We as humans always want the best… the top… the supreme… but in link building, that doesn’t always matter. Yes, if you can get some good PR 6+ links, it’s going to help you out in a pretty tough niche. But, if you have a fairly uncompetitive niche, then go for any backlinks. As many of you know, I am anti-Page Rank and I find it pretty useless.

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For those of you who may be new to this blog, you may not know that I have a Dofollow Blogs Search Engine called DoFollow Diver. If you don’t even know what DoFollow is, then read “What Is DoFollow? What Is NoFollow?” to get a better idea. If you don’t quite know how to use a DoFollow Blogs Search Engine, then I will break it down for you, so you can start getting great backlinks from dofollow blogs.

Click here to open up DoFollow Diver in a new tab/window so you can read and follow along.

It’s pretty easy to use. All you need to do is search for a keyword related to your website. (I would pick a keyword rather than a keyphrase because you’ll get more relevant results with just one word…which means more places for you to post a link. Many people have been searching for the term “dofollow blogs” which is a waste, because all of the blogs in DoFollow Diver are dofollow! So if you’ve been one of those who are searching with the keyword “dofollow websites” or “dofollow blogs” then just search for your site’s keyword to get relevant dofollow blogs to comment on.

Once you have searched for your keyword, some results of pages from dofollow sites should show up. Click the link to visit the site, scroll down to the comment section, and leave a comment with your keyword in the “name” section. Be sure to fill in an e-mail and your website address, and a legit comment. I DO NOT SUPPORT SPAM AT ALL. I delete it on my blog if I find it, and I hope the users of DoFollow Diver aren’t spamming other people’s blogs. Take a second to browse the article, and make a useful comment…. It may take a little more time, but the chances that your comment will not be deleted make it well worth the time. If half of your 100 comments are deleted because you just spammed the sites with lame comments, then it’s a total waste of time. If, instead you make a good comment, then you’ll probably get almost all of your comments posted, for the lifetime of the blog, LINKING BACK TO YOUR SITE, INCREASING YOUR SEARCH ENGINE RANKINGS!

If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments below. Stay tuned… I will be doing a mass quality check of DoFollow Diver, cleaning out those blogs that have turned to nofollow, and I will be adding about 150-200 more dofollow blogs in the very near future!

DoFollow Diver Stats (as of August 15th, 2008):
Approximate number of pages indexed: 671,000
Total queries: 5608
Total queries in July: 2718.

Instead of rewriting what others have said, I decided to put together some links to some great posts written recently by link building masters…

Collin Lahay recently wrote Link Building with Naymz about a good place to add some of your links… it also allows you to add your other online profiles (where you should have links to your site) so by creating a web of links to pages that have links to your sites on them, that means more backlinks, and more chances of your site being crawled by Google.

The folks over at Wiep.net have written a nice little article about what link building really is, and it include some tips to being better than everyone else (which is what the goal of link building is… to be at the top of the SERPs).

Thomas Schmitz wrote Everything You Wanted to Know About Inbound External Links … and there’s a ton of great info there, to reinforce why link building is so important… if you aren’t seeing results from your link building yet, definitely read this, to get re-energized to build backlinks to your site.

Hope these can keep you entertained…. but not distract you too much from actual link building!  Remember, we can all find stuff to keep us occupied to not link build because link building is boring (read RSS feeds, browse news, play video games, check out backlinks, check out analytics account, etc. etc.)  But, link building is more important than all of that!  Set a daily goal and strive to reach that goal for link building!

I have found a great site for link building, in that you can join different groups, and have the articles submitted not only to your profile, but also to each one of the groups.

That site is http://www.searchles.com  It’s a PR 6 dofollow social media site.

For those who didn’t read the Mr Wong article, here’s basically what you do on Searchles:
1)    You join the site.
2)    You join a few different related groups for whatever site you’ll be submitting your blog posts and inner pages from.
3)    If there aren’t any related groups (which is doubtful) but if there aren’t, then create a group yourself!
4)    You submit the article, choosing to send the links to the related groups also.
5)    Now you have multiple backlinks… one on your profile page, and one per group that you joined.
6)    Now, on Mr. Wong, the tag pages had no follow links.  But, on Searchles, the tag pages are dofollow links.  So, you can add 3-4 tags, and have 3-4 groups, and get 7-9 different dofollow links per submission.

Since you are submitting all of the pages and posts from your site, this is building great links to your inner pages, something Google really likes.

So, if you’ve already submitted all of your pages and posts to Mr Wong, now you have a whole new dofollow social media site to submit to!

Also, as an added bonus, there is a fairly active community there in some of the groups, so you’re not only getting related links to your inner pages, but you can also get some good traffic from like-minded individuals who are a part of the groups and paying attention to all of the new posts to the groups.

I previously had a guest post about Using New Directories to Get Free Backlinks.  The guest writer wrote about submitting your articles to new directories, in order to get listed quicker, in turn having the link crawled and counted quicker.  He had a link to his website, where he had a huge list of directories for link building.

Well, I have come across a great SEO Friendly Directory List.

You can find that list at Directory Maximizer.

Scroll down to where you see a link for “our directory list” and click that link.

As of writing this, they have 800+ SEO Friendly Directories, with links to the directory for easy browsing.  They even have a little button which lists the PageRank of each directory.  Directories can be very beneficial with regards to link building, and this site has done the hard work finding the ones that are SEO friendly (don’t use redirects, are dofollow, etc.)

But, submitting to directories, and let’s be honest, link building in general, can be very, very boring and tedious.  I have a site dedicated to link building, and I still find link building to be very, very boring.  That’s why there are people who are willing to do the boring work, and get paid to do it.

Directory Maximizer is one of those places.  If you don’t want to spend any money for link building, then just go to the list above and start manually submitting to the directories.

But, if you’d like links to your site to appear in some good SEO friendly directories, and don’t want to have to do the work, then I’d definitely suggest using Directory Maximizer and have them submit to the directories for you.

Here’s what you get if you choose to let them do the work for you:

• Permanent links… with no reciprocal linking required.  That means one-way links to your site.
• As mentioned above, SEO friendly directories only are used.
• They allow you to choose 5 different titles and descriptions, for more “natural” looking submissions.
• There are a bunch of category choices, and a wide range of niches.
• You can submit to all, or specific directories, submit by PageRank, and even control the pace at which they make the submissions, so that you don’t get way too many links at once.
• They greatly increase the probability of your site being approved in the directories by making sure they meet all of the guidelines and post in the most relevant category.
• They are constantly adding new sites so you can always get new links.
• They help to avoid duplicate submissions on future orders (if you choose to not submit to all) because they keep track of previous submissions.
• They provide you with live reports of the submission progress.
• You can manage and submit multiple sites to the directories from one account.
• You can even earn FREE SUBMISSIONS every time you use their services.
• You can place orders for as little as $5 (think, you just got a lil extra cash in your paypal, why not link build with it.  You don’t have to spend hundreds at a time!)
• And the best part, each submission is only 14cents!  So, that’s 100 submissions for only $14!

Click here to sign-up for Directory Maximizer, and let them do the directory submissions for you.

Or, if you don’t want to spend money, just use their freely available list of SEO friendly directories and start submitting to the sites yourself, and get some great backlinks!