We get frequently questions from our awesome members about how to use SEOBDB in the right way. When you have over 70000 potential backlinks available it can be little daunting to know which ones to use. Especially when mainstream SEO blogs and forums are full of horror stories how somebody’s site was banned from Google because they used certain type of backlinks too much. We all know these stories but what most people don’t realize is that these people who got banned, they had it coming. Google and other search engines don’t just ban sites for fun – they always have a valid reasons. Most of the time it’s related to how webmaster was promoting their site. If you have had your site banned and you have done only “natural” link building, please drop a comment, I would be interested to find out more what happened.
So how can you use SEOBDB backlinks to catapult your rankings the right way?
I think we all can agree that if you shoot 75000 backlinks to your site, it’s going to get banned sooner or later – no doubt about it. So don’t do that. In fact be picky about your backlinks. SEOBDB offers huge amount of potential sites to get your backlinks from but don’t go crazy. Instead use the huge selection to cherry pick the best backlinks for your site.
It’s not about quantity, it’s about quality.
Example case: Knitting site
Knitting is a very niche topic. If you search SEOBDB with keyword as specific as “knitting”, you’ll get only 57 websites. Keep in mind that you should always use very broad terms when using keyword search in SEOBDB. Right now our keyword tagging technology analyzes the homepage and many times returns only very broad terms because like in case of forums, there’s not much content to analyze on the homepage.
I always like to start with directories because to me it’s a natural way. My first backlink for my knitting site would be craftsdirectory.com which has pagerank of 5. It’s very relevant website to mine and it’s only natural my link would appear there. There’s also nothing spammy about submitting knitting website to directory that lists websites about crafts. SEOBDB also gives me two other directories for craft sites. Now I have my knitting site in relevant directories and that should work as establishing relevancy in the eyes of search engines. If I would just submit to any directory regardless the topic, my backlink profile would soon look very spammy.
Forum profile is fast and very easy way to get relevant backlinks but again, first you only want to create profiles to relevant forums. There’s over 40000 forums in SEOBDB so you shouldn’t have problem to find a relevant forum. Luckily my “knitting” keyword search gave me knittingforums.com and database knows that there’s profile link available that’s visible to search engines as well. Many people don’t know that many forum platforms allow forum admin to set so that unregistered members can’t view profile pages. This means that search engines can’t see them and therefore your link won’t count. Unless you have signature link available and after creating your profile you make a post that search engine spiders can read. If you see P or S indicator, then we have verified that there’s either Profile or Signature link available. Profile indicator also means that profile in this specific forum is available to search engines as well. By automating this check-up for profile visibility in search engines alone saves us hours and hours of work in one month.
Even if you can’t get backlinks from forums, you can still use them to participate in the conversation and get visitors. If you write quality posts and you have relevant website or product, it’s very likely that the market wants to hear about it. Just don’t be spammy.
Then there’s plenty of blogs available with keyword “knitting”. Our nofollow detection is not as accurate as it should be right now so we are working on it. However if you only comment on dofollow blogs, you will miss a lot of traffic and customers. Most of the popular blogs are using nofollow by default so my advice is to pick many popular blogs on your topic, join the conversation and forget the whole nofollow tag. Getting bunch of nofollow links will also make your backlink profile more natural.
Now I’ll go with broader term and search for “craft” which gives me 178 potential backlinks. There’s couple PR 5 and lot’s of PR 4 directories for craft sites and a lot of blogs.
Important thing is to utilize Link Queue projects. This allows you to gather all these links at the same place and then work your way through them in the pace you want. It depends on the site and competition but I rarely go above 10 backlinks per day when it comes to small niches like knitting.
Conclusion
This was a small example case how we use SEOBDB for our projects with great success. Like I said above, it’s not about getting 10000 backlinks just because you can, it’s about cherry picking proper backlinks. 10000 backlinks might sound like a magic bullet but let me assure you that if you want to establish a long-term website, blasting 10000 backlinks is a bad idea.
Keep it natural and monitor your progress.