Sam,
Just want your honest input, afterall those “rel=nofollow” issue, is it still worth to submit our website to those social bookmarking for backlinks? While it is still worth for gaining traffic, I don’t think so for backlinks. What do youthink?

Dsusetyo,

To your first comment. You have to check with some of the socialbookmarks that you are submitting to. Some adhere to the “nofollow” and some do not. I would search google for social bookmark sites that allow it, although it’s not that many. For the ones that don’t I still find that I get a good amount of traffic for it. Especially the ones that have good ranking. Overall take a look at your strategy, if you want to link build for ranking you may want to look to forums, articles, etc. If you want to acquire traffic, you can blog comment on high page ranking blogs and provide meaningful comments.

Your Second Comment: You have to make sure you are registered with all the social bookmarks you are submitting to before using the service. I would use the same user and password for all of them for speed and convenience. You only have to do this once, because it’s a pain doing it for the first time. Then after you use the service, you would need to go back manually into each social bookmark to make sure it was submitted. Then when you want to submit again, it will be a lot smoother because you have already registered with all the social bookmarks and would just need to submit your entry. I haven’t had a problem yet with it submitting to the bookmarks that were listed. Hope this helps.

Jason,

Just dive in dude. Nothing to be nervous about. Just be yourself and it will come through in your writing. People reading blogs appreciate honestly and transparency. Also it doesn’t have to be perfect. I changed the theme of my blog many times until I found something that fit. There is a saying instead of “ready aim fire” you “fire then aim”.

Hey Wesley,

Here are the answers to your questions below

1. I would not place a number on the backlinks you need to generate to get on the first page of Google. Just concentrate on creating quality backlinks. Also create content that people would want to link to. If you worry yourself to much with what Google wants you will go insane.

2. I don’t really understand your 2nd question.

3. Writing an article alone will not get you on the first page of Google. There are a lot things to consider like search volume, keyword competition, etc. You will have to look at all these factors using the tools that Google provides and some others to determine if they keywords you are going after are ones you can rank for easily or if you will have to do some work to get the position you want in the search engine result pages.

Please let me know if you need more help on this, however clarify some of the things you are asking because I had a hard time trying to understand exactly what your problem was.

Thanks!

Lara,

Not a problem. You can discover a lot of traffic strategies experimenting and testing. Make sure to keep a journal of the things you do discover. If you stumble across a cool traffic strategy, you have it documented.