Backlinks

backlinks, research, seo

[acemisha]

I'm working on a project to add backlinks to my website. I'm doing it the good old fashioned way by researching relevant sites, finding the email addresses, making contact with the various businesses and then hoping for good results.

What I found is that research takes a lot of my time. Is there any software that any one can recommend? Or any faster way to do the research?

[dertyfern]

I'd stick to the manual research--there's no substitution for quality in link building.

I believe you'll find some efficiency with Google operators, cataloging relevant websites backlinks and the like.

[nealrodriguez]

technorati and google blog search can give you a good idea of blogs to target when you query your targeted keywords; the idea would be to respond or augment their content on your site with something in which a targeted blog's following may be interested; then shoot them the email, acknowledging that you read the story on their site that you wrote about; link them to yours, and simply write: "it may interest your audience."

[acemisha]

Thanks Neil. This sounds a lot easier.

[potentialgeek]

What I found is that research takes a lot of my time. Is there any software that any one can recommend? Or any faster way to do the research?

Here's one shortcut: look at all the links of your competitors. They did all the research; you can steal their ideas! :/

There is some software out there. I can't recommend it, however, because I haven't researched it enough yet.

[acemisha]

Excellent Thx for your advice.

[JS_Harris]

It's my opinion that links not on a page when it is published, meaning links added to a page long after it has been published, don't always carry as much weight as those who were there when the page first went live.

Making friends in your niche/industry is a great way to get fresh links when they write about something you're an authority on.

My idea of the perfect link is one in the middle of content on a page about my primary keyword that is there when published, one per domain only. If they come up with automated software to pull that off I quit.