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[bheddir]

Which of the 5 link building techniques has more weight in Search Engine?

1. Social Bookmarking
2. FOrum Posting
3. Article Submission
4. Directory Submission
5. Blog Commenting





zylom

[SoCalSubbuteo]

1. Social Bookmarking - at present Google seems to give this more weight than the other factors you mention.

2. Directory Submission - find directories that are about specific subjects rather than general one.  DMOZ also appears to still be be worth it.  Do NOT reciprocal link with a directory, if one asks for it before they will post your link ignore them & find another.

3. Article Submission - be careful not to use the same text on your site as you do in the articles.  If you do Google might decide to include the article & consider your site/page as a duplicate & not worthy of inclusion.  The same article in more that one place will lead to one being indexed & the others ignored as duplicates.  Most article sites are now so devalued that I wonder if it worth doing this any more.

4. Forum Posting - check the source of the forum page & see if they "nofollow" the links in signatures or in the postings.  Some even put the meta robots "noindex" & "nofollow" in the page too.  Check to see if Google has a cache of the forum.  If not then it could be that the forum owner has blocked it using a robots.txt .

5. Blog Commenting - most blogs now "nofollow" all links in comments as default.  They are good for traffic but not for SEO.  But you might get great traffic from a post if it is really insightful, rather than what I call the "me too" type of comment.  If it is really good & your site is too you might get others creating their own blog stories about you & your site.

I read an interesting article yesterday saying is traffic is more important than SEO.  It made me remember that I have my site is for people & not search engines.

[thefluffball]

Social Bookmarking, Forum Posting, Directory Submission and Blog Commenting all depend on how much you do them (and whether or not the links are no-follow and the PR of the websites).
Social Bookmarking and Article Submission are mainly for traffic, although some directories also provide some good traffic.

[BeeniDrew]

1. Social Bookmarking - at present Google seems to give this more weight than the other factors you mention.

2. Directory Submission - find directories that are about specific subjects rather than general one.  DMOZ also appears to still be be worth it.  Do NOT reciprocal link with a directory, if one asks for it before they will post your link ignore them & find another.

3. Article Submission - be careful not to use the same text on your site as you do in the articles.  If you do Google might decide to include the article & consider your site/page as a duplicate & not worthy of inclusion.  The same article in more that one place will lead to one being indexed & the others ignored as duplicates.  Most article sites are now so devalued that I wonder if it worth doing this any more.

4. Forum Posting - check the source of the forum page & see if they "nofollow" the links in signatures or in the postings.  Some even put the meta robots "noindex" & "nofollow" in the page too.  Check to see if Google has a cache of the forum.  If not then it could be that the forum owner has blocked it using a robots.txt .

5. Blog Commenting - most blogs now "nofollow" all links in comments as default.  They are good for traffic but not for SEO.  But you might get great traffic from a post if it is really insightful, rather than what I call the "me too" type of comment.  If it is really good & your site is too you might get others creating their own blog stories about you & your site.

I read an interesting article yesterday saying is traffic is more important than SEO.  It made me remember that I have my site is for people & not search engines.

Really nice work. Out standing...

[bheddir]

Thanks for replying! I think it helps me on deciding which one to use.

[BeeniDrew]

1. Social Bookmarking - at present Google seems to give this more weight than the other factors you mention.

2. Directory Submission - find directories that are about specific subjects rather than general one.  DMOZ also appears to still be be worth it.  Do NOT reciprocal link with a directory, if one asks for it before they will post your link ignore them & find another.

3. Article Submission - be careful not to use the same text on your site as you do in the articles.  If you do Google might decide to include the article & consider your site/page as a duplicate & not worthy of inclusion.  The same article in more that one place will lead to one being indexed & the others ignored as duplicates.  Most article sites are now so devalued that I wonder if it worth doing this any more.

4. Forum Posting - check the source of the forum page & see if they "nofollow" the links in signatures or in the postings.  Some even put the meta robots "noindex" & "nofollow" in the page too.  Check to see if Google has a cache of the forum.  If not then it could be that the forum owner has blocked it using a robots.txt .

5. Blog Commenting - most blogs now "nofollow" all links in comments as default.  They are good for traffic but not for SEO.  But you might get great traffic from a post if it is really insightful, rather than what I call the "me too" type of comment.  If it is really good & your site is too you might get others creating their own blog stories about you & your site.

I read an interesting article yesterday saying is traffic is more important than SEO.  It made me remember that I have my site is for people & not search engines.

Actually I was talking about this and you also because you have created this topic.

[thefluffball]

Beeni, no offence, but I don't think he was thanking you.

[BeeniDrew]

Beeni, no offence, but I don't think he was thanking you.

Oh sorry! that was just next to my reply with no quote so I thought it's for me. How stupid I am some time. lolzzzz.

[ESI Portal]

I read an interesting article yesterday saying is traffic is more important than SEO.  It made me remember that I have my site is for people & not search engines.

Yes, Right!
+5 for you