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Yeah. Follow your passion.
Blah blah blah.
What does following your passion have to do with getting backlinks?
Everything.
Why?
Bloggers who struggle to get backlinks follow statistics. True story. Almost no one gets backlinks from high level bloggers. I admit how difficult it seems to be. But I scored more than one feature on world famous blog for a clear reason: I focus on the process not the outcomes.
I gave help to get backlinks.
At first glance this sounds like captain obvious speaking once again at Blogging From Paradise Dot Com. Yet my strategy makes perfect sense. Getting backlinks requires you to give helpful content. Impressed successful bloggers link to said content. That’s how it works.
Why do I keep giving helpful content? I love it. I love creating helpful blogging tips. I love engaging in the process of publishing helpful blog posts. Having fun with the process psychologically detaches me from getting backlinks. I’m not worried about getting backlinks so I score them.
Most bloggers do not feel as carefree as I. Most bloggers focus heavily on getting backlinks. Bloggers do so from a place of tension. What happens if you devote most energy to getting something? You never get it. How can you get it if you didn’t do the requisite giving required to get it?
Scoring backlinks is not fun for most bloggers but stressful. Feeling stressed makes everything go to custard. You abandon the process because you don’t like the outcomes. Why has nobody linked to your blog? You have worked so long and hard for months creating helpful content. What’s wrong with your blog?
Doubt kills your backlink building campaign. Feeling hopeless, you quit. Another backlink building campaign bites the dust.
Having fun with the process influences you to become a persistent backlink builder. Since you don’t *need* backlinks because you enjoy helping people with content the process becomes a leisurely marathon not a wild sprint.
I believe this is the perfect starting point for a successful backlink building campaign.
Peep my example.
I patiently published long form blog posts consistently spanning years. I persisted because I had fun creating content for bloggers. That emotion was critical. Feeling stressed would have screwed up the process.
Creating onsite content was step one. I bridged the gap between my blog and the outside world through a genuine blog commenting campaign. I dropped highly detailed comments on popular blogs from my niche. Successful bloggers paid attention. Professionals who appreciated my valuable comments bonded with me.
Some of these full-time bloggers linked to my blog to dole out high quality backlinks pointing to Blogging From Paradise Dot Com.
Passion fueled my journey not an obsession with statistics. Fun energized me for these thousands of hours not a hungry obsession with trying to get backlinks. Why do you think bloggers waste years of their lives spamming strangers who would never link to their blogs? You know none of these people are having fun. All desperately try to get backlinks with a scatter shot approach.
Everyone has to make a living. Cold pitching hundreds of strangers daily is one way to make a living. But taking this route wastes years because most professional bloggers do not reply. Why would a full-time blogger put their reputation on the line for a stranger? Never expect an experienced pro to become nonsensical just because you offer them a guest post.
Forcing the process also forces you to not think clearly. Unintelligent decisions follow. Stressed backlink builders waste time instead of being free from time and location as they build high quality backlinks.
Fun loving bloggers gain high quality backlinks by loving the process. High-level backlink builders make the work the reward. The backlinks feel like extras or perhaps icing on the cake.
Build this attitude in your mind. Have fun with the backlink building process. Fall in love with creating highly detailed content for your ideal reader. Publish thorough comments on top blogs from your niche.
Now comes a most critical element: time
I dropped a volume of detailed blog comments for weeks or months before professional bloggers linked to my blog. This is the challenging part. Most bloggers quit. Most do not have fun with the backlink building process because they’re trying so damn hard to get as many high quality links as fast as possible.
Relax. Lighten up. Have fun. Fall in love with the process of creating content. Enjoy publishing genuine comments on high level blogs. Do the work because you love the work. Have fun with helping people.
Having fun makes the work the reward. Getting backlinks feels like a bonus so you won’t stress out over it. This is how to land high quality backlinks consistently. Start with having fun.
When you do not stress over getting backlinks you do the requisite work for the appropriate time frame to land trusted links from high level bloggers.
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