When developing backlinks for a long term project you are better off either sticking to whitehat techniques or creating a buffer circle in case you get slapped by one of the search engines. (”One of the search engines” sounds somewhat inappropriate. How many of them still play a significant part in your SEO efforts? Yahoo and Google? Possibly Live stumbling along and getting out of breath every few steps. Anyhow…) Lets have a look at the awesome diagram I have created bellow:
If you want to take a safe approach you should not just bombard your main domain directly. Create a buffer zone using various resources freely available to you. Create a free blog or a squidoo lens and point it to your main domain. Now you can unleash your blackhat campaign on that buffer zone without having to worry about your main domain. You will still get to keep most of the link juice, however if something goes wrong it will be that free blog taking a fall for you and not your precious website. There are tons of various pages and blogs web 2.0 offers so spread out, make your circles wider and replace any fallen pages with new ones.
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That’s actually very useful. Thanks. Google will never suspect me now! What are those other 2 free blog sites you have there? I only know about blogger and wordpress. Can anyone give me the names of the other two logos listed there, please? Thank you:)
There are many more than that but I did not bother adding them all to the diagram. In this example the other two are hubpages and squidoo. These are free pages (In the way) you can create.
The one with the squid looking thing is squidoo http://www.squidoo.com/ and the other one is hubpages http://hubpages.com/
Whats that curious.txt?
Its a big secret
wow, tnx for this!
@Llia do you know of any good overseas (thus cheap : D) people that you can recommend that can help me create SEO Squido and Hubpages?
I do alot of social media marketing for myself and clients. But clueless about those two, but from what you have been saying I need to get into the game. So much to do, so little time!
Also anyone that can help naviagate the SEO waters in stumble upon, delicious, digg, etc.
Thank man,
Texas Ben
P.S. I getting closer to being ready to send you a video email about partnering on some things together possibly.
Hi,
That is a really interesting backlink strategy you have come out with.
I have a few questions for you:
1. If we were to create a few buffer websites, do we need to make sure the buffer sites get certain pagerank ?
2. Another concern is whether do we need to make sure the articles in these sites are related to the main domain because we want quality backlinks and not quantity from the buffer sites right?
I am surprise that one of sites is PR3 with only 7 articles, with only a few backlinks as compared to my other sites with 100 articles with tons of backlinks …. I am still experimenting on this strategy to build PR and maybe after the next PR updates I will share with you some findings.
Regards,
Rendell @ Brandlessblog.com
Hi Ilia,
That is genius! I haven’t thought of using the free websites or pages as a buffer zone. That is the reason why I’m afraid to do blackhat backlinking. But with this in mind, maybe I should try. Thanks Ilia.
lol … what’s the big secret
you got on me :tongue: .. btw that’s it truly awesome graphic … keep on writing Ilia 
@ Onnline Web Copywriter
I usually hire on digitalpoint forums and filter out those not fit for a job. Eventually you end up with a team of people ready for pretty much any outsourcing job however you will need to create a simple video tutorial of exactly what you want them to do.
When it comes to SEO waters I do everything myself and when I need a differential I consult with a few of my mates. So I can’t really recommend you anyone.
I must say I’m curious about the video now.
@ Brandless blog
1) Forget about PR. Seriously, my blog for example is PR0 yet in the last 5 days Google sent me over 4000 uniques alone.
2) Yes, you need to make sure the username, images, articles, any widgets and names are related to your site.
Just concentrate on improving your SERPs and PR will follow.
@ Muhd Noor
Good luck
@ pandi merdeka
I may blog about it later on. Its another one of my experiments.
Thanks for another simple to understand and execute posting. This is so simple yet so valuable!
Fantasic idea Ilia – Many thanks Mate ..
That sure seems like a good idea. Gotta protect yourself from the Big G. Thanks!
Nice article, I followed a link from StumbleUpon to your site, enjoyed the image you had created.
It is most interesting to see the strength Twitter is gaining in being used as a search engine as well as how how other sites are now using twitter news for search on their sites, such as Twitterurls for example
Thank you Bob. I must say I discovered some excellent website via Twitter myself.
Just started working this technique today. Question what percent of the link juice is lost when you go through another page like that?
I would recommend taking out hubpages from that ring as it sometimes does not pass PR. You could add Xanga or Weebly to it. I love weebly a lot bcs it has great flexibility…. You could also add some article submission and link back to your Buffer ring just incase Big G decides to slap all the articles for Duplicate content or something… Check out my site blog, it has some good tips for socal bookmarking and such…
@ Monolith
I can’t really give you a % but the page itself will also help you out. You can argue that you will only gain some link power.
@ Hari Varrier
This diagram is only there to give you a general idea of how the buffer circle works. The icons represent web 2.0 services in general. Weebly is quite cool indeed.
What are the SU logo and the square one next to it? (the two pointing to wordpress)
That would be Stumbleupon and Delicious. By the way, these logos just represent web 2.0 properties. It does not mean these are the exact websites you should use.
Very true.. This will work like a safety jacket..one goes down..we have alternatives..
Nice diagram
Hello there Ilia.
I am going through some older posts due to a lack of fresh ones, and am wondering why you are so quiet. Is everything OK with you?
Have a great week, cheers!