Sep 09
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It’s been a tumultuous time in the world of backlinks. Many are heralding the end of Angela and Paul’s backlink packets. (Don’t!) Similarly there are death knells being sounded for whole groups of communities as sources of backlinks across the web.
So what’s a site owner to do?!
Mostly ignore the naysayers, and do the common sense things anyway…
The problems being touted as "The End" of various backlink sources is really just about people misunderstanding and misusing them. When you go into one of Angela’s packets and see the instructions in her PDF, do you notice that each profile has her pic uploaded to her profile? This should be a clue that she isn’t just signing up, posting her backlinks and running! Taking the time to fill in your profile a bit and look around will yield huge dividends! Not only are you less likely to have your account deleted, but you will notice other features of the community.
One of my favorite features on these is the ability to blog. Communities that allow you to make blog posts are one of the best reasons to keep both Paul and Angela’s packets. You can and should use them as places to post your EZA articles, posts from your own blog, and unique content created on the fly. There are no minimum post sizes on any that I have come across, and none of the formatting, linking or top level domain issues you will face elsewhere.
I know, I know…
"But my articles are on a different niche than the site."
I have posted articles on vastly different topics than that of the community, and without exception the articles and posts stayed. Communities are starved for contributing members, so if you are posting content then you will likely be very welcome indeed!
You have probably also heard people complaining that Ning communities have disabled backlinking ability in many areas of their profile pages, so there isn’t any point in using them any more. These people are ignoring two very important things:
1. Blog Posting – See above, Lol! Blog away and be sure to post your articles as well.
2. Start Your Own Community – This is probably the easiest place on the internet to start your own full function community. Or several full function online communities for that matter. And you get to pick the topic, so relevance is a non issue…
Squidoo is still being torn apart by naysayers on the forums due to their (still relatively) new rules. Hey, Google is still in love with them and there remain huge ways to circumvent the problems with the new rules if you just take the time to learn about them. I’m not going to go into them in depth here when you can get all the info you need from this free report:
I know I get great traffic and rankings from even one of my brand new lenses titled How To Get Backlinks. I really didn’t need to change much of anything putting this together to accommodate the new rules, and it has performed like a champ…
Regular readers have probably noticed that I have opened up the blog posts here to other authors. I did this for a number of reasons, but mostly to get some fresh perspectives on backlinking here. You can get your own articles posted here via the Free Traffic System. You will be able to publish each of your articles to thirty different websites at no charge whatsoever. You do need to spin the content with their system, but there are easy to follow video tutorials showing you how to do it almost as easily as using the software they recommend. I do it myself without any software and can generally spin my article manually in about ten minutes.Try it out, it’s free, and each article can have two backlinks so that means a total of sixty backlinks per article.
None of the info here will do you a bit of good if you don’t get out there and do something. Make it your goal to implement at least one backlinking strategy every day. Before you know it, your SEO results will be shooting you onto the first page of the big G for a whole host of great keywords…
