How To Rake in 1000s of Backlinks

October 22nd, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

backlinks.jpgAdmit it. Everyone loves backlinks.

With each new inbound link to your site, Google smiles at the vote of confidence. Your reputation subsequently increases, your search rankings skyrocket– and with it, the number of web visitors to your site.

More visitors translate to more clinking in the empty piggy bank. Sounds good? Great! Let’s get down to business.

For the average Joe, there are three boring ways to create inbound links.

The first is the most common: reciprocal linking. You fire an email to a related site and request an exchange of votes. It’s tidious and webmasters often tell you to buzz off. Google doesn’t give much value to such backlinks either-they deem such behavior self-serving. Expect to do months of reciprocal link building before reaping decent returns. It is simply not worth it.

The second way is to spam. Spamming quickly blasts hundreds of your links into many forums, blogs and directories. You can create almost 2000 backlinks with this method in a week. Ever got those viagra ads posted on your Honda fansite? The spammers probably thought a triangular blue pill spins up your twinturbos more rapidly. Some link exchange services automate link blasting by plugging one way links to your site into reciprocal link exchange directories they control. Watch it! I’ve heard of a few webmasters deindexed from such services

Finally, the third way is to create linkbait articles like the cool stuff at BlackHatSeo. Linkbait is a controversial writeup that compels other webmasters to link to your article. If the article is polarizing, debatable or insulting, you can rake in nearly 10,000 backlinks a week after every Tom Dick and Harry dissect your article on their blogs. It’s not always healthy for the ego.

These days, I no longer use such tired methods to rake in backlinks. I go for a lazier, faster way. It’s similar to creating LinkBait Articles- but with a twist. I call it PDF Marketing, and it’s something I like to recommend at my hobby search engine optimization firm.

FYI, a PDF is a document created by adobe acrobat. Link building using this method requires that you write a truly snazzy 3-4 page article that people would love.

Some themes you’d consider:

  1. SEO tips and tactics
  2. Dating and romance
  3. Conspiracy theories bordering on the unbelievable
  4. PC optimization
  5. Online business techniques
  6. Offline business ideas
  7. Adsense marketing
  8. Affiliate marketing
  9. Hobbies

When choosing a theme, make sure you’re knowledgeable and passionate about it. Then write! Spend at least 30 minutes drafting and polishing. Review the final document then impregnate every page of your article with links to your site. Compile it into a PDF document and upload it to free download sites.

Take a glass of lemonade and sit back. That was the hard part. Pretty soon, freeloaders would pick up on the document. They’d read it, enjoy it and post it on their sites. Folks’d buzz about it. More people would download it. Half of them will stick it into their webs. Then guess what? In a fortnight, you’d have thousands of sites hosting your PDF that links back to your web! Feel the rush of power from a single viral document- all aided by the free download sites* giving you more coverage. 

Here’s the best part: Google would love you to bits from all that link love. The reward? More green pixie dust on your pagerank toolbar.

Can you already imagine your site tap dancing all the way to loftier search engine rankings? Now go get em!

(Note: you can also use viral PPT, rtf and flash documents to create links to your site!)

*Download.com / shareware.com / rapidshare.com / megaupload.com

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  1. #10

    Comment by Serg V on 23 October 2007:

    This can be useful for many webmasters, but they must remember that Google can penalize for fast growing backlinks and after search rankings skyrocket your site may be dropped to -950

  2. #9

    Comment by horisly on 23 October 2007:

    the top commentator is one way.but not efficient.
    but, i just post comments on the site i am favor.

  3. #8

    Comment by Mathew Browne on 23 October 2007:

    I haven’t got terribly much time, so I’m skipping straight to the lemonade.

  4. #7

    Comment by Marcus The Lover on 23 October 2007:

    Check out download.com, Winfiles.com, Rapidshare, Megaupload. Those are the download places he refer too.

    Google ‘free software downloads’ for more.

  5. #6

    Comment by KPeBiz Marketing Blog on 23 October 2007:

    Cool idea, I will give it a try. Just a question, you mentioned about uploading to free download sites, which are those free download sites?

    Thank you.

  6. #5

    Comment by Kline on 23 October 2007:

    Micah, that one post will rank highly, but it will also spread the link love around. link love passes higher on internal links anyway, and i would assume any page on yoru site links back to your home page.

  7. #4

    Comment by Micah on 23 October 2007:

    That’s pretty interesting, I’ve never heard of it. I know of a few bloggers that give away a pdf file of say, money making schemes, but that’s about it. The one thing I’ve always been weary of about linkbaiting is that all the traffic points to 1 post, not the entire site. Then Google will love that one page, but not necessarily your whole site? Isn’t that how it works?

  8. #3

    Comment by Joseph Plazo on 23 October 2007:

    I strongly feel it does- when I run backlink checkers on some sites, PDF, Powerpoint, and Flash documents show up….

    It contributes to human traffic definitely. But whether it contributes to PR is another matter.

  9. #2

    Comment by Kline on 23 October 2007:

    Oh and for Joseph’s method, to get your PDF uploaded to all these DL sites, your best bet is to look at the PAD file format, and automated submitters for such.

    I’ve not had the best of luck with people actually *downloading* anything I’ve posted on download.com, etc, but at least most of these sites do give you a backlink just for submitting…

    So, definitely a YMMV, but it doesn’t take much effort, and a couple (~100-900) of semi relevent, low/no pagerank backlinks for free, and maybe 10-20 extra visitors a week is what I’ve seen with similar methods. Maybe I am missing the lemonade step!!

    Joseph -> Does google’s PDF indexer actually count those links as backlinks?

  10. #1

    Comment by Kline on 23 October 2007:

    I personally enjoyed the following method of raking in backlinks

    http://www.bluehatseo.com/follow-up-to-100s-of-automated-linkshour-post/

    It works pretty well, but you end up with mostly low quality backlinks, but you end up with sooooo many… ;) I’ve yet to see what the PR implications are, as there hasn’t been an update in forever, but I’ve seen traffic go up quite a bit.

    I wouldn’t recommend implementing it exactly as he preaches, but its an idea you can modify and come up with some weird ideas off of.

    I’ve tried it on a couple of throwaway domains, and each ramps up pretty quickly to about 10-20k backlinks… the links eventually drop off, so that number changes a bit, but its pretty crazy.

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