How To Use Free Sitebuilders to Give Yourself Quality Inbound Links

All Squidoo lens masters and all webmasters look around intensively for links in order to improve the PR of our lenses. Squidoo lensmasters and webmasters spend time blogging, we trade links, we write articles, we join communities. But maybe there is ONE simple idea we are overlooking?

This Squidoo lens will document this simple idea. It is an experiment in creating links in a very simple way. But the question is, will it work?

Time will tell.

(photo by jungleboy, creative commons license)

Here is the idea in brief:

1. Create 5 Accounts With Free Website makers
2. Use directories and bookmarking sites to give a few free links to the free sites
3. Link the 5 free sites to each other
4. In addition to linking to each other, each site gives a one-way inbound link to my Squidoo Blog and a few of my chosen Squidoo sites.
5. Wait a few months and see if the sites get PR.

* Each arrow Indicates a link

* Some links are one way indicated by one way arrows

* Some links are reciprocal indicated by two way arrows

* ALL sites have reciprocal links between them (if I had drawn all links it would have made a very messy drawing)

* All sites give oneway incoming links to my blog and a few chosen Squidoo lenses.(exception: there are reciprocal links between this squidoo lens and my blog)

* To simplify the drawing, I have not shown the free incoming links ( Mr Wong, My Link Vault, etc) to my 5 free websites

This book and the books below have nothing to do with this project. I am listing them here because I think if you are interested in this subject, you might be interested in them too.

This is what PC Advisor said about "Search Engine Optimization For Dummies":

Cuts through the nonsense, providing a clear, simple and concise explanation of how websites reach top positions in search engines ..."

The purpose of this lens is two fold. It will:

* Act as one of the 5 free sites and give links to the other sites.

* Document this experiment. Read the next steps to see EVERYTHING you need to do this yourself

* Create 5 Free Websites. Why 5? Seems like a good number. But you could choose more or less.

* Add Relevant Content (content related to your website or blog. You can write an article or just some description of your project).

* Create links between the free websites.

* Create links from the free websites to your Squidoo lenses/blog, etc.

Which Free Websites? In ADDITION to this Squidoo lens, the other four free sites that I have used are::

Give your sites free incoming links. This will help your sites to be found by Google and to get high PR.

These are the sites (bookmarks, directories etc) which give a few incoming, one-way links to the free sites and to my blogs. I have chosen them because they:

* Are not moderated

* Accept most any type of link (including subdomains, many directories don't)

* Give direct (do follow) links

* Are free (remember, I dont want to pay for this stuff)

Let's say you have a site about cars. Would you rather have a link from:

* A PR 1 site which is all about cars

* A PR 7 site which is general (such as CNN, Yahoo, etc) but where the word 'cars' is mentioned a 2-3 times on the page.

If you have a site about cars, which of the two links would you prefer?

From this experiment, I would like to see:

* The majority of the free sites obtaining Google PR 2 or above

* Some inbound traffic from the free sites to my lenses and blog.

Had I created it a bit smarter, I would have Key Word Optimized it. By this I mean I would have:

* Chosen certain key words for each site (Squidoo Blog, Squidoo Marketing, Squidoo Lenses, How To Squidoo).

* Made sure my sites used those terms frequently

* Made sure that the links to those pages used those keywords in the anchor text.

Had I done that, those pages would have had a good chance of ranking high in the search engines for those keywords, which would have increased the traffice to those pages and potentially to my sites..

Since I did not do that, the search traffic to those sites may be low. But nevertheless the PR from those sites should hopefully be significant.

I have, however, attempted to make the site 'relevant'. I have:

* used the word "Squidoo" in all of the sites frequently

* used the word "Squidoo" in most of my anchor text links

* Used the word "Squidoo" in the descriptions of the sites (metatags)

* Since the outbound links are to my Squidoo lenses and to my Squidoo Blog, I am hoping that the links are "relevant"

What do you think?

Will I achieve my goals?

1. 17 January 2009: All 5 Free Websites are indexed in google in just one week.
2. March 30: The Valley of the Giants Blog achieved Google PR3
3. May 14: This Squidoo Lens achieved Google PR2.

Do you know any other quality website builders? Have you tried something similar?