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Do You Need Links?

Posted on July 15, 2008
Filed Under Web 2.0 |

Well, do you need links? If that sounds like the stupid question of the day, it is! Of course we need links else our sites will not feature well in the SERPs. I started the ball rolling in my last post Web Directory, where you can create your own to provide your sites with extra one way links.

So what, in the present climate of Google unrest, is another good way to get strong backlinks?

Create your own PLIGG site!

Ok, I see some head scratching happening here, so I’d better explain what a pligg site is for those of you who don’t know. A pligg site is essentially a social bookmarking site where you can submit your latest blog post and get a link back to your blog from it. Digg and BloggingZoom are examples of a pligg site. If you have your own hosting account, there is nothing stopping you creating your own pligg site. All you need is a suitable domain (an aged one is best, preferably with some PR), the free software from pligg.com and a little work and Bob’s your uncle! Instant pligg site!

I posted a more detailed explanation over here: Social Links, if you want to know more of the nuts and bolts of pligg sites.

I have personally created my own and it lives here The Fast BookMarker.

Check it out for yourself and see how easy it is to register and submit a blog post of your own. Once you get the feel for it, you can make friends and vote for other posts. Other members will then vote for yours and once you get a mere 5 votes, you get onto page one where your blog will get a PR2 backlink and some good SERPs authority for your keywords which you should put at least once in your summary description - which for maximum benefit should be original and not cut/pasted from your blog, or your link will not be counted by Google.

How easy is that? A simple submission will promote your blog.

If you think that’s good, then when you create and start using your own pligg site, you can give as many of your own blog posts a boost as you wish!

So what are you waiting for? Have a look at my site for ideas and then get on and make your own!

Terry Didcott
Author of Blogging Web 2.0

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11 Responses to “Do You Need Links?”

  1. bloggingzoom.com on July 15th, 2008 12:33 pm

    Do You Need Links…

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  4. bloglancer.net on July 19th, 2008 7:45 am

    Do You Need Links…

    This is a post promoting the whole concept of pligg sites and how very useful they are for acquiring backlinks to your blog through submitting them. Blogging Web 2.0 is also perfect for building links, and the two together? Dynamite!…

  5. Simonne (1 comments.) on July 20th, 2008 4:59 am

    Indeed pligg-based sites are relatively easy to set up. Besides the fact that Google seems to like them, one can also gather a lot of backlinks for the pligg site by developing a button like the Blogging Zoom one you have here at the end of your posts.

  6. Terry (78 comments.) on July 20th, 2008 5:09 am

    Hi Simonne,

    Google definitely likes pligg sites, thefb.net already has over 330 pages indexed and its only been up for a month!

    I’ll look into the button - it can’t be so hard to do.

  7. Simonne (2 comments.) on July 21st, 2008 2:58 am

    The button is easy. You can download mine from www.bloglancer.net and change it to match your domain name.

  8. James Bashkin (1 comments.) on July 26th, 2008 1:39 pm

    Thanks! Here via blogging zoom. The blog linked to above has been getting some good traffic lately, but my technorati and other rankings have dropped even as my readership has gone up several fold. I have been busy and haven’t been engaging as many other bloggers in discussion as I used to. I’ll try to get back on track. Thanks for educating me about this set of methods for creating links. Jim

  9. Terry (78 comments.) on July 26th, 2008 3:51 pm

    Hi Jim, you’re welcome.

    We try to give out as much useful info as we can here as we don’t believe in keeping it to ourselves or making money from people by selling it! Information should be always be free!

    Terry

  10. dewaji (1 comments.) on August 2nd, 2008 7:58 am

    Yes, I need link, do you give me free link :D

  11. Terry (78 comments.) on August 2nd, 2008 8:31 am

    Very funny. Read the post and you’ll see you have to work for links - there is no free lunch in this game!

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