Comments on: SEO Advice: Getting Links

By: Evans

Evans — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:20:37 +0000

Well its a no brainer that quality content is the king but your title says ‘Getting links’ which is the next thing to do. U haven’t told us how to get links but instread told us to get links through blogs. Now my question is create our own blogs in our website that we want promoted or write articles in public blogs about our website/products/services?

By: Nick D

Nick D — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:23:55 +0000

Great post Matt, Link baiting is the best way to get links, and always has been. When you think about it, people only link to you if they want to! Therefore it makes sense that the best linkbuilding method is to MAKE people want to link to you. (you save yourself hours of time and aggro in the process too)

By: Charlotte Realtor Chris

Charlotte Realtor Chris — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:28:45 +0000

Hey Matt. You hit the nail right on the head man! I really appreciate your blog. You’ve got some great content…

Thanks -
Charlotte Realtor Chris

By: Carter Cole

Carter Cole — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:56:08 +0000

i coulnt leave the post i wanted to on the form (i dont knwo why it wasnt working) so click here to see my comment

By: seojane

seojane — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:00:53 +0000

Getting links is like feeding your pet.
if you make spam, your pet throws up on you

By: Umang

Umang — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:34:58 +0000

Thanks Spencer, I think we could learn a lot from each other. You are right in everything you have said. It is impossible to have links magically appear from the ether unless you are facebook or google.. Link building is also hard work. There is no quick and easy way.!!

By: Jason Vandenbrink

Jason Vandenbrink — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:06:33 +0000

Dear Spencer,

Welcome to the real world. Many top SEO experts continue to tell us that if you build a quality site with great content, people will just naturally find it, love it, and link to it. Of course these visitors also just happen to have relevant high PR sites and want to give you one-way links using your keywords in the anchor text. Come on, give me a break.

Having a really, really great site without backlinks is like having a really, really great 1-800 number. Nobody is going to accidently type in these digits and say “Oh my God, this is exactly what I was looking for, I’m going to start giving this number free advertising because it’s so awesome.”

If you want links, you are goint to have to work at it. And by checking your backlinks in Yahoo, it seems you have been working hard on acquiring relevant backlinks. Keep up the good work. My site UstillUp is now PR4 with about 450 quality backlinks. I’m aiming for a PR of 5 for the next update. I’m also hoping to be on page 5 for “free chat rooms” one day, so don’t you complain.

By: Umang

Umang — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:29:48 +0000

Hi Matt,

I like your ideas, however link baiting is a strange concept as you still need to get people to your site in the first place, which is what the challenge is.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:21:37 +0000

Matt, I have read this article several times. However, the last time I read it, I said, “hey I saw a cool email obfuscation technique on twitters contact page, let me make a WordPress plugin that does this” I did (its here: http://blueberryware.net/2008/09/14/email-spam-protection/) and I have gotten like 10 backlinks from WordPress plugin sites already! You are a genius Thanks!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:57:35 +0000

Matt:
I have tried many of these ideas before and for one reason or another have a tough time getting even found after my initial idea.

Here are my steps:
1. Be the first come up with this really cool idea.
2. Work on it like a madman for a few months.
3. Try to find some links, find only places that want to charge me an arm and a leg.
4. Write some ezine articles on this subject.
5. Month 6 get totally frustrated and move to next idea.

Mike