Which is the best link building method after Google penguin update & why?
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We are currently offering our client pre penguin these activities for link building:
- Local listing
- Directory submission
- bookmarking
- article submission
- blog comment
- guest post
- business review
- squidoo lens
- Forum posting
- infograhics
My questions is which is the best link building method and is there any activity that is redundant now.
thanks
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I have had to kill any outsourced bulk link building which I did a bit of while optimizing my clients' websites through forums, article submissions and Blogger outreach. I think those are big as well as niche profile directories. These have an associated cost but have a lot of good fodder such as review options, article uploading, followed links and often times a referral service.
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To be honest I don't really understand the new updates and in my poor opinion penguin and panda are only helping giant companies. Doesn't help legit SEM`s at all.
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Hi there, I totally empathise. Clients want to see the numbers, but post-Penguin quality is far more important than quantity. In fact, quantity without quality is harmful.
It sounds like you're on the right track - explain to clients that it's important to cultivate the right kind of links, then leave your writers and designers to produce great content. It's not a fast win, but it is a long term strategy that's probably going to be resistant to any future algorithm update.
Good luck!
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Thanks Debbie for your response,
Yes we have also hired content writer in house and dedicated designers to create quality infographics, But still yet to see any positive results. Everyone is saying that Content content and quality content is the key,
Other thing is to explain to clients that we would not be doing any of the link building activities and explaining them about penguin gets a bit hard. They want to see the work in bulk , "i mean show me the number" but explaining them that it will be harmful for there website is a bit tricky.
sorry its late and sorry for any spelling mistakes.
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Hi. I am not sure anyone knows the answer to this..yet. However, we have dropped most 'spam/scam' techniques and now simply getting on forums/blogs and answering questions (like this!), that make sense and are on track. This truly is grunt work but worth it in the end. You want evergreen content, and want folks to track down your site and what you have to offer. My opinion is that the 'art' of link building and those that do not have domain knowledge in areas is a rapidly dying profession.
One thing...We focus on hiring writers (zerys) that can write on our topics (original content) that we post on article sites, and write GREAT original content on our site (at least we think so).
We are just dabbling in video, motion graphics etc but not seeing the benefits yet. TBD
Finally, we definitely try our best to get our 'info graphics' and guest blogs out on good PR/ranked sites, offering 'hey your link is broken' etc...not much there but a few here and there which we believe add up.
I know this doesn't help much, but having lived through the old school (techniques that used to work), we definitely know this is not the case anymore.
Best!
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