Link Building Services

After trying many different methods of link building, I have found that their are literally thousands of great places to build links back to your sites from. Most of these places fit into one of the following categories:

• article directories (contextual or resource box links)
• forums (as either profile or signature links)
• social bookmarking sites
• web directories
• RSS directories
• “authority sites” (any site that’s huge like blogger, live journal, digg, etc)
• contextual blog post links
• blog comment links
• link networks (usually these consist of large numbers of privately owned blogs or html sites, that post you contextual backlinks within the content on their sites)

Here is what I have found from my experimentation, by doing this manually, hiring a full time outsourced link builder to do all the work of manually submitting links to many of the above type sites, and also using the leverage of link networks. Basically, when it comes to effectiveness, and return on investment I find that link networks are the most valuable source of links. Obviously, link diversity is important, and if you can have both link networks, and manually created links on a variety of different sites, like those above, then that is ideal.

However, for those of us with a limited amount of time, money and resources to manage our SEO and linkbuilding, link networks are by far the most powerful way of leveraging our time, to get the best possible results for our investment.

Over a testing period of almost 2 years, I have found that using a diverse mix of at least a few high quality link networks has provided me with consistent and stable increases in my SERPS, traffic and therefore site revenue. I have tested this with over 100 niche sites, and the results have been very pleasing to say the least.

So what exactly are link networks? and how do they usually work?

If you have a bad impression of link networks, it’s probably becuase you are thinking of the olden day spammy “link farms” that actually provided very little content and user value on thier sites, therefore making building links on them actually more harmful than good. That is NOT what we are talking about here.

Basically, a link network is about as simple as it sounds, it’s a network of sites, from which you get contextual backlinks to your sites. Contextual backlinks, if you don’t already know, are simply links within contextually related content. Contextual links have been proven over the years, by many SEOers, including myself, to be far more powerful than just a lone link sitting by itself without any nice related content.

So how do these link networks work?

There are 2 main types of link networks from my experience, those that require you to have your own content, and those that do all the work for you in terms of creating contextually related links that include highly relevant content. The former style of link network is more common, and there are quite a few decent services that will provide the network for you for a fee, but require you to provide the content.

So far, I have only found one service that actually does everything for you so you don’t even have to create content.

What I personally recommend is that you use as many of the top link networks on your sites as you can afford. YOu can find extremely detailed reviews on this blog of what I have tested and found to be the most effective and valuable link networks so far. You can see those indepth reviews to the right.

The best networks that I have personally tested so far, are:

1. Linx Boss (the most automated)
2. Unique Article Wizard (absolute must, cheap, and gives a great foundation to your SEO campaigns)
3. Linkvana (the first network I used extensively, still the backbone of all my niche site SEO campaigns, and a consistent performer for the SERPS)

I also offer a personal bonus on some of these, as I am of course promoting them. This is if you want to get an extra treat for joining through me. Usually I will be giving something away that is highly unique to the link network you are thinking of signing up with. For example, for those that sign up to Linkvana, I give you 900+ posts, which saves you creating any content straight away, and gives you huge amount of leverage when using this network.

Anyway, regardless of whether you choose to try what I have found to be the most powerful way of building backlinks, and getting higher SERPS, I hope you have got some value out of this post, and I would be happy to hear any comments you have.

Thanks for reading : )

Nick

I am not going to even pretend I don’t use Linkvana, and promote it too (linkvana.info be the domain you’re on right now). Linkvana is actually the first successful link building service that I ever used, and over the last 2 1/2 years of being a member, I have found it to be increasingly powerful and effective in gaining SERPS. As with unique article wizard, I consider Linkvana a backbone system for my SEO and link building campaigns.

The main drawback with Linkvana is the effectiveness compared to the price. I agree with others out there who say that it is too expensive for what it is. So why on earth am I recommending it? Well the thing is, I have a systemized strategy, that highly automates the whole post creation and post uploading for Linkvana, which are the 2 biggest drawbacks to the system over something like Linxboss.

Where Linkvana really shines, is with the fact that you can upload as many posts for as many projects (sites) as you want. There is literally no limit. Right now, as I am writing this, I have around 90 projects/sites within the Linkvana dashboard. Some of these projects have up to 950 links sitting there, drip feeding links to my sites on a daily basis, all setup with the intention of having totally hands off link building going on for years to come.

You can find out WAY more information, including some of my results from using it, here.

Here you will find testing of all the most popular link building services. My aim for this site, is to not only help you make the right decision regarding what link building networks and services are going to be worth your time and effort, but also to give you an advantage in using these services where possible.

Like you may be, I am all about automating my SEO as much as possible, and for that reason, once I have found an link building service that is effective (raises my rank in the SERPS consistently) I try and develop a way that the process can be automated as much as possible.

So, if and when you do decide to join up to any of the services I recommend, I will totally make it worth your while, by providing you methods and systems by which you can automate the processes of getting your links out there using the service.

You can check out the different link building product and service reviews on the right, and get an indepth idea of just how they look and work, once you are in the members area.