Comments on: Building Links is Like Shaving: If You Don’t Do It Every Day You Look Like a Bum http://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/ The Art of Blog Commenting Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:20:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Scott Jacob@Search Engine Marketinghttp://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/comment-page-1/#comment-5744 Scott Jacob@Search Engine Marketing Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:17:25 +0000 http://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/#comment-5744 Hey Terry - great post. We tend to favor shifting budgets from the directory/PR sites these days in favor of Facebook and other social sites. I guess that mix depends on your product mix and location of your market... Hey Terry – great post. We tend to favor shifting budgets from the directory/PR sites these days in favor of Facebook and other social sites. I guess that mix depends on your product mix and location of your market…

]]> By: Brad@gun-holsters.comhttp://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/comment-page-1/#comment-5450 Brad@gun-holsters.com Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:14:09 +0000 http://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/#comment-5450 My experience has been that link building needs to be an integral part of your marketing methods. One method that I noticed was left off involved RSS feeds. The blog that you create in step #3 will have an RSS feed that you can also use for link building. Submit the feed to various RSS sites and RSS aggregators. Every time you update the site or make a new post, the RSS feed is updated as well. Although most of the RSS feed sites don't have a high PR, they do produce some good traffic. This method only takes a few minutes to implement, but continues to produce traffic for quite awhile. My experience has been that link building needs to be an integral part of your marketing methods. One method that I noticed was left off involved RSS feeds. The blog that you create in step #3 will have an RSS feed that you can also use for link building. Submit the feed to various RSS sites and RSS aggregators. Every time you update the site or make a new post, the RSS feed is updated as well. Although most of the RSS feed sites don’t have a high PR, they do produce some good traffic. This method only takes a few minutes to implement, but continues to produce traffic for quite awhile.

]]> By: Denise@Houseboat Rentalshttp://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/comment-page-1/#comment-4064 Denise@Houseboat Rentals Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:38:47 +0000 http://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/#comment-4064 Link building one of the most important parts parts of making money online and getting that almighty organic traffic from Google is something I really need to work harder on. I do not know why I find it so difficult. That's why I bought FBF so I could at least make my link building time more profitable. The more I use this tool, the more I cannot get along without it. I always seem to chose tough keywords to compete with so this means a lot of link building. At least Fast Blog Finder has taken the bite out of this. Link building one of the most important parts parts of making money online and getting that almighty organic traffic from Google is something I really need to work harder on. I do not know why I find it so difficult. That’s why I bought FBF so I could at least make my link building time more profitable. The more I use this tool, the more I cannot get along without it. I always seem to chose tough keywords to compete with so this means a lot of link building. At least Fast Blog Finder has taken the bite out of this.

]]> By: John@ Birdhouse Kitshttp://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/comment-page-1/#comment-2914 John@ Birdhouse Kits Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:44:15 +0000 http://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/#comment-2914 This is the area that I find the hardest to keep up. I know that building links is the real key, and what I've done is to set up my day so that while I may have a goal to create a lot of links, I don't let myself visit any forums or check my favorite web sites until I've created 1 or 2 links (depending on the difficulty, 2 if it's blog comments, one for an article submission). Otherwise it's too easy to find something else "important" to distract myself.Ditto on the Hubpages. I've used both Hubpages and Squidoo, and the Hubpages seem to rank better, so I assume they have more trust with Google. This is the area that I find the hardest to keep up. I know that building links is the real key, and what I’ve done is to set up my day so that while I may have a goal to create a lot of links, I don’t let myself visit any forums or check my favorite web sites until I’ve created 1 or 2 links (depending on the difficulty, 2 if it’s blog comments, one for an article submission). Otherwise it’s too easy to find something else “important” to distract myself.

Ditto on the Hubpages. I’ve used both Hubpages and Squidoo, and the Hubpages seem to rank better, so I assume they have more trust with Google.

]]> By: John@Chicago Mattresshttp://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/comment-page-1/#comment-2826 John@Chicago Mattress Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:42:11 +0000 http://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/#comment-2826 One has to be careful about how much link building they do in a short period of time. If too many inbound links all come it at once, Google may think you are spamming. One has to be careful about how much link building they do in a short period of time. If too many inbound links all come it at once, Google may think you are spamming.

]]> By: Mike @ Online MLM Blueprinthttp://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/comment-page-1/#comment-2742 Mike @ Online MLM Blueprint Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:30:00 +0000 http://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/#comment-2742 Terry -Great Post! An action plan like this was exactly what I was looking for.Kind of rough starting out in terms of getting reciprocal links, I like the idea in #2 of trading an article for a link.I have heard that article directories are less and less important, but that ezinearticles still has some decent weight. So, I'm focusing all my purely article efforts just there. In fact, just a few days after a couple articles going live, google updated the toolbar PR and the two articles had a PR of 2!I think I understand what you are saying for starting a blog. I've started a free blog at wordpress.com, and point that to my self-hosted blog.Instead of squidoo, I'm using hubpages, as I've heard that might be a little better of a site. (I think once squidoo was penalized by google, and they've gone from following links, to nofollowing, then back again. Hubpages removes nofollow from links after writing a few good hubs. Not sure exactly when the switch happens, but I wrote 6 hubs and after 1 day my links had nofollow removed.)Then again, I've heard a good strategy is to use multiple authority "community publishing" sites and do some cross linking between them, and point some back to your main site.I just submitted to DMOZ a couple days ago, hopefully I get a link from there within a few years!!! Does anyone else have any good free or low cost directories to submit to?Anyway, thanks for the advice, and I'll intergrate this into the stuff I'm doing and really lay out a daily/weekly action plan.Mike Terry –

Great Post! An action plan like this was exactly what I was looking for.

Kind of rough starting out in terms of getting reciprocal links, I like the idea in #2 of trading an article for a link.

I have heard that article directories are less and less important, but that ezinearticles still has some decent weight. So, I’m focusing all my purely article efforts just there. In fact, just a few days after a couple articles going live, google updated the toolbar PR and the two articles had a PR of 2!

I think I understand what you are saying for starting a blog. I’ve started a free blog at wordpress.com, and point that to my self-hosted blog.

Instead of squidoo, I’m using hubpages, as I’ve heard that might be a little better of a site. (I think once squidoo was penalized by google, and they’ve gone from following links, to nofollowing, then back again. Hubpages removes nofollow from links after writing a few good hubs. Not sure exactly when the switch happens, but I wrote 6 hubs and after 1 day my links had nofollow removed.)

Then again, I’ve heard a good strategy is to use multiple authority “community publishing” sites and do some cross linking between them, and point some back to your main site.

I just submitted to DMOZ a couple days ago, hopefully I get a link from there within a few years!!! Does anyone else have any good free or low cost directories to submit to?

Anyway, thanks for the advice, and I’ll intergrate this into the stuff I’m doing and really lay out a daily/weekly action plan.

Mike

]]> By: Claus@Quiz and triviahttp://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/comment-page-1/#comment-2606 Claus@Quiz and trivia Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:19:16 +0000 http://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/#comment-2606 Regarding DMOZ, I do not find it usefull either. I don't know what's going on in DMOZ project, but either way - 6 months to up to 5 years review time is way too much for internet sites. They can change or disapear long befor being reviewed.I have had much more succes with the alternatives above - and I haven't had the time yet to follow up on all advices in this thread. Regarding DMOZ, I do not find it usefull either. I don’t know what’s going on in DMOZ project, but either way – 6 months to up to 5 years review time is way too much for internet sites. They can change or disapear long befor being reviewed.

I have had much more succes with the alternatives above – and I haven’t had the time yet to follow up on all advices in this thread.

]]> By: NLP Trainer in Londonhttp://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/comment-page-1/#comment-2604 NLP Trainer in London Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:09:37 +0000 http://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/#comment-2604 Here's what gets me about DMOZ - they often don't even review sites that are submitted. I know this because I check my server logs to see if I get any visits from the dmoz domain. The usual excuse why your site isn't included is because they deemed it inappropriate. How can that be, when they haven't even looked at it? We're talking sites that were submitted up to 5 years ago!! This is why I really do not like DMOZ. If you are going to run a human edited directory, have the decency to even take a glance at sites that are submitted. My advice is to go for the paid directories. Yes, they cost money but here's the thing: they actually do what they say they will do: they review your site! :) Here’s what gets me about DMOZ – they often don’t even review sites that are submitted. I know this because I check my server logs to see if I get any visits from the dmoz domain. The usual excuse why your site isn’t included is because they deemed it inappropriate. How can that be, when they haven’t even looked at it? We’re talking sites that were submitted up to 5 years ago!! This is why I really do not like DMOZ. If you are going to run a human edited directory, have the decency to even take a glance at sites that are submitted. My advice is to go for the paid directories. Yes, they cost money but here’s the thing: they actually do what they say they will do: they review your site! :)

]]> By: Harriet@Cosmetic Bagshttp://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/comment-page-1/#comment-2597 Harriet@Cosmetic Bags Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:07:28 +0000 http://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/#comment-2597 Just my 2 cents:-1. Also joeant.com is a good directory and is only $402. Yes this is good advice - it's mega-tedious (one a week is all I can manage anyway!) but the quality link partners are the ones who rank highly for your chosen keyword3. Not sure about this blog one - since it's the same IP address - just linking between the same sites several times I don't think will have much more benefit than single links - but I might be wrong.4. Agree5. I find article submissions have less and less impact on your rankings these days (2008)6 and 7 Good advice8. squidoo is like an SEO-friendly Wikipedia :)9-10. Good advice Just my 2 cents:-

1. Also joeant.com is a good directory and is only $40

2. Yes this is good advice – it’s mega-tedious (one a week is all I can manage anyway!) but the quality link partners are the ones who rank highly for your chosen keyword

3. Not sure about this blog one – since it’s the same IP address – just linking between the same sites several times I don’t think will have much more benefit than single links – but I might be wrong.

4. Agree

5. I find article submissions have less and less impact on your rankings these days (2008)

6 and 7 Good advice

8. squidoo is like an SEO-friendly Wikipedia :)

9-10. Good advice

]]> By: latif@hip hop jewelryhttp://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/comment-page-1/#comment-2237 latif@hip hop jewelry Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:08:39 +0000 http://www.fastblogfinder.com/building-links-is-like-shaving/#comment-2237 thats a cool relation to compare up both tasks, daily most tedious tasks you even don't want to think about but you can't live without (as a man and internet marketer/webmaster).. Relief for ladies on other part --- lol they won't understand the trouble on man's part for shaving :) Great post. thats a cool relation to compare up both tasks, daily most tedious tasks you even don’t want to think about but you can’t live without (as a man and internet marketer/webmaster)..
Relief for ladies on other part — lol
they won’t understand the trouble on man’s part for shaving :) Great post.

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