Blog Posts and Reviews
As search engines turn up the heat against link building techniques that violate their guidelines, compliance to these guidelines gains prominence generating a requirement to invest in natural link building techniques such as referral links through content.
As one of the oldest tools in Social Media, blogs have risen to prominence over the last few years and continue to dominate the space of trustworthy user generated content. Such is the popularity of blogging that it has turned common netizens into glamorous experts in their own domains. Blogs epitomize the distribution and power of new media as they can profoundly influence the thoughts and actions of readers who could well be ardent followers of the bloggers’ philosophies. They can disseminate information, news, views, reviews, feedback and a host of other things. In fact community blogging sites (where a group of select few bloggers contribute) are literally turning themselves into media houses of sorts and trying to leverage their distribution network (subscriber base) to spread their own popularity and exploit marketing opportunities.
It is here that the importance of blogs and blog posts for high end link building stems from. Blogs which have generated a respectable search engine standing can be utilized for the purpose of link building through mechanisms such as paid reviews. In a paid review, the blogger agrees to review a client’s product or service and write an unbiased review about it. Though it appears as if it’s easy to manipulate such reviews, popular blogs have to maintain their reputation and hence it’s not surprising to find that these reviews more often than not are unbiased.
A blog review serves at least a couple of purposes –
a. It directly connects an advertiser with the audience of that blog (i.e. its subscriber base) which, if is targeted can bring in a good number of sales/prospects.
b. It creates a well thought about write up for the advertiser’s products or services along with generating content based incoming links to the advertiser website.
The groundwork to provide link building opportunity through this technique involves substantial networking with established bloggers and blog sites. Moreover, these destinations need to be categorized according to the theme of the blogs (i.e. areas of interests), their caching and indexing patterns with the search engines need to be studied and only then can they be chosen as link building prospects for clients’ websites. The activities are painstaking and time consuming and such a technique can easily be classified as a high-end link building technique providing valuable search engine friendly one way incoming links.
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