What are your thoughts on this as an SEO technique?

[SFD]

I saw this on another forum and was fairly intrigued.

The idea is building information pages on sites such as squidoo, hubpages etc and linking them back to your site. Then promoting each hubpage with various social bookmarking tools.

This picture shows it better:

I thought it sounded like a good idea as all link will be in context and you can get a good selection of deep links.

What are peoples thoughts on this technique?

 

[Ali-v-8]

its the same as a linking structure but on a website scale.

 

[fisicx]

The hours you spend doing this to gain a tiny advantage would be better spent generating qualified traffic. Not saying don't do it, it's just that the ROI is not going to be great.

 

[SFD]

Yes but in an 'average' linking structure there are links to several, if not hundreds of other possibly related sites.

Would it not seem strange if there were no external links other than to your site?

@fisicx - How about it as purely a source of relevant backlinks to improve serps, rather than bring in traffic?

 

[Ali-v-8]

Yes but in an 'average' linking structure there are links to several, if not hundreds of other possibly related sites.

Would it not seem strange if there were no external links other than to your site?

@fisicx - How about it as purely a source of relevant backlinks to improve serps, rather than bring in traffic?

The idea of a linking structure is to collate more information and associate it to your home page.

 

[SFD]

The idea of a linking structure is to collate more information and associate it to your home page.

You're getting more like Earl everyday with your mystic one line responses which don't show commitment to either a positive or negative answer

 

[Galway]

I would be concerned that many of the resources may 'no follow' links and this could hamper your plan, I always favour a balanced approach to linking, a bit of everything rather than a reliance on one aspect.

Your approach should be integrated to other standard linking techniques, some designed purely for link popularity and some designed to build social profile and provide visitors.

I have seen many sites base too much effort on one type of activity and then one day Google adjusts something and the sites dissapear for months.

 

[SFD]

I have quite a decent selection of relevant links.

I'm competing for local tradesmen terms e.g builder birmingham

I'm currently ranking on the bottom half of the first page for most terms but need to get to the top as the traffic amount is very small.

My link profile is a lot better than the competitions and so is my content, however some of their sites have been up since 1998 whereas mine has been up since April.

I can see why Google is favouring as site which has been up for 11 years rather than 3 months but just looking to nudge up another couple of positions and thought this may help.

 

[david64]

I can see why Google is favouring as site which has been up for 11 years rather than 3 months but just looking to nudge up another couple of positions and thought this may help.

I think the age is the problem with the site in question. These is a lot of debate about the affect of age in rankings. I certainly think that if you get a lot of good links you can offset the domain age factor, but I quite often see it.

For example, I made a site in Feb. 2007 on a brand new domain and acquired some good links for it, which took it to a PR4. The links were all just the company name and there were no other links. Over the next year the site slowly rose up the SERPs, every 3 months until after 1 year when it got to page 3. Have seen similar things numerous times. In the first 3 months in particular, new domains will struggle to come up and seems to diminish over 3 month periods.

As for that diagram you have posted above. There are quite a few people doing that kind of thing; generally for thin aff sites.

 

[SFD]

Yeah I found it over on DP. While I wasn't interested in handing over $250 for someone to do this for me I was interested in the concept.

The sites that are ranking first for some of the terms have literally a couple of general links and about 500 words across 5 pages.

I think it will continue to move up on it's own just doing the same stuff.

 

[fisicx]

@fisicx - How about it as purely a source of relevant backlinks to improve serps, rather than bring in traffic?

That's the only reason I can think of for doing this, but as I suggested because these links are relatively easy to get their value will be low meaning youwould need hundreds of them to make any real impact. On the other hand, a little bit of optimisation for the longtail could easily bring you in lots of qualified traffic which will make you more money than being #1 for 'builder birmingham' which a phrase I'd use if I wanted an extension or loft conversion.

By focussing on specific keywords you could easily be losing out on a lot of high converting traffic.

 

[Neyl]

The single most effective way to get your site to the top of the listing is to update the content regularly (Yes, the longevity of a site is a factor, but freguency of update trumps pretty much everything). The sites that are coming in above yours.. research their web presence paying attention to the frequency of their update activity. What changes and how often. This is the best place to devote your effort.. and the visitors to your site will appreciate it too, so win-win. Oh - er and that's genuine updates - playing silly beggars cos it's hard work and you want an easy fix will get you black-listed. Hope that helps.

 

[Ali-v-8]

You're getting more like Earl everyday with your mystic one line responses which don't show commitment to either a positive or negative answer

i think its a great technique and yes i would use it.
i didnt mean to be vague or mysical. i'll leave that to morgan freeman aka earl

 

[TheSlackers]

What I don't understand from the image is what you'd promote the sites linking to you, rather than just promoting your own site directly? Seems a bit round the houses to me :| You're losing the power of each link by going through another page and efectively you now have 10 sites to promote rather than one. I don't see any benifit in doing that.

 

[david64]

What I don't understand from the image is what you'd promote the sites linking to you, rather than just promoting your own site directly? Seems a bit round the houses to me :| You're losing the power of each link by going through another page and efectively you now have 10 sites to promote rather than one. I don't see any benifit in doing that.

This is a technique that is often used to get links for thin aff sites. All the "promotion" of these sites would probably consist of automatic link spam like XRumer. It's just a way people use to create artificial link profiles.

 

[LBtrading]

The technique is an old technique that has been given a new name, in the affiliate marketing forums you will see everyone going on about the "link wheel" which was a free report about using this technique and since then alot of hype and services have sprung up offering this service,

Now first of all this is definately nothing new, it is simply parasite hosting for a site network and has been around ever since you could "buy viagra" online lol.

This technique definately works but I wouldnt advise interlinking each page and also linking to your main site but I would recommend writing content on each of those with in-context links back to your main site and then doing some social bookmarks to each page simply to get the indexed.

Im not going to have the discussion of morals or hats here, and there are definately ways to do this technique efficiently and also better more discreet linking schemes.

Everyone on forums bangs on about relevent quality links etc and this is an easy way to get them, you could take it a few steps further buy building a decent link profile around each of the pages to make your main websites link profile highly relevent but it is a lot of work.

Technique works, I use a simular technique but more spammy because im lazy and immoral so I use a spinner to create content for about 20 of these pages and then use tools to automatically build a few links to them to simply get them indexed.