One of the most important parts to your SEO campaign for your websites should be the building of backlinks. Finding quality backlinks has always been a tedious task, sifting through search results, finding blogs and forums and social media sites with relative content to your niche.
Recently though I have been automating the process and using the power of google to send me backlink opportunities to my inbox everyday for free. I have set up a program using Google Alerts to keep track of all of my topics on the web, and tell me when new content is available that I can backlink.
I have so far found it an excellent way to keep up to date with what people are saying about my own domain, as well as keeping track of the different market niches that I have sites in.
AN EXAMPLE
An example is that if you have a site on “yoga advice†then you would create a Google Alert for these keywords. Google will then send you an email when a new link or content related to this is published on the internet.
It’s a fantastic way to be informed about your area, BUT it is also a great way to find potential linking partners to set up backlinks with. With Google Alerts you will easily get 10 – 30 links per day, depending on how popular your niche is.
BLOG LINKING STRATEGY
I have found that an even better way to find blogs that allow you to leave a comment is to setup a google alert specifically for blogs and set the alert to search for “yoga” “leave a comment”. This will send a list of all blogs in your niche that you can leave a comment straight to your inbox. You can set the alerts to be sent to you daily, weekly or as they happen (as google indexes the page).
There are a few considerations to take into account when commenting on blogs as a back linking strategy. The first is the search relevance of the site that you are linking to. I recommend installing the SEOQuake plug-in as it provides information on Alexa Ranking, Google Pagerank and Number of Backlinks to a site, plus heaps of other relevant information for you to decide if it is in your best interest to backlink to a site. This great SEO plug-in can be attached to your browser and will give you helpful SEO information on the link or links you’re viewing.
Use the SEOQuake plug-in in conjunction with Google to sort through the results and find the ones with the highest PR, traffic and backlinks. The more knowledge you have the easier and more effective your link building will become.
Keep in mind that finding quality backlinks is one of the most tedious jobs in being a webmaster. It can take a long time, and a good deal of patience. By using this google alerts system you are taking a lot of the legwork out the equation, which will allow you to focus on backlink creation more consistently. Persistence pays off in this area, and soon your site will get noticed and start to rank higher.
All I can say is “Thank God you are going to help me market my blog – that sounds like some tedious fiddle-faddle right there”
Oh wait, I was supposed to be out there commenting on people’s blog who DON”T know about RebelZen.com, sorry old boy …
Now get out there and spread the word!
Hi Steve, thanks for this article, it’s very useful for me
Do you know any more cool methods for growing backlinks?
I use this little nifty tool. It gives you a quick view of how well your site is optimized for search engines and you’re able to track your Google ranks. http://seogroup.com/evaluation/ .. hope this helps out you guys.
Nice post. Seem I here some thing like this form some Seo blog but I don’t do something until I see it on your blog. Thanks, Just do it.
I like the google alerts as well and also another way to find back links is to use the “your keyword” Enter YourName@YourKeywords in the Name field to take advantage.” This will locate blogs you can comment on that are dofollow. Hope this helps as well
Thanks so much for the info..it helped so much!!
Very nice information. Thanks for it. – http://www.backlinkplus.com
Nice article guy. I gonna try it right away. Thanks.
i am just a SEO newbie,thanks for your BLOG LINKING STRATEGY and little seoquake.
I started using Google alerts to filter out what I need a while back and its been very helpful since then. I don’t have to look for them in all places like I usually did before that. All I need to do is sort them out by traffic volume and the rest is a breeze.
it will be much better if the comments are dofollow, as affordable seo said,
google for “your keyword” Enter YourName@YourKeywords in the Name field to take advantage”
even though the blog might be pr 0 now, you never know how much it could grow to in the future
I have to try it!
Never thought about it…
thanks for sharing it….
nice article, thank for sharing this information with us
Create great content and post it on your website. When you have great content on your website, you entice other webmasters to share your content on their sites by providing a link back to you
thank , I like it
This article bring the latest technique of link building for me. Great work.
Not sure if this still works as I see the article was written quite some time ago, but I’m trying it now.
Thanks for the post
Google alerts are very useful to see what’s really going on in a market
This sounds like a powerful tip. Have to try it out to see how it goes. Thanks..
great information i am going to start using Google alerts ASAP
Realy useful, I’m always using this tool and the results are immediately apparent.
Thank your for these useful information and for allowing us to put backlinks