How to build an SEO link network on a small to medium budget

rusvik

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What's bros,

I got inspired by the thread about ALN and how it messes some people's rankings up, so I decided to do a quick writeup on how to create a linknetwork of your own that you can use to rank your sites. Now, I'm not balling out of control and don't claim to be an SEO guru, but I do have decent success and only do SEO'ed sites.

First of all, why most of you fail in your SEO efforts is probably because you have entered the shit slinging game aka. spamming aka. throw shit on the wall and hope it sticks. The problem with this is that in this game, the guy who can throw the most shit out wins. While you're buying $5 Fiverr gigs worth of shit shoveling, there are guys out there with silos full of crap spraying it out industrial size shit slingers. The other problem is that you can't really stop slinging shit once you've begun. Most spam links get deleted or deindexed fast, which means you have to point more crap links at crap links to get a result. This is an unsustainable method unless you really want to dedicate yourself to spamming.

The only surefire way of linkbuilding is to own the sites from where you link. Three factors overall determine the strength of a link:

1) Pagerank and authority (age mostly)
Pagerank is still the most important link factor, not for your own site but the site from where you get your link. Relevancy is still a lot less effective than Pagerank 5.

2) Unique IP
You want to get a nice spread of IP adresses from where you get your links. When assesing competitors backlinks look at how many unique domains are linking, not how many links they have.

3) Staying power
Google has changed a lot over the last years. It's videly accepted in the SEO biz that a link only gets full power after it's been there for a while or rather your site only gets full credit after a while. So if your link can't stick for at least a month or two, then you never get full power from that link.

Knowing these 3, we wan't to be able to get links from domains with Pagerank, on unique IPs and links that will stick. This means we will have to make these properties ourselves.

If you have a big budget, what you are going to do is head over to Freshdrop.com or similar and scope out expiring domains. These however are not cheap and will generally cost you $50 to $300 for a >PR3 domain. The you put these domains on cheap individual shared hostings (put a few domains on each) or get SEO hosting with unique IP's.

Then you can simply install Wordpress and post on them whenever you need a link.

This method is rather expensive though.

A cheaper way of doing this only requires you to get at least one >PR3 or a few and then a bunch of other normal domains.

Head over to Godaddy auctions and get a domain with Pagerank. These are relatively cheap if some of the backlinks are missing. You're in luck since Yahoo Site Explorer stopped working, a lot of people can't really do backlink analysis as easily so good domains can now be bought cheaper.

Next up you will need hosting, get as many hosting accounts as you can. There are plenty of people over at Webhostingtalk who have very cheap hosting only a few dollars a month. If you are too broke to get hosting you can create Web 2.0 properties but stay away from the ones who have no-follow.

Next up is you take your domain(s) with Pagerank and add them to Authority Link Network, Link Authority and whatever else networks you can find. This will allow you to post to these networks and get links back.

What we're now going to do is register a bunch of generic domains and make them look decent (unique theme, some blog posts, NO ads) and put them on our different hosting.

Every day, you will now submit articles to ALN and LA but not point links at our money sites but at the new domains (buy as many as you can as long as you have hosting options). This will accumulate over time and to go with these get someone or do yourself to post on blog pages with Pagerank. There are plenty of people selling these lists. Don't bother with the paginated ones, but only the ones where all comments stay on the front page (even if spammed to the max).

Now, if you do this everyday, next time a Pagerank update comes along, your new domains will likely have gotten some Pagerank. Next step is to hit up everyone who wants to do link trades. You will now trade links from your Pagerank link blogs for links to your money sites and to new freshly no-pagerank blogs (again mind the hosting). You can also trade links with the expired domains you bought from Godaddy.

Now that you have even more PageRank domains you can again add some of them to ALN and LA and get even more submissions and even more links pointing to your sites. With these domains you can also sell links to other webmasters and for the money you make buy more expired domains.

Just make it a point to continuisly grow your portfolio of Page Rank domains and eventually you will have a network of blogs which you simply add to Article Marketing Robot and 1-2-3 you send a spun article to 50 domains with PageRank on unique IPs.

THEN, once you see where that lands you in the serps, you can come up with a plan to get the rest of your links.
 


A cheaper way of doing this only requires you to get at least one >PR3 or a few and then a bunch of other normal domains.

Head over to Godaddy auctions and get a domain with Pagerank. These are relatively cheap if some of the backlinks are missing. You're in luck since Yahoo Site Explorer stopped working, a lot of people can't really do backlink analysis as easily so good domains can now be bought cheaper.

Nice post. Two questions:

1. What do you do (or not do) to ensure that the PR doesn't drop at the next PR update by G? G will probably know that the domain has changed hands right? I was always under the impression the PR would die after I made the purchase. Obviously guys are out there building their own networks, so what's the "trick" to making this work?

2. Are you just using Open Site Explorer/SEO Spyglass to analyze backlinks or something else?
 
The Pagerank won't drop if the links are still in place and there's no ban. You just need to make sure the links are still there which is much more work now that YSE is gone. I use Spyglass, Google searches, OSE and Majestic.
 
Majestic SEO seems to be the best for me at the minute for checking backlinks.

There is also Ahrefs.com which provides a free accounting letting you check the first 500 links on a domain.
 
Nice post.

Just my 2 cents on backlink checking, majestic seo seems to report way more backlinks then OSE. For example, a site i checked reported 1200 unique domains linking back on OSE and 5500 on Majestic seo, while the overall links was like 6000 on OSE and 35000 on Majestic.

I wonder which one is more accurate. With OSE i know for sure there are as many links as they say because i can see/export it. But in Majestic, you can get only top 1000, so you never know if/how many more exist.
 
Very nice post - your method is one that I am currently employing and attempting to build upon. Im also trying to break into the ALN game, but very afraid to tarnish my PR3+ sites that I have worked so hard on. There have been several comments on this board by ppl I really respect that allude to the fact that ALN and networks of that nature will go "down" in 6-12 months (which i am willing to bet money on) and when that happens i dont want ALL of my sites to drop along with it. I think that building your own high pr blog link network has been a tried and true method for a long time and will continue to be for years to come. Thinking of selling blog posts or blogrolls on wf as a service or anywhere else seems like a total waste to me. its not worth the thousand bucks i might make.


One thing that I have never really truly tested is sites on same ip vs multiple ips. I do keep most of my sites on different Ips, but on the same hosting. On the other hand, I also have 10-15 PR2 sites all on a hostgator shared account. I definitely think there is some validity there but I dont think it is the be all end all.

Ugh one can really get lost in freshdrop or those other sites. Man that is a real good way to waste hours and hours out of your day. I personally like scrapeboxs tld tool, finding sites there and then following up on godaddy or somewhere. Its also hard deciding against a niche emd type site and a higher pr site that has less broad relevance.

I do challenge your spam statement. There is still a good way to spam - and that is by creating your own lists - ie a couple hundred social bookmark sites, 20 web 2.0s, a few hundred article directories and your own arsenol of blog comments and profiles in the millions to support those. This is only really effective when speaking about targeted kwds under 1k exact and other low competition and long tail niches

Good post man +1 +rep like, fuck yousif... whatever the fuck we are doing now.
 
I have been wanting to create my own network and I am wondering the exact method (that works) to mask the domain owner.

WJ