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Dec 20 2007

Link Building Guide Part 2 - Social Profile Bumping

Published by Stuart under General





Yesterday’s technique was just the beginning, once this tutorial is over you should have all the link building information you need to really make your sites kick some Google ass. The reason I mentioned using yahoo for link building first is that it forces you to think outside the box & it also means you’re not using the same technique or looking at the same backlink profile as everyone else.

This technique is an old favourite of mine. Don’t be fooled though, you need to put some dedication & keep solid records of everything here. Otherwise you’ll end up getting lost.

Technique 2 - Social Profile Bumping

To do this properly you’ll either need a copy of Excel or Notepad. Or whatever notekeeping program you like to use. I can’t stress enough how important it is to keep a record of what we’re doing here.

Most Social Sites, Forums & Bookmarking Websites give you a public profile. In your profile it’ll either list your Homepage or a list of your recently bookmarked sites. The aim of this technique is to build up 100+ profiles & interlink them with one another, thus creating a network of 100 sites that we can easily utilise to link to our Affiliate Websites which whatever Anchor Text we like.

Eventually this will build up the backlink for each individual profile & give them decent authority & link influence. Given that these profiles can have upwards of 100 links pointing to each (including internal links too) they can pass a good bit of weight in the engines. Interlinking the profiles will also help each stick better in the search engines, which, in turn will keep your backlinks pumping, instead of the page going supplemental or not even getting indexed in the first place.

Once you have this network built up you can now use each profile to help rank new projects or throw some solid links at existing sites. Pretty simple really.

To those of you that are worried about quality over quantity imo & Matt Cutts recently said it himself:

A Link is a Link, no matter where it comes from.

So, let’s get some links?

Laying out your Excel Spreadsheet

You need to make a record of the profile page for each network that you sign up to. It’s worth doing this in something like Excel. I have tabs for each type of linking network I’m highlighting in these guides. You’d put these under the “Social Bookmarking” Tab.

Below I’ve highlighted a few examples of the pages we’ll be bookmarking.

  • Digg: digg.com/users/username
  • Flickr flickr.com/photos/username
  • Myspace: myspace.com/username
  • Sphinn: sphinn.com/user/view/profile/username

These are the URL’s you want to be keeping track of, because these are the URL’s you’re going to be bookmarking/building links to. You can include these all in a single column.

Other variables you may want to consider keeping a record of:

  • Keeping track of the usernames & passwords for each of the sites (I often sign up to all the sites with the same login & password details to avoid this, but you can mix it up if you want).
  • Keeping track of whether the page is indexed in Google.
  • Which sites/pages you’ve submitted to each site & anchor text you’ve used.

List of 20 Sites to get Started

Below is a list of 20 sites that you can use to start creating your network. They’re all dofollow & I’ve highlighed which pages you should be bookmarking once you’ve created a profile.

  • Any Vbulletin Forum: forumname.com/member.php?u=userid
  • Technorati.com: technorati.com/people/technorati/username
  • Searchles.com: searchles.com/people/show/username
  • Digg.com: digg.com/users/username
  • Backflip.com: backflip.com/members/username/
  • Bibsonomy.org: bibsonomy.org/user/username
  • Faves.com: faves.com/users/username
  • Wink.com: wink.com/p/username
  • Simpy.com: simpy.com/user/username/links
  • Markaboo.com: .markaboo.com/people/username
  • Rawsugar.com: rawsugar.com/user_account/user_profile?username=username
  • ma.gnolia.com: ma.gnolia.com/people/username
  • Furl.net: furl.net/member/username
  • Propeller.com: propeller.com/member/username/
  • Indianpad.com: indianpad.com/user/username/bookmarks
  • Care2.com: care2.com/news/member/userid
  • Plugim.com: plugim.com/user/username/history/
  • Blogmarks.net: blogmarks.net/user/username
  • Spotback.com: spotback.com/users/leosatter
  • Socialogs.com: socialogs.com/profile.php?id=userid&cmd=submitted

A few important things to remember is that you can get banned from these networks for spamming, so be careful what types of sites you link to & which pages.

You can check to see if the page is in the main index of Google by pasting the URL (without the http://) into the search box i.e. www.propeller.com/member/username/

You can check to see how many inbound links the profile page has with the SEO for Firefox Tool I spoke about in my last post that technique always helps me find new Social Sites to add to my list as well.

Always try to mix up your Anchor Text & which pages you’re linking to on your sites. Don’t just point all your links at the homepage, it’s unnatural. Also don’t point 100 links to your sites at once.

Remember that once you’ve created all your accounts you need to start bookmarking them or submitting them. This can mean that you’re submitting 50+ profiles at a time into each website (which can get quite boring). From personal experience I try not to submit too many at once otherwise you risk detection.

Happy bumping!

This post is part of the One Way Link Building 2008 Series.

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Dec 18 2007

Link Building Guide Part 1 - Thank You Mr Yahoo

Published by Stuart under General





I’ve had a large number of emails from people who are frustrated with building links to their newly created PhpBay Pro Websites. Rightly so, when you’re starting from scratch it can often be disheartening to see traffic trickle through. But don’t worry, the more you build the more you’ll have to leverage off eventually.

Over the coming weeks I’m going to create a series of posts that outlines varying ways of generating & getting links to your sites. You may want to read a few of my other posts on this topic before this one to get some background:

Now that you’ve digested those posts lets start with the first technique.

Technique 1 - Yahoo Site Explorer & Yahoo Search

To use this technique you’ll need Firefox & the SEO for Firefox Tool.

Yahoo updates their backlinks much more frequently than Google (pretty much daily). It’s the most up to date information you can get on a sites backlink profile.

Therefore the basic theory behind this technique is that it allows us to see where other sites are getting their links from & thus why they are ranking higher than we are. Thus allowing us to get those links too & then some.

This is technique is useful for three reasons:

  • Enables us to see how difficult it is to outrank a particular website
  • Opens the doors to new methods of link promotion we might not have thought of
  • Allows us to scan the backlink profile of whichever sites we want (this is important)

With the SEO for firefox tool there’s 2 main settings that we’re interested in. The Y! Links & Y! Page Links.

  • Y! Links: This shows the total inbound links to the entire site
  • Y! Page Links: This shows the total inbound links to a specific page

I mentioned this technique a few weeks ago in the Al Gore Hacked Post. It’s useful to see what Blackhat’s are doing to get links & also what your competitors are doing that’s different from your Link Building Campaign.

I’ll let you in on a secret, this technique is pretty much how I stumble upon any other techniques I’ll be outlining later in this guide. With careful analysis you’ll be able to find plenty of nice places to drop links.

This post is part of the Link Building 2008 Series.

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