If you’ve been following my blog you would remember that I decided to move ahead with Google Adsense as part of my strategy to make money online i.e, build up Niche adsense sites to make a passive income online. In this process I’ve learnt the importance of taking a decision and sticking to it.
Just to give you a background, I started blogging in 2009 with this blog and after that have had 4 domain names that did end up as a failure..i tried clickbank products, being a webhosting affiliate and a random site that had topics on health, entertainment etc etc. Very recently , I did decide to go ahead with one route to make money online. Based on my personal experience, I would like to say that if you’re a newbie just getting into the Internet Marketing world, don’t fall for the fake products and tall claims that you can make money online with no effort at all. Just like any business in the real world, it takes time, effort and the right kind of strategy to make money online. Also, stick to one way of making money from the Internet..just my 2 cents.
Coming back, As a part of my efforts to rank high in SERP’s for my targeted keyword for my niche site, I’ve been trying numerous ways to build backlinks to my site. I would like to write on what I did last month and what i think worked for my niche site.
So, Here’s what I currently have
I have around 15 articles on my niche site and as a learning I decided to focus on building backlinks to my domain and a single post that is targeted on a keyword that has 5900 searches in a month (as per google adwords) and a CPC of $9.
I would also like to show you a screenshot from traffic travis of what my competition looks like, so that you can get an idea of what I’ve got into.
My niche post is currently ranking on 15th position (marked in red) for the targeted keyword in Google SERP’s. Although it’s not too bad for a site I registered around September mid.
And here’s what I did
As part of my backlinking efforts, I signed up for services link Article Ranks and SpinDistribute and did dwelve into forums and blog comments and article marketing. The results are here:
1) Article Ranks is a service that is a fully automated article marketing & article distribution service. For a submission of 1 article, i got around 12 backlinks .. which is not bad. I took an article from ezine articles and spun the content to almost 200% unique with Spinner Chief – a free spinner.
2) Spin Distribute says that they’ve distributed my article to around 50% of the 800 sites. As per their analysis, I should get about 800 backlinks to my one article. As per my analysis, I don’t even see one backlink to my site until now that is.
3) Submitted a unique article to Ezine Articles directory. This has been indexed and shows up in yahoo site explorer
4) Submitted articles to squidoo, hubpages, scribd and created web 2.0 blogs at blogster, blogspot and blog.com with a post relating to my niche and linking back to my site.
5) Submitted my post to Social Monkee. Yes, the free backlinking solution that earns me 100 free social bookmarks from each submission (I am a premium member, because I’ve referred 12+ members). I saw quite a few bookmarks indexed in Google, so that is going well.
6) Created around 5 forum profiles, now this generally does not work because a profile page is generally deep into the domain and I doubt it’ll ever get recognized. But yes, i did create my signature and tried to to reply to a few topics. The moderator removed the post and banned me the very next moment. I also experienced forums where you can use you’re signature only after you’ve reached a certain no. of posts. I am really not aware of that number and do not have the time to work on building it. My take home from this, if you find a high PR page ranking for a forum, sign up and then leave your comment. After around 15 days, go back create your signature and you should see it in your post. This will help you stay away from the moderators scanner. Yes, involves a lot of follow up and hard work. But then, who said things were easy 
7) Now, comes the most interesting part.. i found a lot of blogs that had an extremely high PR (PR 7 in cases) to comment on. The interesting thing was that these PR blogs not only had high PR in their domain but also the same followed on their interior pages.. which was good news.
Now the trick here is to leave interesting comments which takes a lot of time as you have to read each and every post… but it’s worth the effort. I got around 90 backlinks indexed in yahoo site explorer right after commenting on these high PR blogs.. which is something im looking forward to. Now, I will have to follow up and see if these comments stick and I get the benefits.
It was interesting to read my earlier post on Is Blog Commenting a link Building Strategy. It only shows how experience changes views and opinions.
Suggested Read -> How to Build Backlinks To Your Site
So here’s what I’ve done over the last one month.. I’ve not made a cent yet from my niche blog and it gets around 6-7 visits a day.
I Will appreciate your inputs and remember that conversation and debate is what triggers your mind to think out of the box. Do shout out and let me know what you think I can do better to make my niche blog a success
You Should Also Check Out
