My Success Diary

I thought I’d spend some time talking about my backlinks strategy. In my last post, I talked about Using Niche Blogger to Create Niche Sites. An essential part of my business model is to create backlinks which are basically links coming into my niche sites.

To create backlinks, I choose from a combination of methods.

• Free blogs on blogger or wordpress
• Create lenses at Squidoo
• Create Hubs on Hubpages
• Article marketing

A Note About Keywords

Each backlink you create should be optimized for one keyword. Put the keyword once in the title, once in the first sentence, once or twice in the body, and again in the last sentence. As mentioned in my last post, I just reuse the keywords I used to create the niche site.

Using Free Blogs for Backlinks

I know you can use wordress.com but I prefer blogger because you can put Adsense and other advertising and affiliate programs on your blogs without a problem. With wordpress you can’t do this because it goes against their terms of use and you could get your account banned and your blog deleted.

To use this strategy, start a series of blogs in broad topics like health and fitness, business, home improvement, etc. The topics you choose will depend on the niches that you have. Then, when you start a new niche site just make a post on the blog in a topic that relates to your niche and put a link to your niche site in the post.

Creating Lenses on Squidoo

For each niche site I create, I try to make at least one squidoo lens in a topic that relates to that site. If the niche is pretty broad, I may create a few more. But with Squidoo I believe that it is sometimes to create one lens per niche instead of several smaller lenses. I’m not sure what other lensmasters are experiencing but the lenses I have that are doing well are the ones that are a little longer.

I include two links to my niche site and one RSS module with the niche site feed URL in each lens. I also use other modules like the text module, youtube module, guest book, etc. I try to have at least four modules up and running before I publish it.

Create Hubs for Backlinks

When you set up your hubpages account, be sure to set up the affiliate programs too – particularly Google Adsense. They’re running adsense on your hubs anyway and if you want to get 60% of the earnings you need to enter your publisher ID.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that hubpages is just like squidoo – it isn’t. For hubpages, write a 350 – 400 word article and copy and past it into a text capsule. I also include one photo, only one link to my niche site (they’re strict on that one) and a guest book. You may want to add some more text and another photo, too. But if you add more than one link Hubpages may consider it to be spam.

Article Marketing

This is one of the classic ways to get backlinks. For this, just write one article of around 400 words and publish it on article directories. Note that I write unique articles that only get published once and I don’t spin them (though if I find a good spinner I might start.) Here are some directories to try:

• ezinearticles.com
• ideamarketers.com
• articledashboard.com
• goarticles.com

There are hundreds more but these are the ones I tend to use.

The more backlinks you can create, the better. So in my niche site plan, I create 5 backlinks per phase. If you feel like creating more – go for it!

Related Posts

• Create Free Blogs – A Key Strategy for Backlinks
• Using Niche Blogger to Create Niche Sites
• Make Money Online and New Beginnings
• Amy Bass Niche Blogger Review – Newly Updated April 2010
• Squidoo Case Study – Why is This Lens Successful?