Now the niche site is up and running and we have some content, my focus will simple be on creating a bit more content and building more backlinks to the site.
Bear in mind, we don’t need too much content. The focus is on the amount of links.
Building Links with Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking sites are websites where people go to organise their links to the sites they like or think that are useful.
It is also an easy way to build links to your site. HOWEVER … I personally try not to overdo the amount of times I link back to my own site.
This is classed as spammy, but that’s a whole other discussion for another time.
I will simply be linking to my ‘What is Guitar Looping‘ article on the following sites:
www.digg.com
www.stumbleupon
www.delicious.com
www.propeller.com
www.mixx.com
They seem to be the main five sites. There’s a billion other ones, but the point of this exercise is to rank the site as easily as possible.
Each of the Social Bookmarking sites have their own way of submitting, which starts with you creating an account with each one. Don’t worry, this is free and fairly simple. I’ll show you with DIGG.com
Once you have created an account and logged in, you can then ‘submit a link’. You can simply add the URL of your site into here and digg will do the rest
Digg will take the story and add it as a submission. As you can see here:
Other people can now DIGG your story. This isn’t too essential at this point though.
I simply repeated this process across the other four sites.
Building Links with Social Bookmarking
As I am writing this, I am currently in fourth position on the front page of Google as you can see in this screenshot below.
This is pretty good. As you can see, the top results are Google Shopping results and a youtube video that has over 13,000 views.
This is a lesson to me as I really should have looked at the tags and title that we’re in that video and applied them to mine, but that’s ok, I can do that with the next one.
Hopefully, you can start to see from this how it’s possible (with much time and effort) to dominate the front page of Google. If that video was mine and I had some products in Google Shopping, then I would have three of the top four spaces.
This will be part of the plan…
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Hello Chris,
I enjoy this challenge, it’s good to read that some affiliate marketers (like you) willing to participate in this duel. I am looking forward your journey and what’s your backlinking strategy so far? BTW, I am still a beginner and I really enjoy to see examples like this and more from Pat Flynn’s site. It’s more understandable if I see examples than only theories. Thank you
Stella – thanks for the encouragement.
Nice!
I will be joining the Niche Site Duel as well!
Got a bit late but it’s still a nice competition!
Hi Fernando, have you started the process now mate? Looking forward to seeing you on board.
Hey,
I thought I would drop you a note to let you know I am giving this niche challenge a go to. I have a niche, domain name and hosting. Plus 25 unique articles about my niche. I’m in the process of putting it altogther now and then the link building will begin.
What have you found to be the most effective when it comes to link building?
Cheers,
Mark
ps. I see you are number one for your chosen keyword, congrats!
pps. I found you through Pat Flynn > Tyrone Shum blogs.
Hi Mark.
Great to have you on board too. It’s strange that you see me in the number 1 spot. When I check I am number 4.
Regarding the backlinking, I really haven’t done a lot yet. I made a few profiles on some related blogs and I posted a couple of articles.
What’s your site / niche?
Hi, I just found you via Pat via facebook. I hope you’re still going to update this. I love reading success stories and how far people can go with online marketing. Cheers!