I know that inbound links are key to a site’s rise up the Google rankings and, since I am on a link building mission at the moment, I thought I would attempt to prove it. Or at least see what a bunch of new inbound links do to my rankings.
One of the sites I am trying desperatly to get ranked is my living in Sydney site. A few weeks ago it was nowhere to be seen on Google and now it is ranked at number eight on page two of the results for my target keywords ‘living in Sydney’.
So here’s my plan: I am going to link build for this site and keep track of everything I do. I will be building links anyways so it makes sense for me to track of the links I end up getting and reporting on how they effect my Google results. All of the links I go for will have the anchor text ‘living in Sydney’.
Here’s what I will do to get links:
- Link swaps
- Attempt to get one-way inbound links
- Article submissions
- Blog comments
- Leave comments on forums
- Add in-content links on my own related pages
My focus will be on the first three but I will throw a few more things in the mix as well just to spice things up a bit. Guest posts on other people’s blogs would be a smart way to build links but, unfortunately, they would probably be terrible posts since I don’t actually know much about living in Sydney (most of this site’s content has been contributed by other people who live there) so I’ve left that option off my list.
I have no idea how long it will take but it’s my goal to get to within the top five results for this search term. Will it work? There’s no reason why it shouldn’t, it’s just a matter of how long and how many links it’ll take, I think. So far I’ve been able to get two quality one-way inbound links so I’m off to a good start. It should be interesting!
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