Link building problem

**zephyr7** · 02-13-2008 01:05 PM

Hi,

A few weeks ago I launched my new website: Quacko.co.uk - My Space to Complain, Grumble and Whine..
I thought that my SEO campaign was succesful - my website jumped from 19th to 3rd page in Google. Unfortunately, after a few weeks the number of links to my websites started to decrease. Now, I am strugling to go back to 5th page.

What I do wrong?

Every day I am trying to add my website to a few free links directories, but still I have no more that 27-29 links...

How can I significantly increase the number of links and get my site back on track?

**mtime88** · 02-13-2008 03:39 PM

posting your site link on severl top ranked sites.... such as:

myspace
facebook
craigslist
ebay
or any other top 100 site.

**Woodcs82** · 02-13-2008 03:44 PM

I can submit you to 2000 directories for $215

**zephyr7** · 02-13-2008 04:12 PM

You will be surprised, but I've never used facebook before. I mean, I have a profile there - but where exactly should I put my links?

**outsourcingcheck** · 02-18-2008 01:56 AM

be patient..and never use "black hat seo" strategies..that might harm your ranking in se's

**florafernandes** · 02-23-2008 06:39 AM

Hi,

You can do few more link buildings like article submissions, niche directory submissions and press releases.

**TrafficFinder** · 03-10-2008 11:10 PM

Be careful about directory submission services. Timing can cause you to decrease significantly on google. I have a good question for you. When you first launched your site did you submit to ALOT of sites all together? In a matter of days/weeks?

**Aletheides** · 03-11-2008 01:44 PM

If your site is so young then expect a jump in rankings at first, then a huge dip (and probably sandboxing for a while). Work on building quality content and getting backlinks with varied anchor text.

I would suggest buying cheap blog posts from other relevant blogs (in content links are golden), using social bookmarking (avoid ones that use nofollow or redirect, you will get no link juice), and article marketing.

**capforge** · 03-11-2008 01:56 PM

Article marketing for links, and blog posting and social book marking for actual traffic (which is what you really want, right?).

**Check-m** · 03-12-2008 12:43 AM

You probably fell because your links weren't that valuable.

Get more backlinks through various strategies, and try your best to get valuable links.

It doesn't matter if the links are relevant to your website or not. Just as long as they're links.

**Aletheides** · 03-12-2008 03:02 AM

Originally Posted by Check-m

It doesn't matter if the links are relevant to your website or not. Just as long as they're links.

This is false.

**Check-m** · 03-12-2008 11:20 PM

Originally Posted by Aletheides

This is false.

Not false. And here's an example to show why it's true...

Yahoo holds page rank #4 for the keyword "search engine," which is an extremely high page rank for that keyword.

So I checked yahoo's website backlinks at iwebtool.com and looked at all of the backlinks that showed up for yahoo.com

My results were as follows...

As you can see...most of the backlinks going to yahoo.com are links that are not even relevant to the keyword "search engine."

So therefore, you do not need relevant links from relevant websites in order to get a higher page rank.

As long as they're links, your websites pagerank will increase. However, the page rank of your backlinks, and the number of backlinks that you get have seperate roles in increasing your search engine page rankings.

**flnazrael** · 03-23-2008 12:42 PM

It's not just the URL the backlinks appear on - the anchor text of the link is a huge deal to Google.

Links from relevant pages are FAR more valuable than links from unrelated pages. Google PageRank (the value from the Google Toolbar that everyone loves to talk about) doesn't matter much either.

Zephyr, be careful with some of this advice. Google keeps an average in the number of inbound links your site gets within a given time period...if it sees a huge spike, it often assumes a spam campaign (which this "2000 directory submission" type crap is) and penalizes you.

Concentrate on links from sites related to yours that have descriptive anchor text. And don't worry much about the PageRank you see in the toolbar. I took a roofing company's website from below the first 500 results for a keyword to being at the top of page 2 for that word, and over six months their Google PageRank never even increased by 1.

Just get quality, relevant links, stay away from spammy directories that don't hand-edit submissions, and you'll be OK. SEO is not as easy as some make it out to be.