Easy High-PR Backlink Method
You need traffic to make any real money as an AdSense publisher. Search engines are a great source of free traffic, but these days you need a lot of links back to your pages in order to rank well. Here’s one easy and free way to legitimately get high-PR backlinks. It requires some time and some elbow grease, but it’s worth exploring.
Step 1: Install the SEO For Firefox Add-On
You need to be using the Firefox browser. Install Aaron Wall’s free SEO For Firefox add-on. This extension modifies search engine results pages on the fly to show all kinds of interesting data about the results, including (tada!) Google PageRank (PR). After installation, restart the browser, go to the Add-ons section, select the options button for the add-on and make sure that the PageRank option is selected.
Step 2: Find a “Do Follow” Blog or Social Site
This requires some research, but you only have to do it once. Gather a list of on-topic blogs and social sites that don’t use “nofollow” on user-submitted external links. A good place to start is with the Do Follow Blogs Directory.
Some of the “do follow” sites may surprise you. Digg is “do follow”, for example.
Step 3: Search for High-PR Posts/Entries
For each blog/site in your “do follow” list, search for posts/entries that have PageRank assigned and meet a minimum PR level. It’s very easy to do. First, go to Google and use the site: command to restrict a search to pages from a given site. Then add in your keyword/phrase to find relevant pages on that site.
This is how I find promising pages about AdSense on Digg:
site:digg.com adsense
Pretty easy! All you do is (with the SEO For Firefox toolbar enabled) scan down the list of results and look for pages that have a PR value assigned. Many of them will have no PR assigned (new pages don’t)… it’s hard to find high PR ones, but I’ve definitely come across several PR 5 or 6 pages in my searches.
Step 4: Leave a Comment
Once you’ve found a promising page, see if you can come up with a relevant comment. In the comment, link back to your site somehow. You may not be able to leave a normal link. Digg, for example, only allows you to enter a URL. (This is where having the keywords in the URL will help, of course.) Do what you can.
Be sure not to spam. Only comment on relevant pages and make sure your comment actually adds to the discussion.
Step 5: Rinse and Repeat
That’s it… do this as many times as you can stand it, on as many sites as possible. It takes time, and it takes effort, but it can yield long-term benefits for your own pages.
Some people will charge you $10 for this information, I’ve given it to you for free. Have fun!
Comments
12 Responses to “Easy High-PR Backlink Method”
Hello Eric.This is my first visit to your blog and I’m really impressed with the clarity of the info.
I came over via your link at Digital site point.
I knew everything you spoke about above except the do follow in Digg part and you reminded me that where url’s are the only posting allowed I should use my keyword rich url’s for those ones.
Even though I knew 80% of the info above , it’s still a boost to know that someone else agress that i what I’m doing is on the right track. It still amazes me just how off track some seo people get….but not you. If we remember what Google is at it’s heart it’s relatively easy to know sufficient to beat your competitors.
People forget that, dont they? You aren’t trying to beat Google.You are beating your competitors or at least the top couple of them. That sounds obvious but that sort of attitude carries you much farther in SEO and rankings.
Find out what the best 2 or 3 guys are doing and do it better. The good news is that the info is easy to find and just takes legwork and some patience while Google updates you.
Anyway Eric,thanks for a great blog and also a fine post related to KeyWordElite at DP.
Cheers…Andrew Blachut. Australia.
Thanks for the comments, Andrew, glad someone finds the information useful. That’s my goal!
Eric
Thansk Eric, it’s my pleasure and the way I see your blog is that it’s a place where there is no misinformation…. of the sort that’s prevalent in seo these days.
I’m sure you’ll always keep the info relevent,clear and effective…just like it is now.
Andrew
Good stuff, Eric. I’ve been using SEO for Firefox for the past couple months and, while I don’t use most of the info it provides, there are a few elements that I find very helpful (especially the Yahoo backlinks displayed underneath the Google search results).
I’m not as impressed with the Do Follow Blogs directory. From what I’ve seen, they lack the initiative to keep it updated. I still think there’s room for a good resource along these lines. Bumpzee’s No NoFollow community is a little unwieldy and lacks categorization…plus, it seems that a number of the blogs listed are not DoFollow anymore. Courtney Tuttle’s D-List is pretty good…but, again, I don’t think he updates it that often. It would be nice if there was a great niche directory that was well-maintained…and if there was a scripted way of monitoring that the links (or at least some of them) were, in fact, do follow…in order for them to stay in the directory. That may be too hard to accomplish. I’m not a programmer, so I don’t have a clue about it.
But the thing I find so disappointing is that so many people take the easy way out. Seems like everyone is looking for automated solutions to every problem. So few are willing to sit and invest a little time to take advantage of a good free opportunity like this.
It’s disappointing because, for the most part, the alternative is spammy solutions…mass directory submissions, mass article submissions (submit to 2000 directories instantly for just $12.99!!!!!). And, in the meantime, good sites that could benefit from an intelligent comment or two and who are willing to share some link juice in exchange for the contribution are lacking.
After posting the comment above, I got to thinking some more… and took a few minutes to throw together this page of do-follow blogs that I am involved with to some degree or another:
http://tornbread.com/do-follow-no-nofollow-blogs.html
Hi,
I’ve been using Adsense for some time and without much success.
Even if I’m having two campaingns (did I write this correctly ?) to gain subscribers for my blog, thus trying to build a stable community of readers, which I think is quite important.
I’ll check that directory that you mention.
I guess that being art related means that a blog won’t get that many visits, but on the other hand, the competition isn’t so fierce.
Best regards,
José
Chuck, great initiative on your part. But how come this blog isn’t on your list?
Of course, it doesn’t look like anything will help this blog get better rankings. Using my new tool, I just checked memwg.com’s ranking for “AdSense”: #749 out of 750 results. Oops. Looks like I’m being penalized for something. Wonder what I did and if they’ll ever tell me how to fix it…
Eric
Good idea. Initially, the idea was just to list ones that I owned or had built. But it makes sense to link to some do-follow friends there as well.
Problem fixed:
http://tornbread.com/do-follow-no-nofollow-blogs.html
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Even though I didn’t intend it at the time I wrote it the other day, I figured someone really DID need to put together a good directory for do-follow blogs. I’m not interested in dumping on the efforts of others, but from what I’ve seen, the directories and the hundreds of do-follow blog lists out there seem to fall rather quickly into disrepair. When I visit the sites on the sites, many of them are no longer do-follow (I suspect many of them never were) and a surprising number of the blogs don’t even exist anymore. So…we’ll see if I can do better. I launched this site over the weekend, have added a number of blogs already (including this one), and have hired someone to add additional entries on a daily basis. Anyone who has a do-follow blog is welcome to submit their blog for a free listing as well:
http://riseabovedirectory.com/
I usually track my competitor site by Yahoo.com and then after find where they get backlink I use “Parameter” (software) to trackdown the highest PR on that blog.
Thanks for the post Eric. I found it to be quite informative. Much appreciated.