Want Top Spot in Google? Build Web 2.0 Backlinks!
November 14th, 2008 | 
Author: I was whining to my poor mentor Craig Desorcy of http://www.wehelpnewbies.com the other day (feel for him – he has to listen to me bitch and moan when I don’t know what I’m doing) and once again, he gave me some good advice I’m going to share with you. Let’s call it the trickle down effect 
My dilemma is this: I’m ranking #1 or top 10 on Google for a TON of long-tail keywords having to do with my PLR Mini Mart site. My goal is to be king of the hill, Queen of all things PLR, and so on But that takes time and work. For PLR, I’m on page 1. For PLR articles, however – I’m stuck back on page 3. Not a good place to be.
So Craig told me to roll up my sleeves and get to work. Backlinks are what it takes to get top honors. So today, I want to show you a few pages I built in the land of web 2.0 to generate some backlink love to my blog at http://www.PLRMiniMart.com/blog – I’m anchoring this link in the text “PLR articles” so if anyone wants to plant me a backlink somewhere, I’d be grateful – and no, I’m not too proud to beg lol.
The first one I built was on WetPaint for PLR Articles and I like the color scheme and layout but the site appears too busy for my tastes. Still, it’s a backlink!
The second one I did today was a Yahoo 360 PLR Articles page. Don’t even ask me about that little Texan cutie avatar I made. I was having fun and wishful thinking that I still had that kind of figure! Really not fond of this page – boring! But it’s a backlink!
My third foray in backlink building for the day as a PLR Articles page at WordPress. Again, plain Jane page – I could have taken time to implement a nice WordPress theme, but the tactic is to generate backlinks, not make an aesthetic impression on people.
My 4th backlink site was Blogger where I built yet another PLR Articles page. Um, my page looks like a bottle of Pepto Bismol spilled on it, but I wanted a girlie theme It does its purpose, though.
One of my favorites of the day was building a PLR Articles page on Google Knol. I drool over Knols although when you go to the page, look how stinky the URL is. Come on, Google – could ya not give us a little keyword relevant string of letters to stick in there rather than that bundled up mess? Note: Some lovely person reported me to Google – ALL of my knols – as being spammy. So they shut down this one account (my other pen name ones are open and I’m not saying where those are!). Now I have to await a LONG review to see if they’ll reopen them. I also had (the same?) person go into all of ONE of my Squidoo accounts and one star all my lenses. So looks like someone had it out for me. None of my other accounts were targeted – just those where they knew my name.
My last PLR Articles page of the day (I’m tapped out on PLR content) was at Live Journal. Not exactly a beauty but what I do love is this – go to the page and hover over my first link that says PLR articles. See the pop up? I love that. A preview of my page!
Got any other web 2.0 sites you feel would work well for my PLR article backlink strategy? Let me know about them! I have to be careful because, for instance, EZA doesn’t allow PLR articles unless it slams PLR. Boo hiss! Does anyone know about IMNewswatch? I noticed he has a content submission area – I’m used to him picking up my content.
Discuss!
Tiff 
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Did you forget Squidoo Tiffany?
Surely not ;0)
Peace
Jay
Tiffany,
There’s a free service called http://www.Ping.fm. This service will allow you to update MULTIPLE blogs all at once. It supports Blogger, WP, Myspace, Jaiku, and a bunch of others.
You can create blogs at all of the sites that Ping.fm supports, write one article with all of your keyword links, and add the content to all of them with one click!
Also, have you added any pages to eBay or even Amazon? They both have blogs, you know…
Oh I already got my Squidoo lenses pointing to it. lol And Hub Pages, too!
Thanks for the tip, Chris!
I like Wikidot – it’s very easy to get a good ranking with. You could also try sites like Zimbio, Weebly, Tumblr etc.
Just be careful about using the same anchor text in too many places – Google could penalize you for over optimization and you could actually end up losing your rank. Try using a few different (but similar) keywords as anchor text e.g. private label articles, private label rights articles etc.
Hamida
Fantastic post Tiffany – I’ve just spent an hour firing out some of these sites myself. I just need to make a Knol and then look at some of the sites suggested by your other readers.
Hi Hamida
How many pages do you usually create for a wikidot site?
thanks
Jack, I find that one is usually enough – at the most it should take about 24-48 hours to get indexed.
Tiffany, I don;t know how these look in your broswer, but with IE i keep seeing youur posts littered with
quotes… you might want to see why this is the case.
Paydex
Looks like your Knol has been removed :/
Hi Rebecca!
Yeah I just added a note above to what happened there. You won’t have the same
trouble
Tiff
Tiffany,
Thanks for the great post. I have been reading about linking and link wheels all day and your article was very insightful. Do you do a lot of backlinking to your web 2.0 pages from article sites or do you find that these articles are enough to get you placed?
Tiffany
The blogspot blog you created, did you just create it solely to backlink from? It certainly looks like it as it only has that one post. I hadn’t thought of doing that, but I guess if it works, it works.
I guess so Chris. Wow I had to go back to 2008 to see that post? LOL No clue what I was thinking to be honest.
I hadn’t checked the date on the original post, sorry lol. Was it actually benefitial to you though? Did it provide anything? What did you get from it?