Link Building through Blogs

[csmlola]

I heard that blogs can help my sites to get better SERPs. So I've started making some blogs and putting my links on them. Problem is this is such a slow process. Should I continue making blogs?

[etech-racheal]

Yep, blog helps in getting better SERPs. It gives best results if it is done properly. It is important to add fresh & informative content in blog. So when fresh & quality content is added more backlinks are generated. This helps in ranking.

[toprank]

csmlola,

One of the best ways to get links from blogs is to create something worth linking to. Which of course, is the same strategy for a web site. The difference is that blog links are often easier to achieve because of the journal entry style in which they are published and because of trackbacks.

Create a useful tool, write an exceptionally useful or insightful article and ask other bloggers' advice. Be sure to involve social bookmarking with your blog linking strategy. Creating links to your blog(s) will also create links to your web site. This is particularly true if you've made your blog part of your url. Ex: www.domainname.com/blog/. This could then make your RSS feed url something like: www.domainname.com/blog/rss.rdf and each time someone links to your blog or feed, it's a link to your web site.

Be sure to submit your blog to RSS and blog search engines/directories, send a press release or two referencing the blog, and write about and comment on other influential blogs. Always provide value when you comment.

You might also look for opportunities to use your blogging skills on group blogs or on a blog network. Include appropriate links to your site in your blog posts on those other, often more established, blog domains. You can also be a guest blogger on another blog.

There are an amazing number of ways to get links to a blog or to get blog links to your web site that provide value to users, send you traffic and create link popularity. If you emphasize quality, the quantity will come.

[steaua]

toprank you just gave me a great ideea. i never thought making a blog as a domain.tld/blog/ would improve my backlinks, thanks for opening my eyes!

now i'll get to work.

[SEOIndia]

It may be slow, but its an excellent way to get gr8 natural one way link to ur site. So keep at it.

[stokelake]

hi all,

i'm still not sure of the ways to get backlinks from blog. You ideas would be greatly welcomed.

thanks,

j.

[fire_lady]

Making blogs is a long term process.It takes time to have relative results for your sites SERP. IMO if you make it a point that your blog consist of fresh contents then it can easily attract SE and that will also help your site.

[cessai]

I'm also making blogs :)

[rustybrick]

Clean up your signature cessai

[masterofthe]

Yep, blog helps in getting better SERPs. It gives best results if it is done properly. It is important to add fresh & informative content in blog. So when fresh & quality content is added more backlinks are generated. This helps in ranking.

e.r is right about blogs, that really help in achieving high rankings in the SERP's and as an additional info-----you can also try posting comments in other blogs that fall on the same category as you have and providing enormous amounts of backlinks through signatures that you leave each time you make a comment.

[masterofthe]

hi all,

i'm still not sure of the ways to get backlinks from blog. You ideas would be greatly welcomed.

thanks,

j.
Originally Posted by etech-racheal
Yep, blog helps in getting better SERPs. It gives best results if it is done properly. It is important to add fresh & informative content in blog. So when fresh & quality content is added more backlinks are generated. This helps in ranking.

e.r is right about blogs, that really help in achieving high rankings in the SERP's and as an additional info-----you can also try posting comments in other blogs that fall on the same category as you have and providing enormous amounts of backlinks through signatures that you leave each time you make a comment.

[jirada]

masterofthe,

your idea is correct but how long the post will stay on-line? few months?

[hiredesigner]

Yes blogging is one of the way to build links. Even you can post comments on different blogs including your link in it. It will also help

[cessai]

Yes blogging is one of the way to build links. Even you can post comments on different blogs including your link in it. It will also help

i agree with this. you can post comment on other blogs and it will be a big help to you

[jonpaul]

I once thought about building a whole site as a series of blogs.
e.g. a blog published to index.html which would have the links to other blogs.
then each /section would host another blog.

My reasoning was that each blog could be submitted to more relevant directories, and would appear as different sites on blog searches.
eg a sports site may be called sports.co.uk, then with /golf, /football, /cricket as 3 blogs. Then each one could be submitted to different directories.

Is this just another of my mad ideas, or could it work? i.e. would it be better for SEO?

I still use Blogger for my blog. If I could get a wordpress template to match the rest of my site I amy change.... but not sure. Lots of work involved.

Is Wordpress really much better than Blogger for SEO ? (as in wordpress.org hosted on your own domain v's Blogger hosted on you domain).

Cheers,

Jon.

[Zhoog]

I believe it's better to have one quality blog than 10 bad blogs. As long as you have enough time to frequently update each blog you should go for the max. A blog is respected by SE because they usually provide fresh unique content. You could also build one website about sports and add new aticles for each category on a timely basis and search engines will pick up. SE register the update frequency and spider your site more if your update your site more often.

Blogs only have only three advantages:
-the provide rss feeds, allowing easy indexing for google
-allow users to add comments (adding more fresh content)
-are easy to install

Offcourse, if you have the right programming skills, you could implement these features into a normal website aswell. Just make your rss feeds compliant with the standards.

[debram]

Yep, blog helps in getting better SERPs. It gives best results if it is done properly. It is important to add fresh & informative content in blog. So when fresh & quality content is added more backlinks are generated. This helps in ranking.

I wish it were so easy. To be clear - a blog doesn't rank any better by just being a blog, it is subject to the same ranking criteria as a 'regular' website.
You can add content all day but if you don't promote it people won't find it and won't link to it.

As for the links generated through comments - if you think creating quality content is time consuming, you'll find trying to get links through comments even more so.

[jonpaul]

Hi

I understand that, but the what I mean is that if you are going to add all the content anyway, i.e. you have the time and motivation to do so, then would a site made up of 10 blogs (e.g. one for each sport under a sports.com site) be better than a normal website with 10 sections, and the same amount and quality of content? (assuming you do not know how to build a site with rss feeds etc.)

Cheers,

Jon.

[AVWeb]

Hi Jon:

In my opinion, one site properly architected is easier to promote than ten sites.

It takes more effort to get the same mileage, in SEO terms.

However, building ten sites that are properly developed and managed does have the advantage of being more theme oriented; this would make getting targeted, quality, and relevant back links easier.

As always, try to put value for your visitors first.

If you're going to have a sports blog and a fitness blog, perhaps consider feeding these on the same site; but then seperate a blog about international travel ( etc. ).

[Barrynag]

If you mean blog comments, however, those typically have no value. (Are usually nofollowed).

[jonpaul]

I think you misunderstood me.

Imagine I have a site called sports.com

Rather than use a CMS or build using templates etc, I would then set up a series of blogs in subfolders / directories such as:

sports.com/football/
sports.com/tennis/
etc.

Then in each directory there will be a blog published with the same template, same menu header - so to the casual viewer they look just like any other site.

But - as each one is a blog, with its own RSS feeds etc, each one can be listed in Blog directories as stand alone sites, rather than just listing the main domain sports.com

Really it would be using something like BLogger as a content management system.

The templates could all be almost identical, with just different links / sidebar ads etc.

But my initial question was - if this was done, would it be better SEO wise (because it is viewed as many separate blogs within one site) than one "normal" site?

[solidghost]

It should be viewed as one site and not separate right?
Only if you use subdomains.

[masterofthe]

It should be viewed as one site and not separate right?
Only if you use subdomains.

it is not actually a separate site but instead a separate page from the same site i guess.

[Kevin]

I think solidghost is correct here. If you set it up with subdomains such as tennis.sports.com and football.sports.com the search engines would see that as separate sites but if you set it up as sports.com/tennis and sports.com/football it would be viewed as one site with many pages and many RSS feeds on it.

However, the latter might be a good way to get to being an authoritive site and the subdomains might be a way to get listed as a hub.

Either way it could be a good thing in the eyes of the search engines though it you put the time and effort into creating regular related quality content on all the topics.

[seofuture]

- submit blog to blogs directory.
- comments others blogs.
- blog forums.
- my blogblog.
- social bookmarking.
will help your blog to get more visitors and more links

[woodworm]

I heard that blogs can help my sites to get better SERPs. So I've started making some blogs and putting my links on them. Problem is this is such a slow process. Should I continue making blogs?
Yes absolutely!

[DavidWhite]

I heard that blogs can help my sites to get better SERPs. So I've started making some blogs and putting my links on them. Problem is this is such a slow process. Should I continue making blogs?
Please share with me what is your processing to creating blog?

[angeela]

Blog in a natural way..

[jingwen]

Yes,make blog could take you backlinks,you can write some related thing about your site.

[Jam Johnson]

I want to become my blog. Can you have suggestion for this.

[jitendraag]

Blogs are a great way to build links. Your content is fresh, you can network with other bloggers and get more backlinks if you also go for guest posts.

[francis84]

I heard that blogs can help my sites to get better SERPs. So I've started making some blogs and putting my links on them. Problem is this is such a slow process. Should I continue making blogs?

Just make some few blogs that you can regularly maintain and link build. For sure it will boost your traffics once it get rank also in SE plus it will be authoritative sites once its started getting PR.

[John White]

I heard that blogs can help my sites to get better SERPs. So I've started making some blogs and putting my links on them. Problem is this is such a slow process. Should I continue making blogs?
Its a good think to promote your site and share with required persons.

[junosama]

Be careful making a blog network on the SAME ip using the same registration information. Google can tell if you own all the site sand are interlinking them all in an easy to recognize pattern.

Instead buy posts and links on other bogs or make sure your network is invisible to Google and interlink carefully.

[francis84]

Be careful making a blog network on the SAME ip using the same registration information. Google can tell if you own all the site sand are interlinking them all in an easy to recognize pattern.

Instead buy posts and links on other bogs or make sure your network is invisible to Google and interlink carefully.


Can you elaborate more about this?

[Duncan White]

Whats your opinion about sports blog.

[junosama]

Francis I am just trying to say that that Google can tell if you create a big network of blog s and interlink them all to try and boost rankings. You need to be careful doing this on a small scale its prob ok but if you own 50-100 blogs and they are all interlinked you may get penalized.

[jingwen]

Yes,blog is the best way to get backlinks.i think.

[pathmaker]

That is right coz search engines always love blogs especially if it has a good content. But make sure to make it like a real blog and not just a page full of spam links.