On the Prowl For Back Links

As I had mentioned in my last posting Blogging And Following as of Late, I had mentioned that I had added another Guru to my Guru list. His name is Justin, an SEO expert. Well, he’s on my daily reading list and the guy is quite brilliant which helps me because I am not exactly a genius when it comes to writing for the search engines, keywords and long tail keywords etc., etc. However, I am learning, thanks to guys like Griz, Court and Vic who are smart enough and kind enough to share their knowledge with the general population. Had it not been for them, I would probably still be reading JC and thinking about giving up on this blog/affiliate marketing journey because nothing was happening. It’s a slooooow process.

If you’ve been reading any of these guys about how to make money online and the very important SEO stuff, you are going to know already that it’s all about the back links. To quote Justin in his video, back links are the legs upon which your site stands. That’s how important it is. If you don’t have legs, god forbid! You can’t stand up! Yikes! I never knew! I’ve designed my share of sites in my past history and I’m wondering why they still have a page rank of Zero from Google and I now know why. They don’t have any legs to stand on because they don’t have any BACK LINKS. I’ve moved on and designed some newer sites and they now have some legs or back links to stand up on. I’m posting articles about once or twice a week and hopefully, they will get better page ranking in the Google system. I write quality content with keywords and long tailed keywords in mind, I do the research and then I spend time hunting for backlinks. Yes, I am on the hunt! The sites are indexed already and that is a good thing, but they are not where I want them to be yet.

I don’t do any social media per se for my other sites, but I do a little for this site because this site is more of a social media site and I want to communicate with my fellow bloggers in the blogging universe. I learn from them, sometimes make some friends and all is well.

So, like I said, I am on the prowl for some good back links to build up my sites “legs”. I’ll find some, no doubt in my own blogging empire – whenever that gets started which might be at about 2:00 p.m. today. Who knows?!?!!! But I’m still looking for backlinks, low or high quality backlinks like a huntress in the jungle and it’s a slow process for sure, riddled with danger. I always wish someone would publish a step by step guide listing where you get backlinks but that might not be a very safe option because the journey for everyone and every blog must be an individual, varied and natural process. I’ve heard there’s software that can help but I haven’t tried anything like that yet.

One of the ways I’ve learned to get back links is to submit articles to various directories and I have used a couple of them – GoArticles and EzineArticles. Both of them I like. I tried the free download of article submitter, but I didn’t really like some of the directories they hook you up to – most of them seemed kind of unknown and unimportant. I guess I’m just picky. Perhaps that’s just the case with the free version of Article Submitter. I also tried ArticleMarketer, the free version, but now they want me to buy it and I don’t have the spare cash right now. Right now, I’ll just stay with GoArticles and Ezine and submit my re-writes to those sites.

Anyways, that’s it for today’s report on my blogging journey. I’m off to build an empire…