I'm on the verge of publishing my new site and obviously want to raise the search engine ranking. I have been reading the advice for nights on end now and it seems that it will be a full time job! I need backlinks, but I only need good quality backlinks. If I pay for backlinks, I'll be barred etc, etc, etc...
Does anyone have some good advice as to how to raise a site's profile? I refuse to believe that it can't be done!!
Thanks in advance...
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
seosaro | 28/11/2009 08:32 AM
I found some advise on internet
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There's no doubt that buying backlinks is the easiest way to buy your way to the top. It's not cheap, but it can be an easy solution if you want to get a high Page Rank without spending hours building links manually. The danger is not just in buying links, but in getting carried away. We tend to get sucked into buying the most links for the cheapest prices. This is usually where things go wrong. Big time.
Your site can and will get 'demoted' by Google.
The infamous Google Sandbox is reserved for dumb-ass marketers that try and force their way into Google's rankinging. This is what you need to be very careful of when you buy backlinks.
To simplify the criteria I will give you 3 link buying sins you need to avoid at all costs.
Avoid...
Thousands of links coming from the same place. Unless you are Digg.com Google will not like it if there are thousands of back links that point to your site from a single source. Especially if the source has a poor Page Rank. This is a common footprint for link exchanges or what is commonly known as Link Farms. Avoid them at all costs. Google can easily track these links and nullify them. Reciprocal links have pretty much lost all their value and the days of simply plugging into a link exchange script are over. In fact, nowadays it can actually harm your site.
Avoid...
Sites that publicly advertise the buying and selling of links. Most people will probably disagree with me on this, but if you just think about the real purpose of links then you will see that Google frowns upon this. They want to see natural links. Sooner or later they will sniff out artificial links like those that are publicly traded. Big link selling networks that advertise all over the internet are leaving themselves vulnerable to having their links traced and flagged by Google.
Avoid...
Backlinks are becoming big business. If you are going to dish out the cash and buy back links you need to make sure you get as much bang for your buck as possible. Try and avoid buying backlinks that charge you a monthly fee to maintain the link. Buy only permanent links. The only thing worse than not having a high Page Rank is losing your high Page Rank. Instead of paying $50 per month to maintain one PR7 link you can buy a new and permanent PR7 link every month for $50.
Buying backlinks aren't nearly as straight forward as getting out your credit card. It takes planning and research. The wrong links from the wrong place can hurt your site. People selling back links are only interested in selling links. They don't care much about anything else. At the end of the day your site is your investment and you have to e careful whom you entrust with that asset.
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RE: RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
MessHall | 15/04/2010 11:39 PM
QUOTING THIS:
Buy only permanent links. Instead of paying $50 per month to maintain one PR7 link you can buy a new and permanent PR7 link every month for $50.
This is the reason why forum posting and blog commenting services are very popular nowadays. It's basically a permanent backlink and done right, it could benefit your PR and your SERPs!
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
That's really decent advice.
It confirms my fears that there is no magical quick way to make this happen. It's going to take time and effort to do it right. I would naturally have avoided the big link supermarkets.
Anyone that has any advice for good quality permanent links to buy, I'd be most interested to hear.
Thanks in advance to everyone...
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RE: RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
LastDance | 05/10/2010 04:54 AM
I think that you should hire experts on every possible link building alternative you want to do, if you want to do forum posting, hire professional forum posters, if you want blog commenting hire professional blog commenters. That's the only way you could get the best out of your money.
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
synaxissolutions | 02/12/2009 08:43 AM
There is no magical touch or path!! unfortunately or fortunately depending which way you look at it.
It takes a lot of research, both on and off site. At the end of the day there is no point being highly ranked for a keyword/phrase that no one uses. No point being top for the right keywords if your site is bad and turning visitors off.
Conversion is everything really, better to have one visitor and 100% conversion than 10 visitors and no conversions.
So making sure your coding is clean, keywords are grammatically placed within your content.
Getting back links that count, is better than any old back links. Higher PR is not something to keep trying to achieve, it can blind some people into thinking they should be ranked higher just because they have a high PR. Google changes the PR on sites regulary.
Look at what your competitors are doing not the ones you think you have in the real world, but the ones you have for the keywords that pay. And don't just try and copy their linking strategy, if you can figure out what it is.
But look to see what their site is like, coding used, content within the site. Something that makes visitors want to buy from them.
I could go on.... in brief
Research Keywords/Phrases
Research where back links can be obtained from, ideally within niche
Write articles, Blogs,
Make sure you website is not turning people off
Make sure your website is optimised for search engines, which includes Titles, Meta Tags, clean coding.
Hope this helps? more of a general look rather than link specific 
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
duncan | 07/12/2009 08:56 AM
link building is really important to get high ranking in Google .. but buying links is not a good idea at all, might as well as for exchange link with big authoritative websites.
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
webvivre | 30/12/2009 11:40 AM
I agree buying backlinks is dangerous - it might provide a short-term boost but when Google finds out you will be penalised.
One of the easiest methods of getting backlinks is submitting articles - especially to ezinearticles.com and goarticles.com. You will get traffic and trusted links.
You can add links in the resource box for each article.
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
Thanks for all the advice. I'm starting to write articles although I'll be honest, it's not easy. Maybe it will get better the more I do!
I'm also going offer the Etonbridge site as a place for others to publish articles. I'm hoping that this should be appealing to some wanting a space to show off thier work.
The link is: http://www.etonbridge.com/News/
I'll be tweeting the stories and have started an Etonbridge Facebook page. I feel I'm gradually making sense of something that at first glance seems easy, but when you scratch the surface you realise that it's a very complex and involved process requiring a lot of skill.
The guys that do this well deserve every penny they get...
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
Blue Ice Web Design | 19/01/2010 06:33 PM
Buying quality links from relevant high quality websites is a great way to build your websites page rank.
As has been mentioned though buying lots of cheap links on low quality websites is not the way forward, with Google quality is definitely worth more than quantity.
If you can also get some good quality link exchanges then this will also help.
Article writing is one of the best methods to gain backlinks as an article you write once can keep getting you links for a long time after.
Whatever you decide to do though there is no quick fix.
Good luck.
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
ZENEDISON | 28/01/2010 05:37 AM
I agree that buying backlinks is a dangerous way to go. If I were you, I would devote some time each day visiting other sites. You can also check your competitors to see who is linking to them and see if you can link to these sites as well.
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
mandy12 | 27/02/2010 02:15 AM
wow, some people don't know what they are talking about.
reciprocal links are still worth doing with relevant sites.
stick qith quality links. a site with 300 backlinks could outrank 1 with 3000.
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
timrees | 16/04/2010 10:16 AM
Great advice above from a few guys, but I would forget backlinks.If it doesn't cost you a lot of money it is going to cost you a lot of time and the impact it will have on your search engine visibility is questionable. The fact that everyone is finding ways to abuse backlinks means Google will de-prioritize backlinks from the algorithm's criteria at some point and probably sooner rather than later.
Concentrate on good organic SEO. I’ll offer you an example and I want you to research the results yourself so you can be sure I’m not linking to pre-prepared pages to convince you. Search the phrase Hollywood film stars in Google and see where you find the website www.movie-greats.co.uk. Then I want you to go to www.googlepagerankchecker.com and run the URL there. You will find the website is a PR3 with backlinks 0. On page 1 of Google under that same search phrase you will find the website www.hollywood.com and when you run that URL through the page rank checker you will see it has a page rank of 7 with 2,590 backlinks, so if the more backlinks equal higher page rank and higher page rank equals higher ranking in the Google free listing index, how come my website is above Hollywood.com? How come my website is on page 1 of Google’s free index at all? And the results I have stated are global. I have had the searches confirmed via a computer in the USA. Try the same experiment with the search phrase millionaire dating agency. This is a good generic phrase that is very heavily competed for by professional IT marketing gurus out to make their fortune selling people the love partner of a lifetime! At the top of Google you will find www.singlemillionaires.co.uk. That is my website and it proudly has a PR of 0. If the people purporting that backlinks and a high PR figure is the most important criteria for getting your website to the top of Google, how can that be?
I'm not here to sell to anyone, but in this dicussion the fact I run a Do-It-Yourself online organic SEO course is totally relevant, and organic SEO is all about relevancy! LOL... But organic SEO is also all about honestly informing Google with accurate information reference the website's content. Organic SEO is about shouting more loudly than your competitors. Organic SEO is all about the FREE listing index and organic SEO is all about harvesting relevant visitors to you website... I've probably forgotten to add something here
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
varun67 | 19/04/2010 06:14 PM
If it is your fresh website, be sure to check out the niche that you are going to enter. You may have to work a lot for offpage SEO
before going for money and traffic. Be a regular active member in your niche and you will be able to create unlimited web relations,
post on our web forums,blogs, comment on various sites ,does the offpage SEO.
Backlinks are a major concern for bloggers and site owners.
Are they something that you try to get?
Google has spiders or robots (bots) that run around the web following links and reporting back what they find.If your site has a link from any
other site[backlink],it come up before others on a Google search.That is Search Engine Results Pages.I must say No links, no traffic!!
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
timrees | 23/04/2010 03:46 PM
Hi varun67,
You state: "I must say No links, no traffic!!" If that was true I wouldn't be earning very much at all. I rely on traffic clicking ads on all my websites and I only link my own sites together and Google picks up on very few of those backlinks. I rely purely on organic SEO and on the course page (link below) I offer a couple of examples of my websites position in the free indexes.
I will however concede that were I able to get the BBC website to link to my websites it would have a significant impact, however, anything less than a seriously big, high profile website has little impact and if you have lots of little insignificant websites linking to your website, your website will be perceived as a little insignificant website. The other thing about link building campaigns is you are relying on Google continuing to prioritize backlinks. In my 15 years experience if you rely on Google not changing the prioritized criteria of their algorithm you will wake up one day to discover your site has disappeared from the index. Far better to rely on good, comprehensive organic SEO, which simply means inputting keyphrases in the right areas to cover all bases when Google next tweak their algorithm.
Personally, I don't think backlinks are now prioritized by Google, but that's just my feeling. Whenever an SEO method has been abused in the past, Google have been quick to respond in changing the algorithm.
Cheers
Tim
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
SBarnett | 06/05/2010 09:51 AM
I think it's tough to build links in the early days.
Our own experience has been that it's been useful to form relationships with other webmasters/business owners who operate in related fields.
As a result, you can build your links fairly organically, without getting involved in paying for them.
The downside? It's very time consuming. I do, however, feel that we've gained a lot more in terms of business relationships than we would have done otherwise.
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
Kendustin | 07/05/2010 10:44 AM
Buying backlinks is really dangerous as it is against Adsene rule but in reality I have never experienced or find to see that google is banning a site with buying links. I think it can penalized your site if you do black hat on your site.
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
KellyTaylor | 16/05/2010 06:30 AM
Try to get oneway links as much you can.
search engine submissions, directory submissions and article submissions as good sources of one way link building.
Another way for quality one way link building is to find sites that are same subject. Asking webmaster to put a link of a site on their site to help with the promotion of the site. This is a good way to build link popularity. Linking to sites because they offer a spot does not mean the best for the site. Remember to keep in the same subject.
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
rkallit | 18/08/2010 07:50 AM
It is a well known fact that search engines like Google discount links which they detect as ‘paid links’. So if it is better to purchase links that are nearly impossible to detect, as compared to buying links from link brokers or networks.
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
CarolClark | 27/08/2010 04:42 PM
Hi Guys,
Yes agreed link building is really important to get high ranking in Google .. but buying links is not a good idea at all, might as well as for exchange link with big authoritative websites.
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
timrees | 27/08/2010 07:15 PM
I repeat. Link building is worthless. There is such a lot of nonsense being spouted on this thread.
The evidence is clear. http://www.targetedinternetmarketing.co.uk/seo_online_course/SEO_course.htm
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
WebSearchSEO | 31/08/2010 01:13 PM
Tim Rees, I must disagree with your post strongly. You are correct in saying that in SOME cases link building is not required if the Keyword you are targeting has very little or no competition but even Matt Cutts himself (from GOOGLE) confirms that back links are counted as "votes" in the Google algorithms and contribute to defining the popularity of a web site or page.
http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts-061608.shtml
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
timrees | 31/08/2010 01:47 PM
Feel free to disagree as strongly as you like, mate.
I do not employ anything other than good organic SEO to generate hits to my websites and my bulk income comes from visitors clicking Google ads. I am an example of the success everyone here is desperate to achieve - visitors to websites. I make a good passive living from them everyday right now.
If you read my webpage linked above, you will see my websites are based on popular genic key phrases that are highly competed for and not small niche market phrases. Niche market phrases are dead simple to get on top of the organic listings as I prove time and time again. My results stand up as an example of why Google's explanation of PR cannot be right. My results stand up on Bing and Yahoo too. Focus on good organic SEO and forget about link building then you too can enjoy success like mine 
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
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RE: What is it with Backlinks?!
Amoeba21 | 02/10/2010 12:12 AM
So we've all agreed that backlinks are good, paid backlinks are bad, and reciprocal links are worthless.
The next obvious question would be, how do you build the backlinks which is (WOW!) the original question, right?
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