Comments on: Natural Backlinks - Getting backlinks without even asking.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:33:47 +0000

Igor, the nofollow stays on automatically for 2 days for any link published in the comments, then it it removed (some wordpress plug in I think).
So in 1 day you’re link should be set free.

By: Igor M.

Igor M. — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:35:36 +0000

Jim, thanks for the comments and link.

What’s interesting is that other links in your comments do not have the “No Follow” tags on them and I got a nice pink condom on my link

Jim, I am assuming the rule is, don’t link to PR0 sites?

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:23:59 +0000

Igor, yea…we were both thinking the same thing within 3 days of each other…but I like many of your ideas there…allow me to add your link to your post here:
http://www.bizmord.com/Blog/archives/30

By: Igor M.

Igor M. — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:37:43 +0000

Very good article. At the beginning I thought you stole those 3 out of my 10 points for natural link building I wrote about in my blog, BUT it seems this article is older than what I wrote.

Anyhow … asking for links or paying for them, to me becomes somewhat strategy from the past. Now it’s PR, etc.

By: Prince Albert

Prince Albert — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:28:52 +0000

Donate goods or services to a charities or non-profits, that 9 times out of 10, will gladly give you a link from their .org

By: wheel

wheel — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:02:10 +0000

‘naturale’ is fine if you’re selling widgets. But if you’re trying to promote something like term life insurance or mortgages or credit cards or something competitive, you’re not going to get people ‘just linking to you’. Who the heck is going to link to a site like that? Nobody, not without some grease.

Beside, on the web, link acquisition = marketing. And I can’t imagine why people don’t want to market their site. Nothing wrong with asking.

Also Jim, I want to thank you for your extended introduction to and promotion of presell pages. Not only do I agree with you that these are the way to go, but presell pages offered as free content has gotten me more - and better - one way inbounds this month than anything I’ve done in a year. (and I’m thanking you for that). Beats the crap out of link begging :).

By: Bruce Stone

Bruce Stone — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 17:19:18 +0000

I guess I’m one of the strange birds who think links should be earned. I never trade, buy or accept offers for links. Any links I get are from customers who find my service a good resource for their website or add a link in appreciation for good service. Its work for me this way for many years and still continues to work well today.

By: Ross

Ross — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:41:12 +0000

Ever since I stopped worrying about links and spent my time blogging, designing and dealing with making my site a better place to be I have gotten more ‘natural links’ than ever.

Sounds bullshitty and cliched, but it is true.

By: Zorning Internet Marketing

Zorning Internet Marketing — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 02:57:21 +0000

I think I am kind of in the middle on this I think reciprocal and easy directory links are a good thing for young sites as it provided fast indexing by all search engines and a small amount of traffic.

But I also believe in quality original content and that after a certian amount of time perhaps a month or two the webmaster should stop trying to find links and just rely on the one’s they have established in the past month or so and divert all efforts to adding fresh high quality content to their site.

By: Aaron Pratt

Aaron Pratt — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 02:11:48 +0000

I do not do link building, though I have been known to ask a friend from time to time to give me a hand. Blogs only need a couple links to get started, it’s the content and focus that really matters.

There are several SEO’s who have become greedy with linking out, Jim has never been one of these and as you can see from the number of people who post in this blog he has the natural link building thing going just fine.