Link Building – Check Your Log Files
I was checking my log files today, and noticed that someone found my site by searching on the term:
“we would like to get your website on first page of google. all of our processes use the most ethical white hat search engine optimization techniques that will not get your website banned or penalized. please reply and i would be happy to send you a proposal.”
Someone had posted some comment spam containing the above string. The post had since been deleted, but it was on my page for a while and got indexed. When I searched Google for the above string, it returned 71,000 results (at least it did about 30 min ago), and most of them were places that I could easily put my link. They were forums, blogs, etc. Most of the heavy lifting of finding a place to post comments to gain incoming links had been done. All of the sites were laid out right there for the picking. I’m going to check into them a bit further later on, but I’m sure I’ll get some nice incoming links.
There are all sorts of good things you can find by checking your referral logs, search terms people land at your site with, etc. Link Building is just one of the things you can work this angle on. What other places can you find information you can use to build your backlinks?
I’m working with a developer right now on a tool that will help with this. it’s pretty simple really, but you just put in a search string, and then it will return the results, check the PR of the homepage of the sites listed, and then link the links in order of PR of homepage. You can then go through the list, click on a url, and either post a response to a blog, create a social media account and then publish links, etc. It should be available very soon, check back.. It will literally provide tens of thousands of high pr sites where you can post your links. I’m anxious for it.
When going down this line of thought on building backlinks, what would be the easiest ways to find the most amount of available links? What platforms are routinely used to create the sites that you can post on, what terms are used in comment spam on your own blogs that you could maybe search for to find other places to post links?
You can pass this information along to someone and outsource the creation of backlinks, or if you have time, do it yourself. Get ya some links…..
One Response to “Link Building – Check Your Log Files”
Hey, wanted to drop in and leave a few examples I’ve seen recently, and a few other resources.
I found a site called http://www.BacklinkWatch.com which when you type in a URL, it returns a list of URLS which contain backlinks to that site, the PR of the pages containing those backlinks, if those links are follow or nofollow, the anchor text of the link on that page, OBL info – Outbound Links which means total external links found on backlink giving webpage, etc.
If you see someone leaving comment spam on one of your links, you can see the URL they are trying to leave a link to, or do a bit of further investigation to find this out (search for parts of the words or strings of the words they were trying to post) to find different places they’ve posted on to find out their url. Then, type in their url into http://www.backlinkkwatch.com and get an entire list of where they have posted successfully to. You can then see these by follow/no follow and page rank. Of course, you want to target the higher page rank pages/sites and the ones that are Follow to get the proper “link juicce” and benefit from your links. I’m about to create another post with information on search strings you can use to build up lists of places to get backlinks from as well.
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