An Example of Good Link Building
I have found that I learn far easier by looking at examples than by reading theory.
That has also helped out a little in learning about SEO, so I thought I would share a great article that was written by one of the best in the business - Jim Westergren. Of course, this article has nothing to do with how to apply SEO.
It is SEO.
This article on smartlinkbuilding.com called World of Warcraft Gold, was written by Jim for (presumably) one of his clients - http://buywowgold.co.uk in order to optimise their site for certain keywords.
It is a great example of how to give good, relevant links to a site.
There are a bunch of features about this article that you should check out (and apply them to your own projects).
For starters it is unique content. No posibility of duplicate content issues for the article that Jim wrote.
The content is also highly relevant to the client’s site
The links to the client’s site are from within the body of the article. No sitewide or collumn links.
The links have relevant, but varied anchor text. The search engines will get suspicious if every link was the same anchor text and they will possibly discount the links.
There is a link from a heading - that’s a nice powerful one.
The links are both to the homepage of the client site and the internal pages. You don’t want every link to go to the homepage.
The article is at least 300 words long - anything too much shorter may have issues. 300 is a good length.
He has even linked to the article on smartlinkbuilding.com from articlehub.com to improve the ranking of it (which in turn passes on good ranking to the client site).
Now Jim has performed this service for his client with several different unique articles placed on several different unique sites on unique IP addresses.
It is a very good example of the proper way to get great back links.
The trick is really finding as many different sites as possible to place your unique content on. (Hint: there are plenty - start searching).
Now Jim charges $1500 for his service (and people pay it) which should show you the value of what he is doing. It is a very powerful way to build links and you should try to emulate it for your own sites if you are interested in ranking well in the search engines.
Good article!
It is always nice for a father and partner to see such good compliments about his son.
Of course I really think he is a genius and professional!
We are drowning in business for the moment.
Have a nice day!
March 7th, 2007 at 11:49 amPeter
Hi Peter,
thanks for stopping by - great to hear that your link building business is going gangbusters! With the quality that you offer, it isn’t surprising though!
Cheers
March 8th, 2007 at 1:05 amRob
I respect another man good work I do the same in my work in building a site and I know that is a hard labour. Good luck.
March 12th, 2007 at 9:39 amVery good article on link building. Many bloggers don’t know what real link building is these days!
April 25th, 2007 at 5:06 pmGreat post, it’s very important to build links in the “smart” way, I even blogged about it myself in one of my blogs.
I have a question though. the C-class IP addresses seem to have extra value, how can I determine when I get a link on someone site’s whats IP class is his host?
May 14th, 2007 at 8:30 pmThere’s a bunch of tools at http://dnsstuff.com that are very useful for things like that.
May 14th, 2007 at 9:58 pmGreat article. In fact, I was lead here this morning via Jim website where he promotes is dynamic SEO services.
You article really made ’salivate’ and I am thinking seriously to go for Jim’s service - Yes I mean the $1500!
Once again, thanks so much for the full insight and education.
Patrick U.
June 1st, 2007 at 10:37 amhttp://webmasteraffiliateprogram.biz/
I’m going to go for it. I will be back and let you know how it goes!
Cheers,
Milan
June 2nd, 2007 at 9:10 pm$1500! wow he really must’ve done a great job
June 8th, 2007 at 8:18 pmGood article! Thanks for showing us this.
June 10th, 2007 at 7:22 pmThis is a creative way to build links but to the extent that its main aim to climb up in the search engine results, it might be considered grey-hat SEO.
June 14th, 2007 at 2:21 amI think $1500 is a fair rate considering how much work is involved. Jim is obviously an avid writer.
June 14th, 2007 at 2:22 amSeems like a good deal. I need to consider shelling out the full 1500 to get a site higher in Google.
June 15th, 2007 at 1:12 amLOL - looks like this post is sending a few buyers Jim’s way! Good for him!
June 16th, 2007 at 5:29 amI have been following jim on this type of link building and am also of the opinion that its great stuff.
The main benefit is that the back link quality is top most. And the biggest benefit in my opinion is that not even a human can detect that this is a paid links scheme let alone google bot
As to price I feel its a little costly. $1500 hmmm… can be done in a lot less. Just think outside of the SandBox LOL.
August 20th, 2007 at 1:35 pm