How I Generated Over 3,000 Backlinks In 6 Weeks
By Bryan Clark on Aug 13, 2007 in Uncategorized
How many backlinks do you have? Backlinks are a topic that’s been discussed rather frequently lately, because of the upcoming Google PageRank update. Since this is such a hot topic at the moment, I thought I’d share some of my link building techniques with you. I was able to amass quite a collection of backlinks in a very short amount of time. Here is how I did it, so that you’ll be able to try it too!
But first… Here’s proof! To check your backlinks go to iwebtool.com.
- Write Quality Content - Sorry to be cliche here, but it’s true. I get a ton of trackbacks based on the content I write. It’s linked to from all sorts of blogs looking to provide valuable information to their readers. This is the best way to build backlinks. Not only do you get a ton of sweet backlinks, but it’s also the best way to increase your readership as well. I get a lot of new visitors - turned repeat visitors due to them finding out about me on another blog via backlink.
- Viral Link - This may be a “controversial” way to build links, but I can tell you this. It works. I’ve collected a few hundred backlinks from this method alone. The best part is, I’ve only posted a viral link list on this blog once. I did this weeks ago and yet I’m still reaping the rewards.
- Comment On Do-Follow Blogs - This is another big one. I would say that almost half of my backlinks come from this method. Not only is it great for building links… it’s also a fantastic way to find new blogs, make new friends, and get the name of your site out there so that it becomes recognizable.
- Article Submission - I’ve got an entire article dedicated to this topic that will be coming soon. It’s a free and easy way to build great backlinks. Essentially I just change a few things about an existing post that I have (to avoid duplicate content), and I post it on a free article submission site such as e-zinearticles.com. You post the article, and submit your name and link in a short blurb at the bottom. This turns into site visitors, which turns into more backlinks!
- Blog Directories - Another “controversial” method of building links. A lot of people think that you are penalized for joining a blog directory. They often confuse blog directories with “link farms”. The only way that Google frowns upon you submitting to blog directories is if you are PAYING for the link. Don’t ever do this, it’s frowned upon, and it’s completely worthless. There are too many free directories to worry about having to pay.
- Submit Your Articles To Another Blogger - This is one is probably the most simple way to build links and gain exposure. Part of the reason that all of us blog is to meet new people right? Well get out there and do it. Email another blogger, introduce yourself, and send them an article that you think might be relevant to one of their topics. More often than not, the blogger will happily link to your article in an upcoming post. If they don’t… move on… find another blogger… there are 60 million plus blogs out there. You can’t be turned down by all of them!
Well congratulations. You now know my secrets to link building. None of these are revolutionary, but they get the job done if you put the time in.
As we all know, the more backlinks we get - the better our Google PageRank, the more your site is worth, and the more advertisers will pay for an ad spot on your site.
Now get out there and build some links!
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46 Comment(s)
By Davy at Agile SCM on Aug 13, 2007 | Reply
I can definitely vouch for the “Comment On Do-Follow Blogs” links. The link counts on these multiply quite fast.
I also wholeheartedly agree on the quality content of each post to attract natural backlinks. Though I have tried the viral link, article submission, blog directories nor submitting articles to other blogger. Its time to get busy I suppose..
Great post, Bryan!
By Bryan on Aug 13, 2007 | Reply
Davy - It works! I promise you. 6 weeks and 3,000+ backlinks are attainable with some effort! Also, I’d like to thank you for visiting and leaving a comment. I don’t think I’ve seen your name here before… welcome!
By Angela on Aug 13, 2007 | Reply
Impressive. According to iwebtools, I have 2700+ backlinks. It’s only taken me 6 years.
By Bryan on Aug 13, 2007 | Reply
Angela - But that’s all changing now that you are going to win my contest right?
By Henri @ B2B sales blog on Aug 13, 2007 | Reply
Job well done! I generated 7k backlinks in 3-4 months. Submitting to social news & bookmark sites like Digg and del.icio.us will also get you noticed and get you extra backlinks by people refering to the story on their blogs. In this way I even got a story with a link on the frontpage of the website of one of the largest newspapers in my country.
By Christina on Aug 13, 2007 | Reply
There are awesome tips! Thanks! And congrats on all your backlinks that impressive!
By Christina on Aug 13, 2007 | Reply
Thanks for the inside peek to how you did it! And congrats on all your backlinks that impressive!
By Sly from Slyvisions.com on Aug 13, 2007 | Reply
All are very nice and true tips. If I can add to that, I would recommend that you submit some of you blog posts to Blog Carnivals. I have written an article about it here:
Using Blog Carnival To Increase Technorati Ranking
http://www.slyvisions.com/files/using-blog-carnival-to-increase-technorati-ranking.html
Sly from Slyvisions.com
By Bryan on Aug 13, 2007 | Reply
Thanks everyone!
Wonderful article Sly. I just started using Blog Carnivals. I wanted to make sure that it was a successful strategy before I recommended it to my readers.
By Contamination on Aug 13, 2007 | Reply
An easy way to make back links with blogger is to use the “link to this tab” on the target page. When you write about their post it automatically creates a backlink to the post you just made.
Very nice.
By Free Self-Growth eBooks on Aug 14, 2007 | Reply
Thanks for the tips. I am also commenting on Do-Follow blogs. It’s a great way to both gain backlinks and discover new blogs (like this one)
By Bryan on Aug 14, 2007 | Reply
Well I’m glad that you discovered me! Come back often.. We’re never closed!
By Etienne Teo on Aug 14, 2007 | Reply
I always trust that content is king and with contents, your blog can’t get that much backlinks or even ranking, so continue to blog and blog.
Rdgs
Etienne
By Missy on Aug 14, 2007 | Reply
wow! On my Groovy Vegetarian blog, i have 1,476 backlinks. Not bad for a two month old blog. Sweet!
Congrats on your backlinks too, Bryan.
Missy.
By Missy on Aug 14, 2007 | Reply
Hey, Bryan: how does one create a screenshot?
By Bryan on Aug 14, 2007 | Reply
Missy - Just press the “Prt Scrn” button on your keyboard. It’s usually above the “insert” button on the right side of your keyboard.
After doing that, just open up photoshop or paint and paste it onto a blank image. Crop and share!
By Michael on Aug 14, 2007 | Reply
I think that the absolute best and easiest way to build back links is to comment on blogs with the dofollow plugin installed.
By The Old Vic on Aug 15, 2007 | Reply
Hi Bryan,
Thanks for the tips. Hoepfully I will be able to use them to increase traffic. A couple of questions : over at richminx in a comment you say that Google doesn’t recognize 301 redirects, can you explain what you mean ? I have a blogspot blog and have renamed it as above I then changed the nameservers etc… at godaddy and have redirected traffic using 301 redirect.
Q2 - does the iwebtool backchecker still work ? I have put in all sorts of names inc. johnchow and it says 0f backlinks for all of them. Is it me or is it them ? The Old Vic
By Bryan on Aug 15, 2007 | Reply
Vic - I’m not sure what you mean about the iwebtool backlink checker.
What I was saying about 301 redirects is that Google doesn’t see them as valid. Say you build a blog to a PR 5 and then switch domains… a 301 won’t switch your pagerank too. It’s something I read in the Google TOS or something similar.
By The Old Vic on Aug 15, 2007 | Reply
Hi Bryan,
Re. 301 - OK now I understand.
With the iwebtool backlink checker - http://www.iwebtool.com/backlink_checker - if I put a name of a website (any website) into the backlink checker it just says ‘total backlinks 0′ - maybe I am doing something wrong.
Vic
By Bryan on Aug 15, 2007 | Reply
Vic - I get what you are saying now. For some reason the software only seems to work when it wants to. It does it to me quite often too.
By cooliojones on Aug 18, 2007 | Reply
I have 9000+ according to iwebtool. But get this — when I do the PageRank predictor, it says I have an insufficient amount to determine what my PR will be. Go figure.
Update - just did the predictor again and it says PR 5.1. I guess it works when it wants to. Who wants to get their links in to a PR5 site?
By SELaplana on Aug 19, 2007 | Reply
how i wish i can earn 1,000 backlinks in just 1 month , i tried but failed….
By Leon on Aug 19, 2007 | Reply
Thanks for the tips. I recently transferred to my own domain, and I lost a lot of link juice from my Blogger blog, so this article really helped.
By Mick on Aug 19, 2007 | Reply
Great article, thanks.
It would be nice to learn more about Blog Directories, can you supply some links of good ones?
-Mick
By Gyms and Health Clubs on Aug 20, 2007 | Reply
Thanks for the advice- the iWebTool backlink checker doesn’t seem to be working too well, but the rest of this information is great! I’ve added a link to your blog on del.icio.us- keep up the good work!
By Bryan on Aug 20, 2007 | Reply
Thanks everyone!
By HighFivez.com on Aug 27, 2007 | Reply
Nice post.
By lalit nagrath on Aug 28, 2007 | Reply
thanks for the info, they are best for generating backlinks
m thinking of 100 links per week
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By Persuasive e-Marketing on Aug 30, 2007 | Reply
Great post, lots of good tips in there.
One point — Google won’t punish you for being in directories, link farms, etc. Some are still a waste of time if they’re low-quality sites, but if they punished you, your competition could easily destroy you by submitting you to countless link farms and spam sites.
If you link back to those bad sites, that might hurt you.
By Technobuzz.net on Sep 4, 2007 | Reply
Nice tips
Thanks
technobuzz.net/
By YC on Sep 5, 2007 | Reply
Very useful post - while the methods are not new like you mentioned, but they show how straightforward it is!
By Ronald Allan on Sep 29, 2007 | Reply
this one is great… but can i ask something? how google backlinks are updated i still dont have backlinks…
By Cassanova on Sep 30, 2007 | Reply
Great informations. Thanks for sharing.
I like just to add another way of building more linkbacks. So what about Blog carnivals? You have just to submit your article’s permanent link to the carnival that suits your main subject, few days later you’ll find the link in other blogs.
How do you valuate this method ? It worked for me.. Have you ever tried it ?
By The Real Proxy on Oct 1, 2007 | Reply
Im now doing this I hope it will also increase my backlinks… i still dont have one…
By akshay on Oct 11, 2007 | Reply
i have seen changes in my PR and its is true to say that the google system is now updating, at http://www.googlebugs.com there are results and stats that show this has happened.
thanks
aks
By Travel Planner on Oct 16, 2007 | Reply
Dear Sir,
I have incorporated your back links on my blog kashdeals.blogspot.com
Kindly add on my blog onto the viral list so that i can have the same benefit
Thanks
Travel Planner
By Travel Planner on Oct 20, 2007 | Reply
Dear Sir,
I have incorporated your back links on my blog kashdeals.blogspot.com
Kindly add on my blog onto the viral list so that i can have the same benefit
Thanks
Travel Planner
By R Ravji on Nov 20, 2007 | Reply
As far as article submission sites are concerned, I have to disagree. I posted 2/3 articles on over 20 article pubslishing sistes.
I got one or two visitors for the first few weeks and then virtually nothing. In my experince the free article publishing sites are a waste of time.
Never tried the sites where you have to pay to have an article published.
Regards
Ra
By nishu on Feb 7, 2008 | Reply
So I sld go on a back link building spree…
But wont google get a hint if I get all backlinks suddenly ??
By Bryan on Feb 7, 2008 | Reply
By Thomas Article on Feb 8, 2008 | Reply
Wow, 3000 backlinks in 6 weeks! I don’t think that I will ever have 3000 backlinks. However you do offer some excellent points. I want to try that Article Submission thing. It might be easier, if only I had paid attention in Writing Class.
By Roman on Feb 20, 2008 | Reply
Bryan, I’ve purchased some links for my site that is 1 month old. It appeared to take a hit in the SERPS for about a week a few days after they purchased link was placed on the site. However now (3 weeks later), my traffic is picking back up and I have 5x as many pages in the Google index. So I’m not sure if I was penalized for the massive increase in links to my site.
By Rex on Feb 24, 2008 | Reply
Here’s another story I think your reader’s will like. It’s about a hard working London SEO who pushed his client up to the top of the Google SERPs using a number of methods which he explains at this page:
http://dfinitive.com/blog/seo/how-i-got-aerobed-to-number-1-in-google/
By Rex on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply
A lot of really good content here. It’s a fun and informative blog. It seems odd though that the links from our comments are all “external no follow”. Especially in light of the benefit you got from other blogs in obtaining your 3000 links in six weeks. There are various tools to deal with comment spamming other than just making all your comment/links “no follow.”
By Rob on Jun 22, 2008 | Reply
Great information. Thanks.