In 2010, Pat Flynn inspired thousands with his blog post: THE Backlinking Strategy that Works
Pat was not the first person to discover tiered backlinking building. In fact, I was also building backlinks in tiers in 2010, and even continued to do so in 2011 and 2012.
Does Tiered backlink building still work?
… The answer is….
… Sort of!
Ok. So that didn’t really answer your question. The truth is that tiered linking or
(pyramid backlinking) can still work. But it’s harder than it used to be. Google is
becoming more efficient at identifying backlink spam and forced rankings.
So although you can make it work, it’s more difficult in 2013, and will continue
to be more difficult in the years to come.
Well Gosh Brendan, there’s gotta be a better way?
… Actually there is, and always has been a better way. The best strategy in 2013 and beyond is to buy and =re-purpose high page rank domains.
The 18 Minute Video on THE Easier Backlinking Strategy that Will ALWAYS Work!
Links Mentioned in the Video:
- Seo Quake – Program that Conveniently Checks Page Rank
- Pyramid Link Buildling – The old way of building backlinks
- Digital Point Forums – For PR domain auctions and instant buys
- Godaddy Auctions – For PR domain auctions and instant buys
- Domain Tools – To check whether the domain has been dropped in the past
- PR Powershot – Must have software program that quickly finds PR domains
- SEO SpyGlass – Free Backlink checker that checks the quantity and quality
…
Summary of the Video
Introduction: Explanation of the OLD way of link building
- Step 1: Ecplanation of the high page rank shortcut to easy rankings
- Step 2: Best places to find high page rank domains (digital point forums, Godaddy)
- Step 3: Check domains for “fake page rank” at http://www.checkpagerank.net/
- Step 4: (optional) Buy PR Powershot to find domains easily at the best prices
- Step 5: Check domains for backlink portfolio with SEO Spyglass (FREE Version)
- Step 6: Buy high page rank domains for cheap and rank sites with ease
Why This Strategy Rocks!
Links Mentioned in the Video:
- Totuktuk – An example niche site that was created on a PR 3 domain
- PR PowerShot – The Tool I used to find Totuktuk on Godaddy for only $11
What Y’all Still Need to Know…
High page rank domains are absolutely golden in the eyes of Big G. However, there are still ways to get yourself in trouble. Even with high authority domains.
First of all, please DO NOT link all your high pr domains together. This will create an easy footprint for Google. If google is in a grumpy mood, it could deindex everything at once. This is simply a risk you cannot afford to take.
Secondly, make sure that you mix up your anchor texts. The penguin update in 2012 penalized websites that had too many links with the main anchor text.
… it is now (in 2013) best to use a wide range of anchor texts
- only 10-30% your main anchor text
- 20-40% niche related anchor text
- 30-50% generic anchor texts (ie. read more here, click here, etc.)
And finally, create decent quality content on these high PR domains. You can even make money off the page rank domains by adding affiliate links or Adsense. Your goal is for the long term here.
Benefits of “high page rank domains” vs. “pyramid linking”
The old way of building backlinks (pyramid linking) required a TON of content. Not only did the direct backlinks need to have content. But the thousands of backlinks pointing to your main links also required content.
… You could get away with this, in the past, with the help of article spinning. And in fact, article spinning still works to this day, but the articles must be spun at a very high rate, and must be very high quality. The time it takes to spin a good quality article can be very cumbersome (especially at the beginning).
As most would agree, I’d rather create a handful of unique articles than even just one HIGHLY spun post.
To learn how to spin articles: https://www.brendanmace.com/article-spinning/
Pat Flynn’s old backlink strategy relies on a plethora of spun articles, whereas this new and improved method requires less content that is much better quality.
The icing on the cake is that you can ACTUALLY make money off your backlinks with this easier backlinking strategy.
Why not turn your high pr domains into niche websites, and make money while you link build?
With a PR 3+ domain, you can throw on some decent quality content and get much better search engines rankings than a brand spanking new PR-0 site.
Now you have implemented a link building system that not only works, it also pays for itself in the process. An affiliate link here or there can easily recoup your marginal investment in the domain.
One cool ninja strategy that must be revealed
The beauty of page rank is that it flows from one domain to another. With only a small handful of high page rank domains, you can easily increase the page rank of other domains.
… from my testing, 4 PR 3 domains can turn 2 brand new PR N/A domain into PR3+. That means that you can actually build high pr domains from scratch. Which will significantly reduce the costs involved in acquiring new pr domains.
Heck, you can even sell newly created PR domains at Digital Point Forums for a chunk of change!
As always, you are welcome to drop a line or two below with any questions or if you just wanna tell me what y’all think…
