Link building … it is time consuming, frustrating and sometimes confusing. Nevertheless, it is essential. Ultimately it is still the trump card for high rankings.
Many of us have hoped that someday it would no longer be needed. In Brett Tabke’s 5 / 18 Robots.txt Post (note: what a “blog”), he illustrates the feeling that cling to the many, many webmasters in good hope:
71 good ways to build links : Love lists
1. Writing a “101 list” are regularly digged and mostly from “authority documents”. People can not resist them to the left, a small sign with the fence post.
2. Create 10 simple tips to improve your [insert topic here] articles. These links are pleased and often.
3. Creates extensive list of resources for specific topics (Mr Ploppy, a look at for inspiration).
4. Make a list of the top 10 myths for a specific category.
5. Write a list of gurus / experts who take care of link building services. If people listed to your site is enough obliterating, find a way to make your project look very official to link to these gurus or at least say thanks. (Often, flattery is the best way to forge a good relationship with an “authority”).
6. Make sure that the content is easy to understand, so he can understand many people and spread your message. It is about accessibility.
7. Give a little effort to minimize grammatical and spelling errors, especially if you are aiming the fact that authoritative people like Librarians at your left side.
8. Your privacy policy should be easily accessible, so your site looks trustworthy. Show a picture of you on the page to build Authority.
PPC as a Link Building Tool
9. Buy relevant traffic with a pay-per-click campaign. Relevant traffic means more visitors to your site and more brand proliferation. If people come to your side, no matter on which way they found you. There is the possibility that you can retain them.
News & Syndication
10. Place an article on EzineArticles, GoArticles, iSnare, etc. The good thing with good pages of articles that their article pages rank very high and send highly qualified traffic to your site.
11. Write an item in industry news site. You have an SEO site? Write an article and send it to WebProNews. You have a page about whatever topic, write it accordingly.
12. Send out a press release. Take your time and make it GOOD (compelling newsworthy). Email it to a few handpicked journalists and bloggers. Personalize the email text individually to assess the post on PRWeb, PRLeap, table, etc..
13. Search for people follows your article and press releases. Offer them exclusive news or content.
14. Swap articles with other webmasters.
15. Email a few friends when you have important relevant news and ask for feedback and / or ask them to give you a reference, if they find the information useful.
16. Write about companies with “News” pages in the left. You link back to stories and blog posts that deal with their development. This is obviously easiest if you have a news section or blog. Do a Google search for [your industry + "News"]
17. Make surveys and studies and make sure that people feel important. If other people feel important they will help you do your marketing for free. Salary.com did a study on underpaid mothers and got many quality links.
Directories, Meme Trackers & Social Bookmarking
18. This tip is old but still very important: register your site with DMOZ and other directories that allow free submission. This is also provided by various link building services.
19. Rich your side for paid directories. Again, an oldie in terms of tips but just give heed to the quality principles.
20. Create your own thematic Directory on anything that interests you. Of course, link from those pages are valuable and try to make deep links to important information wherever it is possible. This will attract links by themselves, if one makes a really useful resource.
21. Days corresponding pages on sites like Del.icio.us help people to follow your tracks back to your page.
22. If you create good quality content, Please ask few of your friends to tag the page. It creates your page on the main page of Digg or on the Del.icio.us. Possibly list hundreds of bloggers on your left side of your page.
23. Watch the meme tracker to see what ideas are spreading. When you write popular ideas, it spreads quickly. Use content to link to some of the original resources, your site might be listed as a source on a meme tracker site.
Local & Business Links
24. Join at Better Business Bureau.
25. Attempt to get a link with your local Chamber of Commerce.
26. Get links from relevant government and municipal resources. (This is easier in some countries than in others)
27. List your site on the side of the local library.
28. Find out your manufacturer or dealer or business partners who might be interested in link exchange.
29. Develop business relationships with companies that are not your competitors but working in the same field. Leverage the relationships online and offline by distributing business cards containing your links.
30. Start an affiliate program. Many of the links will not get your SEO value but they give you extra visibility.
Free Simple Links
31. Craigslist offers free Classified Service for many categories.
32. Its pretty simple to reply to questions at Yahoo! Answers and paste your links to relevant resources.
33. It is fairly easy to write questions or answers to Google Groups and then add relevant link resources.
34. If you have a fairly reputable company, you can build links on Wikipedia or topic-specific wikis on one side. If it is hard to listen directly to the page, you can try to put links to other sites.
35. It takes about 15 minutes to create a thematic Squidoo page used to portray themselves as industry experts and of course link to your page.
36. Write an incident at Digg, the link back to an article on your site. You can also add more content, and thus goes a bit back from the Authority link to your page.
37. If you use an RSS feed and if your content is useful and frequently updated, some people use your RSS Content Subscribe (unfortunately a few links will be forgiven by others)
38. Most forums allow members to indicate links in signatures or on the personal profile. If you write high-quality contributions some people will follow these links and therefore perhaps read your site link to your page and / or buy your products.
Have a big heart for reviews
39. Most brands are not well established online. If your site has much authority, review related content often rank very high.
40. Judge related products on Amazon.com. This can be a side direct consumer inquiries and get secondary links.
41. Create a list of top product list from Amazon.com, mention your personal background.
42. Review related sites on Alexa to attract the accompanying traffic.
43. Review products and services on shopping search engines such as Epinions, Which will in turn help you.
44. If you really like a product or a service and good at writing reviews, you should do it and thus get many links. Two tips for writing reviews: they should be credible and detailed.
Blogs & Blogosphere
45. Start a blog. Post good content regularly. A good performance is rewarded with links.
46. Link your blog to other blogs. Outbound links are often the cheapest form of marketing. Many bloggers tracks their site links and where their traffic comes from.
47. Write comments on blogs. Many of these comments will not bring you much direct search engine value, but if your comments are useful, insightful and relevant they can bring direct traffic. They also help acquaint you with other bloggers and then may start to read your blog or link to it.
48. Technorati Tag pages rank well on Yahoo! and MSN, and to a lesser extent in Google. Leave your post with relevant tags at Technorati, even though your blog is very new.
49. If you create a blog, make sure that you will be listed in some of the best blog directories.
Design as a link building element
50. Make your site is Web 2.0-capable. People love to link to pages with AJAX. Even in the narrowest niches, there is a useful application for AJAX.
51. Validate your page with 508 indirect. This method makes your site more trustworthy and linkable especially by government sites or design-oriented communities. There are even a few authoritative directories of standards-compliant pages.
52. Order a scenic riverside CSS redesign. A nice design can get links from sites like CSS Vault.
Please bang your help
53. Involve a PR guru, journalist or press officer. The good old ‘PR’ (not PageRank) still work as wonders.
54. Involve a consultant. Yes, you can also outsource the Link Building. Just try to get someone good.
Link Trading
55. Swap some links. What? Did we really just recommend reciprocal linking? Yes, small-scale and with relevant partners to send you traffic. Stay away from the link trading hubs and networks.
56. In case you did not get the memo – when exchanging links try to put links within the content received from relevant sites. Do not try to get links to pages that have 100 different link partners who have nothing to do with your branch. Not along think about the topic at link exchange, but also on the demographic parameters.
Buy pages, links, book & Advertising
57. Buy a few high quality links from the broker. Text Link Ads is the most respected company in this market.
58. Buy a few links directly with high quality websites. Most Often the important links are booked directly from sites.
59. Become a sponsor! All sorts of charities, competitions and conferences, left to their sponsors. This is a good way to get more visibility, links, and get a warm feeling in your heart.
60. Sell stuff on eBay and promise to donate the profits to a charitable organization.
61. Many search algorithms are biased and prefer older, already established sites. Therefore, it is often better to buy an old page with a strong link profile on left side rather than trying to build authority links from scratch.
Use the courts (read more at your own risk)
62. Sue Google.
63. Attempts will be sued by a company who hate people. When Aaron was sued by Traffic Power, he got hundreds and thousands of links, while sites like Wired and The Wall Street Journal.
Free & gifts
64. Host a contest. Competitions are great as Linkbait. A one-two-euro price is for editorial quality links lead to the value of thousands of euros.
65. Create a tool collection. Original and useful to get a lot of link love. What do you think that it is worth for mortgage calculator to the left?
66. Create and publish open source site design templates for content management systems like WordPress. Do not forget the “Design of beispiel.com” part in the footer!
67. Offer free samples in exchange for feedback.
68. Upload a Firefox extension. Create a link to download and / or support page on your website for the people.
Conferences & Social Interaction
69. It is easy to make pictures of important events and write some text to explain the importance of Pictures. “Stars” in your industry sector are certainly good for Link Bait.
70. Transform new relationships to linking relations in the real world. If you go to SEO related conferences, you’ll meet people like Tim Mayer, Matt Cutts and Danny Sullivan. The same applies to other industries. People that are normally inaccessible are very accessible at such conferences. In real life, it is obviously easier to “act real” and once you’ve built up a social relationship with such a person, it is easier to continue it through the web.
71. Fascinating, useful and interesting interviews are easy way to create original content. And spreads like a fire.
30 bad ways for building link
Here are a few link building methods that may destroy your brand or cause ECENT banned site penalized or filtered from the results of major search engines will, or both.
Directories
72. Rich your side at 200 low-cost, paid directories (with about $ 15 apiece) that have no link to you send traffic and strange sites that do with your nothing.
Forum Spam
73. List 100 Web sites in your forum signature.
74. Post links only if you can accommodate your site in the post.
75. Post nothing except “I raise” posts at the post count.
76. Ask questions about best offering services, where the services are sold. Create a second forum user from the same IP address and answer your own question by telling how great your own site.
77. As a new member in different forums ask the same question in 20 different forums on the same day.
78. Post in forum threads that were created years ago.
79. Log in to forums and create a profile without writing any posts.
Blog Spam
80. When spamming by blog commenting, use keywords instead of your own name.
81. Attempt to market your site with blog comment. Bring any additional value to the discussion with your comment. Mention nothing other than that you have only recently written a comment on the same subject at _____ and everyone should read it. Put a bomb carpet made these comments about a dozen blogs.
82. Say nothing original or more relevant information about the respective post. Pretend as if an automated robot just pounces on the comments.
83. Better use an automated bot to pounce on the comments. List about 30 links in each post. Attempt to take a couple of servers hard enough to bring them to a crash.
84. Send pings to each of the talks on the subject. Attempt to say anything interesting in your unit post. Talk about other issues run around.
85. Link to any of the pages you ping. Send them pings from posts that have nothing to do with them.
Link Exchange Waste
86. Send link exchange requests mentioning PageRank of your site.
87. Send link exchange emails that look as if they were created by an automated bot (little or no adaptation, no personal names, etc)
88. Send link exchange requests to Matt Cutts, Tim Mayer, Tim Converse, Google, and Yahoo.
89. Attempt to get links to almost completely hidden parts of web pages, on which hundreds of non-relevant pages are linked.
Spam people personally
90. Do go to a conference webmaster and raise interesting and informative questions.
91. Instead of asking the people about their URL. Tell your URL and ask them to link to you.
Had persistently
92. Send an alert to a webmaster to every post you make on your website.
93. Send an email every day to a webmaster asking to visit your site with informative content.
94. Send the same webmaster from dozens of references to your site with different email accounts.
95. If all this does not lead to a Gratislink, offer him $1 for their time. Increase your offer by one dollar every day until he agrees.
96. Imitate the RIAA. If it has doubted you, bring an action against 12-year-old girl. (try to get as much bad press as possible)
97. Let all the attributions away. Tell many important channels and wait for them to start talking about you.
98. Send thousands of bogus Referrals to all top-creeping sites where you bigger breasts, a 35-inch penis (is the length or size?) few million dollars for free offering.
99. Wear your URL on your t-shirt. Go around and publicize it.
100. Pour coffee on people or find creative ways to insult people to get them to do so at your left side.
101. Sue other webmasters because they have built deep links to your site. Well, this is probably rather stupid “unbelievable” as “bad practice link”.
We believe at least 99 of these methods are still valid today!
And what do you mean? Something’s missing?