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[MarkLing]

The backlinks you want are from high quality, relevant sites with a PageRank that is preferably higher than your site.

Start by searching for sites relating to your niche. You are looking for relevant and quality Web sites, so you need to find sites that have a Google page rank of more than your own site and that are relevant in some way to your industry and your Web site visitor. Using search engines, enter a variety of phrases then, review the sites you see listed.

Tip: Combining your search phrases with 'add link', 'add listing' or 'add URL' will find Web sites offering to publish links to other sites. Some may be free, some may require a reciprocal link and some may require you to pay for a listing. If you are only looking for free listings, try adding 'free' to your search (e.g. 'add free link').

 

[jmpruitt]

Great Tip Mark as always. thanks for the help. However I thought you have said to stay away from reciprocal linking. Should we still stay away from it or has that changed?

 

[wollowra]

I think Mark was just saying that some sites will require this.
What you do is really up to you.
My personal opinion is some reciprocal linking is ok.. just don't go over the top with it.
Google likes to see natural link building so if they see 1000 links coming in to your site but none going back out.. that doesn't exactly look natural does it...lol
Anyway.. just my opinion.
Regards
Troy

 

[jmpruitt]

ah thanks troy for clarifying.

 

[affil96754]

Just add to this that google rewards if you link to quality authority sites like news sites which are updated constantly and you even get link credit
Here is an example indexed by google from an outgoing link
on my site http://www.weddingplannews.com

Wedding Planning | Wedding Plan News News for 08/29/2009
Destination Wedding in the Caribbean? When you find a location that you like you may get in contact with a wedding planner. They have some resorts that ...
Alexa Traffic Rank for

 

[Rudolf55]

Just add to this that google rewards if you link to quality authority sites like news sites which are updated constantly and you even get link credit
Here is an example indexed by google from an outgoing link
on my site http://www.weddingplannews.com

Wedding Planning | Wedding Plan News News for 08/29/2009
Destination Wedding in the Caribbean? When you find a location that you like you may get in contact with a wedding planner. They have some resorts that ...

Can someone from the staff confirm this? I've seen some site linking to Wikipedia for example, and I'm wondering if that would boost your site in the rankings. It works also to link to relevant news sites then? I never really heard about boosting rankings with OUT-bound links..

Thanks, Rudolf

 

[jstalker]

In Mark' s last webinar, he mentioned the Firefox plug-in, SEOQuake, to find highly ranked forum pages. This is an excellent tool but I'm having difficulty finding forums that will allow me to place an anchor text link to my site in my signature. This is considered to be spamming by all of the forums I have checked. I'd appreciate your feedback on this.

Thanks!

Joan

 

[elogic0007]

Hi,
you could try google by typing the name of your niche + forum and see whether this gets you better results

 

[jstalker]

Thanks, this is what I've been doing e.g., dog training forum.

 

[thenewb]

Hey affil96754, nice website :o)

 

[Satman]

HI Mark and Gang
I didn’t want to waste Marks time by signing up for the last offering and canceling with the 7 days just to get a piece of information that would have been handy so I will try the honest indian (dib dib dib dob dob dob) direct approach.

I have the professional package Traffic Travis and have access to all the great tools Mark was promoting this week so can't justify the cost to duplicate the tools but would you ask mark if he would be prepared to share a piece of info to me.

I already know how to get back links for .GOV and .EDU in the USA but I am Australian and want Australian .gov and .edu backlinks how do I go about that for Australia.

Cheers John

 

[wollowra]

Hi John,
Welcome to Affilorama,
How do you have access to all Mark's tools that mark was promoting if you are not a premium member?
If you are a premium member you get access to other tools and great info, like.. monthly magazine, PLR articles, seo tools, research tools, etc.. etc...
In answer to your question...
The .edu links can be found in Australia by using marks seo tools.

You can choose, what country you like within the drop down menu..

Regards
Troy

 

[Satman]

Troy,

Please do not be so patronizing to think that Mark has the only tools which are able to the jobs as discussed.

That was not a good answer to the question. If it's no we don't want to share it, I have no problem with that but your answer was a disgrace to this forum.

Please do not forget you reflect Mark's business and I have never been under the impression that Mark was in the business to withhold. In fact he has always been very generous with information which is as we all know a good way to get loyal followers.

As previously discussed I could have bought the free trial to get the information I wanted and canceled but that's not a morally acceptable thing to do from my prospective.

Disappointed not by the result but by the way you approached your response.

Regards,
John

 

[wollowra]

Hi John,

Sorry if you feel that my contribution to this forum is a disgrace.

I read your sentence "and have access to all the great tools Mark was promoting this week" as you having access to all the ACTUAL tools MARK was promoting. I obviously misread it.

If I offended you by my post, I apologize.

When I answer questions on this forum it is to help out as much as I can to the best of my ability.
I do this voluntarily and on my own time.

If members feel I answer any questions with an ulterior motive then I can assure you this is not the case.

Again, I apologize if I offended you or anyone.

All the best,
Kindest Regards
Troy

 

[Satman]

Thank you Troy for your Apology. Accepted and in return I apologise for being to strong with my response but was frustrated with the approach. Thank you for explaining the circumstances and I look forward to communicating with your further.
regards John

 

[twokad]

Hi Mark,
Thank you for the great tip!
I keep thinking that this seo stuff is usually just basic common sense, and it always is in hindsight, but there are a whole lot of tips like this one that do not occur to you until you come across them mentioned by others.
Thank you for offering such value. It is much appreciated!

 

[affiliate23]

I am a newbie and find this site very useful for giving the broad overview of how affiliate marketers make their money. I signed up for the $1 trial and after looking at the tools, they are all free to find online, and I already am with Aweber.

I'm running into some problems with backlinks and how to find alot of do follow sites that will actually let your link stick and not give you access. Anybody have a strategy of getting alot of related mid to high page rank backlinks, without exchanging?

 

[rosconz]

1) "relevant sites" - Mark Ling

After reading this forum over the week, I have came up with a great idea for link building. Why don't the 144 people on this forum with copied WOW strategy guide websites all link and deep link to each others and don't forget about Marks site as well pay your respect with a link back. = Relevant sites.

Counted up 121 different Dog aggression sites through the forum members here. should all link together too. Someone needs to set up a network of some type and link exchange.

Then the marriage sites but haven't finished counting those up.

2) I also find searching on google : "links.html" + your topic
Is good for finding sites that are likely to exchange links with your website.

 

[wollowra]

Hi Ros,
This is basically called reciprocal linking and isn't a very affective SEO strategy.
I applaud your effort to contribute to the forum though.

Kind Regards
Troy

 

[jrliem]

Hi Mark,

Do you know how long, in average, Google can detect backlinks to my site.
I created an article in squidoo about two weeks ago & I put a link to my site. I checked that it's a dofollow link.
But when I cannot find any links to my site in Google Web Master.

thanks in advance,
Samuel

 

[michellerana]

Hi Mark,

Do you know how long, in average, Google can detect backlinks to my site.
I created an article in squidoo about two weeks ago & I put a link to my site. I checked that it's a dofollow link.
But when I cannot find any links to my site in Google Web Master.

thanks in advance,
Samuel

It might take a few months before you could get backlinks from Google. Google does not list all of your links so you will have lower backlinks coming from them compared to other search engines. Do link to high quality sites to get relevant backlinks that Google would consider.

 

[amah006]

Hi,

I have done a lot of links to my first website from social networks and I bookmarked them and sent the rss feeds to rss aggregators but It seems that Google doesn't count those links.

When I use the command "link" in Google it returns no results.

Could you please advise me what's the problem.

Thank You,

 

[caoimh]

In Mark' s last webinar, he mentioned the Firefox plug-in, SEOQuake, to find highly ranked forum pages. This is an excellent tool but I'm having difficulty finding forums that will allow me to place an anchor text link to my site in my signature. This is considered to be spamming by all of the forums I have checked. I'd appreciate your feedback on this.

Thanks!

Joan

I am interested in responses to this also
- having difficulty finding forums that will allow me to place an anchor text link to my site in my signature. This is considered to be spamming by all of the forums.
The difficulty of getting this done is minimized.
Also, how important is it in linkbuilding strategy? 20/100? 50/100? Or what?
Thanks - Caoimh

 

[amah006]

Hi,

I have a question about Social Networks as I'm trying to get backlinks from my websites on Social Networks.

I have sent a spinnable article to 30 social networks, and I bookmarked them all and sent the rss feeds.

when I search for my websites in Google, I find they are not indexed except very very few which are article directories.

one of my websites that are not indexed is:
http://nichemarketingexposed.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/niche-marketing-for-noobs/

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1GGGL_fr___FR326&q=nichemarketingexposed.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F01%2F23%2Fniche-marketing-for-noobs&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&oq=

Could you please advise me how can I get my websites on social networks indexed so Google count the backlinks to my blog from those websites.

Thank you,
Ahmed

 

[emumbert1]

Troy,

In your opinion, what is a good ratio for incoming links and outbound links. I don't really want to have too many outbound links, as people might leave my site before they buy.

Thanks,

Steve Benedict
Financial Adviser

 

[michellerana]

In your opinion, what is a good ratio for incoming links and outbound links. I don't really want to have too many outbound links, as people might leave my site before they buy.

There is really no specific value for inbound vs outbound links. Just as long as the sites that you're linking to and being linked to are relevant and beneficial to your visitors then I don't think you need to think of link ratios. Just place your links in the right positions so that people will be able to fully utilize your site before clicking on your outbound links.

 

[NileHadwards]

Good mention about link building. Your tips are really beneficial for me. Keep sharing

 

[thrall5]

Hi everyone,
I have one question regarding putting up links in websites. I have been trying to put up reciprocal links to my site for submission to other sites. I am currently using wordpress and hosted by hostgator. Have made a favorites link page to place all my link exchanges. But then when I tried to submit my link to another site, after adding theirs first, they are not able to find their link in my website. Does it take time before the links in my site to show up? I would appreciate help in this.
thanks in advance. Jay

 

[elogic0007]

Hi jstalker,
there are a few other ways that i found to work quite well, in the google search box type in the keyword you would like to be ranked for, then select options which is located to the left underneath the search box, then click the + to expand the options, in here you will see all manner of related info, blogs, forums, the wonder wheel etc you will also see how many related articles etc has been posted in the last 24 hours days ,weeks and months
let me know if this help you

 

[Erniewright]

Hello Everyone,

Thanks for this because I am newbie here this my third post i want to know about improve back link and you give all related information.

Thanks
Ernie wright

 

[dave333]

I am interested in responses to this also
- having difficulty finding forums that will allow me to place an anchor text link to my site in my signature. This is considered to be spamming by all of the forums.
The difficulty of getting this done is minimized.
Also, how important is it in linkbuilding strategy? 20/100? 50/100? Or what?
Thanks - Caoimh

In my experience, a lot of forums and blogs don't allow anchored links, however some do hyperlink any URL addresses. Meaning you can simply put your link in there and you (should) have your anchor text in there somewhere.

eg: "http://www.mysite.com/anchor-text"

The SERPs will pick up the words anchor+text pointing to your site.

This has seemed to work for a number of websites of mine, can anyone clarify the effectiveness of this VS direct anchor text?

But remember not EVERYTHING is about SEO.. If you reach a very busy forum on your niche that doesn't allow any hyperlinks at all it is always worth adding your logo or website address in your signature anyway and posting on a few busy posts - You will usually see your 'direct' traffic skyrocket.

This can be a very quick and effective way of getting in the face of your market while you are striving to optimise for the SERPs

Just my 2 cents

-Dave

 

[gradyp]

Also, a lot of forums use BBC code, not HTML, to encode links. Look when you go to post a message to see which the forum you are on is using. You might not be able to use an HTML anchor tag, but you might be able to use the URL tag (a BBC equivalent).

Most forums I've seen will allow links in the signature after you've made a certain number of posts. Just make sure those posts aren't just "Great comment!" posts. It's okay to have some of those, but have most of your messages contribute to the conversation. This will help build trust to the people you are trying to reach anyway.

Grady

 

[JaaferQasem]

can someone explain bookmarking a bit or at least give an example?

 

[jmpruitt]

Check out this video blog post that I did on it. http://www.imrelations.com/what-is-onli ... okmarking/

 

[robinjackman]

yes its very nice and important tips for improving link building techniques.

 

[rx2gostore]

Submit your content to
1.social bookmarking
2.Article sites
3.forum discussions to increase backlinks...!!

 

[daveyace]

if i find a quality site that will give me 1 link, should i link to a page i want ranking or the home page thanks

 

[michellerana]

if i find a quality site that will give me 1 link, should i link to a page i want ranking or the home page thanks

We recommend that you do deep linking (linking to internal pages) especially on pages that you want to get ranked for. Deep linking will help index other pages on your site. Just make sure that the topic of the page that you link to is relevant.

 

[facts101]

I spent some time going over the information and there's a wealth of information here. Thanks everyone for all the great info!

 

[michellerana]

We're glad you found these information helpful Facts101 :)

Take care!

 

[danchan]

A random approach will help in staying in the good books of Google.
Relevancy is often mistaken.
For example, a site dealing in golf products can be relevant to an auction site, even though both would be ranking for different keywords.

 

[kdruhl]

Hi,

I have done a lot of links to my first website from social networks and I bookmarked them and sent the rss feeds to rss aggregators but It seems that Google doesn't count those links.

When I use the command "link" in Google it returns no results.

Could you please advise me what's the problem.

Thank You,

Google's back link numbers are all bogus, on purpose, to keep the spammers from getting information. Go and use Yahoo Site Explorer, and you get useful data. You can even export the results to a data file.

 

[csherlock]

great tips thanks!

 

[madelinedn]

Link building is the best way to increase the web traffic. i am so impress by visit your website which can share great idea regarding to link building tips. really these all tips are so beneficial and useful to increase the number of web visitors.

 

[kate reber]

Hi there, thanks for the sharing those information, good and great stuff you shared with us.. Keep sharing, learning from you guys.

 

[easyrider]

I have a few questions about which links count towards backlinks.

1. Does the link in your signature on a forum like this count? And if it does count, how many times? (every time you make a post/reply or only once for the whole forum).

2. Do links count for forums that require a password or special access to get into, such as the Affiloblueprint members forum? That is, can Google "see" this activity since it has a "lock" on it?

3. Do links from social media sites count? For example, if I "link bomb" my currently unused Myspace and Bebo accounts, will these contribute to my backlinks? And if so, would Google place any weight on them?

Thanks for your help guys.

 

[gradyp]

Here's my understanding of the backinks:

1.) Depends on the forum. Some forums have do-follow links and others are no-follow. The ones that are do-follow will count. But don't be afraid to post on the no-follows, because remember the purpose of backlinks is to get you traffic, and even a no-follow link can get you traffic. The big key with forums is to remember that interaction is the key to getting traffic.

2.) If it's in an area that can only be accessed if you are logged in, then no, those would not count for backlink purposes as a general rule. But again, remember, if the links bring you traffic, that's what you're after anyway.

3.) I'm not so sure that "link-bombing" is a safe practice. That sort of thing can get you banned at some social media sites. That said, depending on the site, then there may be some that are counted, but again, if it gets you direct traffic, then it is still beneficial even if it doesn't count as backlinks.

I could be wrong on some of this, but that is my understanding.

 

[easyrider]

Direct traffic from forum links is not so good because it is really only a one-time hit. A few days after the post/reply, it won't be generating you any more traffic. On the other hand, links recognised by Google help you to get consistent traffic through increasing your results in their search engine.

I now see that links posted on this forum don't count as they are marked as "nofollow". I will therefore remove my signature link.

 

[kieran]

Hi Greg

"I now see that links posted on this forum don't count as they are marked as "nofollow". I will therefore remove my signature link."

Strongly suggest that you keep your signature link(s). These work for me every time I make a post on this forum, "Follow" or "No Follow".

The whole subject of link building seems to be a matter of opinion and counter-opinion, with no hard facts. I can see my supposed backlinks in Traffic Travis, but these tend to go all over the place. One day 320 links, the next 550, and so on. The other day I got a (small) sale from a neglected site that has no page rank, no more than 1 or 2 visitors a day and virtually no backlinks! With Google hiding the true situation, what can we do? Praying might have some value!

Regards and good luck to all on this thread.

Kieran

 

[Cecille L]

The whole subject of link building seems to be a matter of opinion and counter-opinion, with no hard facts. I can see my supposed backlinks in Traffic Travis, but these tend to go all over the place. One day 320 links, the next 550, and so on. The other day I got a (small) sale from a neglected site that has no page rank, no more than 1 or 2 visitors a day and virtually no backlinks! With Google hiding the true situation, what can we do? Praying might have some value!

It's true, no two sources can agree when it comes to backlinks, and link building for that matter. I guess it all comes down to strategy. Greg doesn't want to post his links in his signature because this is a "no follow" forum. I respect that. But I wouldn't take my signature off because I am after building my reputation and getting people to visit my website more than building links.

I guess, at the end of the end, it's how you choose to play the game.

 

[adrainsmith11]

SEO that means search engine optimization is the most important to get tarffic for a site , I am looking good site who has good seo service and seo tools too.

 

[adam3]

I am feeling like great after reading all above real SEO Stuff thanks all

 

[evilla.drazen]

A great tip indeed. Hope you guys will be able to apply this one! This will surely help for an effective link building. Thanks for sharing this information to everyone Mark!

 

[eyewebmaster]

I've read some new tips on how improve back links for a site and they term it with "Schema" is this useful for a particular content?

 

[leonardyuri]

I definitely agree that to improve your link building we should have find sites that are relevant to our niche or somewhat related as well I think. The value and quality of our site depends on what kind of link building we practice so better if we know where we stand and the things we want to accomplish in the future. Also, never mind those sites that are not able to add much value to our site because they are just a waste of time and effort.

 

[Cecille L]

Jason shared some very good link building methods in the Affilorama Blog. It's a good read. :)

 

[ask.dpfoc]

Hi MarkLing,
Thanks for sharing some useful tips to find relevant niche directory and forums.

 

[bigarsenalbear]

I learnt a lot from this post, but I was wondering: why do the links have to come from sites that are "relevant"? (I take it this means "in the same niche as your own site")

If you were creating links to get traffic through people clicking on them, then I guess the sites would need to be relevant (someone on a dog training site probably won't click a link to a muscle-building site).

But in terms of boosting your search engine rankings, does Google really take into account the topical relevance of the site you get the link from? Or does it just look at the authority and page rank of that page?

 

[michellerana]

I learnt a lot from this post, but I was wondering: why do the links have to come from sites that are "relevant"? (I take it this means "in the same niche as your own site")

If you were creating links to get traffic through people clicking on them, then I guess the sites would need to be relevant (someone on a dog training site probably won't click a link to a muscle-building site).

But in terms of boosting your search engine rankings, does Google really take into account the topical relevance of the site you get the link from? Or does it just look at the authority and page rank of that page?

I believe this question was already answer on this thread: Do your backlinks have to come from sites in your niche?

All the best!

 

[umairaziz79]

link building is rally a good strategy to gain pr..i am so impress by visit your website which can share great idea regarding to link building tips. really these all tips are so beneficial and useful to increase the number of web visitors.

 

[onlycubs]

I have the professional package Traffic Travis and have access to all the great tools Mark was promoting this week so can't justify the cost to duplicate the tools but would you ask mark if he would be prepared to share a piece of info to me.

 

[michellerana]

Hi Onlycubs :)

Can you please tell me what duplicate tools you have and what "piece of info" you need?

Kind regards,
Michelle

 

[alijahala30]

hey...

When you are doing quality link building, then you keep in mind following things.

1. Proper domain name where you are taking link.
2. back link of the site where you are taking link. (check the back link of the site using back link checker tool).
3. Unique IP (in same IP don't take link of same URL and same title. If IP where you are taking link, URL of your site and it's title are same then Google will count all the links as a single link).
4. Relevancy: take link only at those site which one is relevant to your site
5. neighbor links: Check the neighbor link. These should be banned site's link(porn etc).

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[ryuchi]

There are so many ways and strategies to do link building. I guess the best way is to do high-end link building. This is quite hard because of its time consuming turn around but still works as the best way to optimize..In high end link building, you will need to contact webmasters of related niche to your website and ask them if they can exchange links with your website. Make sure your website is dofollow since this is a high end link process. :)

 

[johnsonmick76]

Thats good tip. But if you want to create, lets say 20 articles related to 20 different topics on your website, it is okay to submit those 20 articles on same directory. What do you think?

 

[camilla]

Hi, can you give any tips on how to get some good UK .gov and high authority links?
thanks so much
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[Cecille L]

Thats good tip. But if you want to create, lets say 20 articles related to 20 different topics on your website, it is okay to submit those 20 articles on same directory. What do you think?

You can submit it to just one directory, but it's so much better if you submit one to a different directory. This will give you 20 backlinks, from 20 different sites.

Hope that helps. Have a good day!

 

[mack45]

1) "relevant sites" - Mark Ling

After reading this forum over the week, I have came up with a great idea for link building. Why don't the 144 people on this forum with copied WOW strategy guide websites all link and deep link to each others and don't forget about Marks site as well pay your respect with a link back. = Relevant sites.

Counted up 121 different Dog aggression sites through the forum members here. should all link together too. Someone needs to set up a network of some type and link exchange.

Then the marriage sites but haven't finished counting those up.

2) I also find searching on google : "links.html" + your topic
Is good for finding sites that are likely to exchange links with your website.

The reality is this would work just set it up so the links go to a three way set up so no one returns a link to the person he gave one to .

 

[babycatering]

Thanks brother for the tip but now according to new panda update we can not make links in comment it will not going to be tracked by bots its the major way to increase backlinks please provide us its backup so we can start increase the backlinks again

 

[Cecille L]

Hi babycatering,

I'm sorry but I do not understand your message. Are you asking for other ways to create backlinks? There are blogs and forums that do not allow links to be placed within the comments area but you can indicate your website url on your comment profile. Same goes with forums. After a certain number of posts, your links can be displayed on your forum signature.

The following blogposts might help you in finding more ways to build backlnks:

Link Building Tips Audio Interview
9 High Quality Link Building Methods in 2011

Hope that helps. Have a good day!

 

[bizforum33]

The backlinks you want are from high quality, relevant sites with a PageRank that is preferably higher than your site.

Start by searching for sites relating to your niche. You are looking for relevant and quality Web sites, so you need to find sites that have a Google page rank of more than your own site and that are relevant in some way to your industry and your Web site visitor. Using search engines, enter a variety of phrases then, review the sites you see listed.

Tip: Combining your search phrases with 'add link', 'add listing' or 'add URL' will find Web sites offering to publish links to other sites. Some may be free, some may require a reciprocal link and some may require you to pay for a listing. If you are only looking for free listings, try adding 'free' to your search (e.g. 'add free link').

Thank you for such a great post. I really appreciate you.

 

[artisttpss]

It is really a very well information.

 

[Michael12]

Great Tip , Thanks Alot...
To Find Website That Relavent to my niche type in google :
" keyword " inurl:"blog" site:.edu -"you have to be logged in"
This is something that i do.

 

[jean.swore]

I think by implementing the following tasks your website will definitely getting good backlinks:

Forums Posting
Blogs Comment Posting
Article Directories Submission
Press Releases Submission
Directories Submission
Classified Ads Posting
Content Sharing Sites
Social Bookmarking Sites
Social Networking Sites
Link Wheeling Method.

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[info105]

Thanks for the article. I have always found it difficult to build link for my Job site, but I will start now.

 

[seobacklinks]

Hi

Linkbuilding is not a difficult you can find many way to build backlinks to your site, there are paid and free methods available. You can find on this forum.

Thanks

Thanks for the article. I have always found it difficult to build link for my Job site, but I will start now.

 

[rubel.hasan88]

Have a look at MassBlogPoster they provide various services for improving traffic. I am happy dealing with them.

 

[Cecille L]

Thanks for the article. I have always found it difficult to build link for my Job site, but I will start now.

Building backlinks and driving traffic to your site are challenging tasks indeed. Even so, you have to maximize your use of backlinking methods that do not require any fee. One great backlinking method I stumbled on is guest posting. It is becoming a well-known backlinking method. Not only does a guest post give a link back to your site, you are able to build you and your site's reputation within the niche itself. Other link building tips are discussed in our blog post 9 High Quality Link Building Methods in 2011

Hope that helps. Have a good day!

 

[info113]

Please could you help us to find really quality back links? Is there any resource which includes a list of them?

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[michellerana]

Please could you help us to find really quality back links? Is there any resource which includes a list of them?

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You could try the services recommended on this thread:
Can I Outsource Backlinking?

There are also some members offering this in the Affilorama Services forum.

All the best! :)