Authority Backlinks?

[cristinabarkerjones]

How do you manage to have a comment with your link in it published? I've written about 30-40 comments for the past month and only 4 of them were accepted and eventually published. This means only 10% of all comments I write will be published. I try to read each and every article/blog post I reply to. It's time-consuming and I'm not sure it's worth it for just 10%. What's your experience with authority backlinks? Do you have a secret recipe for finding an authority website that will publish your comment? Do you agree "A single authority link is more valuable than 10 regular links?"

 

[AllUpHere]

What type of business are you tying to promote?

 

[cristinabarkerjones]

Floor sanding services.

 

[AllUpHere]

Are you national or local?

Why have you decided that SEO is the best way to promote your business?

 

[cristinabarkerjones]

It's a local business based in London. SEO is not the only way to promote our business, but it's hard to do business when you don't show on the front page of Google's SERP.

 

[StevePoster]

Blog Commenting is really time consuming and I would like to suggest to redirect your attention in other methods such as content marketing and infographics.

 

[DexSmart]

It's one method that it's good bot because of the backlink you get because at the end most of the blogs turned to nofollow, but on the other hand blog owners will notice your activity and offer you opportunities to become editor add content and eventually win something!

 

[fisicx]

How do you manage to have a comment with your link in it published?

With great difficulty.

People will publish your comment if it adds value. A link in your comment sould more like self promotion than adding to the discussion. In any case, the link will probably be no-follow which means Gogole will just ignore it anyway.

Blog comments are not authority links. An authority link would be one on an article about foor refurbishment on a site about house rennovations. So to answer your question, it's not worth commenting if your primary aim is to get a link. Comment because you have something to say and if people like your comment they will click on your username and go to your site.

 

[Toni Anicic]

If you're commenting just for the sake of the link, you can probably stop with it right now because it's very unlikely that will get you anywhere. As some of the good mates above me already wrote, almost all of the comment links have rel=nofollow nowadays and you won't see much SEO benefit from it.

You should however continue commenting if that's your way of connecting with the industry and getting your name out there. It might also get you some traffic.

 

[cristinabarkerjones]

Blog Commenting is really time consuming and I would like to suggest to redirect your attention in other methods such as content marketing and infographics.

We have already optimised the content on our website. There are about 1000 unique words on the home page that have keywords inserted, but no keywords stuffing. We have also optimised the inner pages, but the website is not ranking....
P.S. We have created an infographic, too.

 

[fisicx]

We have already optimised the content on our website.

No you haven't. There are loads more things you can do on the site. The gallery for example hasn't had any optimization carried out.

Join the forum as a full member and you can get a review of the site. Apart from the lack of optimisation there are all sorts of issues with the theme, navigation, calls to action, responsiveness, plugins....

Fix the site and you won't need to ever do any blog commenting again.

 

[cristinabarkerjones]

What are you talking about?! The images in the gallery page have alt attributes, they load fast because of the files size, the files names are ok. What is wrong with the gallery?

 

[fisicx]

No captions, no descriptions, no categorisation, no locations, no links to testimonials, no links to project pages and the images don't resize to fit on the page.

 

[AllUpHere]

Add to that the fact that you have tried so hard to optimise the site for Google that you have knackered it as far as converting sales goes.

 

[cristinabarkerjones]

No captions, no descriptions, no categorisation, no locations, no links to testimonials, no links to project pages and the images don't resize to fit on the page.

Thank you for your suggestions. I will see what I can do about it.

 

[fisicx]

You can't just do that one page in isolation - the whole site needs reorganising. And you need to change the theme - the one you are using squished the content into a tiny area on the screen.

 

[cristinabarkerjones]

You can't just do that one page in isolation - the whole site needs reorganising. And you need to change the theme - the one you are using squished the content into a tiny area on the screen.

The IT department is already working on the problem.

 

[fisicx]

Christina,

You are missing the point. Each time you fiddle with the site you think you are improving things. In reality you just make it worse. Go back to basics a decide what you want the site to acheive and build from that. The site has totally lost its way. Don't touch the theme until you have done a lot more research.

 

[getincomesmart]

Hey Cristina,

This is what I would advise you do to improve your SEO, I myself am doing a lot of this with my websites:

• Create a blog on a subdirectory of your domain using Wordpress and the Yoast SEO Plugin
• Write high quality articles about topics your business is to do with
• Promote your articles on social media, social bookmarking and community driven content websites such as Squidoo and Slideshare
• Either spin your articles or hire cheap internet writers to create other relevant articles and post them on article marketing sharing websites like Squidoo and include backlinks to your main site
• Create 3 small NICHE websites on .wordpress.com about relevant topics each with at least 5-10 articles and then use those for backlinks to your main site
• Use Squidoo and other for backlinks to your niche websites

Also get the Yoast Local SEO plugin which will make it much easier to rank for local search results for your business

If you want to know more about SEO, I will be writing about it on my blog (PM me for link just joined so can't post links)

I'd be happy to answer any of your questions

 

[fisicx]

^^^ Do not do any of this. It is bad, bad, bad advice.

 

[getincomesmart]

^^^ Do not do any of this. It is bad, bad, bad advice.

Hey,

Just wondering why you thought that was bad advice? These are normal SEO techniques done by the internet marketing greats such as Pat Flynn.

I'm always open to better things - so if you know a better way, I'm more than happy to hear it.

Thanks

 

[fisicx]

Pat who? Unless he is well known for ranking competitive site at the top of Google his advice is worthless.

The techniques he advocates have been thrown out by Google. If you want to rank well you need high quality content with content that adds value, great internal navigation, full contact information and citations (reviews and referrals).

 

[getincomesmart]

Pat who? Unless he is well known for ranking competitive site at the top of Google his advice is worthless.

The techniques he advocates have been thrown out by Google. If you want to rank well you need high quality content with content that adds value, great internal navigation, full contact information and citations (reviews and referrals).

Actually he is EXTREMELY well known for ranking competitive sites at the top of Google.
Check out his site at smartpassiveincome .com (can't post links yet)

His blog is pretty much the most popular in internet marketing and his network of websites: main blog, niche websites etc. net him around 80k a month. He is well known for being totally transparent, publishing all of his business revenues, profits and expenses ever since he started the blog (so you can see the history of everything for the last few years)

I suggest you check out his site, all of his stuff ranks really highly - number 1 and front page.
His podcast is even like number 5 in the business section of itunes.

Lol I didn't mean to fanboy out there - but I'd recommend checking out his site there is lots of helpful information there. Check out "Niche Site Duel" both v1 and v2 which is the main SEO content he does.

Also I 100% agree that high quality content is the most important thing which is why I put that as number 1 in my list of things to do (excluding using wordpress) - all of those other things I said were to just support that high quality content.

 

[Toni Anicic]

Regarding the 80k snake oil salesman... kids, don't believe everything you read on the internet.

 

[Annoying Donkey]

If Pat Flynn's income statements where false, I'd think he'd come to the attention of the FTC. If anyone thinks they're false, do explain why...

So do you listen to someone employed, on a salary, of maybe £40k max, who's trying to sell their expertise to business owners. Or do you listen to someone who's making a load of money for themselves...

And no, I'm not a Pat Flynn fan boy. I don't agree with some of his advice, but it does seem to be working for him...

 

[greyheart]

^^^ Do not do any of this. It is bad, bad, bad advice.

Totally agree, with the caveat of the following not being bad.... (just not spinning them and using squido).

• Write high quality articles about topics your business is to do with

 

[drdialeruk]

Authority BackLinks is the premier service for buying and selling text links online. Our proprietary link management software allows both advertisers and publishers to manage their text link sales and purchases from a simple online control panel.

 

[plumbingpassion]

Your business is Floor sanding services and it is local, I would suggest you to do submit your business profile on third party local listing sites and also get reviews from your past clients and it will very effectively for your local business.

 

[cristinabarkerjones]

^^^ Do not do any of this. It is bad, bad, bad advice.

How can creating a blog with unique content be bad for your website?!?!?!

 

[cristinabarkerjones]

Your business is Floor sanding services and it is local, I would suggest you to do submit your business profile on third party local listing sites and also get reviews from your past clients and it will very effectively for your local business.

We have already listed our website into some local directories. Unfortunately, we have to wait for at least a month for most of them to be approved and to appear on the Internet. However, I do believe this is a very good strategy and we only need time. Thank you!

 

[CoolHandCol]

Hi Cristina - bet you feel bombarded with advice! Here's what I think are a few important things:-
You have "floor sanding" way too many times in your content, header tags and meta tags. It is over optimised. Also, are you only targeting one keyword?
You have less than 100 backlinks from only 9 different domains. Your competitors have more quality links and their domain ages are older (yours is only 6 months)
You don't have a blog or other page on your website to publish fresh content - Google loves regular fresh content.
There's plenty there to keep you going - and they are all really important

 

[LizzieThomson]

Christina,

You are missing the point. Each time you fiddle with the site you think you are improving things. In reality you just make it worse. Go back to basics a decide what you want the site to acheive and build from that. The site has totally lost its way. Don't touch the theme until you have done a lot more research.

Firstly,
Blog commenting is not at all a good back link strategy.
Many blog commenting systems in today's day and age operate a "no follow" tag, as blog commenting was heavily abused by spammers, using it to gain nothing but back links.

Unless your goal is to gain advice or direction or communicate with the author regarding the article, blog commenting is not a productive way to try and gain back links in today's day and age.

In regards to your site,
you need to far less focused on off page SEO,
and understand and implement correct on page SEO.

Focusing on nothing but the search engines and back links,
you've missed many vital aspects of a user friendly site.

There's a couple of free tools that will guide you in how well your site is rendered,
but again this is in the eyes of a search engine which don't get me wrong is important.
I'm not going to add them as this again should not be your area of focus with the site as its stands.

You need to make the site user friendly first
Don't try and run before you can walk. Look at the time wasted already.

Get back to basics as advised,
start with a more suitable theme, and focus each page on a topic, then conduct correct keyword research. Following on from that you need to create quality, unique content that's SEO keyword written along with a user friendly site linking structure that's easy to follow.

There's no point continuing and adding to the site.
It would be far easier for you to take a step back and start again,
focusing heavily on a good theme, keyword research, quality targeted content as per newly assessed and converting keywords and implement good site structure.

In doing that and keeping your users in mind,
you will also fair well in the eyes of the search engines.

 

[fisicx]

You don't have a blog or other page on your website to publish fresh content - Google loves regular fresh content.

No, Google loves relevant, informative, accurate, value adding content. Google doesn't care if it fresh or not. In fact old content on an established and reputable site is pure gold.

 

[zigojacko]

Good to see the threads in the SEO forum are still riddled with so much useless advice, spammy recommendations and absolute BS like they were 12 months ago.

Hats off to @fisicx for 'keeping it real'.

 

[fisicx]

How can creating a blog with unique content be bad for your website?!?!?!

Because unless the content is stuff people are searching for and want to read it's a pointless exercise. You sand and polish floors. People will see your adverts or find you on a search engine and visit your site because they want their floors sanding. They don't want to read your blog.

We have a parquet floor need sanding and polishing. You may well be ideally suited to do the job but after looking the site I have no idea where you are located or if you can do the job. All the backlinks in the worth (authority or not) aren't going to drum up new business until you fix the site.

 

[mediaguy35]

Do create your own blog!! Put your own content on it, it will get indexed by every major search engine. Keep it targeted and advice tips.articles should be about your expertise.

Actually its best to make your blog a separate resource eg: you can easily categorise content sections, add tags, useful links, images and video - all without messing with your own site. Blogs can start at about £200ish for a basic blog functionality.

We are at the stage now where people are wanting to place articles for cash. £20 here and there for doing nothing at all, and that's how you know if the blog is good. We aren't serious bloggers, and are just playing at the blogging game for now, but it shows what some decent content can do.

Its worth getting serious providing you have that idea, and the time needed to devote to a blog. We didn't believe people would pay to get on a blog, never mind ours, but it works.

 

[trueledgrowlights]

You have commented in 30 40 sites and 10% are live it means those were active user and see regular to there website and other were not see there website regularly if they see your comment later and like it they will approve your comment too. wait until they see. It take some time!

Hope this helps you! fisicx

 

[SEO Lady]

Hey Cristina,

This is what I would advise you do to improve your SEO, I myself am doing a lot of this with my websites:

• Create a blog on a subdirectory of your domain using Wordpress and the Yoast SEO Plugin
• Write high quality articles about topics your business is to do with
• Promote your articles on social media, social bookmarking and community driven content websites such as Squidoo and Slideshare
• Either spin your articles or hire cheap internet writers to create other relevant articles and post them on article marketing sharing websites like Squidoo and include backlinks to your main site
• Create 3 small NICHE websites on .wordpress.com about relevant topics each with at least 5-10 articles and then use those for backlinks to your main site
• Use Squidoo and other for backlinks to your niche websites

Also get the Yoast Local SEO plugin which will make it much easier to rank for local search results for your business

If you want to know more about SEO, I will be writing about it on my blog (PM me for link just joined so can't post links)

I'd be happy to answer any of your questions

This is shocking advice, I'm surprised the mods have not removed this post. It should be titled "How To Damage Your Website And Waste Your Time"

Additionally - Christina, blog commenting is a total waste of time and resources in my eyes. I've never met anyone who can attribute success in either conversions or SERPS by using this method.

I'm curious to fund out why you think it's good and what convinced you to start doing this? Was this an article you read on the internet or advice from an SEO company?

 

[cristinabarkerjones]

I'm curious to fund out why you think it's good and what convinced you to start doing this? Was this an article you read on the internet or advice from an SEO company?

It's a controversial SEO tactic. Many people believe it works. What free backlinks do you suggest as good ones?

 

[fisicx]

It's not controversial, it's just daft. It may work for a few weeks until google catches up and throws your site out the index.

There are all sorts of good SEO techniques, but the people who have found them keep them secret. That's how they make their money.

Your problem isn't SEO, it's the site. Fix the site and you won't need any backlinks.