The additional benefit is: now instead of simply having one (optimized) listing in the search engine, you end up with SEVERAL, many of them on the first page! None of them is even your site, but all of them are pages that lead people TO your website!

Yes, I do that myself. When it comes to my primary blogs, I post the comments, I post the content, I do the forum posting in my SEO strategies. You have a lot of control and influence on that. When it comes to article distribution and buying links, or submitting videos you don't need to be involved with that so much because it's not going to change the process.

Footer linking: Again, the search engines caught onto this one and ignore it. It looks too much like spam. Google and Yahoo have devauled footer links altogether. Footer links can also devalue some of the quality, relevant links that you have on your site.

SEO news You want visible text on your pages so that users can find your site easy. Make sure you add sensible text as far as size. The keywords need to show in your links and tags.

So EVEN IF you do get to the top, it will just make your competition try that much harder to knock you back down a peg or two. So you end up in a vicious cycle where you and your direct (and indirect) competitors are jockeying back and forth for first position. Whoever spends the most time (spelled M-O-N-E-Y) on SEO wins. At least for a time, just so long as no one else spends a little more than they do. So even if you get to the top, you can bet, you won't stay there for long.

A link building campaign should be something natural and not forced. Acquiring around 40,000 hits within the first few days of your site's existence is something not natural. Getting a slow yet constant pool of links into your website is something that looks more legitimate. Here are several free SEO tips for you to enhance your link building efforts.

Reciprocal Links: The days of creating a bunch of random links to your website and getting good rankings are over. The search engines caught on to that one too. Sorry. If you own a salon and you link your site to your friend's site, who owns a hardware store, that doesn't count. If you do link, you must link to someone who has relevant content and preferably a site that has a well established blog and Pinterest social media presence.