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Originally Posted by DigitalExtreme
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Stop trying to get backlinks by forum sigs, blog posting, article sites, etc.
Create content that people want to link to.
Yes, it is
much more difficult. It's why few are successful. It is also much more effective.
Look, if those spammy techniques actually worked, I'd use an outsourcing firm to build several hundred sites, and I'd hire other firms to do all of the spam work. It's the kind of thing you can put on a credit card. It just wouldn't cost much money. If it really worked, I would do that and be rich.
If you are chasing the search engines, it's a never ending chase. It's like a dog trying to catch a car. Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Ask Jeeves, etc employee huge numbers of developers to constantly change the search algorithms. None of them care about you (or me). They care about the people actually performing the search. Even if you found the perfect SEO solution, chance are, it probably wouldn't work tomorrow.
Chasing the search engines will leave your traffic ebbing and flowing with changes in the algorithms.
When you create content that people genuinely find useful, entertaining, and/or informative, they spread the word for you. You'll find that you get traffic from thousands of distinct sources instead of one (Google). You will find that you get the best kind of "backlink", the ones people actually click on.
I'm not saying don't ever leave blog/forum comments. Just make sure that if you do, you are genuinely contributing to the conversation.
some examples:
Several years ago, I wrote a post on creating
XML software schedules. I left a comment on the
internet ducttape blog where software for this same task was being reviewed. The post was updated, my solution was added to the list.
My quick and dirty solution ended up ranking 2nd. I've actually received (and continue to get) quite a bit of traffic from there.
When I posted about how to
fix the quote tag <Q> in internet explorer, folks started linking to it from all over.
Want the
coveted .edu link? Write stuff that professors want to link to. My page on
rarely used html tags gets quite a bit of traffic from university sites.
Of course, I do get plenty of search traffic. The difference is, if all the search engines shut down tomorrow, I'd still be ok.
There's no easy way. If there was,
everybody would be doing it, and it would cease to be effective. Focus on the hard work. Focus on the folks would will visit your site. Try to make their experience the best possible.
If you do the hard things, the easy things will take care of themselves.
Just keep building your links.
