Link Building is of course the process of obtaining relevant, inbound links to your website or blog. Now, from experience and a White Hat perspective, Google loves websites that gain their backlinks naturally without having to force things into happening.
The nature of backlinks you build to your money site can either make or destroy your website, therefore it is important you gain them from trusted sites and most of all, those related to your site’s niche.
Here are the major importance for Link building
- Link Building helps your website achieve higher ranking with the major search engines.
- Link Building also helps to Drive targeted traffic to your site.
- Your blog’s Page rank is determined by the number of quality backlinks to your blog.
What are My Link building Strategies?
When I mean Link building strategies, I’m talking about the ways you can gain useful and quality backlinks to your blog. Below are some simple ways to build links to your blog.
#1. Social Networks: You can build your links from your social networks profile. Social networks like facebook, myspace, twitter offers you an option to link to your website on your profile page.
#2. Social Bookmarking: Submitting your blog to social bookmark sites such as digg, delicious, spurl etc can also help you build relevant links to your blog/website.
#3. Blog Commenting: Commenting on other blogs has been a great way to build links. Dropping relevant links back to your blog on important topics is a great way to start up link building the commenting way.
#4. Forum Activities: It is great to participate in forums and on topics related to your niche. Leaving useful and relevant replies with links that can serve as resources can also help you increase your blog’s search engines strength. Also, do not forget to add your URL in your profile and forum signature as it also plays a role in link building.
#5. Page Building: Many social networks allows you to create contents and post it on their domain as new pages. Such sites like www.squidoo.com is a great example. Creating content that focuses on a particular subject will engage readers and create more inbound links to your main site.
#6. Article Directory Submission: You can use article directories as a means of link building. They sure are great.
#7. Submit your link to relevant city and state governmental resources.
#8. Launch an affiliate program. Even though Most of the links you pick up will not have SEO value, but the added exposure will almost always lead to additional “normal” links.
#9. Answering questions on Question and answer sites like Yahoo answers and Google groups can also be a good way of link building. Add your URL as resources, it also helps in turning in a huge number of visitors from experience.
#10. Reviews: Review relevant products on Amazon and other related site. You can create product lists that reviews top products, then say something about yourself and drop a link to your website. This is also a great strategy of Link Building.
#11. Become a Sponsor: Become a sponsor for stuff like charity, contests, and conferences because you’ll often get linked to by the people you sponsored. This can be a great way to gain visibility and links.
#12. Hold a contest: Contests make great link bait. A few-hundred-dollar prize can result in thousands of dollars worth of editorial quality links.
Now Your Turn
What are you waiting for? Start up your link building campaign and watch the effect it’ll have on your rankings. Remember to let things grow slowly and steadily cos you might get hurt if you do things the wrong way.
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I hope you love this post. Let us know your other link building methods using the comment section.
16 Comments
Nice post!
Thanks Vman bro. Thanks for dropping by
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Backlinks now do have a new strategy followed by Internet marketeers which is creating a quality content to generate natural backlinks. This is the most lovely type of backlinks for Google specially after penguin and panda update.
It’s also why most of of Internet marketeers are now focusing on content marketing rather than generating backlinks and some companies now is hiring a content marketing specialist for their website and social media channels.
Thank you,
Marc A. Donald
SEO Saudi Arabia
Nice Thought Smart. Thanks for Dropping By.
Guest posting is also one of the best and effective strategies in building a links! 😀
In this way, you are also making a relationship to the other users that has the same field like yours.
Optimind SEO
nice tips
Welcome bro akpan
Initially, pick one to three strategies and consistently work on it. Eventually, you will see results. You can then start to diversify the strategy. Link building should be consistent.
Nice Tip Bro. Thanks Fro Dropping By
Hi Antonio,
Great tips. This is helpful to get more links to our site. Thanks for sharing this. Recently, I found another blog related to the link building it is Top 3 Link Building Strategies in 2013 @ http://www.techwyse.com/blog/search-engine-optimization/expert-link-building-strategies-2013. In this blog several SEO experts are talking about their experiences in link building. .
Hope this will help you all! Thanks
Whats so about social bookmarking after google panda and penguine updates. Do you thinks that posting on social bookmarking sites is still useful.
nice post, Thanks for sharing this one Oscar
Thanks….am very happy Linking
great tip frank I really enjoyed this.
I’m glad you found this blog interesting Uche. Feel free to hit me up if need be, and BTW, which link building scheme do you enjoy most?