Competitive Niches: 5 Ways to Beat the Big Guns- Part 4
December 29th, 2009
Written by: Simon Slade, Guest Blogger
This is Part 4 in my “Competitive Niches” series. Be sure to check out Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 if you haven’t already!
#4 – An organized link building campaign
It’s been said that 80% of search engine “love” comes from backlinks to your site. That’s not to say that all the on-page SEO you do is not worth doing – it is – but you should remember that without backlinks you won’t stand a chance in a competitive niche.
Link building can be challenging and you might actually feel it’s more ‘link begging’ than link building. While there’s nothing wrong with asking for a link, remember there are lots of other ways you can get a backlink to your site. Here are a few suggestions:
- Article directories such as ezinearticles.com or squidoo.com
- Industry directories that are directly related to your niche
- Forum posts or blog comments (search for CommentLuv blogs that offer dofollow comment links)
The advantage of creating your own backlinks is that you can use the anchor text of your choice, and using the keyword phrase in backlinks to your site is a huge plus for boosting your site’s relevancy for a specific keyword phrase.
Remember to monitor your backlinks with SEO tools like Yahoo! Site Explorer, Google Webmaster tools or Traffic Travis. While not all backlinks are reported, these tools will help you gauge how successful your link building campaigns are.
Stay tuned for Part 5, where I talk about focusing your niche to be even more competitive.
About the author
Simon Slade is the CEO of Affilorama, an affiliate marketing training portal that offers free video training, education, and affiliate tools to both beginning and advanced affiliate marketers. You can follow them on Twitter.
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It really depends on the niche and topic of the website as to how hard it is to get back links. I have a health advocacy site that is very hard to get back links for because of the nature of the sub niche, but my online business start up blog is really easy to get back links for.
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Again, Thanks for it all.
Link building is certainly important to compete in competitive niches. However, I just make it a daily duty to get backlinks for my websites.