Can someone recommend a proven link building company?

[GAZ09]

Hi there.

Can someone please recommend a link building company?

Can somebody recommend a tried and trusted linking building company that they have used and have really good results from?

There are so many link builidng companies out there all promising they can deliver X,Y AND Z!

Please help if anyone can recommend a company has am going roun in cricles!

Thanks guys

Gareth

[RobertFisher]

Gareth,

In Google, type in Site:YourURLhere

Example would be   Site:Example.com

that will tell you what they have indexed.

Robert

[GAZ09]

Hi there,

Can you please tell me how you can tell if the websites are being indexed by Google?

Thanks for the reply!

Gareth

[RyanKent]

Robert offered an outstanding reply. I will add to be especially careful of link building companies with their own networks. When you join they begin to add your site to their network. When you leave them they begin removing your links and a few months after you stop paying them you have ZERO links left and you paid for nothing. This activity is advertising, not link building. Many companies fall for this type of "link building" effort.

A true link building company will acquire relevant links to your industry. This requires a lot of unique effort whereby the link builder learns your industry and establishes connections with the authors in your niche. The links you earn this way are long lasting, relevant, provide direct traffic and are highly valued. You wont find these links in any promotional "we will be hundreds/thousands of links for your site each month" packages.

[RobertFisher]

You are quite welcome. We are an SEO/SEM firm, DrumBEATMarketing, link building is a part of SEO. Not a company that advertises as a link builder.

Best

[ResslerMotors]

I'd use Open Site Explorer to check their backlink profile.  Check to see what kind of links they were able to generate for themselves, and then check on a few of those websites to see if they are indexed by Google.

I had a company try to sell me SEO+Link Building, but their whole link building network had been banned by Google.

[GAZ09]

Hi Robert,

Great thank you for your anaswer - thanks for the directory list I never even knew that was there!

What is the name of your link building company?

Thanks Robert..

Gareth

[GAZ09]

Great thank you for the reply!

Very useful...

Gareth

[RobertFisher]

Gareth,

This seems to be the question of the day. How to link, etc. By asking about link building companies, usually, people are looking for easy as opposed to quality. (I am not saying this about you, but drawing a distinction).

The main reason is that most people do not want to take the time or expend the effort required in good link building. The only other option beyond time and effort is $$$. For anyone to do a quality link building program it will cost you. So, if you are looking to pay some amount like US $ 500 or $1,000 and get quality link building, I am not aware of any who do it. I am open to seeing some though.

The other option is to go to a directory listing company that is trusted/somewhat trusted and have them list you with directories. (Not great option, but an option). Here is a list of directory sites: SEOmoz Pro Directory List, which was recently updated.

To assist you with linking and all that goes into it, here is a link to SEOmoz Professional Guide to Link Building. This will give you some perspective on why finding a quality link building company that provides a lower cost service is difficult.

We build links daily for our clients and there are days that I think we are still under charging (and we are not cheap). The reason is that it takes people to make all of this happen and good people cannot be had at a cheap rate. We have to pay good people well to do what is necessary to get the clients the quality links. We continually have to look at the clients and find new quality link sources based on what they do.

Good Luck, let us know how you work it out.

[ResslerMotors]

Link Building is starting to be a transition back to College.  You have to write high quality content that identifies, and utilizes references.  In addition to just being structurally, grammatically and intellectually sound, you also have to have it fill a niche within your market.

For example:

You notice that several university websites have an incomplete analysis of the water shed on a predominant mountain range in their area.  You could collect resources online about this topic, and write a complete analysis of how it effects the people around it.  You could then request links from these universities to link to your complete article.  After you go through the 15-20 relevant universities you could start contacting the cities, real estate agencies and some guiding services to link to your article.

As long as you write a high quality piece of content that people will find informative and enjoyable you should generate a few links.  Of course, I would suggest picking a more interesting topic, but this is just hypothetical.

That being said:

I would suggest The Interenet Marketing Ninjas (formerly We Build Pages) and Virante.  Both of these companies have reputations for being great link builders, but you pay for high quality safer links.

If you aren't overly concerned with the risks, and you have a smaller budget, you could also talk to a link broker company like Text Link Brokers, who will assist you in purchasing links (which is a no-no if found).  I don't mean to alarm you, Text Link Brokers is a great company that doesn't give out their client info, but it would be careless of me not to mention that there is a risk.