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.
Could you do me a favor?
If you find this post useful would you mind stumbling it up for me?
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
You can find these blogs on Google by searching for:
“top commentators”
Searching for these kinds of blogs can be a long process.
Luckily, I have done the work for you and made a list of over 40 of these blogs at the bottom of this post. To view the list click here.
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.
Tricky Way To Get Comments & Traffic To Your Blog
There are a lot of people reading this post and lot of people visiting the blogs in the list at the end of the post.
If your blog is in that list you will probably see a surge in traffic!
To have you blog added to the list click here.
You get the WordPress Top Commentator Plugin for free:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/top-commentators-widget/
After you install the plugin you need to add the widget to your theme.
There are a bunch of settings that don’t really matter but there are 4 settings that are important to have set correctly:
The settings with the red arrows pointing to them are the ones to pay attention to.
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.
Bonus: More Backlinks For Sites
The following sites offer free backlinks:
- http://nickstraffictricks.com/1537_free-back-links-to-your-site/
- http://simplesitesbigprofits.org/free-back-links/
- http://myrtlebeachhouserentals.org/free-backlinks/
- http://www.curefortoenailfungus.org/free-back-links/
I will stumble 3 of your sites
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.
Sponsored Blogs With Top Commentator Widget
- http://simplesitesbigprofits.org
- http://myrtlebeachhouserentals.org
- http://www.curefortoenailfungus.org
- http://bad-credit–mortgage.org/
PageRank 7
PageRank 6
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PageRank 5
PageRank 4
- http://www.balkhis.com
- http://www.pureblogging.com/
- http://www.jonathanvolk.com/
- http://honeyandlance.com/
- http://www.affiliateconfession.com
- http://smartboydesigns.com
PageRank 3
- http://createdcash.com/
- http://www.infectedbybugs.com/
- http://www.msmediablog.com/
- http://www.wpthemedesigner.com/
- http://blogaboutyourblog.com/
- http://potpolitics.com/
- http://uberaffiliate.com/
- http://www.marketing-business-review.com
- http://www.tylercruz.com
- http://myblog2day.com
- http://optempo.com
- http://cashtactics.net
- http://personalfinanceandinvesting.com
- http://www.wisemoneymatters.com
- http://www.ryanjparker.net
- http://www.youthonlinedegree.com
- http://www.insightwriter.com
- http://www.fromzerotoseo.com
- http://www.internetbusinesspath.com
- http://www.blogtrepreneur.com
- http://www.johnchow.com
PageRank 2
- http://ultimateboxingbags.com/blog/
- http://ultimatetattookits.com/blog/
- http://www.ecobloke.co.uk/
- http://www.imbloggingthat.com/
- http://www.skyxavier.com
- http://allisonreynolds.com/blog/
- http://www.datmoney.com
- http://letssermo.com
- http://ahwee.com
- http://sargentmarketing.com/blog/
PageRank 1
PageRank 0
- http://www.blog.joblified.com/
- http://www.dondasilva.com/
- http://www.ededition.com/
- http://mcmunny.blogspot.com/
More will be added soon
I will be adding more blogs to this list as time goes on.
Do you have a blog you’d like added to the list?
I would be happy to add your blog to the list as long as it meets the following requirements:
- It is NOT adult related
- It has a minimum of 10 pages that show the “Top Commentators” widget
You can get the plugin for free:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/top-commentators-widget/ - The links in the “Top Commentators” widget do not have nofollow
If your blog meets these requirements then email me: nickstraffictricks@gmail.com
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Once again Nick has simplified a complicated subject and over delivered on genuinely helpful information.
Not hard to see why this is one of my favourite blogs.
Thanks Nick
Thanks Sean! Now take action
Thanks Nick great info and list.My blog is on the list in the PR3 section.The blog should really be a PR5 but I give away tons of link juice via do follow and more.But to me people are more important then page rank and I think it’s good to stop by and thank them for linking to you
Thanks
Stumbled
Thanks Nick for another great post, posting on blogs and forums are properly the easiest ways to get back links. These are also the most popular form of spamming, too.
Hey Nick,
Thanks for another great informative post. You have helped clarify some steps to my backlinking strategy. Adding this to a good article marketing campaign should rocket traffic to any site.
Cheers
Scott
Hi Nick,
The only thing I can say is “Wow. A lot of useful and valuable content on SEO for free. Most people would’ve charged a pretty penny for this info but you gave it to us for free. I need to bookmark this site. Thank you for over delivering on this post.
Best regards,
Spencer
This is cool info Nick. I follow your blog but I suspect that you are somebody that reacted badly to my suggestions on WF about a lead capture page that you requested feedback on. It’s because I recognize your face!
It seemed to me that you didn’t actually want any suggestions, but your post was more like an Ad.
Now I am banned from that aggressive forum. Even though, I think you have great traffic-building info on your site.
Andy
John Sullivan@POTPOLITICS – I am glad to see you here.
@Andy – Sorry to hear you got banned fro the Warrior Forum. They seem to be extra vigilant these days.
Another great post, as usual. And thanks for the tip about onlywire. I’ll be heading over there to check it out.
My blog uses Lucia’s plugin where the commenters have to have made 3 comments before their succeeding comments become ‘dofollow’. And I do have a ‘top commentator’ sidebar .
Hi Nick
Thank you for your backlink tips. It really helps newbie like me.
You said that commenting on a good pr blog is necessary, how many blogs do we have to give comment? cause it’s really time consuming when commenting on a blog.
What about article submission? does it help us to get back link?
Thanks
Edy
@Edy – the number of blogs really various. If there is little competition for your keyword then you’ll need fewer backlinks and therefore need fewer blogs to comment on.
Just make sure you leave relevant comments. I do go in and manually review comments and I do frequently delete irrelevant comments or if you comment 1 minute apart on 5 posts.
Thanks for the post
Good point @cashtactics.
Hey Nick,
Thanks for adding my blog to your list of Sponsored Blogs With Top Commentator Widget.
John Sullivan mentions in his comment here that his blog is on the list in the PR3 section but should really be a PR5 because he gives away tons of link juice via do follow and more. Is that true that when you give away PR to others through backlinks that you are giving away part of your own PR? If this is true is doesn’t make any sense to me.
If you work your butt off and get a high PR you are going to get more traffic which means more comments. But if you’re comments don’t carry the nofollow attribute and you’re giving away more PR with each and every comment you’re going to lower your PR. It seems like a Catch 22 situation.
Can someone please explain.
Later,
Jeff Sargent
Honestly there is a lot of speculation out there and I don’t have a really good answer. I would guess that only the nerds with thick glasses at Google know for sure.
I do recent comment at blogs, as the results my website got a lot of backlink, but I never try comment at top commentor, thanks for sharing your widgets..
Give it a try and let us know how it works.
My blog is at http://www.sandiegocreativemusicdjs.com/blog and uses top commentator also. I have very few comments so there’s a chance for viewers to get top commentator quickly!
Nick,
I see you recommend simple sites, big profits. You may have done a post on this, any possibility you’d forward to me or post a link? I’ve been considering the program, need more info, thanks for your help.
I sent an email to you.
Nick – just found your site via Google. How refreshing amongst all the clutter. Great style and straight-forward content. Thank you!
How this is a great site to find and bookmark, Done. I’ll be checking back.
Well i might end up doing this im good html now because of blogspot but yes im going to look into do this. I think if i could build 10 of these i would be getting a nice income.
hello….. thank’s for the info…..
Great post Nick! We’ll be sharing this with our clients!
Sharing it with others is great!
Nick this is really awesome. Thanks for clarifying what is a very complex process for many. I’ll be sure to pass along much of this information to my small business audience, much of whom are trying to do blogs on their own. Looking forward to reading all the other great info in your connected posts.
John Sternal
@sternalpr
Nick, I bought your video series on backlinks and it was very helpful. Your a great guy and have it goin on! Thanks for the additional backlinks and stumbles. Its very helpful.
Glad to help Charlie!
Nice and comprehensive article and lists Nick.
The only problem I had with top commentators technique is that they are revised by owners every month. So that you need to comment frequently every month. But it works of course, specially for sites that are popular. The more popular the blog, the more your competitors in the top commentators list.
Certainly true. So at the beginning of each month there is no competition because everyone has to start over.
I do recent comment at blogs, as the results my website got a lot of backlink, but I never try comment at top commentor, thanks for sharing your widgets.. thanks!
Hi Nick,
Nice tips!I really like it so much.Especially when it comes to top commentator
widget as a method of getting backlink.
But isn’t it blackhat?
Azim
Not if you place good & relevant comments.
I have now placed the top commentator widget in my blogs and wordpress sites. I am also trying out CommentLuv and KeywordLuv to see how they affect traffic to my site. I am apprehensive about spam but hopefully the filters will keep those evil spammers at bay.
What do you think about these two widgets/plugins Nick?
Also while I have got your ear….a quick question if I may:
“What is the best place to find out info on my sites, such as links, traffic and page rank?”
I ask because I have tried a few and not one of them has given me the same answer!!!
On one I had 82,000 backlinks in Google, another said I had 800, and a third said I had 0!!! Now I know that was a lie! My page rank differs as does my traffic stats.
Please help Nick!!
Thanks
Darren
To prevent spam I use the simple number captcha.
I use the top commentator plugin and really like it. To find the page rank of a site go to:
http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php
To be honest I don’t really care about pagerank. Most of my traffic doesn’t come from Google. It comes from social media, my email list, and RSS.
I use captcha so hopefully that will do the trick.
Thanks for the link, I know page rank is not as important as some would have you believe but it is still not a bad thing to increase your rank. I think it’s a reward for my effort!
Article marketing is very good for me, and I am becoming more involved in social media. I don’t have a big email list so suffer for that and I am still trying to figure out RSS….so I am checking your info on that.
The top commentator plugin seems to be fairing well for me, still waiting for more results from the CommentLuv and KeywordLuv before I make my mind up there.
Thanks for your swift response.
I am happy to help! Feel free to email nickstraffictricks@gmail.com
What a great way to expand my backlinks with the top commentator widget, which I never really looked into before seeing your blog. Fantastic tips again.
Yup it’s something the gurus have been using for a while now.
Nick,
You are doing a wonderful job. Providing Tons of very good content free of charge. Everybody is looking for traffic for free. I think you should start a membership site providing traffic tips on regular basis.
Christy.
Thanks Christy. I have created a few products and I am starting to roll them out.
Thanks for all great tips. I’m book marking this site for sure. Love your blog. Free links yupee.
Fast backlinks, Wow this will defiantly come in handy. Some people will keep this information for themselves so i really mean it when i say thank for this post. Keep up the good work =)
Very interesting stuff. There are a lot of great tips that will really help my business to flourish if I follow them closely! Thanks a million!
Some good solid techniques Nick. I wasn’t familiar with the Top Commentator widget and not sure if it will mean the blog will be targeted more by comment spammers, meaning more comment admin but will definitely have a look. Thanks.
Great tips Nick, I just make a new blog so I try to build back Links
thanks
thanks for the information and backlinks links will try it out..
Thanks for the list high pagerank blog
You are very welcome.
I’m very thankful you for your backlink tips. It will really help to me.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful information with us.
hey nick, you have done an amazing job mate. though its a long article and i dont never read long article but i could not stop this time. worth reading article and learn how to build back links for website. cheers man…
It’s pretty long but it’s one of my most popular posts.
Thanks nick im using your tricks to build up my website. Thanks
Nick,
I certainly don’t mind extra traffic on my site and have been aware of your site’s listing my blog for some time now… but when people leave comments on my site solely for the sake of becoming a “top commentator” rather than to, you know, actually provide useful and genuine feedback on my blog post, it gets a wee bit irritating!
Case in point… “Bicep Dumbbell Curl” (above) left a comment on my blog that will NOT get posted and WILL get sent to the Akismet/spam folder. I am getting *very* tired of spam!
People who visit my blog solely to use “tricks” to get traffic for their own sites are highly irritating. By my definition, someone who is leaving comments on my site for the sole purpose of increasing their own traffic is *spamming* me.
I write about chronic illnesses and I am far to sick to expend energy researching spammy commentators. I have better things to do with my time.
Perhaps you could let your readers know that such spam is very much NOT appreciated.
I have a powerful “trick” for your readers. Why not increase your traffic by developing relationships with other bloggers, actually reading their posts, and leaving comments that are genuine? That way, you might attract readers who you actually have something in common with… as opposed to (maybe) attracting random traffic from blogs that have zero to do with yours.
Who knows? This might even be more profitable for those with ads on their blogs as this would be more likely to result in attracting like-minded readers who might actually fit the target audience of the blog in question.
I would *greatly* appreciate if you plan to continue to list my blog in your Page Rank 3 section if you could educate your readers about common courtesy and decency… which in my book means you don’t just leave blog comments to see yourself appear on a top commentator widget!!! Frankly, I find this practice rather insulting.
Thank you.
Jeanne
I apologize for sending spammers you way. I specifically tell people
to leave worthwhile comments on blogs because no one wants spam. Some
people are good about this and others are spammers. I am debating the
merits of the blog post because spammers do come across it and run
a-muck. But it’s helpful for others who are willing to contribute and
make worthwhile comments.
To spare you any additional problems I removed your site from the list
on my blog.
I think a good way to build quality backlinks naturally is too update your site with industry information that is useful for the entire industry and promote it to them. If they like it they will link back to your ite.
Interesting post. It was useful in my SEO strategy,. Why didnt you come up with this before. I need to build a new SEO campaign and this is proving to be very useful.
I’m glad that you’re finding this useful.
Nick in a search term im going after
Killer Ab Workout
which im 12th last time i checked, but just got ranked, how would you go about reaching number #1? What would you do to build the backlinks? Thanks!
I did a search on Google for the exact phrase “Killer Ab Workout” and saw that there are over 1 million sites competing. You picked a popular keyword and you have your work cut out for you.
Furthermore I don’t see “Killer Ab Workout” in your website’s domain. This will make it harder for you to rank.
When I did a search on Google to talk to you search results were YouTube videos. I imagine that many people searching for “Killer Ab Workout” would prefer a video demonstration to boring text. Could you make a video?
Hi, just want to share,
Here is another super fast FREE BACK LINK from PR5 website?
This is absolutely free and you can see results in days. To get the back link, go to http://www.cheaphotelsg.com/ and click the link “Increase Page Rank “. This link is located at the bottom of the page.
This is really effective and absolutely FREE. Why buy back links when you can get it for free from a PR5 site.
This is a really helpful post, thank you so much! I’ve been struggling for ages to try and get my websites off the ground. They have a little trickle of visitors sneaking through the doors, but I’ve never been able to get to the front page. Starting to try some of these little nuggets of information from today so hopefully I’ll be back soon to report some progress! Thank you again.
Glad to help.
thanks for sharing the social bookmarking list
Thanks for the lists. I’ll be visiting those.
Another excellent post nick, I had no choice but to stumble this one!
Thanks BTCulture.