When link building yourself where would you advise are the best places to add links?
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Hi
I am not having much success with SEO companies so am looking at link building and doing SEO myself. Where would you advise are the best places to add links? Also is it better to add links to specific pages or just to the home page?
Thanks in advance
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Thank you for the advice:)
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Be careful. What used to work a few years ago in terms of link building can get you penalized now.
For the vast majority of cases, any link that you can make yourself is an unnatural link. So, if you're thinking of syndicating articles or doing a pile of directory submissions that's a bad idea. Still, there are a few places where it can be ok to make your own link such as valid industry directories.
SEOs who are being successful in this new age of SEO are ones who can creatively think of ways to attract links. A few naturally earned links will often outperform a bunch of self made ones.
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In the Moz Research Tools drop-down menu, you will find "keyword analysis". Choose that and you will see a box where you can enter your keywords of interest--they will then appear in the "keyword difficulty and analysis" table below. Choose one and click on "view". This will create a report for you, which will include the top ten ranked pages for your keyword. (You can run an advanced report from there to get even more information.)
As far as replicating links, for Moz tools there are the competitive link finder and the link acquisition assistant, which you can find in the left column on the research tools page, under more tools & resources. You might also be interested in the "Beginners Guide to Link Building", which you can find here.
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Thank you so much for responding,
Sorry if this sounds like a silly question but I am completely and totally new to this.
How would I localize the top domains from the keywords I want to rank?
Also how would I do step 3?
Thanks again
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One tip that is really working 4 me
1. Localize the top domains from the keywords you want to rank.
2. Check their link profile with a software like "Open Site Explorer".
3. Localize the repicable links, and replicate them
Do not generate all links on the same day/week/month. Link building needs to be progressively done. It´s an ant work
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