ddbyte

Hi Everyone

This is my first post here, I've been lurking and reading WF for a long time, learnt so much and tried some methods posted here and others that i've found online. I've read ebooks, watched videos, tried affiliate marketing, adsense, etc. I've built some sites, made trickles of cash with adsense, got banned after my first cheque (i.e. no payout), then started to try to build some better sites and to eventually get decent traffic so I can monetize them.

I have a few websites, some database sites, some keyword MFA sites, etc. that I am trying to rank for certain keywords. I've used software and did some random link building methods, but my few sites don't rank great. I have 1 on page one, 2 in top 100 and a few more that are.

My question is, what is the most effective link building I can do for free. I've automated some wordpress.com, blogger blogs and free hosting sites to get some links, but i am yet to see the effect. Should I keep doing this and just make more sites, or should I do some other things like social bookmarking, article submissions, etc.

What are your top few most effective free link building techniques?

Thanks in advance

1yerrot

It sounds like you're doing pretty well already, you just have to have more patience these days, things aren't as easy anymore. Guest blogging on other major blogs is free and can help with direct traffic and give you good links.

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ddbyte

Well not really hey. Im getting almost zero traffic and not really ranking for anything... so I must be doing something wrong, because its bean ages already. I've done some blog commenting using free software but those links don't have any effect because there are like another 1000 other people doing the same thing for most pages. When you say major blogs do you mean manual comments on other people's blog's or do u mean sites like wordpress.com?

littlefeather

With blog commenting, I think you have to do a lot of it because it can be a numbers game. Guest blogging is a different situation. If the blog gets a good amount of traffic, you can get a nice link benefit.

froz12

The best link building technique is to distribute articles through directories but more important through blog networks..It simply mean to write articles and submit them to directories and blog networks to gain the maximum exposure of your articles, your articles will have your backlinks and must be rewritten or spun so each new page will have different unique content..

sukhasanthi

I am also agree with this.

TryAMillion

Google ranks you based on the theme of the page the link is coming from - blowjobs and cumshots to red green blue widgets wouldn't benefit you much.

However I suggest if the domain is for testing, try it, but don't if it is a domain you care about.

manikoheart

Blog commenting is so far the best. Using question an answer sites is also effective but you must be so careful with this as they have strict rules in posting links.

You can also try the power of Google and see how effective they can work for you. Use SEO to get traffic.

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Tobias Funke

Guest blogging and blog commenting are two different things.

When you are blog commenting you are commenting on a person's blog such as, "Hey, nice post!", and when you are Guest blogging you are contacting the blog owner and asking if you could write a post for them to add to their blog.

This benefits both of you because they get free content and you get to place a link to your own site which will give you a quality link, but can also bring in visitors from the blog you wrote a guest post for.

Tobias Funke

Besides manual blog commenting you can build some web 2.0s, and while you are at it submit to some auto-approve article directories.

Go and find Spinner Chief (a free spinner) and spin an article to a good percentage. Now you can build tons of web 2.0s (which you will link to your site) and you can also submit to some auto-approve article directories. Make sure they are auto-approve, otherwise they will not accept the spun garbage.

ddbyte

Thanks everyone for all the advice.

I have been doing a bit of web 2.0 and posts on free blog sites, but I'll ramp it up now to try to get more links. I will look into article directories also and try to push some spun content... I should find a list of auto-approve sites though, will do a search on here now.

What is semrun, never heard of it before and googling it only turns up some random seo company.

Someone mentioned twitter, but I noticed the urls in tweets are shortened, does this matter? Will google still pick it up and index the actual page?

Tobias Funke

Also try to get links to those Web 2.0s to make them look natural.

Timoland

Maybe give this a try: SocialMonkee - Your Instant Backlink Builder!