Backlink Building (Pseudo-SEO) vs. Linkbaiting (Real SEO): A Comparison
If you’ve read that list that has been floating around the Internet lately (October 2010), you will know about the ethical marketers out there who don’t do those sickening JV launches that are simply focused on swindling people of their hard-earned dollars. It’s harder, but people like Andrew Hansen (who compiled that list) and Mark Dulisse (who built an income solely from SEO) do make it work eventually and are an inspiration to us all. SEO does work, but it takes time, regardless of if you do it with link bait or manual link building.
Link baiting is a term that uses a fishing analogy to basically explain how SEO is meant to work: you throw your bait (content) into the vast sea of people (fishes). These people find your bait (content) and if they find it delicious (interesting), they’ll spread the word about it. More people will look for your bait (content) and Google will push you up further to the top of the pond (SERPs) so that it’s easier for people to find you. The problem is that there’s millions of fishers; we all can’t have the best bait.
If link baiting is organic SEO, then backlink building is “inorganic” SEO. Simply put, Google doesn’t see it as natural. If your stuff is mediocre, then regardless of how many backlinks it gets, it won’t convert. Google is the ultimate marketing tool and is simply there to help people find the stuff that they were looking for. Backlink building in essence will let even the dregs of society have a shot at having their material appear on the SERPs, as long as there are a few thousand backlinks pointing at it.
SEOLinkVine is a unique way to build backlinks that isn’t frowned upon by Google. It was launched by Brad Callen, who’s responsible for other products like SEO Elite and numerous keyword tools that have helped Online Marketers make thousands, if not tens of thousands online. He built this tool to expedite the backlink building process without the risk of having a site getting slapped by Google for dodgy backlink building methods.
SEOLinkVine basically allows you to say sayounara to the days where you have to beg blog owners to allow you to leave a link back to your site. With this site, the blog owners and other website owners not only willingly publish your content, they also allow you to put three backlinks onto their website as anchor text in your article. Pretty sweet, huh?
That’s in essence how the system works: publishers (people who want content for their site but can’t be stuffed or are too cheap to outsource it to someone else) are allowed to take your content and put it on their sites on the condition that they leave your links in the content. You (the writer), get the backlinks you need when your content is published.
Naturally, you will get a few people who are publishing your stuff over and over, but in general, you will get a wider audience by using SEOLinkVine, simply because your articles will be exposed to readers you wouldn’t otherwise get. It takes effort; all I’m doing right now is writing once a day, submitting my content, then reaping the rewards of the backlinks. I only write Monday to Friday, so I have some time to recover.
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