Today I’m going to show you a fast way to build one-way backlinks which is part of my Back Link Bible and one of many backlink tricks you’ll learn from this Secret SEO Guide.
(Note this post was originally published in May, 2010.)
The Recipe
There are many ways to get backlinks to your site. A few methods are worth your time. And many are not worth your time.
I am going to give you a recipe for getting massive amounts of backlinks in a very short amount of time. This is a recipe that is used by the gurus to get tons of traffic.
It is vitally important that you complete each step of the recipe.
Here is the recipe to follow:
- Quick & Dirty Search Engine Optimization
- Social Bookmarking Made Easy
- Become A Top Commenter On Blogs
- Social Bookmark The Blogs
- More Ideas
- Consider Outsourcing
Each step of the recipe has its own section.
Quick & Dirty Search Engine Optimization
Before I get into building backlinks I want to say a quick word about search engine optimization. Optimizing your site will greatly increase the effectiveness of your backlink building efforts.
Keywords in domain
You must make sure that your keywords are in your domain.
For example if your site is about poodle manicures then ideally your site would be PoodleMaincures.com or Poodle-Maincures.com
Keywords in title tags
You must make sure that your keywords are in your title tags.
For example if your site is about poodle manicures then your title tags would look something like:
<title>Poodle Manicures</h3>
Keywords in h1 tags
You must make sure that your keywords are in your h1 tags.
For example if your site is about poodle manicures then your h1 tags would look something like:
<h1>Poodle Manicures</h1>
These are the basic things I recommend. To learn more about search engine optimization go to:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/329_search-engine-optimization-and-keywords/
Social Bookmarking Made Easy
This is the hardest step in the whole process but it well worth your time.
Get Firefox
First you need to use the Firefox web browser. We’ll be using some of the plugins for Firefox to get traffic.
Download Firefox:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
The Power of OnlyWire
Onlywire is a free service that allows you submit your site to 30 social bookmarking sites with a click of a button.
Right now the social bookmarking sites OnlyWire will submit to are:
- Ask
- Bebo
- Bibsonomy
- Blinklist
- BookmarkSync
- Connotea
- del.icio.us
- Digg
- Diigo
- Faves
- Google Bookmarks
- Jumptags
- Linkatopia
- Mister Wong
- Mixx
- Multiply
- MySpace
- Newsvine
- Plaxo
- Propeller
- Simpy
- Slashdot
- Spurl
- Stumbleupon
- Technorati
- Tumblr
- Yahoo Bookmarks
I made a quick video covering OnlyWire:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/1570_video-social-bookmarking-made-easy/
Signup for OnlyWire:
http://www.onlywire.com
Become A Top Commenter On Blogs
The basic idea
The basic idea is to find blogs that have the “Top Commentator” widget installed.
For example the blog QuickSprout ( http://www.quicksprout.com ) has this widget installed and you can see it on the right side of the main page:
The people with the most comments on the blog are rewarded with a link back to their own site.
Looking at the list above you can see that Prostate Problems (8) has placed 8 comments and gets a free backlink.
The best part is this widget is shown on every page of the blog. So every page of this blog has a backlink to Prostate Problems.
But many pages does this blog have?
We can get a count by going to Google and searching for:
site:quicksprout.com
This blog has 193 pages!
If you’re one of the top commenters of this site then your backlink appears on 193 pages. How cool is that?
A Quick Word About NoFollow
There has recently been a lot of discussion about NoFollow and if it really matters.
(For an explanation of NoFollow and why it is important to go to:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/1168_why-nofollow-matters-and-how-to-find-blogs-that-dont-use-it/ )
Personally, I think the jury is still out on this. At this point I recommend becoming the top commentator only on blogs that do not use NoFollow. It certainly will not hurt you.
How to find these blogs
The toughest part of all of this is finding blogs with the top commentator widget and that are DoFollow.
I spent several hours doing this and created a list of 30+blogs that have the top commentator widget and that are DoFollow and put the list at the bottom of this blog post.
Social Bookmark The Blogs
Once you are one of the top commentators on a blog your backlink will be on every one of their pages.
Now you want the search engines to take notice.
To do this you simply submit the blog’s home page or newest blog post to social bookmarking sites using OnlyWire. This should take about a minute of your time.
More Ideas
Another way to get a blog noticed by the search engine is to make a blogspot blog and on it link to all the blogs that now have backlinks to your site.
Next submit the BlogSpot blog to OnlyWire.
Example
Let’s say you have a site called PoodleManicures.com and you have become the top commentator on blogs alpha.com and beta.com.
You go to BlogSpot and signup for a free blog.
To help the search engines index blogs alpha.com and beta.com (and see your backlinks) you place links to alpha.com and beta.com on your BlogSpot blog.
Next you submit your BlogSpot blog to OnlyWire.
You can use this same strategy with Squidoo lenses too.
To do this you simply go to squidoo.com and make a free Squidoo lens.
Next you link to blogs alpha.com and beta.com on your Squidoo lens.
Next you submit your Squidoo lens to OnlyWire.
Doing this will help ensure that the search engines come index blogs alpha.com and beta.com and see the backlinks to your site.
Consider Outsourcing
As time goes on you and you make money I recommend you invest some of your profits and hire someone to help you with your work.
A lot of people suggest using elance or guru.com. I recommend first tying to hire a friend or family member you trust.
Before You Begin Commenting…
Before you begin there are several things you need to be aware of:
- Leave good comments
You must leave good & thoughtful comments on a blog. If you leave spammy comments then the blog owner will delete them and they may ban you from making future comments. Join the community and contribute something. - Be patient
Some blogs require all comments to be approved by the blog owner before the comment shows up. If this is the case then bookmark the page where you expect the comment to show up and revisit the page a day later. - PageRank Changes
I have sorted the blogs below according to PageRank. PageRank does change periodically change and if one of the blogs below has a different PageRank then leave a comment at the bottom of this page. - Consider Low PageRank Sites
There is a lot more competition for the top commentator spots on blogs that have a high PageRank. So you may want to start with blogs where it’s easy to become a top commentator. - You may have to search
The list of “Top Commentators” is usually on the right side of the blog, but once in a while it’s at the very bottom of the blog. You may have to spend a minute searching for it.
Here a bunch of blogs that have the Top Commentator Widget and are DoFollow
(Note: Sometimes blogs change the widget to nofollow or they’ll remove the widget completely.)
PageRank 7
PageRank 5
PageRank 4
PageRank 3
- http://createdcash.com/
- http://www.infectedbybugs.com/
- http://blogaboutyourblog.com/
- http://uberaffiliate.com/
- http://www.marketing-business-review.com
- http://www.tylercruz.com
- http://myblog2day.com
- http://cashtactics.net
- http://www.youthonlinedegree.com
- http://www.insightwriter.com
- http://www.fromzerotoseo.com
- http://www.internetbusinesspath.com
- http://www.blogtrepreneur.com
PageRank 2
- http://ultimatetattookits.com/blog/
- http://www.ecobloke.co.uk/
- http://www.imbloggingthat.com/
- http://allisonreynolds.com/blog/
- http://www.datmoney.com
- http://letssermo.com
- http://ahwee.com
- http://sargentmarketing.com/blog/
PageRank 1
PageRank 0
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It looks like onlywired is a paid service now.
Hey, thanks for putting this all together. Very good info by the way. I’ve noticed you’ve placed a link for Craig’s Fast Attack SEO Wso and I could say that it’s an excellent wso and in my opinion one of the best for SEO. Having applied that to a blog the only thing left is backlinks.
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Great tricks, much appreciated. I like Odesk for the outsourcing and Onlywire gives you a free trial with 300 submissions.
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how to bring my blog under top 100 at least in google ?
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Read this:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/4856_how-to-rank-1-in-google/
Great article Nick! Just fired our SEO expert who wasn’t much of an expert. I’m learning about all this do follow and how to build backlinks so I have to visit here often. Our penny auction and online mlm combo is tool powerful to not have folks finding us!
Good luck to you Rich and let me know if you have any questions.
I am these days crawling blogs and sites to get tips and tricks for my blog seo and found this is one of greatest article I have read,…
thanks for your article…..
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Hi Nick!
I have been following your post advices on the last few days! Thank you very much! But i have been wondering if these backlinks will be permanent or temporary. Could you tell me? Thank you!!
It depends on the website. Most sites, like mine, remove all the links on the 1st of the month.
Nice tips.Most Useful for new bloggers.
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OnlyWire is good tool but there are limitations. Can you please tell me any unlimited such tool?
Sorry but I don’t know of any alternatives right now.
Nick,
Your tips are very useful. I have to say this is all new to me as I am new at being a webmaster but I find your tools really helpful. I am optimistic that it will be a great help in optimizing my backlinks. I was wondering, I am new to this site and so I have to ask you… Have you thought about putting up a video how-to about this? I am quite sure that a lot of people like me will be most appreciative.
I have done lots of videos but I’m not sure I have made one on this particular subject. I will make a video on this in the future.
I really can’t figure out how you are able to rank so well for “backlinks” keyword. What’s the secret?
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Well, the keyword is in the title of the post, in the URL, and littered throughout the post. Furthermore it is a wildly successful post that lots of other bloggers have linked to. And many people have tweeted links to the post.
hay nick nice & useful article you share here. Onlywire look good, maybe you can try socialmonkee too
Nick,
It was so nice of you to put this together. I can only imagine the effort and time you spent to be able to come up with this very informative and comprehensive post. I am sure that your audience is very grateful. I know I am because of all the information you gave. I am just genuinely amazed at how detailed and useful the post is. I will be following your tips and will be sharing it with friends who are bloggers as well. I am sure they can learn a thing or two about this wonderful post. Thank you for sharing it.
This article is great. All the info about back links in one place. I don’t believe you can ask for much more then that….:)
You can say this one of the trade secrets. What a great way to up your presence. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this and I’m hoping to also implement it myself.
You can also include my blog, its PR 5 and comments are always welcomed.
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I would include your blog but your comments are nofollow.
awesome post man…1620 backlinks …really worth the time it needs to be put in
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Thanks for the info Nick..and also for providing links to the dofollow blogs.
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Do you have the lists do follow blogs on 2012? Thank you for this. It is such a long post, but very helpful indeed.
The list of DoFollow blogs is the same.
very good information, I am registered with onlywire, it is a very good tool. mark
Really very very useful post with great info inside. This will help me build some very nice quality backlinks. Thank you
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I have had a lot of fun using fiverr.com recently, at time it feels a bit like retail therapy and make me smile:) However, it really has to be used very carefully to protect your website.
I made this short video showing you How To Build 67000 Back Links Super Fast and how to use them in a way that will not harm your money site or main website.
I’m always a little cautious with sites like fiverr, but I do like the concept. I tend to go for the gigs that are smaller in size and not promising the moon in results – a little extra added juice is fine, but I never want to overdo it.
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The people with the most comments on the blog are rewarded with a link back to their own site.
Looking at the list above you can see that Prostate Problems (8) has placed 8 comments and gets a free backlink.
The best part is this widget is shown on every page of the blog. So every page of this blog has a backlink to Prostate Problems.
Where do i get free one side back link ? This guide is helpful for me i will use in my Website.
thax for helping me
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Outsourcing is one of the keys to really help you save time, and produce more efficiently. If you have the budget for it. then, go ahead and outsource people! You can’t do it alone, you will always need the help of a team.
Thank you Nick, this goes into such great depth!
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All the points that you have mentioned are important for building backlinks.
you have nice tips but are you referring to black hat methods when you mentioned dirty search engine methods? Personally or in my own experience I don’t use them anymore because I had 4 sites that were banned and penalized by google.
Long lists but this post provides a lot of important tips how to effectively build the quality links. I used Onlywire to instantly submit my pages to various bookmarking sites. Since it didn’t send the reports of my post status to my email I quit using it. However I will try it again and see how it performs.. thanks
Great list of tips for the internet marketer. Thanks a lot.
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This is truly informative website on SEO which i can see prove helpful to me.
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thankyou for the links of the blog nick. and can you please explain what is nofollow and dofollow and the difference between them?
thankyou.
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I have actually covered that in some detail here:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/1168_why-nofollow-matters-and-how-to-find-blogs-that-dont-use-it/
Nick, thank you very much for putting up such a concise guide. Really helpful.
Just have one question. How do we maintain long lasting backlinks? I pay freelancers for all directory submission, blog comments etc. unfortunately most gone within few months. any cure to this? thanks in advance.
Azman
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If your links are disappearing then perhaps you’re not getting links from really good sources. You have a couple options: first you could just keep paying people to build new links I will disappear in a couple months. Second you could try to get links from more permanent sources and this can be time consuming. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages.
Actually I’m thinking along that way. right now i’m going for blog commenting. reason being i can still see links from old blog comments. i even can see a link from john chow blog. not bad for few minutes.
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Its really amazing. Got more traffic after following your tricks man. Unbelievable. Thanks. Keep on Posting.
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affiliateconfession.com is nofollow comment now.
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pureblogging.com disable any comment for now. not sure if it is permanent. probably after receiving flood of comments i presume
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Thanks for all these useful link building tips, Nick. I also enjoy using socialadr. They provide a great way for getting your links bookmarked by others as well. All for free..
thanks
I don’t think including a keyword in your domain is a dirty trick. This is often misunderstood by others. That’s why you need to research your keywords to find relevant words to your keywords. And use them as a domain name or your keywords.
You have provided an excellent strategy and blueprint for getting valuable backlinks.
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This is a huge resource to gain an insight on link building strategy and have some really useful blogs.
I agree with you that social bookmarking is very effective technique to get your website index.
Signed up for onlywire and planning on giving it a spin today and see how it works. Thanks for the recommendation.
Thanks for the info – I have been paying for SEO for the past year and have not gotten on page one yet so I thought I would try some stuff myself and see if its my SEO or the Car Rental market – Thanks again!
Amazing post. I was looking the list of top commentator blogs. But,i couldnt understand the one things,lets say if someone makes 15 comments on quicksprout.com and got on the list of top commentators. and after several days,people made more comments than mine (15) , then will my site be dropped from that list?
Thanks for the great post.
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Yes it would be dropped.
thank you and this is a lesson for me to make more backlinks
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This is a really good information. I have been always looking for ways to cut on my expenses. Since I now have an idea, might as well cut down on some people doing SEO for me. Besides, they were not doing so well lately.
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