Stealth Link Building – Part 3 – Social Link Scouting

23. Aug 2007 | 5 Comments

Right, this part of the post is going to be a bit shorter than usual but the tip you’re getting is priceless.

What’s the main two things that we want when link building?

Relevance & Link Popularity

Right, stay with me. Where’s the best place to find pages that are relevant to our sites that we KNOW have a high link popularity? Social Networks.

For example, visit Digg & fire in a search for what you want (given that the Digg Search engine isn’t all that good you should still see plenty of popular stories) then sort them by the most diggs.

Now you’ve got a page filled with stories that have been made popular based on the topic you’re looking for & chances are they’ll all have hundreds (if not thousands) of inbound links to that particular page alone. Making them very very juicy.

I used to use these pages to get links into deeper pages of my affiliate sites, but since the new comments system was introduced the lower ranking comments are hidden by AJAX (which the spiders can’t trigger).

So instead we have to go after the stories themselves. We’re merely looking for a link within the body text of the story. This is simple, if you follow the steps in my previous stealth linking post. These links pass heaps of weight & authority. They’re also almost impossible to detect.

Ninja Cat

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5 Comments on "Stealth Link Building – Part 3 – Social Link Scouting"

James Mann 25. Aug 2007, 12:19 am

Thanks for the post, you always do a great job.

I certainly agree with relevance and link popularity. I have tried to keep the links on my link pages as relevant as I can to get some lovin’ from the major search engines.

You are doing a great job so I think it’s definitely worth a Digg.

CPA Affiliates 28. Aug 2007, 10:19 am

Dont you know link buying is bad (if you ask google)… but IMO go for it man that is a great idea you have for building links. I know many people have used it and been successfull.

Tim @ PrestigeReviews 30. Aug 2007, 6:58 pm

Did you think of that Digg technique? I like it, nice work

Cheers,
Tim.

Steven Snell 17. Sep 2007, 11:52 am

Interesting idea. Thanks.

Directory Submission Sofware 26. Nov 2007, 10:51 pm

>Dont you know link buying is bad (if you ask google)

Let’s face it: you take some risks when purchasing links. But the time and work saved may be a worthwhile trade off against any potential downsides. Once you know the risks, you can minimize them while making informed decisions regarding whether link-purchasing is the right strategy for you.

Using paid links in moderation can be quite helpful to your rankings, provided that you get them from a variety of good topicallyrelated sources while avoiding run-of-site links and all-identical anchor text.