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Link Building Ideas for a health site
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Hi,
I am trying to rank a health related website. This is the url: www.ridpiles.com
Domain age is 1 year 6 months.
Done Directory submissions
Blog Comments + Forum posts
Done Social Bookmarks
Article submissions (Not much)
I have done competitor analysis. All of my competitors are just had links from directories and some link exchanges. They got links from quality sites like Yahoo dir. I know my site is far better than my competitors and has 100% unique content. I have submitted to yahoo directory inclusion, but still no luck i hadn't accepted into it. I am planning to go for a sponsered review but dont know, weather the link will be valuable for that much of money. I was left with Guest Blogging. I see this is the only option for me to build links. But i have a very tough competiton, i must compete with most reputed sites like webmd.com etc, i need to get more good links. But i cant get what other ways to get authoritative links. If Guest blogging is the only option for me, how many posts do i need to do daily? And can someone suggest me good Guest blogging sites?
Anyhelp would be appreciated.
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Myblogguest.com is excellent for finding guest blogs.
Also you can do Press releases from sources like PR Web to build some links.
Find professional voices for your health related site, network with them and get them to share your articles.
I dont look at competition for their back links as much as I used to. In my opinion, it's better to invest my time doing what the competition has not done, or thought of doing and not externally rather internally. What can you give your audience? what are they looking for? etc..
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