Comments on: Link Building 101: What is a Backlink?

By: Link Marketing: Pingbacks vs Blog Comments

Link Marketing: Pingbacks vs Blog Comments — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:51:34 +0000

[...] does not have the NoFollow attribute. For more on that, see the NoFollow Attribute section in the Link Building 101 [...]

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:08:33 +0000

Thanks Jaron – will check it out.

Personally I don’t do link exchanges and very rarely purchase links, as I prefer high quality one-way links. But every now and then I run a paid buzz campaign so this could come in handy for that.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:04:39 +0000

I would reply and encourage them to write a response to her post, or quote a few pieces from her post and add their own comments to the topic in their own post. Doing that, and including a link to credit the source (her post) will create a pingback on her post… and give them better results all the way around. See if you can educate them in that direction in your response to their request.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:57:55 +0000

TBPR is pretty much irrelevant these days in my opinion. And it’s definitely quality over quantity. Thanks John!

By: John Glass

John Glass — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:05:30 +0000

“The more backlinks you have, the higher the PR you will get.”

Dear Essay Writing,

This is more or less an outright lie as google has punished many sites from having to many backlinks at linkfarms or other reputably webpages. Quality backlinks with relevant anchor texts combined excellent content is the key to success.

By: Jaron

Jaron — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:51:21 +0000

Very good, thorough post. I agree with your comments about the Toolbar PR, and actually think people focus too much on PR altogether.

One thing that I’ve found frustrating is exchanging or paying for links, only to find that the link is no longer active weeks or months after I’ve received it. I created a free tool to that automatically verifies if your backlinks are still live. It also tracks the PR of the linking page, price paid for the links, contact info, and more. I’d love to get some feedback on the tool. It’s free, but does require a link for use. You can check it out at http://www.backlinkreporter.com

By: Tyy Ward

Tyy Ward — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:39:57 +0000

Well, I will be anxiously awaiting your next posts. I am slowly starting to see how this all works and how it can really help my sites.

Question for you on guest blogging. My wife has had someone inquire about a blog post that she has on her blog that they would like to put on their blog as a guest post. What is the best way of going about this, since she has already posted it on her site? Thanks for the help.

Tyy

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:27:27 +0000

Blog commenting is good, but Pingbacks are better (details coming soon in a new post), but even better than both are links within the actual content area. If you’re spending a lot of time commenting on blogs with nofollow attributes in the links, your time could be better spent doing guest blogging and/or article marketing.

Not that blog commenting isn’t good, it is – but if you’re counting every minute, do the things that count the most. Stay tuned because we’re going to discuss quality of links next.

By: Tyy Ward

Tyy Ward — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:54:34 +0000

Hey Lynn,

Great Post!!! I’m really glad you touched on the NoFollow attribute. I have been going crazy trying to find blogs to follow that are in my niche that don’t have the NoFollow and it has been really difficult.

I guess I will stop putting so much time into trying to find these and just comment on blogs in my niche.

Thanks,
Tyy

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:17:56 +0000

Hi Lynn, great post on link building basics. There’s a lot of “no follow” debate and I agree with your stance of “obtain any quality link from a relevant source that has the potential to send targeted (human) traffic to your page.”

By: John

John — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:11:34 +0000

Lynn,

Great information. I’ve been trying out a service call LotusJump gives you a list of potential sites where you can set up links to your site based on your URL and keywords you input. It’s not perfect but it speeds up the process.

Thanks,

- John

By: Analyzing Backlinks: How Many Do You Need?

Analyzing Backlinks: How Many Do You Need? — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:33:57 +0000

[...] discussed web page optimization, link building, and an effective link building strategy… so you know that you need backlinks to your pages [...]

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:15:56 +0000

I stay up on the SEO news, and am aware of all the strategies & tactics, including “PR Sculpting” – but these things always tend to come and go whereas great content and quality links remain a stable SEO strategy…

By: Minisite Design

Minisite Design — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:48:59 +0000

Great article Lynn..

@Angie, I have several blogs, and a few have a great PR, and I link out to different sites/pages/blogs all the time, and it seems my pagerank has kept getting better (but over a few years time)..

Oh, and I don’t use the nofollow attribute, although I have the option via Platinum seo plugin. I have tried it for a while, and didn’t see much difference.

I think maybe after your site/blog is established, and you have a good amount of backlinks to your site, you can relatively link freely to sites without ‘nofollowing’.

Just my experience..

By: Deirdre J

Deirdre J — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:47:04 +0000

I am so glad you decided to do this series. It is such a valuable piece to the ranking puzzle and there are so many facets to it.

Thanks for the great info. I look forward to the next installment.

Deirdre J.