Posts Tagged ‘BUILDING BACKLINKS’
Backlinks Maintenance
I religiously awake at 3AM every day, fire-up the coffee pot, brush my teeth, log into the computer, smoke a few drags of a cigarette, pour a cup of coffee, and grab a seat at the computer. Every Day! Now some, if not most of you may think I’m nuts — my fiance surely thinks that I am! But average people do not understand the maintenance involved with attending several websites and blogs either. Its a lot more than creating a site, building a few backlinks, and letting it sit there. For example. Do you see the pretty YouTube icon to the right over there? I know, you can’t miss it… That simply happens to be a reciprocal backlink in action. And, I might add the link from YouTube is “follow”! That little project took me about 1-1/2 hours to implement; from creating the YouTube channel, to finding the YouTube icon image, editing it in Photoshop, and uploading it into cPanel and creating the HTML widget to display it on the page. Yea, I’m a little slow, but I’m okay with slow.
You see, I am the type of person who likes to invest constructive time in the process of building natural backlinks to my sites. Although there are many automated link-building software programs out there, I am kind paranoid of being slapped by Google and having any of my sites disappear into cyberspace oblivion because I was too lazy or inpatient to invest a little bit of time into my project(s). A lot of people probably think that I’m nuts for doing things the old fashioned way in this regard too, but when things go bad for these link-building sites and the penalties start being imposed, my investment won’t seem so bad, will it? I thought you might see things my way, and if not I wish you all the best in your risk-taking endeavors. For me it’s simply not worth it.
Comment Moderation
Now in addition to the development processes of my site I also have the painstaking endeavor of moderating my comments and the litany of SPAM that comes in to. For those of you who post relevant comments I apologize for utilizing the term “painstaking” to describe my comment moderation obligation, because in many cases I enjoy reading your comments and answering any questions, etc.
Although I utilize the Akismet application, some times individuals like to post multiple comments with the same text and different backlinks associated with the same text in their comments. I personally categorize those comments as SPAM, period! I mean hey, if you want a backlink I am more than happy to share, but at least take the time to write something constructive to provide some meaningful conversation, questions or whatever? Its only fair in my estimation. And please don’t utilize the same text for multiple backlinks. I’ll give multiple backlinks, but at least invest some time to comment — its really not too much to ask. As you can see from the comments that pass my muster, there are some relatively decent comments from various people and their websites or blogs. And the backlinks in those comments get the follow tag as well. In all cases I will first visit the site from the comment source to ensure that the site is not SPAMMY! Like my article on co-citation clearly describes, I simply don’t want this site or any other to be associated with any SPAM, period! Is this system perfect? Probably not. But its personalized and I have fun doing the work… Speaking of which, It’s time for me to head to my day job so this post is going to be cut shorter than what I anticipated.
Now go get some backlinks and be kind and constructive in your endeavors…
