300 Backlinks For 2 Hours Work?

300 Backlinks For 2 Hours Work?
By Jackson Franklin

You don’t need me to tell you that link building is vital to the success of your your site. But, building links means spending dozens of hours writing emails requesting a link to hundreds of web sites…right? Here’s an easy to duplicate experiment that shows just how simple it is to earn hundreds of quality links back to your site with just a couple of hours of work.

First, we’re going create a fake name (or pen name) which we’ll use to track the results of this experiment. Any name is fine (except one that’s so outlandish that it’s obviously made up) but it needs to be unique to Google’s search results. There must be no web pages returned for the name when you search for it (with the name in quote marks) on Google.

As an example, I thought of Kevan Malloy and, when I searched on Google for “Kevan Malloy” (just like that, surrounded by quotes), Google returned no results. That’s exactly what we want for this experiment – if we use a name that isn’t in Google’s index, it will be simple to track our efforts by just making another search in two weeks to see how many results appear then.

After you’ve come up with a pen name that has no results in Google, you need to make with a list of around 25 blogs that cover topics that you’re interested in or that relate to your industry. If you don’t follow the blogs in your industry (what?), now’s a good time to compile a list by searching for ‘blog directory’ on Yahoo! or Live and saving the blogs to your web browser’s bookmarks.

Now, visit each blog in your list and leave a comment on one of the recent posts (within the last week or so). Don’t think about promoting any of your current sites or trying to sneak in an affiliate link, just leave a short thoughtful response to the post. Each blog will ask for your name when you comment – leave your pen name.

In a couple of hours you should have time to comment on 20 blog posts – stop when you reach 20. Now you need to wait two weeks (bookmark this article so you can compare your results with mine) and go back to Google and search for your pen name (again, in quotes). What you want to see is how successful your posting spree was by noting how many results search engines return for your previously un-indexed pen name. Here are my results: Google: 53 pages, MSN/Live: 302 pages, Yahoo!: 226 pages.

I made those 20 posts in just two hours to make and now there are over 30 pages of results in the three major search engines for my pen name. Now, these aren’t links back to my site (because I didn’t provide a link back to my site when I made the comments) but most of the blogs would have added a backlink if I had included one. Now, What if you were to take just a couple of hours a week to make comments on blog posts? Valuable insightful comments on subjects related to their industry are very valuable to blog owners so you could easily earn hundreds of backlinks to your site in just a few hours work. At worst, you’ll get your name in front of prospects in your industry and build some name recognition as well. In either case, it’s an amazing return for just a small amount of effort.

Jack is a prolific freelance author that writes about an eclectic array of subject matter for a wide variety of clients. Take a look at his latest work at http://www.sectionalcouch.org which covers the sectional couch

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