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Gathering and Building Great Free Backlinks with Gather

Submitted by R.J. Breakaway Adams on Monday, 7 April 200814 Comments

Wow… whenever I go through my RSS reader, I always see awesome posts people have written about link building tips. One particular place that I usually find great tips is Mixed Market Arts. I recently wrote about link building with Unasked, which is a great tip I got from Collin at Mixed Market Arts.

Today’s tip is also from Collin, but I have expanded on it to create even more opportunities for you to create solid free backlinks.

The article on Mixed Market Arts, Link Building with Gather, shows you an awesome site which allows people to submit articles to, called Gather.

Before you go read the article on Mixed Market Arts, read-on here for a way to go above and beyond the tips Collin provides, with regards to creating backlinks.

Collin talks about joining Gather, and submitting articles with backlinks in the articles, with the anchor text of your choice. All of those links are “dofollow” links. (What is dofollow?)

While I was sitting back amazed at this great link building opportunity, I realized that using their comment system, you can leave comments on people’s articles, and the comments have “dofollow” links also! This is an amazing opportunity.

1) Use the Gather search form, type in your keyword (for me, I’d type in “link building”). Then, find articles that people have written about your keyword. Then, leave a non-spam looking, legit comment on their articles, using a link with the anchor text of your choosing (just use normal HTML tags for links) and you have just built a backlink!

2) Find the articles with higher PR. Although this will be harder to do, and the links will not be relevant links, they will still be pr4, pr3, and pr2 links back to your website with the anchor text of your choice.

I hope that now when you read the article about Gather over at Mixed Market Arts, you can build more backlinks to your site using Gather.  We all love free backlinks!

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14 Comments »

  • Link Building with Gather (author) said:

    [...] his own way of building even more backlinks using my technique. It’s worth a read, so go check it out. Share This: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover [...]

  • Free Website Reviews said:

    Great tips and great addition to the mixed market arts tips. I have been writing articles for a while now, I guess it is time to post them to gather!

    Free Website Reviews’s last blog post..Building a Blog - Part 1 - Planning

  • Make More Money Online said:

    Aha! Another great way to build up backlinks. Thanks for sharing. I’ll head there now.

    Make More Money Online’s last blog post..WordPress 2.5 and Joining CSS Naked Day

  • Lane said:

    How can I determine which article has a higher PR?

    Lane’s last blog post..Human Footprint

  • Breakaway said:

    Browse around different topics, and make sure that you have the Google toolbar installed for Firefox (I think they have it for IE too, but not sure) Then, as you load articles, see what the PR is on the toolbar.

  • Acne said:

    Hey, found your website on DP. Great information. I have the same question as Lane. How do you find the articles that have higher PR? I went back to articles over a year old and I can’t find any articles w/ PR.

  • Breakaway said:

    Many of them don’t have higher PR. This isn’t just to pass PR, but also to get super easy backlinks. These are free backlinks, for shooting a quick little comment on a related post.

    But yah, Gather doesn’t have many high PR pages.

  • Acne said:

    Hey,

    So, I tested out gather. I posted about 10 good comments and submitted 2 articles. I’m still waiting for the results to show up. I’d assume gather would get indexed a lot faster than sites like bestsyndication and selfgrowth. But, this isn’t the case, and I’m still waiting for the comments and articles to get indexed. BS and selfgrowth backlinks get indexed within 2 days.

    Do you know of any other popular sites like gather? I found a few but I forgot their names.

  • Remortgage Advice said:

    The best way to check for page rank is down load the google toolbar this will show you the page rank for each page you land on. Anyway I’m off to gather thanks for the tip

  • Breakaway said:

    There’s other ways to find the higher page rank pages within a website than the google toolbar.

  • Affordable Hosting said:

    Yup. Worked just like you said. Signed up with Gather. Found an article. Posted a comment with a link and anchor text. Did not take the time to find a high pr gather page so if anyone wants to put together a list we would all appreciate it.

    Affordable Hostings last blog post..5000 Website Resources

  • Nokia 6085 said:

    Great tips..i gotta try them out too

  • Gene said:

    This is amazing.. thanks for the article.

  • Pontus said:

    Thanks a lot for the tips. I will try it out and see if it gets any good result.

    Pontuss last blog post..Akon - Trouble - Lonely

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