A week has gone by since I started my new link building strategy and I wanted to share my results and what I have been doing over the past week to get these results.

A brief recap:

So last week I posted on how I thought my link building campaign needed to be revved up because whatever strategy I was using before just wasn’t “paying the bills” so to speak.  My total back links to my home page according to Yahoo was 1335 and to this blog was 792.  That didn’t seem to good to me after almost a year of trying to pick up back links.  This last week I have been focusing 95% efforts on getting back links to this blog and the other 5% to my home page.

One other reason I really wanted to step up my link building is because my PR went from 2 down to 0, and still no PR for this blog.  How or why that happens after all my efforts is beyond me.  I guess I just need to do better…and I will.

Current Stats:

As you can see I have made quite a bit of progress in just 7 days.  My home page now has 1358 back links.  Thats up 23.  This blog now has 1991.  And that is up 1199 back links!

Not too bad for only a week…1222 more back links in 7 days, and that averages out to be just over 174 a day!  It took me almost a year to get those same numbers.

How did I do it?  What’s the secret?:

Two words… blog commenting.  I really have been underestimating the power of commenting on other blogs.  I mean I always knew you could pick up back links doing so but had no idea it was that POWERFUL.  It is, and there is a specific strategy I used…

What I did was find a list of niche specific or like wise blogs that have the “do follow” tag.  Then I narrowed that list of blogs down to the blogs that have the “top commenter” section on their blog.  (I believe the top commenter is just available for certain themes or it may be a plug in. Ill be adding it to this blog asap.)

Once I had that list I went to town commenting on each blog day after day until my name, with a back link to this blog was featured on the “top commenter” section.  Once it’s there it is a site wide link.  That means my back link is included on every page that blog has.  Some sites have hundreds of pages giving me that many back links instantly.  Now that is powerful!

Here’s a list I got from fellow blogger and PIPSter Peter Lee and his Work From Home Business Blog: Thanks Peter! Ill be adding to it as I see fit.

PR 6

www.shoemoney.com
www.marketingpilgrim.com
www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/
www.business-opportunities.biz/

PR 5

www.wpthemedesigner.com
www.blueverse.com
techie-buzz.com

PR 4

zacjohnson.com
www.searchenginepeople.com
theuniversitykid.com
www.bookmarkbliss.com
www.winningtheweb.com
ahkong.net
www.sueblimely.com
www.balkhis.com
www.imbloggingthat.com
vocino.com
www.catswhocode.com
www.bloganything.net
imiseasy.com
www.thisismyurl.com/

PR 3

www.peterleehc.com
thoushallblog.com
www.JohnChow.com
www.JohnCow.com
www.thenetfool.com
www.datmoney.com
www.caroline-middlebrook.com
www.affiliateconfession.com
www.lifeiscolourful.com
internetmarketingsucks.com
www.thewwwblog.com
clubblogger.com
optempo.com
www.michaelaulia.com
www.niharsworld.com
www.francislee.com.au
entrecard.com/blog
www.retireat21.com
www.blogthority.com
www.oneyearmillionaire.net
www.angadsodhi.com
www.benbarden.com
norhafidz.com
www.domainstructure.com
www.skamid.com
getinternetmarketingstrategies.com
extremeezine.com
kikolani.com
otooo.com
www.hippowebsolutions.com
linkersblog.com
theblogentrepreneur.com
www.jonlee.ca
www.peiprofit.com/
www.imjustsharing.com/

PR 2

wassupblog.com
www.enkayblog.com
mrjavo.com
slyvisions.com
keithjameslock.com
www.terencechang.com
www.benjaminpatton.com
bloggingexperiment.com
www.adesblog.com
blogaboutyourblog.com
biznz.org
unlocktheonlineworld.com
bloggervenue.com
www.andrewooi.com
dablogger.com
www.emzdesign.co.uk
www.feedflare.ca
www.netstrife.com
ImwithJoe.com
www.techsagar.com
www.itcanhappen4u2.com/blog/
smartadvise.info

PR 1

www.protycoon.com
imblogger.net
www.bloggerslab.com
www.theathomecouple.com
www.kahthan.com
www.3arn.net
http://www.clydedennis.com

Be warned though, if you are going to use this strategy, be sure to leave meaningful comments and DON’T SPAM!

That’s all.  The secret is out.  Use this powerful link building strategy to your advantage and start picking up some massive back links today.  I’ll be back a week from now to let you know how this strategy is working and I’ll keep you up to date with everything else as well.

Matt Helphrey

I have talked plenty about the importance of back links and how back links are so important in increasing traffic to your blog or website. The more back links you have, the higher you will rank in the search engines for your keywords. And just to set the record straight, PageRank and search engine rank DOES NOT rely solely on the NUMBER of back links. The number of back links is just one factor of many that Google uses to rank your website/blog.

Google also takes into fact the age of your domain (older domains tend to rank higher ), where you back links are coming from (high PR websites give more link juice as well as websites that are of the same niche as yours), and how often you are getting back links. Those are just a few of the factors that Google uses. Im sure there are plenty of more factors that Im not thinking of but the truth is, there are probably only a handful of people in the entire world that truly know the Google algorithm that ranks websites.

With that in mind, it is up to you to develop some kind of link building strategy so you can build your back links up. People use different methods and different strategies to build their back links and there is no “right” way to do this. The only right way is just to do it early and do it often. One of mentors often says 10 a day. After 30 days you’ll have 300, after a year 3600, 5 years 18000!

Thats one way to do it and honestly I think that would be the standard rate at which a website picks up back links. However, in this day in age, and with competition so fierce in many niches (especially this niche), we look to get as many back links as possible so we can constantly rank above our competition.

You used to be able to buy back links or pick back links up by spamming. Not anymore. Google catches on quick and has made internet marketers rethink their link building strategies. Up to this point I would say that my link building strategy was the typical 10 a day, and heres what my link building strategy looked like…

• Article Marketing – At least 8 a month, sometimes more, sometimes less.
• Forum Posting – 5 a day
• Blog commenting – Varied…usually try to leave a few comments a week on likewise blogs.
• Directory submissions – Maybe around 2 or 3 a day on average.
• Social Bookmarking – Just recently started and I try to bookmark every post I make on both blogs.

That was the jest of my link building strategy and for the most part it has been pretty successful. My main website Make Money From Home, according to Yahoo Site Explorer has 1335 back links and this blog has 792. PR for both was 0, zero, zilch…:(

In effort to increase PR and back links, I am going to completely change my link building strategy and be more aggressive in getting back links. I will be keeping you up to date with my progress but will not disclose my new link building strategy until I see if it is going to work or not. If it does (and I think it will) at that point I will document my new link building strategy.

Until then….stay tuned.