No-Follow links are for LOSERS!

If you’ve followed along with the Thirty Day Challenge, then you’ve set up Google Alerts to send you the latest news about your niche daily…. actually I set mine up to give me up to the minute updates.I get a tingly feeling inside when Google Alerts sends me a new email. Is it a potential new blog post for my site? Is it a backlink opportunity? Is it an opportunity for more traffic? It’s so exciting…

Yesterday Google Alerts informed me about 3 forum posts that related to my niche. 2 of the forums I participate in on a regular basis… YIPPIE…. more traffic opportunities. Since I’ve already posted my link on these forums, continuing to do so is futile and spammy. The first backlink from a site is powerful, all subsequent backlinks are less useful but it is still an opportunity to establish yourself as an expert in that niche.

What really excited me was the new forum that Google Alerts introduced me to because I need more backlinks. However, when I got to the forum I realized that their links are NO-FOLLOW LINKS!!! Argh!

Oh well, I’ll still participate in the forum because I like their forum and their readers. And instead of following me to my site, I’ll lead them.

Are you wasting your time trying to build backlinks on forums with no-follow links?

Your time is precious so make sure you verify the sites link status. Here’s a neat tool I found that highlights no-follow links.

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