Traditional link requests still the right way?
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Is the traditional way of link building wherein we send requests for two way or three way links still important? I feel posting articles, blog commenting, blog posting, forum commenting etc are better means to build links... but since I am still new to this industry I may be wrong. Please suggest.
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HI Andrew.
I have two more open queries on http://www.seomoz.org/q/rss-feeds#post-68299 and http://www.seomoz.org/q/linklicious-and-crawl-rates. Please help me out there
Thanks,
KS__
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Thanks Andrew.
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Just to add onto Casey's thoughts, personally, if the blog comments are informative and add value, they can be a great way to build relationships with the webmaster and readers of the blog. Generally the blog comments will have nofollow tags applied to them, but nofollow or not, focus on building the relationship and you will be rewarded in other ways than just a dofollow link.
Helping a small PR1 blog out now could bring you a lot of future benefit. The same applies to forums. Spend time adding comments and helping out where I can, and you will start to see a steady stream of traffic and increased brand awareness.
This is difficult for consultants to do for clients. Try to educate them into understanding although they are paying you for 'SEO', they know the business best and should be taking an active roll in contributing to sites within their niche. Give them pointers on what to say and how to say it. Get them into the routine of adding a forum/blog comment each day in the mornings after they check their email.
Chasing high PR blog comment links still work to some degree, but are the search algo techniques of the past.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Andrew
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Thanks Caser.
But there's a limit to how many Guest Blogs posts one can make, or how many useful tips one can send in exchange for a link. Not to mention these methods are time consuming, especially if I am working on 10-15 client SEO projects. I do understand that 2-3 way link requests is out now, but I thought blog/forum comment posting works. Thats what everybody out there preaches.
What do you suggest here?
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Hi KS_.....
Most of the techniques you posted are not relevant anymore
- 2 or 3 way link requests are not that important (unless its a huge authority site)
- Posting articles to say eZinearticles is not worth it
- Blog commenting is not worth it
- Forum commenting is not worth it
- But Guest Blog Posting is worth it!
Instead of sending a request asking to exchange links, send a request with helpful information for the webmaster and leverage that to get a 1 way link back to your site.
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