Going all George Lucas style on you guys, I am writing what should have been the prequel to this whole entire internal link building series, now that I already have 5 posts about it written…

This only applies to internal link building with a blog, though you can build internal links on any type of site.

One issue with building internal links is that you get a pingback on your site from your own comment. You don’t want these cluttering up your comments, especially if you do internal link building as much as me. But, if you mark them as spam, then you’ll be marked as spam on Akismet, and have to go through the process of being removed (not hard, just a pain having to waste time doing it.)

Here’s the solution… if you plan to do internal link building on your blog, then you need to download No Self Pings Wordpress Plugin and install it on your blog… it’s that simple… you won’t get any more self ping backs!

Now get back to your internal link building!

If you missed the links above, pointing to the other parts in this series, please check out the other posts in this Internal Link Building series….

Using Internal Linking to Build Backlinks – Prequel
Using Internal Linking to Build Backlinks – Part 1
Using Internal Linking to Build Backlinks – Part 2
Using Internal Linking to Build Backlinks – Part 3
Using Internal Linking to Build Backlinks – Part 4
Using Internal Linking to Build Backlinks – Part 5
Using Internal Linking to Build Backlinks – Part 6

So far I have shown many different techniques for building backlinks from within your own site, in order to increase the page rank and authority of your internal pages, as well as make it easier for Google to crawl your site… and if it’s easier for them, then they figure it’s easier for humans to navigate your site and find information also.

Today’s internal link building tip is to go back into your archives and try to find places where you can add links to new posts you have written. The main time that people use internal linking is when they are writing a new post, referencing older posts on a similar topic that applies. (example: Look at the beginning of this post. I made links to my older posts about internal link building.)

The reason you would want to go back into your old posts and add some links to your newer posts, is that your older posts are probably already ranked well, and some of them should be bringing you consistent traffic from the search engines. Wouldn’t you want people who are getting to your older posts from the search engines to be directed to your new posts? This not only keeps your visitors on your site longer, which gives you more page views, more chances for them to click out to an advertiser, more chances for them to subscribe to your blog, etc etc etc, but it also helps you with regards to the search engines, as mentioned above, because it passes authority to your internal pages.

WARNING: When adding stuff to your older posts, make sure that you don’t rearrange or delete what you’ve already written, because that’s what is bringing visitors to your site. Only add stuff to the beginning and the end of the post. You can also use phrases that you’ve already written and turn those into links to your newer posts. Just don’t delete stuff…

So, when doing internal link building, don’t just focus on your your new posts, but also focus on your old posts too…

Please check out the other posts in this Internal Link Building series….

Using Internal Linking to Build Backlinks – Prequel
Using Internal Linking to Build Backlinks – Part 1
Using Internal Linking to Build Backlinks – Part 2
Using Internal Linking to Build Backlinks – Part 3
Using Internal Linking to Build Backlinks – Part 4
Using Internal Linking to Build Backlinks – Part 5
Using Internal Linking to Build Backlinks – Part 6

In the blogging community, a huge money making opportunity came up for people to write reviews about other websites and get paid to write those reviews. This is the main source of income for many blogs. The reason people would want reviews done of their site was to simply get backlinks and traffic from other websites. You could choose the anchor text for the backlinks. Although they weren’t free backlinks, they were backlinks nonetheless.

The problem was that Google realized that people were passing pagerank for money, and they didn’t like that, so they cracked down on many of these sites. So, the pagerank links people paid for mostly all went down in pagerank. This is the standard problem with buying links. But, you don’t have to buy backlinks when there are many free opportunities to build backlinks for free.

But, there are quite a few sites that will review your blog for free, and you get free backlinks from these places and also a bit of traffic too. So, here is the list of sites to get backlinks with for free (all PR’s listed are as of early May 2008):

BlogsRater.com
This simple review site is a PR 3. You can add your blog and write a quick summary of it, and get a backlink back to your site. Then, if you review and rate other blogs, your blog has a chance to be featured on their front page.

InspiritBlog.com
You can get a free review of your site from this PR 4 blog. Just go to the page I linked to above, and leave a comment for him, and he will review your site.

Web-Reviewers.com
This PR 3 site uses a 5 star system to rank websites. They give an in depth review of your site. If you might get your feelings hurt by a bad review, then don’t use this site. But, you can get free backlinks, and some tips on how to improve your site’s content and design.

Bloggeries.com
This PR 5 blog, with a very popular forum for webmasters, will do a review of your site. The reviews are free, but because of their high demand, it may be a little while until your blog gets reviews. But, you might as well queue up now, and enjoy the nice surprise backlink a little bit down the road. You can pay $50 to get an expedited review, but I suggest just going for the free one.

Untwisted Vortex Reviews
This is a PR 3 blog, a subdomain of a much larger blog, that focuses on doing free reviews. The queue takes a little bit of time to move up, but it is worth it down the road for some nice link juice on a solid domain. The queue is only 8 people deep… when I signed up it was like 15 people deep or something, so you can get in at a good time as of this writing.

BlogsWeLuv.com
This is a PR 3 reviews blog that uses a slightly different concept than the rest. They give you 10 questions to answer about your blog, in sort of an interview style, so you can kind of break your site down to them. Then, if they think your blog is interesting, they’ll do an in depth review of it. Even if you don’t get chosen, the 10 questions still provides a backlink. If you get chosen for a big review, then you can get more backlinks to your site!

OurBlogReview.com
This site will also give you free reviews with dofollow backlinks back to your site.

Hopefully you enjoyed these link building tips… go out there and get your site reviewed and get more backlinks!

While I was checking a site’s backlinks this weekend, I found a few places that are good to add your site to, in order to get some easy one way backlinks. These sites aren’t going to boost you to #1 by themselves, but they will definitely help out, and one will even give you some great exposure. Also, two of them are PR 5 and above. They are all free backlinks and easy to get.

Top of Blogs
This is my favorite find this weekend for 2 reasons. 1) I just got a pr 5 backlink on a pr 5 site. And, 2) I haven’t seen any other bloggers writing about this site, so that makes me feel special, or something.

This is a normal Top List blog ranking service… except that it’s a PR 5 and some of the first pages of the categories have a higher Page Rank (such as the SEO section that I am linked on.) You add your blog, then add their little button to your website, and there you go! You get a backlink on their site! Best of all, the link is a dofollow link. (What is dofollow?) You can’t complain getting free backlinks!

Globe of Blogs
This site lists blog owners and their blogs by city, state, and birthday. It is a PR 6 and some of their inside pages have higher PR. It depends on your country, city and state, and also your birthday. But, as the site keeps going through PageRank updates, it’ll continue to give some good pagerank to their internal pages.

UPDATE: I removed the free backlinks opportunity that was an auto-approve directory… the submit link page wasn’t working, and it’s probably not the best idea anyway.  Please use the above two strategies anyway… they can get you some good PR backlinks.

I have so far written all about tips and techniques for building backlinks and different tools to help you along the way. Many of you have thanked me for these tips and ideas, and I’ve had especially great responses to our dofollow blog search engine. When I read around the internet for link building information, I usually come across the same old ideas over and over and over. And many of the ideas are good. But, a lot of the information is outdated, and what worked in 2004, won’t necessarily work now, but there’s still many sites that exist in order to build backlinks, using outdated methods that just won’t help your search engine rankings.

Here are some of the link building tactics to stay away from:

Classified Sites
There are tons of classified sites online, the major one being Craigslist. Many people like to use these types of sites because posting an ad can be quick and easy. The problem is, the ad with your link expires in like 7-14 days (if it doesn’t get flagged as spam before then) and then your time spent building that link, even if small, was a waste of your time.

Free For All (FFA) Sites
These are pages that have 1000000’s of links on them, because it’s free for everyone to use and post a link on there. Aside from the fraction of link juice you get, it is all worthless. Don’t use these types of sites.

“Add Our Widget On Your Site for Backlinks” type of sites
There are a few sites like this…. If they want you to put a widget on your site that automatically puts links on your page, this is worthless and dangerous, because you have no clue what you’re linking to. Plus, if Google decides to ban that program you’re using because of their tactics, then they can easily find pages with their widget code on there, meaning your site, and then penalizing you. I am not talking about Entrecard or such sites. Ones that are based on text links… such a text link ads.

Stay away from these types of sites…

If you want to build good backlinks, why not try out our DoFollow Blogs Search Engine for great quality links on tons of blogs!