You can’t visit a money making blog these days without coming across some kind of advice on back linking. I don’t think anyone will argue that back links to your blog or site is an essential if you want your site to climb up in search engine rankings. I’ve notice recently the increase in sales pitch about building back links using social media sites. Before we get into that, you should know why building back links using these video social media sites and web 2.0 articles sites are gaining popularity.
We’re going to talk about VIDEO sites first, and use YouTube as an example:
Few month back I started a blog call MySmokingMazdaCX7.com for reasons to long for me to get into, this was a brand spanking new domain and I wanted it indexed and gaining traffic from Mazda CX-7 owners ASAP.
I was just discovering and toying with the power of social media, and figure why not go with one of the biggest one out there! After creating a short little video about my Mazda CX-7 puffing smoke for no reason and uploaded it to YouTube and spend a few minutes to fill out a profile with a link to my blog, the blog showed up in Google index in less then 48 hours.
It took whole 72 hours before I was ranked #1 for the term “Smoking Mazda CX-7″ and took about a week before it was rank for variations of that term. Now I know you’re thinking, it’s not a competitive keyword, so it’s not nothing to brag about, and you’re spot on.
Few days later I decided to compile a list of popular video sites and submit the same video to it and see what would happen. To my surprise, some of the videos started to show up on Google organic searches higher then the YouTube video!
Few more weeks went by, and after looking through Analytics I realized I was getting traffic for over 500 different keywords! Not only I was getting traffic from various Mazda long-tail keywords. It didn’t take too long before this happened.
Yup! I was on the first page for the keyword “Mazda CX 7″ right under Mazda’s own website.
This was obviously a small project and I was going up against keywords that was relatively easy to obtain. But the surprise discovery was the power of using video sites to link back to our site, and the organic results you can achieve by submitting a few videos.
I’ve since been learning and utilizing a few more advance back link building using video social media sites, one particular program I’ve been able to learn some amazing tricks from is Dark Side of Dot Com Secrets. It’s not quite ‘Black Hat’ but their methods are so efficient that you feel like it should be.
Look for another post about Dot Com Secrets and my similar experiment with web 2.o article sites.
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