SEO Backlinks

[Heliosenergy]

I'm new to managing and maintaining a website. I need to increase the traffic to my site. I know alot of this is down to the content on the site and keywords. But has anyone got any tips for developing backlinks and ways to increase number of links to my site.
Thank you,

 

[Will_Authentic_Style]

It's all about developing a content marketing strategy. Unfortunately it's not so easy these days to just stuff a page full of keywords.

Sure, page titles, key phrases, heading tags all play an important role, but these days it is more about creating high value content and being consistent doing so.

I would ensure that your website has a blog and focus on creating content that is of extremely high value to your target market. Creating great content will build their trust in you and encourage social sharing. Also consider writing a short guide or eBook and give that away on your website in exchange for the visitors email address.

Once you've created the content you need to get out there (on social media) and promote it too. Possibly even contact a few other blogs / websites / individuals whose readership will also benefit from your content and see if they might promote it / link to it.

 

[Heliosenergy]

Thanks Will this is very helpful.

 

[Will_Authentic_Style]

You're welcome. Let me know if you need any more help / ideas.

 

[stevebrownlie]

ON top of doing some outreach as Will suggests to blogs etc to share your new content, remember to keep a note of any interesting stories that come up either in your business or in the press that you can comment on. Getting out there in the press is another great way to build your business authority up (and get some links from journalists!).

 

[boring-friday]

stage 1:
web 2.0s-10-30 depending on keyword difficulty,use naked urls/lsi keywords if hard keyword,exact match if easy as you won't need stronger links. Let them age for a month
blog comments-2-5 per day(for diversity,use naked urls/brand)
social bookmarks-2-5 per day(for diversity,use naked urls/brand)
article submission-2-5 per day (for diversity,use naked urls/brand)
social network-as many as u can get.

Wait a week or so, see where you rank

stage 2:

power up your web 2.0s, I use gsa for this, I build around 500 contextual links to each web 2.0s, if your keywords are bouncing around/moving up i leave it, if not i hit with 1000s of tier 3 links.

wait a while and see where you rank.

stage 3:

profile links, sites like amazon etc that let you put a link in your profile, brand or naked url anchor text, i make 10-20 of these all dofollow.
I smash these with links again, 1000+ links per profile, I use gsa again for this and gsa or scrapebox for tier 3 to them. These are powerful, just a shame they're mostly naked urls

wait a while and see where you rank

stage 4:

if my keyword is 2nd page or above I repeat stages 1-3 if not I move on to url shortners. I make 1 to my main site and share it on social media and then make 3-4 to each of my web 2.0s. Again these get smashed with links from gsa.

stage 5:

301 redirects, I reregister expired domains with good metrics and redirect a couple to my money site url

stage 6:

if you aren't ranking by now your keyword is atleast a 7/10 for difficult. I now use expired domains again and start building a blog network, i make each 10-15 pages and put 3 links on it, 1 to my money site,1 to a random info site and 1 to a competitor to look natural.

stage 7:

sape, I buy 10-20 high quality sape links to my money site and sometimes 1-300 more spammy types to the web 2.0s

stage 8:

repeat the above

 

[FD Analytical Accountants]

Some fantastic ideas and advice, really useful, thanks !

 

[Heliosenergy]

Thanks for the help guys some great ideas to help my website

 

[Mattk1983]

stage 1:
web 2.0s-10-30 depending on keyword difficulty,use naked urls/lsi keywords if hard keyword,exact match if easy as you won't need stronger links. Let them age for a month
blog comments-2-5 per day(for diversity,use naked urls/brand)
social bookmarks-2-5 per day(for diversity,use naked urls/brand)
article submission-2-5 per day (for diversity,use naked urls/brand)
social network-as many as u can get.

Wait a week or so, see where you rank

stage 2:

power up your web 2.0s, I use gsa for this, I build around 500 contextual links to each web 2.0s, if your keywords are bouncing around/moving up i leave it, if not i hit with 1000s of tier 3 links.

wait a while and see where you rank.

stage 3:

profile links, sites like amazon etc that let you put a link in your profile, brand or naked url anchor text, i make 10-20 of these all dofollow.
I smash these with links again, 1000+ links per profile, I use gsa again for this and gsa or scrapebox for tier 3 to them. These are powerful, just a shame they're mostly naked urls

wait a while and see where you rank

stage 4:

if my keyword is 2nd page or above I repeat stages 1-3 if not I move on to url shortners. I make 1 to my main site and share it on social media and then make 3-4 to each of my web 2.0s. Again these get smashed with links from gsa.

stage 5:

301 redirects, I reregister expired domains with good metrics and redirect a couple to my money site url

stage 6:

if you aren't ranking by now your keyword is atleast a 7/10 for difficult. I now use expired domains again and start building a blog network, i make each 10-15 pages and put 3 links on it, 1 to my money site,1 to a random info site and 1 to a competitor to look natural.

stage 7:

sape, I buy 10-20 high quality sape links to my money site and sometimes 1-300 more spammy types to the web 2.0s

stage 8:

repeat the above

I don't know what any of that means... But I didn't see the use of the word "content" once

 

[boring-friday]

lol I'd suggest you learn then, first few steps are cheap and basically white hat. And thats because the question was on links, my content is good as standard. I don't do this:

'hi sir, love ur blog, plz let me write a post for a link'

I mostly do e commerce so I either send them something for free or if its a proper site trying to make money I offer ££

 

[Mattk1983]

"Basically white"

Maybe a beige or a magnolia then

 

[Marcus Allen]

Had to laugh about didn't see any content. Also it was a bit wishy washy about content. But it is a very valid strategy. don't post and hope. post and outreach. Use the skyscraper technique google it as I can't link. To be honest outreach is more of a numbers game. think you're going to get a 10% success rate for actual links and shares

outreach to 150-200 blog owner get 10% links. don't ask for marriage right away e.g. link maybe for a drink 1st e.g. share or tweet. then they might take you to be if you have created great content.

Or you could be a little more grey and not spammy and have a niche blog network explained by Backlinko in his SEO course. depends what you have more of time or money. more time implement. more money get someone else to.

 

[StevePoster]

I'm new to managing and maintaining a website. I need to increase the traffic to my site.

Try to observe your targeted audience because this will be one of the most important method to take before implementing the campaign to the users.

 

[Audrey Wright]

I don't know what any of that means... But I didn't see the use of the word "content" once

That's because there is little to none content involved in this strategy. It's called Tiered Link building.
Essentially it's the following:
You build lets say 10 super quality links to your site. Those are editorial links that you can't get through simply registering somewhere and editing your profile, you need to negotiate them with publishers, bloggers, press, etc. Let's call these Tier 1.

Then, you build 100 less quality links to each Tier 1 page. Those are profile links, blog comment links, forum links, directory submission, bookmark, web2.0, etc. Generally any kind of link you can obtain by yourself. There are Tier 2.

Finally, you get an automation software, like Scrapebox and you build 1000s or even 10 000s of links to your Tier 2 pages.

You can go as deep as you want, but I've almost never build Tier 4 links and beyond. In my experience, Tier 3 is enough.

This strategy was developed when Google started banning and blacklisting link spam. Each Tier passes value to a more quality type of links and strengthens the chain in the direction of your site. In the end your site is linked from super quality pages, which are powered by (in the end) hundreds of thousands of links from all corners of the internet.

It's still spam, but this one is far less likely to get you banned.
P.S. numbers are just for ease of use.

 

[searchangel]

Guessing OP's business is renewable energy - that's a tough one as it's not exactly the most interesting of subjects.

Look to hiring a freelance journalist with industry connections, and ask for a weekly blog post about the world of RE.They are fairly cheap and it's much easier to attract links from their content.

 

[Audrey Wright]

Actually, renewable energy is one of the most interesting things BECAUSE you can create content about environmental issues. And you know how hot is that right now. Also, environmental activists will do a lot of social work for you. So, yeah, compare that to cleaning and tell me again how boring is it

 

[markrobin]

I am working in a <keyworded link removed> and we also focus on increasing client’s website traffic. For this we focus on authentic back linking that helps to increase your website traffic instantly. For this you need to find good link building techniques like social media optimization create your more business services profile and share with your customers.

 

[HazelC]

Having a blog on your website is a great idea and can really help SEO wise as long as it is fresh and engaging. A way to get traffic to your blog and website is guest blogging which may be worth considering? This can be very worthwhile.

Are you using social media? Use it to link back to your website and blog posts. And don't forget that just because you have shared a link to a blog post once on Twitter it doesn't mean everyone saw that tweet so share blog posts more than once

I use Hootsuite to schedule posts on social media - I then check Google Analytics to check I am getting leads to my website from social media and to see which blog posts are most read / looked for / found?

Hope that helps?

 

[halldaniel454]

do follow site select & quality work . . .
many way to increasing web traffic one of : Firstly, a disclaimer – don’t spam Reddit and other similar sites hoping to “hit the jackpot” of referral traffic, because it’s not going to happen. Members of communities like Reddit are extraordinarily savvy to spam disguised as legitimate links, but every now and again, it doesn’t hurt to submit links that these audiences will find genuinely useful. Choose a relevant subreddit, submit your content, then watch the traffic pour in.

 

[Audrey Wright]

Reddit, is actually one of the most powerful platforms to generate traffic. If you try to just get a link in reddit, the users will bash you to the ground.

Most reddit users are computer and internet savvy, and on average, above average intelligent. So, they will catch you if you try to abuse their website. However, if you have something legitimate that a given sub-reddit will appreciate, reddit can generate 10 000s of visits before you go to bed.

Problem with reddit is bounce rate. Redditors are clicking on links with their left hand on ctrl + w. On average, you will receive 90% + bouce rate on all your visits. So, don't count on reddit traffic to bring you too much leads for your business.

Still, it's worth, as it only takes a minute to post and if all that traffic converts a few visits into leads - great.

 

[exom_expert]

Write blog articles and post it on a third party sites
Add links to different catalogs
Have a link in your signature and post useful content on forums
And there are some sites which can charge you for adding a link there

 

[Deleted member 252819]

Audrey and Marcus: thanks for the great insight you've posted on this thread. Lots of new ideas to consider as we move our business forward.

 

[Tony Balthazar]

Being real -
Looking at your website - I'm assuming the business site is brand new.

I'm assuming the terms online SEO and off-site SEO aren't terms you are too familiar with. However that's the main goal as I see it, then you can start to see some organic traffic.

 

[aleks-dlm]

you need to pay more attention to link building techniques and content distibtution. Press releases is good way to get more traffic. i would use fiverr, it's possible to find good links there for cheap.