Building Backlinks to Backlinks?
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Should I be building back links to my Back links, I have a fairly decent amount of guest post on decent to standard blogs and just wondered if I should be building a few medium quality back links to these.
I can understand that I should just build all links to my website but there are a lot of opportunities on cheaper blogs such as little better than article submission sites which I would not really want my main site on would this help?
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It would seem like you are creating a giant web of backlinks that you really have no control over. Especially, if they are pushed down the post by other comments and if they are short lived what is the point because they do not generate any traffic to your site? What happens if one of the sites you are building the links to, in order to increase your own backlink value, suddenly goes spammy or something happens and they are penalized? If these sites let you build links easily without using a "no follow" then they let everybody and could eventually attract unwanted attention that might result in a penalty. How soon Google figures this out is based on your total link profile and whether the links are to sites that are relevant to yours.
I agree with T & R above and this type of tactic seems like something Google would catch on to eventually, if it has not already. It is my understanding that the Google/Bing search bots can differentiate between high quality links and links from forums and other low quality sites. If so, the secondary links you are trying to build are not being given as much value as you might think. Time spent pursuing ways to skirt the algorithm is time wasted that could have been spent developing the other high ranking backlinks.
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Hi Bob,
LIke what Ricky said, spending your time on building quality backlinks will be better and has more power over building backlinks to your backlinks. Building backlinks for backlinks will work since it gives the backlink pointing to your site more authority which will benefit you. However, by doing so, it is the same as building backlinks for another site so why not spend the time building backlinks for your site? Having more quality backlinks, even if it is 1, will have more power and authority than getting a lower quality link.
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Yeah, I hear ya, but I would still lean towards focusing on attaining the one good link over trying to boost the 10 decent links by performing tier 2 linking. Way too much work involved in trying to manipulate the authority of 10 other websites!
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I completely agree but for the amount of really good quality links we can get it probably totals 1 a month were as we are receiving links of a decent nature at about 10 a week but a lot of these are short lived as they end up deeper as posts are added (or they are on deeper pages).
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I would spend your time finding quality links instead of having to boost the source of your links!
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