For those who are asking and are interested to know how did I reach and maintain the top spot (second to macuha.com) for two weeks on the keyword “Marhgil Macuha” in his last mini-SEO contest, here are the answers:

1. It’s pure teamwork. We, Winston of batangyagit.com and I, built back links to more than 100 something blogs that we own for SEO purposes. We have 1 PR7 blog, 3 PR5 blogs, 34 PR4 blogs, 8 PR3, blogs, 13 PR2 blogs, and the rest are PR0 blogs.

2. VOX and i.PH Booster. Additional backlinks from i.ph and vox blogs also helped us maintain the top spot. We created more than 70 PR0 blogs just to create backlinks. VOX.com and i.PH pings google and technorati instantly after posting an article with back links.
(But be careful in posting your links to new blogs, because Google might consider your blog a spam blog. Just link moderately)

3. Forum signatures. I have several online community accounts (e.g.: sitepoint, digital point, asp.net, dost-sei, and phpbb), I changed all my signature links to Marhgil Macuha, and point it to my entry post. If you have more than 1000+ posts, that’s more than 1000 links I also asked Mikko of conradmiguel.com to change his signature links, use the contest keyword, and point it to my post.

4. Links from Co-bloggers. I asked back links from Oliver Robillo, Isis Lahora, Mark Aethen Agana, Paolo Mendoza, Annabel Callos Choy, Alexandra Siaco, Ryan Pacabis, Jemme Putchir, Ariel Lalisan, Michael Ray Barcelon, Ruben Corral, Vicent Jon Camba, Sidney de la Cruz, and Andrew dela Serna. (but sadly, andrew dela serna of alleba.com refused to give me a backlink, because his site is to expensive to place my rubbish link.. hehe, peace kuya drew ) For the mentioned names, just google it, and you’ll find their blogs.

5. And.. there’s no number 5. That’s all we did to make it to the top. If only we are aware of that bookmarking thing, our entry would probably be unbeatable. Heehee…

What is the correct way of linking? This is the question that was asked to me so many times. All you need to do is link your post using the keyword you want to rank in different search engines. For example, you want to rank for the keyword “Adobe Recipe“. You should create a link to your blog or blog post (from another blog or website) using that keyword. That’s it! Wooot!

Tags: Link Building, SEO 101, SEO Techniques

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