Comments on: The Guide to Efficient Link Building

By: Samuel Lloyd

Samuel Lloyd — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:48:54 +0000

Would you recommend a social bookmarking tool such as bookmarking demon?

By: seo

seo — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:28:12 +0000

What about links from Forums? I know many people think they have zero link weight whatsoever, but do you think so? Or is that dependent on the forum and how well the forum itself ranks? If they don’t have any juice, how come so many people are running around spamming forums all the time (not condoning this)? And many forums have put limits on when and how you get a signature link… There must be something to this, right. white hat link building is best way.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:56:56 +0000

What I don’t understand is how Google seems to change it’s mind from one day to the next about where to rank my sites on a particular keyword, even though the links and content have not changed?

By: Rob Buti

Rob Buti — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:09:09 +0000

All of this sounds great, but your Gold Standard is way easier said than done! For example, how about I write an article for your site and it is horrible and not up to your standards. Will you publish it or even give me a link back since a link from your site would work wonders for a crappy blog like mine. If you read this, so you don’t think I’m scamming and trying to get a link, contact me if you are interested in linking to my site as I will be linking to yours!

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:25:05 +0000

They carry about as much weight as a dofollow blog comment in my opinion and from what I’ve seen. They help in getting new sites indexed though because alot of forums get crawled alot.

By: Another Adam

Another Adam — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:20:32 +0000

Thanks… I certainly agree – don’t spam forums! It’s just bad form… If you are going to post, contribute – or don’t post… That’s our view.

I was more interested in if you think the links actually carry any weight… Thanks for the response.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:36:16 +0000

Hey sorry I didn’t answer you ‘another adam’.
We don’t do forum signature links unless they are in forums where the client would actually be a valuable member. AKA, relevance. Forum links make up a very small portion of links we build, just because there aren’t too many niche forums usually to choose from that would be of value to our clients to spend time in. Travel, Insurance, Real Estate, software, hosting, and other competitive niches might have more forums where you can be active in, but think about contributing to the community first, and then put in your signature links.

By: Another Adam

Another Adam — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:30:32 +0000

I get your point about link distributions. I think that is a powerful thing and something more people should think about.

Does that include forum signature links? (I’m re-asking – sorry?)

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:21:58 +0000

Hey Dustin, great question.
We don’t a have a particular formula, but the truth is directory links make up a majority of links to a client’s site to begin with. As a site ages, the ratios change. What we strive for is a broad portfolio of alot of different types of links, and don’t concern ourselves with ratios too much.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:56:08 +0000

Great Post, Thanks for the info and especially the link to the squidoo page for the do follow links. That is a great list.

I am curious to see if the dispersion of incoming links matters in a big way. For instance, do you follow a proportion formula for your “gold” links to blog comments or directory links? I have heard that only 10% of your links should be from a single source. What do you think?