Manual link building: Who here's doing it now?

As people are not doing it as it should be then you should try to maintain the regulations in the era of penguins and others like this.

Manual backlink also good, for daily basis i am doing 10-15 because i am also focus on content as well.

I have been doing both manual and automated for my sites and clients, it just depends on what the clients wants and how much they are willing to pay for the monthly SEO.One thing I want a lot of people to understand is, tool does not get your derank just the way you understand SEO and use the tool.The first penguin update saw two of my sites with manual links lost their first positions and the sites with more spammy links with a stable rank.

Depends on what is your goal, long term or short term.
I still do allot of manual work since i consider it will bring benefit in the long run.

daveguy said:

I've been doing guest posting for about 8 months now. I see more gains from 1 guest post than I do with everything else I try. Use scrapebox with footprint "write for us" or "guest post," run a domain PR check and start looking for opportunities from PR9-4. You'll find some gems in the bunch, but it will take time. Most sites have a set of guidelines you have to follow so your e-mails need to be unique to that site. I'll usually get 1 opportunity every 2-4 hours. Outsource the article and then plug your link in a few spots where it makes sense. Relevant + high quality + hard to get = win.

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totally agree with daveguy, thanks for the tip, i'm sure it would help many of us post penguin.

toughtrasher said:

Why would you want to automate the 2.0s? You're going to have to write the articles anyways. Unless of course, you're lazy as phuck and want to spin it or even worse, you want to scrape them then spin them.

Senuke X
GSA SE Ranker

that's all I got lol.

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I believe he said that he manually does the 2.0s then blasts those 2.0 properties with automated links.

Tier 1
Manual Blog Comments and Forum Posting (Small Amount Paid, Mostly Manual)
Web 2.0's = Manual ALWAYS. Unique content, profiles, images, videos, etc.
Yahoo Answers (Paid)
Manual Social Bookmarks
Press Releases (Paid)

Tier 2, 3, 4
Anything pointed is automated and paid.

I'm sure there's things I'm missing but, I do manual work then outsource some of it.

we do manual links.

weruncompanies said:

Tier 1
Manual Blog Comments and Forum Posting (Small Amount Paid, Mostly Manual)
Web 2.0's = Manual ALWAYS. Unique content, profiles, images, videos, etc.
Yahoo Answers (Paid)
Manual Social Bookmarks
Press Releases (Paid)

Tier 2, 3, 4
Anything pointed is automated and paid.

I'm sure there's things I'm missing but, I do manual work then outsource some of it.

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Does this strategy work for you, in terms of ranking your websites?
I'm doing tiered backlinking on my microniche sites and hardly saw a 3-rank movement but that's probably only because I've began to work on the website again.
I'm doing web 2.0s only with unique content and images in each article, with a link to my money site and interlinking to my other web 2.0s.
Then I blast those with GSA SE Ranker and not sure if it's working.

Normally ppls think that Manual Link Bulidings are Hard work, But it get a genuine results always

weruncompanies said:

Tier 1
Manual Blog Comments and Forum Posting (Small Amount Paid, Mostly Manual)
Web 2.0's = Manual ALWAYS. Unique content, profiles, images, videos, etc.
Yahoo Answers (Paid)
Manual Social Bookmarks
Press Releases (Paid)

Tier 2, 3, 4
Anything pointed is automated and paid.

I'm sure there's things I'm missing but, I do manual work then outsource some of it.

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You do all of this nonsense or just write a few guest posts. You'll be happier with the guest post results. Trust.

I am moving to manual link building now. Think its necessary after the recent updates.

daveguy said:

I've been doing guest posting for about 8 months now. I see more gains from 1 guest post than I do with everything else I try. Use scrapebox with footprint "write for us" or "guest post," run a domain PR check and start looking for opportunities from PR9-4. You'll find some gems in the bunch, but it will take time. Most sites have a set of guidelines you have to follow so your e-mails need to be unique to that site. I'll usually get 1 opportunity every 2-4 hours. Outsource the article and then plug your link in a few spots where it makes sense. Relevant + high quality + hard to get = win.

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That is a pretty creative way to use scrapebox! Nice tip!

I also have been focusing a lot on guest posts and manual link building. I've seen tremendous increases in rankings from it.

daveguy said:

You do all of this nonsense or just write a few guest posts. You'll be happier with the guest post results. Trust.

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Do you usually pay to guest post on someone else's blog or do you not pay at all since you're providing them with content?

toughtrasher said:

Does this strategy work for you, in terms of ranking your websites?
I'm doing tiered backlinking on my microniche sites and hardly saw a 3-rank movement but that's probably only because I've began to work on the website again.
I'm doing web 2.0s only with unique content and images in each article, with a link to my money site and interlinking to my other web 2.0s.
Then I blast those with GSA SE Ranker and not sure if it's working.

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Does it work? Yes.

But I don't build microniche sites anymore. I only build quality content filled sites with unique themes, etc and brand them as real websites. The microniche sites I've been able to rank super easy, Google's algo has been really weird lately: 1 tiny site, unique (modified) Wordpress template, 6 600 word articles on homepage, used keywords in category links, made 1 video on youtube 1 min with link to money site with url keyword in YouTube, very tiny 200 site wiki automation from service provider, a few blog comments.. Within two weeks a one month old domain is sitting at page one, spot #5. Keywords are average-ish comp.

Another case study, this time on my main site.

Keyword #1: Main quality site: Moderate searches, well-above average. Avg comp have 12-15 year old domains.



Keyword #2: Main quality site: Moderate searches, well-above average. Avg comp have 12-15 year old domains.

daveguy said:

You do all of this nonsense or just write a few guest posts. You'll be happier with the guest post results. Trust.

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Nonsense? I'm planning for the long term, I want to diversify as much as possible. I only run websites that I can brand for the long term, real sites.. I'm not going to put it all on black "guest posts" and hope it doesn't turn up red. I try to mix everything any way possible to confuse Google as much as I can. And it's been working.

I don't build a ton of links to the money sites, I hand-select all of them. I find the best links possible and link those. Granted I can't do that everytime though, but I try as much as possible. My next target has 145,000 searches/month, and one of my keywords has a $8.00 Cost per click.. So manual is going to be cut back a bit, but I'll still be doing a ton of things the old-fashioned way by hand.

Also I don't interlink my web 2.0 sites, anything pointed at my money site I want Google to have no idea it wasn't natural. I personally (can't prove it) but I think building a ton of web 2.0's and linking them together is a bad idea.. After all of the updates the things I took away from it were: Content + Anchor text Diversity. Link diversity was a possible factor I thought, but I'm still ranking a money site with 90% .com backlinks and it's still sitting #1 for multiple keywords, and this has been a year+, Google's new algo's haven't changed anything for me.

manual white hat is the way to go. For long term, permanent stuff. if your looking for a quick buck spammy link building works sometimes if done correctly.

Try to make your link building manually instead of getting any sort of help from software after Panda and Penguin just manual link building has some of weight. Software or auto link building is now dead.

The SEO said:

Try to make your link building manually instead of getting any sort of help from software after Panda and Penguin just manual link building has some of weight. Software or auto link building is now dead.

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Auto link building is NOT dead. LOL

I build web 2.0s with unique content and niche relevant backlinks manually.