What Was My Mistake On Top Search Engine Ranking?

Well  I was chatting with a good friend of mine online one day, someone who was already earning himself more than 100 dollars a day. I asked him what advice he could give me for a site that is already on Google No. 1 Position? I asked him specifically if I should continue doing link building or should I just ease off, leave it and focus instead on other sites. The reply came quick and he said something like “Don’t do anything. If it ain’t broke why fix it? ” That was 2 years ago.

Well fast forward to today, 2 years later, if someone were to ask me that same question, I would have a totally different answer for him or her.  I would say getting a site to Google’s No. 1 position is not the hardest part. The hardest part is knowing what you must do to keep that site ranking No.1 in Google.  There is no guarantee that it will remain there forever as most of your competitors are like you too. They will in no time displace your site’s position if you choose to be naive. Also Google is always changing its ranking algorithm. Think of Panda and you will understand just what I mean. There’s no rest for the wicked it seems!

The tip I am going to share with you today is found in a post I wrote sometime ago when I first discovered the article distribution site called Ezarticlelink. If you have not read it, here it is :”Discover How zArticleLink Auto Creates Backlinks For Your Blog. My intention then was to create some backlinks for my Learn Affiliate Marketing blog since I had neglected this blog and had practically zero backlinks. So I set up an Article Directory on the blog. Well after 1 year the site has now 1700 indexed pages, 1271 backlinks and PR1. Not bad for just setting it up and doing nothing because these backlinks are generated on auto-pilot.

 How I Get Free Backlinks For Another Site

One of the main advantages of using EzArticleLink is that for every article directory set up by a free member, it allows you to set up another domain in their system. Then you are free to post articles and get backlinks not only to your article directory – but get backlinks to this domain as well if you so choose to by just publishing and linking to its pages. For free membership however the maximum allowable number of posts is ’30′ but considering that each post is published and syndicated to 100+ sites, you get contextual links with your chosen anchor text.  And it’s free and automated, you don’t have to lift a finger. So don’t you think the effort to write and publish any of the 30 articles is worth the thousands of free backlinks you will receive. And it’s only about 30 minutes work per article using their easy system to spin write the articles. Think about it. It’s impossible not to see the benefits of doing this.

I Get Free Contextual Backlinks To My Domain Like This:

If you just stop to think for a minute you would understand how good this really is. Imagine just having to write one short article ( and I can do so in 10 minutes because it need not be a super quality article  that you usually write on your own blog,  just good and decent one). Then in return you get contextual links from about 180 published articles in 180 blogs. How sweet that is. Now take a look at this screen print and you will know just why I’m so happy I’ve found this site:

My Thoughts:

We all know that if you want to to rank well in the search engines, you need backlinks-lots of them. And one of the best ways to get lots of quality backlinks is through article marketing. Unfortunately with the recent Google Panda updates, many of the article directories have been penalized by Google . EzArticleLinks seems to be Panda proof at least in the last 2 updates and it also offers a refreshing change to get your backlinks. Well enough said, go check it out for more details from EzArticleLinks.

Latest Update: (Oct 14, 2011)

EzArticleLink just released their proprietary article spinner to the public, so that the whole world can use it. Now you get to use it without even becoming a member, although once you get to use it, you mostly probably will. Here is the link to get your free spinner:

Your link for the free online spinner is: http://www.peterleehc.com/blog/go/EzarticlelinkArticlespinner  Similar Posts:

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What is Natural Link Building

So far I have yet to find someone give a definite answer to what really is natural link building or what is deemed a natural backlinks growth. Does this mean, we do all the things naturally without any outside help – and once you achieved that other Internet Marketers or bloggers will only be too happy to link to you? Perhaps like Wikipedia because many people I know would be ready and willing to do just that? But then again how many of us can claim to be in the same league as this established big website?

Building Backlinks via Automation

Now many people always get the wrong ideas about automation and tend to associate automated tools with something not legitimate and sometimes black hat techniques. Now if this were true, any business that sells software and other sophisticated technological solutions to clients would have been closed down by Google a long time ago. What I am trying to say is that these automation tools are created with good intentions. They may well be used for ulterior motives but that is a separate matter altogether. These tools are designed to help anyone in business be it the brick and mortar ones or the more familiar online work at home businesses of you and me. I have used many of them to run my business and I can’t imagine continuing in business without these tools. In short if you are not leveraging on what these tools are offering for your business, you are missing big time.

What Do People Say About Natural Link Building Growth

While scouting for another good automation tool to help me cut down most of the mundane and laborious work, I asked a very prominent software developer. Gabriel developed the now much talked about automated tool on backlink building called ‘Link Thunder’ and I posed this question to him in my favorite Warrior Forum. My question and my worry was would building 3000 backlinks a day like what this guy achieved with his Link Thunder backlink tool do more harm than good?:

Here are just a few of the many testimonials from forum members who used Link Thunder to get backlinks:

There’s lot’s more testimonial if you care to read them here:

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/387130-give-me-couple-days-i-ll-push-your-website-top-google-limited-100-a.html

What Do YOU Say About Natural Link Building Growth

Share with us what you think. Do you really believe in doing backlink building the natural way or with automation tools. If you used tools, did you in any way get penalized by Google.

(Update) My Own Results Achieved With Link Building:

Niche Site: http://keyword-domain/inside-page-with-keyword.html

Before Link Thunder Backlinks: Page 2 #11, 14,800 searches (Jul 16)

After Link Thunder Backlinks: Page 1 # #8 (Jul 21)

512 Backlinks from Link Thunder ( Expression Engine Forums)

Domain age: 2 years

Here’s My Offer To You-You Can Get 1000s of Backlinks From Link Thunder Here

Naturally with a backlink building tool that is this good, I purchased it from Gabriel since backlink building takes the most effort. Now I like to offer my link building service using this tool. Yes the same tool that Gabriel uses to get all those backlinks for his satisfied clients.

What You Get: 1000 Backlinks Using 2 Plugins That Gabriel Does and From Link Thunder Tool. Your links posted on Boonex Social Network Websites and Expression Engine Forums.

What You Pay: $17.00

(most of this cost goes to the manual effort to key in 2000 capchas before I can post your links on about 2000 sites.). Repeat order gets 3 free personal edu blogs.

What You Will Get: A report showing you all the 1000 backlinks (give or take a hundred or two)

What kind of Backlinks will you get?

For this link package I used 2 plugins and put your links on ‘Forums-Expression Engine” and Social Networks: Boonex. I have attached the screenshots for you to take a look.

Contact me if you are interested. This offer is only for my blog readers and current subscribers

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If getting backlinks is something you constantly do for your online business (and you should) that’s understandable. After all, backlinks play such an important role in our business and we seem to can’t stop doing enough of it ourselves; or buy backlink services sometimes so as to get our sites ranking well. Yet, often enough, they are the cause of many success stories as well as  the pain and struggles of many Internet Marketers trying to make the most out of their blogs or websites. We certainly can relate to all that at some point in time in our Internet Marketing journey. However, today, let’s take a step back to ask ourselves is what we have been doing good enough? Are we getting the just deserts for all the hard work done to acquire our backlinks? If not what else can we do.

A Link is Still a Link. Or is it?

It probably is true when you started your online business 5 years ago. However, in reality, things have changed so much and what was true then may not be relevant and good enough in today’s world. Yes 5 years ago, all you got to do is get yourselves tons of links for your website and you can outrank your competition. It’s now not that easy anymore and you probably know you have to ‘go with the flow’ and consider many other factors too. If you don’t then you lose out. I just have to remind you of some recent Google Algorithm changes to bring this point to you. Like the   Google’s Panda Update or the May Day Update. And don’t forget that Google makes more than 300 algorithm changes annually although not all big ones like these two but suffice to say, you must take actions. I have been following the Link Pyramid with good success so I like to share with you just how powerful this method of link building is: Base Links The foundation of your link pyramid are your base links. As with an actual pyramid, the foundation is the largest part of this virtual structure. You need more base links than any other kind of link. Base links are, for lack of better words, lower quality links. Links from things like lesser article sites, social bookmarking sites, blog comments, links from deep inner pages, etc. It’s important that you have a lot of these kinds of links, because Google’s algorithm thinks that this is “natural.” After all, how likely is it that a web site will have a bunch of super-high-quality links from major web sites and not have magnitudes more links from “lesser” sites? So you want to make sure your link pyramid has a solid foundation of these kinds of links.

Mid-Grade Links
The next level of our link pyramid are your mid-grade links. These are links from web sites that have more authority than the sites mentioned previously, but still may not be top-notch sites. The kind of sites that usually reuse EzineArticles content often fall into this category, as do links from mini-sites and sales letter sites.

Mid-grade sites have a fair amount of links aimed at them in their own right, and so Google sees links coming from them as being more individually valuable than the base links. Of course, that means that you don’t need as many links from these kinds of sites as you do from the base link sites.

Nor should you have more links from these kinds of sites than the base link sites. Remember, it’s all about looking “natural” in Google’s eyes.

Highest-Quality Links
For most long-tail keywords (keywords with less competition in the search engines), you don’t even need the top level in your link pyramid. You can usually rank just fine with the base links and mid-grade links. I have numerous sites ranking quite well for many nice keywords without any top-quality links.

However, when you’re aiming higher, you need to collect higher quality links. By “higher quality”, I mean links from sites that already have a lot of links aimed at them. In Google’s eyes, site with a lot of links aimed at them have “authority”, and anyone these “authority sites” link to must also be important.

The great thing about links from authority sites is that a few links can make a big difference. So while these links are more difficult to acquire, you don’t need nearly as many of them to rank well for your keywords. I’ve brought sites from page two for my keywords in Google to page one with just a dozen or two links of this kind (and I’m talking about some fairly competitive keywords).

Make It Look Natural
For best results your link pyramid should look natural to Google. So this means having a large number of base links, a lesser number of mid-grade links, and just a few top-quality links.

But don’t get too concerned if some of your links tend to belong to more than one category of link types. Don’t get too hung up on this because that adds to the “natural” that your link pyramid has become and that is what Google likes to see.

My Thoughts:

This is one reason why many of my 26 niche sites are ranking on Google’s page 1 without much effort because I used mostly high page rank profile links from Angela Edwards. It has worked so well for the last 2 years that I’ve found myself repeating it so often. Now if you subscribe you are eligible to buy 60 high PR backlinks for just $5.00. Do check it out.

Most times I don’t need to get too many high quality links for my sites unless they are those that are authority sites or when the competition is really outrageously high.

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This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites-sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites-sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on.

What’s The Impact:

This change is impacting about 12% of search results, so many people have been greatly hit by this search algorithm change by Google.

Niche sites have been hit most simply because many people have been exploiting the relatively easy opportunity to earn quick money online this way. Even the recent Google May Day debacle did little to keep them away from going the easy route including creating MFA (Made for Adsense) sites at their own risks. Even if their sites were not specifically MFA, they still resorted to using clever softwares e.g. auto blogging software that could scrap content easily from other websites.

Google was targeting sites that are low quality and specifically those that do not add value for people. Some article directories fall into this category although interestingly with different magnitude. Even Ezinearticles took a hit although not as much as others. On the other hand I cannot understand why Hubpages took a very big hit from this algorithm change since it only accepts unique content before approving these pages. But as of now, duplicate content is still not penalized so long as they are not found on the same site.


Has the new Google Algorithm affected my 20+ niche websites?

No it has not and that is a relief. I can only say many of my niche sites’ keyword ranking remains the same because I preferred to focus on writing quality contents on my niche sites. I avoided any black hat techniques as I like my visitors to have a feel good experience when they land on my sites, even if they are a small niche site. So it pays to have unique content sites with good, useful information and it just reaffirms what Google looks for in a good website.

I did have a couple of WordPress blogs that are run completely on auto-pilot but not using the much Google loathed auto-blogging plugin. I used the WordPress plugin called UniqueArticleWizard, to publish free unique articles. I would say Google does not mind this because they are as legitimate as can be as I link back to the author of these articles. It would be kind of like guest posting on my blog.

Well let me know if you were affected by the Google Search Algorithm change in anyway. It just means that Google can be tough if it felt there was a need to make big changes even if it incurs the wrath of thousands of bloggers who are always thinking of clever and faster way to learn how to make money blogging.

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Ok, jokes aside….

This IMT Website Submitter lets you submit your website to 2500+ places for FREE!  All of them are the usual websites that provide the “who is”, “about us”, “website statistics” services.

I have actually used some of these websites each time I have a new site to quickly get Google index and I have to say, they worked for me to get indexed real fast. I did it manually then though submitting to about 20 such sites each time. So I guess having a script that automatically submits for your site and allowing you to put your keyword, takes all the work away. That’s called working smart.

Most of these websites have  been around for some time and are both dofollow or nofollow sites. Because they are established sites you can be sure that they get crawled by the search engines regularly including Google and other SE like Yahoo and Bing. The new pages being created for your websites will be quickly found and you will get them indexed and some backlinks too.

A word of caution

Personally I think this is a great tool to use but you should bear in mind a few things. Don’t expect to receive 2500 backlinks although the post title may have suggested this. You will get some backlinks but not all of them but then again these links are probably not the most sought after or highly valued ones as well. Then again you might say a link is still a link.

For me I used this tool mostly for my many free web 2.0 sites that I’ve created to boost my search engine rankings for all my money making sites.  You could use this tool if you have just set up a new website and wish to get it to a decent SERP ranking. This way there is practically no risk using this free automated too.

Incidentally I learned about this tool from Warrior Forum and read very good reviews from people who have used it. You can read it here:

http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-ppc-seo-discussion-forum/260075-2500-free-backlinks-click-mouse.html

Here is the link again to this tool

IMT Website Submitter

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1. First go to Google and do a search for keywords related to your niche (e.g. ‘home business’ or ‘Internet Marketing’ or ‘make money blogging‘).

Put this query into the Google search box:

site:ezinearticles.com “This article has been viewed 2000..199999″ “Article Submitted On: * *, 2009″+”home-business+internet-marketing”

(just substitute the keyword phrases to your own and change the number of times article has been viewed to your preference)

2. You will be presented with lots of articles published by Ezinearticles in the determinants you have chosen. Identify those articles that have received hundreds or even thousands of views. The more views, the better. Choose an article with a lot of views and then look for the comments section.

3. Add your best crafted comment on this article, one that is useful and you know people will appreciate and thank you for. The reason for doing this is because your comments are reviewed by Ezinearticles staff and you already know the high standards they have set for themselves before your articles get approved. After making your comment, add the url of your website with your relevant anchor text.

It takes about 2-3 days before Ezinearticles approve your comment and you will receive an email notification that leads you to your approved comment like this:

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This is probably the easiest trick, if you wish to call it that, to get unique contents in the eyes of Google posted on your home business blog in just 5 minutes. Yeah call it my Halloween “trick n treat” candy for you if you will.

In my treat for you, I’m going to show a real live case(ok not live but about 20 hrs delayed) how I published a post on my affiliate marketing blog http://www.ereviewer.net in just 5 minutes and another few more minutes for Google to index it.

1. My Objective

To quickly search for someone else’s published post and republish it as a unique content on my own blog. (Don’t worry it’s all legitimately done)

2.Who will most likely benefit from doing this?

1. those who re-publish other blogger’s work either because you like the content or you do this to grow content on your own blog
2. those who use PLR articles for their blogs
3. autobloggers, content spinners
4. those who like free content but have problems indexing such content because such duplicate contents, although you won’t get penalized, often don’t get indexed. Even if they do get indexed it’s usually relegated to Google’s supplementary index and that won’t help in your search engine ranking.

Ok, my demo begins…

1. Go to Google and search for “learn affiliate marketing republish“. I do this because “learn affiliate marketing” is my main keyword phrase for my affiliate marketing blog. I added the word “republish” because I follow good ethics and republish articles only if the author or article directory specifically allows free publications.

I found one article found in an article directory that allows republication:

**for best results, choose a post that has been Google indexed and is quite highly ranked, but I guess you would have figured it out already:-) **

2. Next I copy the whole article text and paste it onto my ‘wp-admin/add new post’. Scroll down to find the ‘wpUnique’ section and under ‘Uniquefy Mode’ put ‘Truly Unique’ and ‘Uniquefy this post’ as ‘Yes’ like this:

Then put in the usual tags, category, snippet etc like you usually do and then hit Publish’. That’s it you’re done! Yeah in less than 5 minutes  I might add. (note: you must upload the wpunique plugin before you can see the Uniquefy section on your wp-admin page. Also don’t forget to link a couple of keywords to your money making websites like or home business blog I did)

3. Finally to check that my newly published post has been indexed by Google, I go to site:www.ereviewer.net and after about 2 minutes later found it indexed. Here’s the result (I changed the title for demo purpose but when you do this it’s better to keep the title ‘as is’ to respect the author’s post)

and my republished post url is this: http://www.ereviewer.net/learn-affiliate-marketing-tips

Hey even Google has placed its trust on my republished post as I also received a ‘Google Alert’ email at the same time. The mail just shows that it has been indexed and published and sent to many others who have similarly subscribed to ‘Google Alert’ notification service:

How does WPUnique plugin make a duplicate post unique?

I’ll probably spare you the technical details or you can check more of that from the plugin owner website (Steve Pullman). But essentially this is how it does. It creates unique content from what everyone generally calls it  “duplicate content” and this tool merely uses html encoding to cause the search engines to look at your blog post as unique content. This way your republished post gets placed ahead of others using that same content.  Steve adds:  “all we’re doing is converting the source code from ascii text to legitimate html codes.” Sounds simple!

The thing about Duplicate Content

The topic probably has been debated and argued umpteen times in Internet Marketing forums and other places but let’s add one more to it. You’ve long heard of the “Duplicate Content Penalty”? Here’s what everyone knows after all these discussions: It doesn’t exist


If you’re re-using content that is found on another website: The DUPLICATE CONTENT PENALTY DOES NOT APPLY i.e you won’t get into trouble with Google. You will however get into trouble with the author if he did not expressly given anyone permission the right to use his article. That’s plagiarism (hence my checking for this permission in my demo here)

What will Google do if you used other people’s content

Well if you used and publish duplicate contents, your content will most probably end up in Google’s supplemental index. Yeah call it a Google’s cold shoulder treatment, being online ostracised or anything you want, you wont get much benefit being here.  Aaron Wall has this to say about Google’s Supplemental Result:

“Since supplemental results are not trusted much and rarely rank they are not crawled often either. Since they are generally not trusted much and rarely crawled odds are pretty good that links from supplemental pages likely do not pull much – if any – weight in Google. ..”

Final Thoughts

This wpunique plugin is not free but costs just $37 and the version 2 is just out. I used this plugin because lately I have created many niche blogs and this plugin is taking away some of the hard work that I used to do before -updating blog contents.

Writing the contents manually is still the best if you can afford the time and I have to agree that when you write it yourself you can optimize the post much better. But for niche bloggers like myself, this is the perfect tool that helps me automate some of the work and I feel good knowing that this is as legitimate as it gets and helps me rank too. 

My Next Post

I’ll be sharing some useful tips about what steps I recently took to really increase my adsense income:

Be sure to read it. Better still subscribe to this blog so as not to miss it and at the same time get free 20 high PR .edu links as my way of saying “Thanks”.(http://www.peterleehc.com/blog/work-from-home/10-free-high-pr-edu-links)

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If like me, you have been doing Internet Home Business for some time, I bet you probably have some PLR articles lying around. Yes probably abandoned, forgotten and collecting cyber dust or cyber cobweb in your computer? Well why don’t you start to make good use of it for your home business blog, niche marketing or whatever you do that requires article writing?

Although on some occasions you buy PLR articles, most time you can get them for free. But most people used them only for a short while and stopped. Why? Well it’s too tedious even to just publish them even if you know they can provide useful resource to benefit your home business. But here is a good tip I’m going to share with you that I have been using. You can even automate the process – well sort of.

How Should You Use PLR articles on your blog?

Now as you know I create lots of micro niche websites and I write quite a bit to update the content of these websites. I used a lot of information from these free PLR articles, although I don’t use them “as is” – I rewrite them. You must know these same articles have been used by hundreds of people as they published on their websites. You won’t get into trouble with Google for putting   content on your blog that has been published elsewhere, as we know this is a myth.However you won’t get much benefit either because your content is deemed as not unique. Moreover you lose Google’s trust in your website when you do this. That’s possibly a greater sin for us Internet Marketers don’t you think?

How I used Free PLR articles for my niche websites

Step 1 – Go search for your free PLR articles. Simply go to Google and do a search for ‘your keyword + PLR’

Step 2. Sign in to your Blogger Blog and go to ‘New Post’

Step 3. Copy and paste your PLR article and use the title and body exactly “as is” for the time being. Don’t publish yet.

Step 3. Go to ‘Post Options’ at the bottom of the page. Under ‘Post date and time’, click ‘Schedule at’ and put a later date

Step 4. Now this is the step that requires some work from you. Rewrite your post title and body text to make it unique. You can choose to do this work anytime before your published date.

Step 5. Your scheduled posts get published at your scheduled dates automatically and run like clockwork.

Does this method work?

Yes absolutely. But only if you are a little disciplined and try to follow a fixed routine like re-writing your PLR articles daily, weekly, monthly and setting your scheduled dates to suit this time frame. Try to find what’s best for you that works and stick to a routine.

Why I used this method

• Well I have 20 niche sites and free PLR articles provide a good resource for my sites as I need to increase content and update them regularly.
• For some of my niche sites, just re-writing them is quite easy as the topics are usually simple as I target mostly product niches. It’s a lot easier than rewriting contents for ‘Internet Marketing’, ‘How to make money blogging’ that kind of stuff.
• Because Google owns Blogger – that’s a good reason
• I used it for good link building for all my niche sites
• Using a blogger blog is one of the link wheels people usually used for building very powerful link structure for their sites. You can read up more on how to create a link wheel from a good friend of mine, Alan Mater from his post: “How To Get Backlinks To My Blog Posts Resulting in Sales“

Final Thoughts

Using free PLR articles can serve your home business well if you learn how to do it right. Working at home takes a lot of your time as your Internet Business grows so learning a thing or two about automating your processes can really help.

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During the past week, I dedicated a good portion of my free time doing link building specifically for my homepage and this home business blog. While doing so, I realized that some of the work I did to accomplish my backlinks building task would never have seen the light of day by many others. Others who chose to believe a different opinion from hearsay or a total misunderstanding of SEO. Let’s try to debunk a few of these link building myths to see if their fears are well founded.

Myth No 1.

It’s not good for your site to leave your link on an “inner page” that is new or has a low Page Rank like PR0 inside of a high Page Rank domain.

My thoughts

My recent link building efforts over the last 5 days is one good example and I practiced this. I linked to inner pages of PR0 of high page rank sites of PR6-PR9. After finding about 50 of these links, the result- My keyword phrase ‘online business opportunities‘ moved from 24th position to 7th position.

If you refer to an interview with Google’s Matt Cutts and read between the lines, you could make your own deductions. Here is part of it:

Stephan Spencer: OK. So, I guess, a follow on to that would be: a .edu and .gov link, and so forth, has, typically, a more pristine link neighborhood, so it is not just about the PageRank, right? The link neighborhood comes into play.

Matt Cutts: That is a little bit of a “secret sauce” question, so I am not going to go into how much we do trust that sort of stuff.

Stephan Spencer: OK. I am going to slap my wrist now. Ouch, ouch!

Matt Cutts: [laughing]

Myth No 2.

You must always obtain “relevant” links in the same niche as your website otherwise the links don’t help in your SEO or you will get penalized by Google.

My thoughts

While it is ideal to get links belonging to the same niche as yours, it will not hurt you if they come from non relevant sites. But only if they are high quality sites with high page rank. Google realized that there is no way to control incoming links to your website. If this were true, many nasty sites who want to bring the top sites down and rank higher than them would simply start linking lots of bad sites with them.

Another news worthy incident to prove this theory is this. Remember the day news broke out about then President Clinton having an …er indiscretion with a young intern that goes by the name of Monica Lewinsky? Well hundreds of thousands of very interested readers and websites linked to ‘The Drudge Report’ from the site of the same name. Yes that’s natural linking at its best! I have to say no penalty was ever meted out by Google to this site. In fact it became well known after all the linking

Myth No. 3

If you build too many links and too fast, you will be penalized by Google

My thoughts

I think for the average person building too many links and doing it too fast should not happen.  You’ll need to have tens of thousands of similar links to raise a red flag to Google. That probably fit the profile of a spammer and that’s what Google will be going after.

Myth No.4

I cannot see my backlinks in Yahoo Site Explorer, or some other “Backlink Checker” tool, so they don’t count.

My Thoughts

It can take some time before your links show up in Yahoo Site Explorer and backlink checker tools, but most of us know that Google will NEVER show them all to you. My own experience I mentioned above shows no backlinks found in Yahoo or Google but my SERP has improved 17 positions due to my 5 days-link building work.

Share with us your linking experience

Do you have any wonderful (or bad) experience to share with us with regards to your link building efforts. How long did it take to see your backlinks showing up in Google or Yahoo?

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While many of us are too busy trying to increase massive backlinks to our website or home business blog, for the good of succeeding in search engine rankings,  there is one aspect of link building that may be neglected – Natural Link Building.

What is Natural Link Building

“Natural Linking” is said to take place when many bloggers link to the same site or blog. The mere fact that many people painstakingly link to a specific site and recommend their readers check via a hyperlink text the site or post clearly demonstrates a big vote of confidence to this site and contents . I suspect there’s some truth  behind SEO consultants’ claim that search engines have built their ranking algorithms based on existence of natural linking taking place.

Natural links usually takes place  by deep linking to the website or blog, proving yet again how important deep links can be to improve your link building strategy. This was discussed in my post on deep links so do check it out if you’ve missed it.

An Easy Way To Natural Link Building

I’ve actually been doing natural link exchanges with other friends for a long time but recently found a better and more efficient way to do this.  Well this tip works much better for bloggers who have a  whole lot of friends who are bloggers too. If your circle of friends in the blogging community is relatively small, you could still use this tip, but you’d probably take a little longer to find your potential partners, that’s all. (here’s a post which may just help you get started in no time). Anyway, that ought to be a temporary phase given that we all agree your home business success depends a great deal on how successful you are at building good relationships with other bloggers.

Identify Partners, Keyword Phrases

1. The first step is selecting your keyword phrases that you want as your anchor text to link to your blog or web site. In this tutorial, we will use the keyword phrase ‘Make Money Online‘.
2. Secondly you should try to identify  some blogs that have used or written posts containing similar text words ’make money online‘. This is where having a big list of your blogging  friends can really help expedite your search. In this tutorial we’re going to use Work From Home Business‘ peterleehc.com/blog, but it should work for any other sites that you are interested in.
3. Now simply type: ‘make money online -category -tag -archives site:peterleehc.com/blog’. The (-) helps to remove similar posts on these categories. You’ll then be presented with all the posts which have the keyword phrase ‘ make money online’.

Inform and Propose Natural Link Exchanges to other Bloggers

This is the easiest part. You have now identified a suitable post from your favorite blogger or friend which has the same keyword phrase that you are targeting on your blog. Your final task is to email him and propose a natural link exchange, providing your own post too for his consideration. Simple!

I’ve found from my own experience that doing this extra effort goes a long way in getting a natural link exchange done with other bloggers very quicky. We’ve always talked about the importance of providing a solution to our customer’s problems. Well it looks like we could use this lesson we have learned  and apply it to our natural link partners too isn’t it.

Building Your Natural Links…well Naturally

1.  A good strategy to do such natural link exchanges with a good number of blogs is to make it seem as natural as possible. This means try not to exchange too many links with the same blogger or the same post and I’m pretty sure you do have lots of posts you’ve written with the same keyword phrases.

2.  Make your links look natural so do make an effort to blend in the anchor text of words nicely into your paragraph you’ve selected. So don’t use words like “check this post” or “read more from this post on..”

3.  One good thing that may benefit both bloggers is that if you do this correctly, your readers may even appreciate your post even more as you’re providing more value added substance to your post.

4. Besides your usual directory submissions, article submissions, blog commenting which have their own merits in link building, having your fair share of natural link building, gives that much needed boost to your link building strategy. Besides it gives a good balance in in your overall link building techniques and strategy.

It may do you good not to think of natural link building purely for SEO at least not directly. More links can mean more avenues to generate traffic and if you have quality content people will be willing to link to it. Remember the definition of “natural link building” when I first started this post? Well It’s important that all these links appear natural to Google to be able to get in its good books making it seem more organic than an enforced link building task. Well If we can do this all I can say is that it will help us move from a baby step to taking a giant LEAP in doing well for your work at home business.

What did I miss? Do you have other interesting ways of doing natural link building that you want to share? Drop me a comment and share them as well as some thoughts.

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