My Conversion to the No Backlinks Way of Thinking

I have tried all of the Big Three paid programs online. I no longer use Market Samurai and The Keyword Academy.

I only use Keyword Strategy.

The first two programs emphasise building backlinks to your articles online. I loathe building links. People build links to try to game the system, to convince search engines that their work is of a high quality and that people are linking to it.

Building your own backlinks is almost universal, but it is still unethical at best and some would consider it to be dishonest.

The last link I built was in January 2011. I could not face rewriting an article for the twentieth time: Let alone the recommended two hundredth time.

Since January I have been ill with depression and stopped writing altogether from February until May. Since May my income has been growing (slowly) without building a single backlink.

I started a women’s magazine site last winter and have not built any backlinks to it since January. Every week it gets more, natural, backlinks because people like it enough to link to.

This is the secret to getting natural links – Write good articles for real people.

My 21Cwoman.com site is not aimed at search engines at all. I do no keyword research for it. Instead, I commission or write articles that women will find interesting. My readers pass on the site address for me and do all of the social bookmarking. This is what Google™ wants. It is totally honest, employs no subterfuge and if people like my site then Google™ will like it, too.

Last week 21Cwoman had 59 links to it. Today it has 69, without any work or pushing on my part except to publish new articles to it every single day.

I have a vision of this site as an online women’s magazine that a million women will log on to most days during their tea or coffee break. If 1% of 1,000,000 women click on one of my ads that is 10,000 clicks a day…

When I was rewriting articles for backlinks it was taking all my energy and I had little time to create original and good quality articles. Those rewritten articles went onto others’ websites instead of new articles going onto my own.

And if you were going to ask me why I didn’t use an article spinner it was because article spinners all stink. They do not produce good quality articles and they all, without exception, give you articles that have obviously been spun. Google can already detect spun articles…