Backlinks quality

[taniasharma]

Hi Guys,
I have been doing SEO for my website from long time and I have used most of the top relevant forums for building back links, my concentration was always to get relevant and niche back links for my website. Now after a year most of the top forums are used and want to know can I continue with irrelevant forums for building links ie; for Small Business Portal can I use SEO related forums. Please also suggest some of the other off Page activities which will help me to get natural quality links.

[Manish Pandey]

You shouldn't put your links in irrelevant forums. Use niche specific forums for eg. this forum for seo. Next you can think of creating a link bait and then promote it on the social sites. Further you can think of press release services. If you've the budget Yahoo and BOTW directories are the best places to invest. etc.

Just brain storm what would be best for your niche.

[Turkey Property]

There is a similar thread already running:
http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/...e-links-3.html

[dbinto]

I would change up the anchor text and also try to include some sort of call to action in the text.

[akasheg]

Originally Posted by taniasharma

Hi Guys,
I have been doing SEO for my website from long time and I have used most of the top relevant forums for building back links, my concentration was always to get relevant and niche back links for my website. Now after a year most of the top forums are used and want to know can I continue with irrelevant forums for building links ie; for Small Business Portal can I use SEO related forums. Please also suggest some of the other off Page activities which will help me to get natural quality links.

I just don't get it, why do you want to put in so much hard work for getting links and forums, which already link out to hundreds of other websites from a single page. They would only pass a very little link juice (to make any difference to your rankings) if at all!

Why not utilize the time in more effective ways which can not only give you high quality one way backlinks but also targetted traffic.

Like guest posting, link bait creation, blogging, building a good network on social networking sites and then social media promotions, directory submissions are also okay but you have to be very choosy when spending money, you can do press releases, article submissions, and there are so many other ways to build links.

You have got the time then use it on the right things. And if you don't have that much time then make some for link building because there's no shortcut to success. You have got to work hard and at the right things.

Read this to know more ways to buil links.
http://www.seobook.com/archives/001792.shtml

[wyanesmith1987]

do some article submission, blog posting, commenting and more but do this all thing in good pr site. that is the way to get high rank on google and good pr.

[MattF]

Guest blogging seems to be the safest way for getting quality links from relevent pages. You could take a look at myblogguest.com it's pretty cool!

[Turkey Property]

Originally Posted by taniasharma

Hi Guys,
I have been doing SEO for my website from long time and I have used most of the top relevant forums ... Now after a year most of the top forums are used ...

I don't really understand this part. Why can't you continue to use those same forums?

[rahulbangar]

You can do social bookmarking, directory submission, blog posting and article submission too. Focus on high pr, do follow and anchor text optimized links.

[williamsam]

only try to put your links in quality forum sites which has PR by Google and concentrate on on page optimization along with off page as well

and of course the best way according to me for quality back links is Guest posting but keep in mind that in which blog you guest posting should have PR first and rank high in serps

[Dreamrage]

Blogging, guest blogging on other forums, press releases etc. are all well and good.... I just don't really understand why forums are being devalued so much. Hear me out, lol, don't call for the torches and pitchforks just yet. I hear a lot of talk about social networks, which IMHO a forum actually is, is it not?

You can build just as good a network on a forum, that you could on twitter, facebook, or any other social network. You get to place links, you get (with some like v7n) to add RSS feeds from your blog, which are good links (in terms of niche relevance etc.). Not all forums are ranked the same, so all them pass different levels of "link juice". So why not utilize (I say utilize and not use) a forum for its social impact as well? You have more space to actually say something than you would with Twitter, you have profiles, subforums where you can just sit back, and chat the day away, where with facebook, you have a status update, notes, you might have a little more with a business page, but think about it, you can't really do much there either, and most of the time its being updated regularly by what you write in your blog, which you can do in a forum as well (as mentioned above)..

So, forgive me for being a little over skeptical here, but I really think that one of the main reasons that forums (and their links) are being devalued is because of people using forums. In my honest opinion, I would rather be a part of a forum, then be on twitter or facebook. Simply because its a better means to get a point across. Its a better way to build a network of followers (which I call friends), and its a better way to help market a product than just posting link upon link in a social network feed where everyone is doing the exact same thing and your links are practically drowned in a sea of tweets/status updates.

my 2

[akasheg]

Originally Posted by Dreamrage

Blogging, guest blogging on other forums, press releases etc. are all well and good.... I just don't really understand why forums are being devalued so much. Hear me out, lol, don't call for the torches and pitchforks just yet. I hear a lot of talk about social networks, which IMHO a forum actually is, is it not?

You can build just as good a network on a forum, that you could on twitter, facebook, or any other social network. You get to place links, you get (with some like v7n) to add RSS feeds from your blog, which are good links (in terms of niche relevance etc.). Not all forums are ranked the same, so all them pass different levels of "link juice". So why not utilize (I say utilize and not use) a forum for its social impact as well? You have more space to actually say something than you would with Twitter, you have profiles, subforums where you can just sit back, and chat the day away, where with facebook, you have a status update, notes, you might have a little more with a business page, but think about it, you can't really do much there either, and most of the time its being updated regularly by what you write in your blog, which you can do in a forum as well (as mentioned above)..

So, forgive me for being a little over skeptical here, but I really think that one of the main reasons that forums (and their links) are being devalued is because of people using forums. In my honest opinion, I would rather be a part of a forum, then be on twitter or facebook. Simply because its a better means to get a point across. Its a better way to build a network of followers (which I call friends), and its a better way to help market a product than just posting link upon link in a social network feed where everyone is doing the exact same thing and your links are practically drowned in a sea of tweets/status updates.

my 2

You are right with your points. Forums and blogs can still be used for links. But in an indirect way. Like by building a network and socializing with people. But the question here is are forum and blog comment links are of quality standards.

Well I would say no to that. But you should socialize with people on your industry related blogs and forums. But don't give the priority to the links you get from those places. Instead build a relation with other people from your industry.

But if you are spending so much time only on forum posting and blog commenting I would advice to utilize that time in a better way.

[StevenPayales]

You can also do Guest Blogging on high authority related blogs that has a high traffic. This will not only give you a backlink juice but also a drip of the traffic. Though this is not easy.. you have to ask permission first and they will check the quality of your article.

[wyanesmith1987]

Oh your words are so appreciable, thanks for this post dear. As I'm also doing SEO I will keep it my mind. Thank you so much. I'm totally depended on only social bookmarking or directory submission and article submission. But now i'm getting other way for SEO, can you tell me more about white hat hat SEO??

Originally Posted by Dreamrage

Blogging, guest blogging on other forums, press releases etc. are all well and good.... I just don't really understand why forums are being devalued so much. Hear me out, lol, don't call for the torches and pitchforks just yet. I hear a lot of talk about social networks, which IMHO a forum actually is, is it not?

You can build just as good a network on a forum, that you could on twitter, facebook, or any other social network. You get to place links, you get (with some like v7n) to add RSS feeds from your blog, which are good links (in terms of niche relevance etc.). Not all forums are ranked the same, so all them pass different levels of "link juice". So why not utilize (I say utilize and not use) a forum for its social impact as well? You have more space to actually say something than you would with Twitter, you have profiles, subforums where you can just sit back, and chat the day away, where with facebook, you have a status update, notes, you might have a little more with a business page, but think about it, you can't really do much there either, and most of the time its being updated regularly by what you write in your blog, which you can do in a forum as well (as mentioned above)..

So, forgive me for being a little over skeptical here, but I really think that one of the main reasons that forums (and their links) are being devalued is because of people using forums. In my honest opinion, I would rather be a part of a forum, then be on twitter or facebook. Simply because its a better means to get a point across. Its a better way to build a network of followers (which I call friends), and its a better way to help market a product than just posting link upon link in a social network feed where everyone is doing the exact same thing and your links are practically drowned in a sea of tweets/status updates.

my 2

[shubhrajoshi]

yeah sure, you can do many off page activities to increasing back links of your site like Article submissions, Blog submissions, Rss submissions, Blog Commenting, Directory submissions and review writing apart of forum posting only.

[iSynergy Media]

IMO do 60% relevant backlinking and remaining 40% you can do irrelevant backlinking .It covers backlinks for your site from all areas and also looks natural to google.

[johnstevebravo]

I suggest you to continue posting on existing relevant forums instead of looking for other irrelevant forums.

[GeraldNitram]

Good point there, Dreamrage. A forum is pretty much like a social network, or better yet, it IS a social network. I don't see that much of a difference between the two; they're both good ways of communicating with other people, and it gives you the chance to build relationships with people who are working on the same niche as you. About building links in forums, I suggest that you just go ahead and do so instead of being scared. It's still an opportunity, even if there are already a lot of people leaving links leading to their websites. Even if forums are swarmed by people like that, you can't take away the fact that links are still links and they still have the power to give you traffic, no matter how many other links are there on the same page.

[seotrafficsearch]

well, the extent or relevancy/irrelevancy also matters. if you are planning to link to completely irrelevant forums then you should probably drop that idea. however you may get links from forums with distantly relevant forums. (should be in a same broader genre)

[wot]

You can submit your link in quality websites like Guest blog posting, social bookmarking & Forum posting.