Beware: Non Bloggers will find this a tad Bit Boring! But if you want Backlinks, Bear with me. The rest of you might as well Begone, or Bend over to take a Bludgeoning of Bewildering Backlink Bull$hit in the Backside the likes of which you have never Been Blasted By Before…..
It is amazing the lengths people go to to get backlinks to their blog. They beat themselves black and blue, bend over backwards, doing backflips to get other bloggers to bend their way. I’m no different. I have rushed hither and yon like a chicken with it’s head cut off, following good and bad advice with abandon. The only thing about it is, all this activity sure has shown me what doesn’t work well for my situation, as well as what does. This morning I have done some serious house cleaning on my online portfolios, ditching a bunch of useless dot info sites that I don’t need and trying to figure out if I should scrap even a few of the dot coms or just ‘farm’ them out (wink wink nudge nudge). My biggest problem is lack of time, what with a full time job of over 70 hours per week and a family and a social life, etc. I don’t need to spend all of my valuable time on sites that have tanked and are just wasting internet space.
I used to participate in link memes and other crazy stuff to try to get traffic. I spent hours on ‘social linking‘ activities, trying to get ‘friends’. While this did get me some results, mostly what it got me was really busy and out of time. A lot of people will count social sites like facebook as entertainment. You know, if all I want is entertainment I would be better off picking up a book or going to see a movie. Facebooking is more like turning oneself into a computer zombie with limited typing opportunities. If I’m gonna be a zombie, I might as well be a sci fi movie zombie, so I can eat popcorn without getting my keyboard all greasy.
Dofollow comments have gotten me results, as has Keyword Luv. In fact, they seem to be really helpful. The problem is the time it takes to visit all those blogs and actually read them in order to make a relevant comment. A lot of us just fall behind on the time and energy. Also, leaving comments will never get you right to the top in the search engines, and I think this was confirmed at Make Money Online With Grizzly although I don’t recall exactly where on his site I found that tidbit. Since he is one of the Top Bears I tend to believe his info. Also, after leaving hundreds of dofollow comments, I never did reach number one for any of the keywords I targeted. Go figure. It did help, but just couldn’t get me over the hump.
One really useful activity is writing and submitting articles to directories so that others can use them on their sites. Every time you get free backlinks and it works really well. The problem is it takes a lot of time and energy to submit all of those articles. Even with a service like Unique Article Wizard it is still very time consuming. However, that service does speed up the process a lot. For a better explanation of article submissions and such, read this Unique Article Wizard Review.
By far one of the most successful services I have used is ConnectContent, which I discussed in my post How to Build Backlinks For Beginners. I have had quite a bit of luck getting results from this site, and it is highly recommended by many ‘gurus’ out there including Grizzly. And speaking of which, backlinks are also findable at Griz’ site so go check it out if you haven’t already.
From my lowly position at the bottom of the SEO pile, I guess my conclusion is that for most of us, moving up in the SERP’s is going to take time, persistance and work. Basically, persistance is the main virtue of most endeavours. Without that one thing you might as well forget huge successes online. Without persistance, you probably won’t succeed in marriage, child rearing, brick and mortar and real life carreers, or any other worthwhile endeavour. Heck, without persistance, you can’t even wade through all the crap on TV to find a decent program. Now excuse me while I get in a little ‘me’ time. Where is that remote?
