I have already posted a technology related posts about com surrogate error and a smm related post about most viewed video on youtube. I shall compensate my regular readers by revealing one of the most useful SEO trick that I have not shared with anyone yet. I have used this trick on several of my blogs and websites to take them to 2000-5000 users a day in less than 6 months.

As I had discussed in my backlink building guide, not all links are equal. That is a well known fact among SEOs. However one thing no SEO blog seems to talk about is the appropriateness of particular type of link based on the lifecycle of blog.

What do I mean by lifecycle of a blog

Your blog may be in one of the following stages on Google index

  1. The blog has just been released. Less than 30 posts have been indexed by Google
  2. Your blog is 2-3 months old. Your posts get indexed on a regular basis. However you are getting no or little traffic from Google
  3. Your blog is more than 6 months old. Your posts get indexed on a regular basis. You get 600-1000 visitors a day from search but mostly from long tail search terms (search terms with 3 or more words).
  4. You have an established blog. You rank in the first page for most keywords as soon as you make a post.

Link Building stragtegy

  • If you have a recently launched blog (less than 2 months old) then Google will be looking at you with suspicion. 3-4 duplicate posts, too aggressive link building etc will straight away get you blacklisted on Google’s index. Hence keep your calm. Try to write completely original posts. Write attractive headlines that will attract people’s attention. This is the time you should be active in social media sites like digg, stumbleupon etc and try to develop relation with other bloggers in your niche. Try to get the first 5 links in a natural manner. Resist the temptation to build 100s of free links through dofollow blog commenting, social media profile creation or forum signatures etc.
  • If your blog has crossed the first stage then you have successfully created some amount of trust for your blog. Now is the time to convert those wonderful posts into traffic and money. Start concentrating on keyword usage in your blog posts. This is the time to build free backlinks to your blog. Make sure that you are not building all the backlinks to your homepage though. You will do well to read following posts of mine at this stage
    1.  guide to free backlinks
    2. 10 social media sites that allow dofollow links on profile page
    3. Remove stop words from your title to rank better
    4. Image SEO : A Quick Guide and
    5. The best way to use keywords on blog post for maximum impact
  • If you have a blog that is already ranking for long tail keywords, building 1000 more free backlinks is a complete waste of time. Stop your focus on quantity and start focusing on quality. Link-baiting is the way you must go. I am yet to write a post about link-baiting however you can google linkbait, link-bait or link bait to find some awesomely great articles about the post.

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