As we’re always looking for new and exciting ways to build links we wanted to let you know about SEO Link Vine by Brad Callen that launched yesterday, as well as give you some more strategies to build links to your money sites.

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If you haven’t heard of using the concept of using link networks to build high quality backlinks fast – you should get up to speed.  SEO Link Vine is a brand new link network from Brad Callen that will allow you to build hundreds of one way backlinks to your sites on near auto-pilot.

You can see the power of combining SEO Link Vine with some extremely powerful SEO tactics in this SEO Link Vine review and bonus.

Building links is like a dead-end job.  You go to work, do something you really don’t like.  You work long hours, and a lot of times for very little in return in terms of results.  You may finally see some results and are happily ranking, when all of the sudden Google [bang] brings the hammer down on you.  You messed up – did too little, did too much…

It’s all a vicious, ugly cycle unless you know, first how and where to get links that matter, and second – the right strategy behind the mind-numbing task that your link building campaign has become.  People have asked me, and I know a bit about this from my days of slapping Google around like an ugly red-headed step child… Alex, how do build links, and get rankings without all the trouble?

You want to get you niche site ranked?  Here’s how…

You need to know a few critical things having a successful link building campaign.  You need to know:

How to generate content fast and without effort

How to distribute your content on auto-pilot

How to link back to your website so it doesn’t get canned by Google

Where to Get Links?

It used to be you could just throw up a couple links on some social bookmarking site, create a few blogs on Wordpress, Livejournal, etc…  When I introduced the Google Sniper method in 2008 this was working in full effect.  It wasn’t a bit difficult to get ranked for low-mid competition keywords.  Now the game has slightly changed.  Still the same premise but Google has gotten wise to that.  If you’re still doing just that, it’s time for a major shift in your link building campaigns.

I’m not saying that doesn’t work at all anymore.  Of course it does.  Here are a few sources that you can and should use in your link building campaign, but they shouldn’t be your end all:

Classified Ad Sites – This a quick and easy way to get some fairly high quality links.  The problem is there’s not a lot of option for global automation, so it’s more of manual process.  A few examples:

Edgeio:  http://www.edgeio.com/

Epage:  http://epage.com/

Oodle:  http://www.oodle.com/

USFreeAds: http://www.usfreeads.com/

Article Directories – These are probably still some of the best links you can get out of everything I’ll list here, but yet again a small problem.  The best links you can get are in-content, deep links with relevant anchor text.  Most directories don’t allow that and limit you to a resource box link.  These links are as powerful as the aforementioned.  Don’t get me wrong, they’re still good, but you can still do better.

The pro of this type of link building is that there’s a ton of options for automation.  I’ve not found one that hits the ultimate sweet spot but overall, if you need to you can get the job done fairly well with automation.  A few examples:

www.amazines.com

www.articlealley.com

www.articlecity.com

www.articleclick.com

www.articlecube.com

www.articledashboard.com

Social Bookmarking – Still searching for that all-in-one social bookmarking tool that will push your site “straight to the top of Google”…  Good link.  You’re not going to get too far this way anymore.  Again, yes the links do help (some) but G has gotten wise to it all.  Simply bookmarking your site everywhere you can is likely going to hurt your rankings more than help.

The reason?  First, is the obvious fact that I’ve already mentioned.  Google is on to you.  They can see if all your links are from social bookmarking sites.  They recognize that and either discount those links (less than worse option), penalize your site (good luck climbing back from that) or completely de-index you.

The fact is now you need a diverse link profile.  Get too many links from one source is an obvious red-flag for Google now.  It’s just not natural.  Before, it worked because they didn’t put so much weight on that particular factor.  50 social bookmarking links used to be defined as simply 50 links (good or bad).  Now, in a 50 link profile (for example) it’s best to have 15 from one source, 10 from another and 9 from yet another – so on and so forth.

Web 2.0 Blog Sites – Still a fairly solid source of building links, but there’s a whole strategy involved to really make it even worth your time.  That’s right; have fun spinning content and creating 50 different blogs on these kinds of sites.  If you don’t do it right (which most people don’t) you’ll be lucky if you get 10 of them indexed, which means 40 of those links are doing zero, zip, nada for you.

There are some nice automation tools that will allow you to create 50 or even 100 of these in less than an hour, but the problem still remains.  You need to actually get them indexed.  Seems to  have gotten a bit harder, because Google’s even getting wise to spun content.  One option is to manually create 50 web 2 blogs and post unique content to them – but the time you take to do that isn’t worth the value of the links you’d get back.

My humble advice on this…  A renewed strategy for doing the above and getting nearly all of your blog indexed.  What I’m talking about is using some advanced spinning techniques.  Normal spinning just isn’t cutting it anymore.  Rather than just analyzing content, Google is now analyzing content structure just as much.  Most spun content has nearly identical word count and structure.

One thing you can start doing now is spinning your paragraph breaks.  What that does is completely randomize the structure of you content as well the content itself.  You can also try:

  • More nested spinning – This simply means adding variations within your spins.
  • Randomize sentences – What I mean is this: spin your content so it randomly inserts or completely leaves out a certain number of entire sentences within your whole piece of content.  This is simple:  {I like dogs alot|} My dog’s name is {fido|snoopy|harry|buddy}.  Doing this, the spun result either displays the sentence “I like dogs alot” or it doesn’t.  Either way, the sentence isn’t essential to the whole understanding of the paragraph.
  • Randomize entire paragraphs –This is same idea as above, but your randomly inserting or leaving out whole paragraphs.

RSS Submission – Honestly I still have to give it up to RSS submissions for remaining a great source of some powerful link building.  Putting your RSS feeds to work for you is something that will really help you spread your links like wildfire automatically.

Because of the automated nature of RSS feeds (they automatically update), spreading your RSS feeds allow you to generate dozens or even hundreds of links back to any piece of content you post.  My advice is this.  Spread every RSS link of yours far and wide.

Almost all web 2.0 type-sites you can build a blog, create a page, submit a bookmark or whatever, have individual RSS feeds attached to them.  My advices is if you don’t have a good RSS submission tool and you’re doing any level of SEO and link building – get one.  There are a lot of advanced strategies for using the power of RSS feeds.

The four sources above are some of the more common ways everyone is pushing in their latest “dominate the first page of Google” e-books.  And that’s all good and well, and like I said – these are still viable ways to build links to your sites.  Each of them have their problems, some of which I’ve tried to provide some answers for above.

But honestly, if this type of promotion is where you’re leaving your link building campaigns, you’re not even scratching the surface of what you really could be doing.  If you expect to really succeed in parking virtually any site you want on the front page of Google, you need to develop an extremely comprehensive approach.

These kinds of links alone will not sustain you in the search engines.  SEO is a long-term game.  You should be thinking about you link building campaigns as a way to build and sustain a presence in the search engines for years to come.

How to Do That?

Well there are several ways.  One is authority link building.  Which means doing the hard work to get links from other authority sites.  Of course that’s only really an option when you’ve got a site that you want to become an authority itself.

For most niche sites it’s not realistic to put that much effort into the site, because you should be putting up 10 more just like it within the next week instead of wasting your time with traditional authority link building.

So what’s another option?  For most of your sites you’re not going to be able to build those authority-type links.  So instead of quality, you need to go for quantity.  Pure link quantity is where the sweet spot in Google is right now.  As long as the sites you get the links from are sites in good standing with Google (their not authority sites, but they’re not spam blogs either).

There are lots of these sites.  In fact, there are millions.  What I’m talking about are blogs.  And no, I’m not talking about blog comments (which by the way if you’re doing, you’re like wasting your time).  What I’m talking about here is getting whole pieces of your unique content submitted to and published on hundreds of the kinds of blog I just spoke about.  Oh and did I mention, automatically drip-fed and published on a daily basis?

That’s where link networks like SEO Link Vine come into play.  If you’re not diversify and expanding you link building campaigns, then we highly recommend that you start.