creating blogs for outbound links

[kschulte]

Hi All,

Brand new here, please be gentle.

I own a company that shows people how to start their own cleaning businesses, and I'd like to help them with their link building. Is it possible/ethical/practical to create blogs for the purpose of installing outbound links to their sites? And if yes to all the above, any tips?

Thanks in advance,

Kit in Seattle

[coolguy27]

Blog is actually the best one way link for your site.
But don't just made blog with your link sites only. Make it informative not promotional and link build it.

[junosama]

Doing this with one or two blogs may be ok if it is register under a dif name and IP, but you need ot be careful creating a large network of sites owned by the same persona nd all interlinked. Google is pretty good at recgonizing linking patterns and blog networks that are created to boost rankings.

[kschulte]

Thanks coolguy27! Just for my future reference, are most people who reply to a question appreciative for a "thanks", or does it just clog up inboxes? I don't want to take up people's valuable time!

kit in seattle

[ronchalice]

It depends on what the content of the blog is besides links. I advise all of the people I work with and my students/mentorees to never click a link on any page that contains nothing but links; also to avoid clicking links on the "landing page" pseudo search engines run by domain squatters.

[ChiefLee]

It will take the time for a new blog to develop any "juice" to pass along to the websites. It's a fine long-term strategy if you are also focusing on developing an informative and useful blog. A blog for the sake of having a blog probably won't ever be able to pass along much juice.

[macgizmoguy]

Setting up a few simple blogs at the big free sites like Live Journal, Blogspot, WordPress is a proven way to get new sites spidered and indexed quickly. It could be good for your site - and your clients.

I often use such blogs to supplement content and point to my other main sites - or to those of friends. I keep the posts short, and infrequent - but make a point to update them, say, once a month to keep them on the radar.

While such blogs are only a fraction of what should be your link-building efforts - You HAVE to toot your own horn, and can do it best with carefullly chosen anchor link text (i.e. "How To Start Your Own Freelance Cleaning Service") to pass critical keywords along with the link.

Don't fall for the PARANOIA about Google thinking you're running some sort of "link farm" - the average Joe leveraging a handful of sites is trivial compared to those who literally own HUNDREDS of domains. Heck, even our benefactor here: iEntry could be said to run 'farms' of free directories - and Forums ripe for link-dropping and clearly Google hasn't banished them to the depths of hell for doing so! iEntry is too big to ignore, and we're small potatoes in comparison!

Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt is part of Google's strategy. Keep 'em guessing. In the meantime I build the best sites I can, promote the hell out of them tactfully with blogs, get backlinks from here there and everywhere -- so that I have a viable set of sites that DON'T NEED GOOGLE AT ALL if push came to shove....

[xuchunfeng1984]

Dont creat blogger just for google. you should make it informative and friendly to customer.

[ericajoieake]

blogs are very helpful for your website to build quality backlinks as well as traffic, if you also doing proper seo to your blogs.

[inertia]

Too much work for too little benefit... In the time it takes you to setup a blog, add some posts, fire some links at it and get it indexed you could have generated twice as many links from various websites - not just one site - which is all youre getting from setting up an external blog.

Try adding a blog to your clients sites and adding great content to that, then link it with social sites, then link it with rss and blog aggregators, then exchange some blog rolls, then do some guest posts on your newly acquired blog friends sites, then add links to the posts on relevant forums. Then get your internal linking right and channel all that link juice through quality anchor text to your main ranking desired pages!

[regan]

Blogs are helpful but is to much work, in exchange you can try to create and submit articles about your site. Don't forget to include your link in article and in author signature.

[loosapphire]

There is a lot of people out there to create blogs for outbound links. Blogging is one of best ways to build one-way links to your site very fast. I don't think by doing so is not ethical. Actually it is nothing to do with ethical if you can provide more useful and relavent information to others. To get your blog to seen top of others, submitting articles to places like directories, ezines and forums should help you greatly.

[macgizmoguy]

Originally Posted by loosapphire

There is a lot of people out there to create blogs for outbound links. Blogging is one of best ways to build one-way links to your site very fast. I don't think by doing so is not ethical. Actually it is nothing to do with ethical if you can provide more useful and relavent information to others. To get your blog to seen top of others, submitting articles to places like directories, ezines and forums should help you greatly.

That's the point I was trying to make: THE SPEED AT WHICH YOU CAN GET A NEW SITE INDEXED using key blogs like Blogger/WordPress/LiveJournal. If and what you do with them after that is up to you.

It's very common for Google to give a week or four of initial 'love' to a new website, feel it up for keywords, float you to the top of SERP's briefly - then OFF TO LIMBO you go for your site to age. So using a few key blogs initially can get you on the map QUICK with Google, get you some real traffic and earnings temporarily -- while you're waiting for Bing and then (gawd it usually takes 4 weeks or more) for Yahoo to express an interest.

[genie.liam]

Blog needs to be updated regularly.. If you have the passion and determination to write, then go for it.. But you can comment on other blogs even if you don't have any blogs.. You can get back links with other strategies like forum posting, article & directory submissions, social bookmarking and link exchange..

[David Michael]

I update my blog every week, and do link building of a couple of directory. Is that good enough,As of now I have PR 3 and PR 2 blogs.