE …
Imagine that.
OH wait – wont happen.
Money …
Revenue …
BUY ME!
Definitely believe that which you said. Your favorite justification seemed to be on
the web the easiest thing to be aware of.
I say to you, I certainly get annoyed while people think about
worries that they just do not know about. You managed to hit the nail upon the top
as well as defined out the whole thing without having side effect , people can take a signal.
Will probably be back to get more. Thanks
Hi all
Personally I don’t like guest posting, except if you have a good relationship with the blog owner.
I prefer nowadays social websites and RSS Feeds directory / aggregators.
Thanks for the article.
Suitable for all keyword? that mean short and long keyword…
I know many people who utilize inbound links to determine the particular distinction connected with SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION and don’t boost the website per se limited to the outcome along with cash, along with all of us believe that not merely untrue, nevertheless no standing.
If you are looking for long term success then you have got to play by the rules otherwise you risk all your hard work going down the drain.
Damn Man !
I Dont think which this small things you can rank on google , Even if you implement this I dont think it works.
Tell us how you ranked on page 1 for rank on page 1 article.
We want real explanation of your website ranking.
How you worked , where you submitted , you undergone any seo services , you used any seo softwares , you contacted any seo experts.
We want that , Not this basic things that everyone know and would work in this overloaded google
Great info I’ve tried to get listed on DMOZ about 3 month ago how long does it normally take?
Brad
You are definitely right.
Although these methods may not be fun and they may be time-consuming, they are proven methods that will work when executed correctly (and by that I mean natural and white-hat).
Thats right! However it clearly takes patience and discipline to follow these steps to rank in google. But ultimately, if its too easy, then everyone can do it. So its not easy ;D
Definitely!
Thanks for reading!
Really this is nice article, your all things are working…
Thanks for reading!
Great article. Going strong for so long, absolutely amazing mate.
Thanks
Dear Neil is is Good to Upload you Tube Video And Ezine Articles….??
And Much Classified Ads Plus Article On Regular Basis On Our Website.
And One Thing More .. If We Want To Make Rank Of an Particular Keyword Like : Stock Tips Or Forex Tips Then how to Use Keywords In Post – Should We Write In Full Manner Or Divide It Into Parts – Stock, Tips…etc..
Definitely, they are a great way to promote.
Hi Neil, Thanks for a great post!
I would like to also submit http://www.bizidx.com as a business directory that can be used to increase web visibility for any business.
I have recently written this system and am eager to contribute to the SEO industry though it!
Regards,
Wynand Murray
Awesome, sounds like a solid strategy. Let me know how it works out.
I agree with this 100 percent.
I have ranked many sites on page 1 and 2 of google with 0 backlinks.
All it too was good onpage seo and a quality article. I have found thesis to be the best SEO framework for wordpress and it simplifies things but not having having to use a bunch of seo plugins.
Lately I have been using quality SAFE backlink pyramids
from this site:
http://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com/Boron/TChapter7.htm
Hope this helps,
Jimmy D
Jimmy, sounds like a solid strategy. Thanks for sharing
This is fairly new… I have not heard of buying links..I’ll google more on it. Maybe because I have only started my website for a week Lol. I am still in the learning curve.. Thanks for this informative post
Kev, you will get there. Let me know if you have any questions…
Overall, I discovered spending the time to create quality content or hiring a writer to do it works best. It can be exhausting at times waiting for results but it’s much better than purchasing links which can backfire and make your site disappear.
Great points
I find this post very useful But the whole quicksprout site is even better
Thanks!