It's been a while since the last post. Things certainly do move a little slower around this time of the project. The content and backlink creation does not happen overnight and the backlinking area has not been so easy...
Firstly, I tried to create a number of backlinks by creating articles and submitting them to article websites. Yes, this worked and my articles were put up and links to my website were created, but this strategy seems to becoming not as great as it was a few years ago.
Article directories seem be including the rel="nofollow" parameter in article backlinks. This is quite annoying and means the crawlers won't follow that link to my page. Whether that means the backlink is useless, I'm not completely sure, but I do know it would be better without it. I tried to override it with a rel="dofollow", but this didn't work on all the websites.
It was obvious I have need to include some other backlinking strategies... but these strategies will need to be imployed once I am 100% happy with the website content. The reason for this is I will be pretty much asking for backlinks to my website (as a reference to information related to their website) in exchange for listing them on mine. To do this, my content must be great to make them want to list. There a plenty of websites to approach and even is I only get 10 hits out of 200, that's a success. These websites will have decent page ranks and be relevant to my website and therefore, the backlink will be of great value. Creating links from these relevant websites will also drive extra traffic to my website.