General questions about SEO

HI!

As some of you might know, I started a journey thread a few weeks ago.

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/noob-journey-trying-to-make-money-with-affiliate-programs.864413/#post-9135963

I've written a lot of content, 40 articles and 13 pages so far. I have a Facebook page set up and a Twitter and a Pinterest account for the site. I also created 3 Pinterest and Twitter accounts to retweet the tweets of my main accounts.

The thing is that I'm trying to get backlinks and I have a few questions about that.

1. Are Repins and Retweets a good source of backlinks? I read a lot of threads over here and most talk about Social signals, but the concept is not really clear to me. The way I understand it is the more RT and Repins I get, the more backlinks I have. Is it correct?

2. The second question is linked to the first one. Would it be ok to get retweets and repins from sites like addmefast or would it have a negative impact on the ranking?

3. I tried commenting on a couple blog posts. I posted a link to my site. I also contributed to a wikia page and put a link to my site as a reference. I'd like to know if these would make good backlinks. I've used a couple of seo tools and none of them detect any backlinks to my site. How does it work exactly? Do backlinks get recognized immediately or is something that works over time? I don't expect to rank in a few days, was just wondering if backlinkshow backlinks are detected.

4. Last question: are forums a good source of backlinks? What I do is that I search for the keyword I want to rank and try to post my links on the sites that are on the same niche. Some forums show up, but most require to register to see the content. Are these useful for SEO or should I just target them to get traffic.


I'm a noob and wan't to learn and practice with this journey and eventually scale things up. Thanks you for reading and thanks in advance for the anwers and help

chiefoccupy said:

HI!

As some of you might know, I started a journey thread a few weeks ago.

http://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/no...-with-affiliate-programs.864413/#post-9135963

I've written a lot of content, 40 articles and 13 pages so far. I have a Facebook page set up and a Twitter and a Pinterest account for the site. I also created 3 Pinterest and Twitter accounts to retweet the tweets of my main accounts.

The thing is that I'm trying to get backlinks and I have a few questions about that.

1. Are Repins and Retweets a good source of backlinks? I read a lot of threads over here and most talk about Social signals, but the concept is not really clear to me. The way I understand it is the more RT and Repins I get, the more backlinks I have. Is it correct?

2. The second question is linked to the first one. Would it be ok to get retweets and repins from sites like addmefast or would it have a negative impact on the ranking?

3. I tried commenting on a couple blog posts. I posted a link to my site. I also contributed to a wikia page and put a link to my site as a reference. I'd like to know if these would make good backlinks. I've used a couple of seo tools and none of them detect any backlinks to my site. How does it work exactly? Do backlinks get recognized immediately or is something that works over time? I don't expect to rank in a few days, was just wondering if backlinkshow backlinks are detected.

4. Last question: are forums a good source of backlinks? What I do is that I search for the keyword I want to rank and try to post my links on the sites that are on the same niche. Some forums show up, but most require to register to see the content. Are these useful for SEO or should I just target them to get traffic.


I'm a noob and wan't to learn and practice with this journey and eventually scale things up. Thanks you for reading and thanks in advance for the anwers and help

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1. No

2. Repins and Retweets effect on your Google Rankings is negligible.

3. Those backlinks sound fine. It can take a few weeks for them to be indexed.

4. Depending on the forum, yes they can be.

Generally speaking, social signals are not counted by Google as backlinks.

They can be citations.

They are viewed as social signals in terms of mentions, but they don't have the same operations as backlinks in terms of SEO.

This is not necessarily bad.

The more you spread your brand on social media, the more likely you attract certain bloggers in your niche.

It is just consistency.

And if you're able to do this, don't be surprised if people start blogging about your project and linking to you.

1. It's not something I've ever tried but I would say no. Social signals have little to no impact.

2. It wouldn't affect it at all

3. Backlinks can take a few days and even weeks at times to be found. Remember there are two types of 'being found' too. One is by whatever software you're using to monitor SEO, and the second is when it's actually found, which is within Search Console.

4. If they're within your niche they can be helpful. I don't have any evidence but I think the context would make a difference.

Generally, it seems like the only mistake you're making is by focusing on getting any and all backlinks possible. Remember, if they're easily obtainable, there are probably a million sites out there with links from them. For a new site, focus on getting the content to a point where you think a user could spend some time on there, fill out all the clusters of content possible, and then look to doing guest posts.