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[Patrick Mitsuing Company: Usana Health Sciences, Inc. Contribution Level: 3]

Hey guys i've been doing a lot of marketing lately getting my website out to the mlm industry and Mainly been building my back-links to my site through article marketing, video marketing, and blogging.

What are your strategies, shortcuts(if there is any), ways for power linking and more???

I just want to work a lot smarter instead working harder?

[Roger Silen Contribution Level: 2]

Keep up the great work my friend...

there is no shortcut and its not a race... too many people want the success TODAY but it just doesn't work that way....

Articles, Blogs and Videos are tremendous as far as building out your content... and links back to your main web properties... Publishing Daily Content is very powerful... stick with it for 60 days and you should see dramatic results....

Here are some linking tips..

1. Make sure you use anchor text in your links that are relevant
2. make sure to vary the anchor text..
3. link to different pages of your site (hopefully you have a blog) deep links are Great!
4. Remember that the quality of your links are far better then just quantity....
(1 link from a PR3 site is worth maybe 20 - 30 links from a PR2 site and a link from a PR2 site is worth as much as 20+ links from a PR1 site... Also Page Rank 0 is better then NO Page Rank!)
5. Social Bookmarking links are great to help you get indexed very quickly
6. try to get .edu or .gov links if you can... they can carry significant link juice...
(hard to find but if you come across sites/forums that you can post a relevant comment on then you are Golden)

Just a few basics hope that helps..

[Tim Atkinson Contribution Level: 2]

Keep up the great work my friend...

there is no shortcut and its not a race... too many people want the success TODAY but it just doesn't work that way....

Articles, Blogs and Videos are tremendous as far as building out your content... and links back to your main web properties... Publishing Daily Content is very powerful... stick with it for 60 days and you should see dramatic results....

Here are some linking tips..

1. Make sure you use anchor text in your links that are relevant
2. make sure to vary the anchor text..
3. link to different pages of your site (hopefully you have a blog) deep links are Great!
4. Remember that the quality of your links are far better then just quantity....
(1 link from a PR3 site is worth maybe 20 - 30 links from a PR2 site and a link from a PR2 site is worth as much as 20+ links from a PR1 site... Also Page Rank 0 is better then NO Page Rank!)
5. Social Bookmarking links are great to help you get indexed very quickly
6. try to get .edu or .gov links if you can... they can carry significant link juice...
(hard to find but if you come across sites/forums that you can post a relevant comment on then you are Golden)

Just a few basics hope that helps..

Nail on the head here. There's software that can help you with finding edu and gov links..I found it through my buddy George Brown from Google Sniper..it was a CPA he was promoting..I'll find and get back to this thread..just wanted to give you a heads up just in case you happen to find it first..

Also if you have a some extra cash outsource your backlinking strategies..You will find it will pay off big time to outsource everything under the sun!

[Shirland Carrington Contribution Level: 2]

Hey guys i've been doing a lot of marketing lately getting my website out to the mlm industry and Mainly been building my back-links to my site through article marketing, video marketing, and blogging.

What are your strategies, shortcuts(if there is any), ways for power linking and more???

I just want to work a lot smarter instead working harder?

Natural link building is the best way to get "power linking", so keep doing what you are doing; just add some of the suggestions from Roger. If your links don't seem natural then they is a good possibility that you might get the infamous slap. Guest Blogging is a great way to get great link juice. Blog commenting using deep links from your blog is another great way to develop your back links.

[Roger Silen Contribution Level: 2]

BTW.... Affilorama is the source or atleast A source for generating .EDU and .GOV links... Mark Ling is a great trainer.. I belivee it is the Affilorama Premium membership...

[Jeff Dudley Contribution Level: 1]

When you say Blog commenting using "deep links" from your own blog, are you referring to links to older posts or what?

[Adam Goldman Contribution Level: 2]

When you say Blog commenting using "deep links" from your own blog, are you referring to links to older posts or what?

I think what Roger means is the you make a link to a page on your site. For instance:

www.YouDomain.com/Resources/

Am I right Roger?

Deep linking is better as far as SEO goes.
Also, it's far easier than what people think.
I'm currently developing my back-deep-linking strategy,
so give me a buzz if you need help gettign started on that.

If you have any more questions feel free to address me.

Hope this helps,

Adam

[Jeff Dudley Contribution Level: 1]

Thanks Adam,

I kind of thought that's was what he meant but just needed some clarification. That is the direction that I'm taking right now too. I've been article marketing for awhile but I think keyword research for pr5/6 blog sites and placing comments with back links could possibly be more powerful and much quicker. Appreciate the offer, just might take you up on it. Mind if I add you?

Jeff

PS: Where do you go to setup a signature file here?

[Roger Silen Contribution Level: 2]

Sorry for the lack of clarification... but you guys have got it... Don't just link back to your home page... link to individual posts and pages.... always to the most relevant spot you can. Google does not want to see only links to one page on your site... so mix it up!

Also one more linking strategy I can add here:

Be sure to Interlink your pages also.... Very powerful for SEO....

as an example.... let's say you have a blog post about wordpress...... Maybe it's called
'Wordpress is best for MLM' let's say you also have a Blog Post on Wordpress Plugins.... called Best Wordress Plugins

Now.. let's say that inside your first post about wordpress you mention briefly something about Plugins... this is a perfect example and opportunity to link directly to your Plugins post with anchor text...

Hope that makes sense..

All the best,

Roger S.

[Leo Dimilo Contribution Level: 2]

There are all sorts of strategies out there....link wheels, mini-nets, ect. The important part to remember is to determine what your goal is. If you are attempting to rank for a keyword, then you will likely have to do what the internet marketers do; create different pages and properties over various IP ranges and link up to them anchoring the keyword to the page you are trying to rank. I have seen so many strategies over the years that I have lost count, lol. Some work..others work for awhile...still others sound like they should work but don't.

What does work is to use web 2.0 properties with trust rank to create "funnels" that point toward your site. If you are smart, you can kill two birds with one stone. The web 2.0 property you create (squidoo, hubpages, wetpaint...the list could go on and on) will target a thematically congruent keyword and hopefully will rank on its own simply because of the trust google gives the host. The page will also have a prominent link pointing to your site with a different keyword that happens to be topical and thematically on topic with your site to give it a bigger push in link juice. It works right now and should work in the future because the internet and how search engines crawl pages and determine what is and what isn't relevant relies on this.

I have a couple articles that I recently wrote that deal with link building strategies that may or may not be helpful.

In this article, I talk about developing your second tier pages first with a total market in mind and not just micro-niches that most marketers develop. What happens is that you have your main site that is about MLM for example and you are shooting for the money keyword. The second tier pages are nothing more than minisites that comprise of long tail keywords in your niche that have value to your readers. Value is key here because you want the natural linking opportunities of like minded folks who are interested in what you are interested in.
http://leodimilo.com/internetmarketingblog/link-building-strategies-going-from-the-top-down/

For those of you who have a hard time wrapping your head around that, I wrote something about a 6 months ago that deals with marketing with micro-niches. This is more of a straight arrow link strategy and is much more simple and less involved. It works for non-to-mildly competitive keywords because once again, you are using what the search engines favor at the moment.
http://leodimilo.com/internetmarketingblog/internet-marketing-techniques-with-micro-niches/

At any rate, I will tell you what not to do and what doesn't work. Mindlessly picking up every link you can and making funnels that offer little to no value other than passing link juice works but doesn't work as well as you would think. Besides, it just muddies the already murky waters of the internet.