I have found an excellent post about building backlinks and doing SEO. Even though the post is about getting your Squidoo lens ranked highly in Google, but the same advice and principles can apply to anything.
The post does not give any new or unique ideas on link building. But it provides advice for you if you hate the task of building links. The post is more about getting the link building work done than about different methods to get backlinks. It is about enjoying the link building work and getting it finished, even though you may hate it currently and may be putting it off a lot of times.
Most people will agree that link building is a tedious and boring work. For that reason, I avoid or put it off many times. The author of this blog post also faced a similar problem, and provides helpful tips to overcome this issue and carry on the tasks that are needed to be done.
This blog post gives suggestions on what to do and how to get links built even if you don't like the process. There are actually many ways to build links. If you think deeply, you might find one or two ways which are at least tolerable for you.
Maybe you had a lot of success in the past with any one or more methods of link building. If you focus on those ways to build links, and repeat the same process whenever you have to get backlinks, the task will become easier for you. You will at least get the link building work done more times than currently.
Here is the post: Getting Your Lens on First Page of Google
There may be some tasks which are so tedious that they make you feel miserable. You are unlikely to succeed much if you try to force yourself to perform these tasks on regular basis. As a result, much of your time is wasted in forcing yourself and you probably won't get much work done anyway.
So the author advises to avoid such methods which cause you immense discomfort or boredom. Instead, focus on easier and happier ways to get backlinks. Repeat those tasks again and again each time you want more backlinks.
Let me talk with examples.
Building link wheels (or link pyramids), article submissions, press releases are some of my preferred methods of link building. I experienced decent amount of success in the past with these methods. It may not be that I gain a lot of pleasure doing these tasks, but at least they are tolerable and doable for me. And I have memories of past success while employing these methods. So now I can focus on these more than the other methods.
On the other hand I am not too fond of social bookmarking, software submissions, RSS submissions etc. These methods might work very well for others, but I find it too boring to do these.
So I will not focus much on these, only do them occasionally. This is what I like best about this advice - the author did not give a common advice for all. Instead, she said to find out what methods you enjoy and focus on those. So each person will do those link building tasks which are dearer than others to him/her.
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This is in contrast to the advice given by most people (gurus included) that you need to focus on such and such link building method to achieve maximum results. Even though a particular method might be the most effective, but if we don't enjoy it then we are not going to do it frequently.So we probably won't get such good results with it as we don't use it frequently enough. So people should modify their link building strategies to suit their own tastes and preferences. You may get much better results this way.
I liked the advice and can't think of any reason why this advice shouldn't be effective and good for people like me who don't enjoy link building process much. Many times I sit in front of my computer with the firm intention of doing link building work. But I get distracted easily and end up doing something else or wasting away my time by mindless browsing.
This advice should really help out in such cases. At least it will make me think about and focus on those few ways of getting backlinks which I enjoy or at least don't find so intolerable. What do you think?
Another good post from the same blog - If you have only 2 hours a day
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