This is a topic that will interest any blogger that is interested in getting noticed online. Many people have thought of various ways to gain popularity for their sites and attract visitors.
Some of these methods worked, some failed miserably. In the world of blog backlinks it’s all about testing and having patience. Especially now, when the online environment is so unstable, with the strangest updates that come from Google (Panda and Penguin). Makes you wonder, what other type of mammal will come along and ruin all your link building techniques?
If you are to look around, and search for “how to build blog backlinks”, you will get a lot of sites that talk pretty much about the same thing and they just repeat one another. The only difference is that they use different words.
Sure, some of the methods are generally acceptable and they still give results in building backlinks. For instance, blog commenting. I also talked about this topic on this post: Blog commenting - does it work? You can read it, and maybe you’ll understand better why I, personally am PRO blog commenting, even if some people would moan that the links are not “do follow”. They really help your position in Google, and make your links appear as natural backlinks.
However, today I plan on talking about links that ARE “do follow”, and come from high PR websites. Because that is the new quality standard that SE, mainly Google have set for their users. So, in other words, if you want to rank high and get a lot of organic traffic on your way, you will have to play by the rules. Technically, but practically I have seen some slip-ups from the big G that really makes me think.
For instance, sites that are offering great quality are placed somewhere at the bottom of the ocean. Which is highly unfair, and it will definitely not help improve the quality of SERPs (since that is Google’s objective).
An answer to such an event, could be that the respective site, despite the great content, didn’t have enough high quality backlinks, and it was out ranked.
That is a very high possibility, considering that there are millions of site in the same niche that I am, or that your site is in. So, that is why it is required to take extra efforts and improve our techniques for building blog backlinks.
If you are like me, then you probably already read here and there some suggestions, and you’re thinking how to implement them for your own site.
I can just offer some advice and some conclusions that I have reached based upon testing.
In my opinion, what works when it comes to building backlinks after Panda & Penguin Updates is blog commenting, social media, some Web 2.0 presence and possibly RSS.
These are the means that I rely on when I want to boost my websites’s rankings. So far, I can’t complain about the results I obtained in SE which makes me think that I am on the right path.
Social media has gained A LOT of power lately. I see that reddit really sends a lot of traffic my way, and also my Delicious link stack seems to be helping me considerably.
Therefore, if you have been neglecting this aspect until now, please STOP. Start getting involved in social media marketing ASAP. I wrote some posts about this too, in case you may be interested:
1. What is the use of social media for your blog
2. Social marketing - optimize your social marketing strategy
Even so, building blog backlinks on your own without any help can be a very hard battle, you’d have more chances to lose than to win.
I am a fan of certain tools that help me find better keywords, or help me get new ideas on what to build sites around, maybe spy a bit on my competitors. All of these help you get a better idea where you stand, and some of the tools I use are:
MajesticSEO – really helps you get an overview of the backlinks that you get or your competitor gets.
Google Keyword Tool- helps me get good keywords for my niche.
SpyFU.com – Based upon the number of ads for a keyword I can get a better idea if is popular or not.
Rank Tracker –it’s a part of the SEO Power suite, and it helps you see what PR you have, and what is your position in SE.
Google Analytics and Webmaster’s Tools- these are extremely important to understand where does your traffic come from, and maybe decide where to head in the future.
These tools, I use relatively often, especially when I want to keep an overview on how things go. Recently, I came across another one, and it really helps me with my social network marketing.
NOW, I will finally get to the “do follow backlinks” part. This software it’s called Social Monkee, and it will make your life easier when it comes to building social networking backlinks.
This program will allow you to build 25 UNIQUE backlinks to your page every day. This means 750 blog bakclinks each month. What is special about this is that all of the backlinks that come to your site, have unique IPs.
In the eyes of Google, this means that there will be 750 brand new sites each month vouching for you and building your trust more and more.
So, in 3 months time, you can have 2225 unique blog backlinks to your site and it will definitely improve your blog page rank. You have all the chances to make it in Top 10 results, even for No#1 for your main keyword.
I am personally very excited about Social Monkee, and I thought I would share it with you too. I am still experimenting with this tool, but I do like the idea that I get unique backlinks for my site. This is the safest way to build your popularity and enhance your position in SERPs.
AND, the best part is, that Social Monkee is very cheap, it only costs 7$, and you’ll be granted life time membership. If you are interested, you can see this link, and maybe you’ll join also 
Even if you don’t go for the Social Monkee offer, keep in mind that social networking is very important for you blog’s page rank, so try to be active in that are as much as possible.
Happy blogging
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