Showing posts with label Link Building Techniques. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Link Building Techniques. Show all posts

Back Link Building Method

SEO - Link Building Series: Backlink Building Methods
Feb.24, 2009 in Site Promotion, SEO
Posted by Ajith Prasad Edassery
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A couple of posts ago, we saw how internal linking and optimization can be done within your blog or website in order to improve reach and thereby help Search Engine (SE) bots to crawl and link relevant pages. Now, it’s time to learn about various link building techniques in order to obtain a lot of backlinks to your blog (This topic could be boring to those who have read it 100 times elsewhere). As we understood sometime back, no ‘nofollow’ backlinks with relevant keywords in the anchor text will boost the search engine rankings of your pages.
Ways to build your Backlinks
#1 Blogroll & Link exchanges: This is the most common way of building links whereby on mutual consent the links are exchanged using the blog roll space. This is also less spammy in nature and sometimes will do the role of advertising for your blog.
#2 Link love: This is not exactly my way of link building but there are a lot of people who give and take love with no nofollow references to each others’ posts. If you link to and from relevant posts, it is actually beneficial to both the parties. There are people who regularly publish link love posts.
#3 Directory submission: You can submit your blog URL to directory services some of which provide dofollow listing. In most cases, relevant front page listings come at a cost.
#4 Blog commenting: Blog commenting on dofollow blogs is a great way to improve your inbound links. In addition, if the blog supports a top commentator, commentluv, keywordluv plugins, it can improve your chances of getting dofollow links from more relevant sources.
#5 Forum posting: Many forums these days provide dofollow links via post signatures of signed up users. Though the link strength of forum backlinks are relatively weak, a number of them will always be of help. Please read my article titled High PR forums to help popularize your blog for more information on this method of building backlinks.
#6 Guest posting: Guest posting on popular blogs will not only build one or two relevant links to your blog but also attract some traffic, get some subscriptions and conversions.
#7 Via services such as blog themes, widgets and badges: If you build and market your own free themes and widgets, you will have a chance to put backlinks on those free products (e.g. Free WordPress themes, blog rank widgets etc)
#8 Link baiting: Link baiting refers to the process of publishing some content/post so exciting, unique and compelling that people willingly would link to such content. The baits could be something like plugins, free online services, free tool downloads etc.
#9 Paid links: Paid links or buying links are another way to improve your backlinks but these come at the risk of being detected and blacklisted by search engines such as Google. Google believes that such unethical ways of link building inorder to boost page ranks are methods to sabotage their logic of identifying the relevant links.
#10 Article submission and spinning: Another way of building links is article marketing and/or spinning. This method is explained in detail in one of my posts on article submission sites
Other tips for effective link building
Whenever you bump into a blog in your niche with similar ranks and statistics, make it a point to contact its author via contact forms for potential link exchange queries and/or blogroll entries
Three-way linking (a => b, b=> c, c => a) is supposed to be better than reciprocal linking (a => b, b => a)
Keep track of the URLs or blogs with which you have exchanged links (especially in three way linking). You may loose track otherwise
Make sure that your link partners use dofollow links if they promised to do so
It is always beneficial to exchange links with pages that have a low number of outbound links. This minimizes page rank dilution
Use the NoDoFollow Firefox add-on to check the rel properties of links
You can use free tools like comment kahuna commenting software to search and comment on blogs of your niche and/or have specific keywords in them
Read the comment policy of blogs where you are commenting to save you from the risk of getting marked as spam. Also gently ask the bloggers whether keywords in URL are okay (some of them don’t allow this)
Gradual and slow link building is always better than high speed link-building (such as article spinning or purchasing links in bulk)
Stay away from bad neighbourhood (rated sites, copyright violations, pirated content etc) while exchanging links as blanket bans by Google can put your online life int jeopardy
I hope that I have covered almost all known methods of link building in this post. One of our online buddies has recently started a bigger post on the same topic. You might want to check out his comprehensive guide on building backlinks as well.
Part VIII: Keyword Optimization for Long Term benefits >>
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A couple of posts ago, we saw how internal linking and optimization can be done within your blog or website in order to improve reach and thereby help Search Engine (SE) bots to crawl and link relevant pages. Now, it’s time to learn about various link building techniques in order to obtain a lot of backlinks to your blog (This topic could be boring to those who have read it 100 times elsewhere). As we understood sometime back, no ‘nofollow’ backlinks with relevant keywords in the anchor text will boost the search engine rankings of your pages.
Ways to build your Backlinks
#1 Blogroll & Link exchanges: This is the most common way of building links whereby on mutual consent the links are exchanged using the blog roll space. This is also less spammy in nature and sometimes will do the role of advertising for your blog.
#2 Link love: This is not exactly my way of link building but there are a lot of people who give and take love with no nofollow references to each others’ posts. If you link to and from relevant posts, it is actually beneficial to both the parties. There are people who regularly publish link love posts.
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#3 Directory submission: You can submit your blog URL to directory services some of which provide dofollow listing. In most cases, relevant front page listings come at a cost.
#4 Blog commenting: Blog commenting on dofollow blogs is a great way to improve your inbound links. In addition, if the blog supports a top commentator, commentluv, keywordluv plugins, it can improve your chances of getting dofollow links from more relevant sources.
#5 Forum posting: Many forums these days provide dofollow links via post signatures of signed up users. Though the link strength of forum backlinks are relatively weak, a number of them will always be of help. Please read my article titled High PR forums to help popularize your blog for more information on this method of building backlinks.
#6 Guest posting: Guest posting on popular blogs will not only build one or two relevant links to your blog but also attract some traffic, get some subscriptions and conversions.
#7 Via services such as blog themes, widgets and badges: If you build and market your own free themes and widgets, you will have a chance to put backlinks on those free products (e.g. Free WordPress themes, blog rank widgets etc)
#8 Link baiting: Link baiting refers to the process of publishing some content/post so exciting, unique and compelling that people willingly would link to such content. The baits could be something like plugins, free online services, free tool downloads etc.
#9 Paid links: Paid links or buying links are another way to improve your backlinks but these come at the risk of being detected and blacklisted by search engines such as Google. Google believes that such unethical ways of link building inorder to boost page ranks are methods to sabotage their logic of identifying the relevant links.
#10 Article submission and spinning: Another way of building links is article marketing and/or spinning. This method is explained in detail in one of my posts on article submission sites
Other tips for effective link building
Whenever you bump into a blog in your niche with similar ranks and statistics, make it a point to contact its author via contact forms for potential link exchange queries and/or blogroll entries
Three-way linking (a => b, b=> c, c => a) is supposed to be better than reciprocal linking (a => b, b => a)
Keep track of the URLs or blogs with which you have exchanged links (especially in three way linking). You may loose track otherwise
Make sure that your link partners use dofollow links if they promised to do so
It is always beneficial to exchange links with pages that have a low number of outbound links. This minimizes page rank dilution
Use the NoDoFollow Firefox add-on to check the rel properties of links
You can use free tools like comment kahuna commenting software to search and comment on blogs of your niche and/or have specific keywords in them
Read the comment policy of blogs where you are commenting to save you from the risk of getting marked as spam. Also gently ask the bloggers whether keywords in URL are okay (some of them don’t allow this)
Gradual and slow link building is always better than high speed link-building (such as article spinning or purchasing links in bulk)
Stay away from bad neighbourhood (rated sites, copyright violations, pirated content etc) while exchanging links as blanket bans by Google can put your online life int jeopardy
I hope that I have covered almost all known methods of link building in this post. One of our online buddies has recently started a bigger post on the same topic. You might want to check out his comprehensive guide on building backlinks as well.
Part VIII: Keyword Optimization for Long Term benefits >>

Back Link Building Method

SEO - Link Building Series: Backlink Building Methods
Feb.24, 2009 in Site Promotion, SEO
Posted by Ajith Prasad Edassery
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A couple of posts ago, we saw how internal linking and optimization can be done within your blog or website in order to improve reach and thereby help Search Engine (SE) bots to crawl and link relevant pages. Now, it’s time to learn about various link building techniques in order to obtain a lot of backlinks to your blog (This topic could be boring to those who have read it 100 times elsewhere). As we understood sometime back, no ‘nofollow’ backlinks with relevant keywords in the anchor text will boost the search engine rankings of your pages.
Ways to build your Backlinks
#1 Blogroll & Link exchanges: This is the most common way of building links whereby on mutual consent the links are exchanged using the blog roll space. This is also less spammy in nature and sometimes will do the role of advertising for your blog.
#2 Link love: This is not exactly my way of link building but there are a lot of people who give and take love with no nofollow references to each others’ posts. If you link to and from relevant posts, it is actually beneficial to both the parties. There are people who regularly publish link love posts.
#3 Directory submission: You can submit your blog URL to directory services some of which provide dofollow listing. In most cases, relevant front page listings come at a cost.
#4 Blog commenting: Blog commenting on dofollow blogs is a great way to improve your inbound links. In addition, if the blog supports a top commentator, commentluv, keywordluv plugins, it can improve your chances of getting dofollow links from more relevant sources.
#5 Forum posting: Many forums these days provide dofollow links via post signatures of signed up users. Though the link strength of forum backlinks are relatively weak, a number of them will always be of help. Please read my article titled High PR forums to help popularize your blog for more information on this method of building backlinks.
#6 Guest posting: Guest posting on popular blogs will not only build one or two relevant links to your blog but also attract some traffic, get some subscriptions and conversions.
#7 Via services such as blog themes, widgets and badges: If you build and market your own free themes and widgets, you will have a chance to put backlinks on those free products (e.g. Free WordPress themes, blog rank widgets etc)
#8 Link baiting: Link baiting refers to the process of publishing some content/post so exciting, unique and compelling that people willingly would link to such content. The baits could be something like plugins, free online services, free tool downloads etc.
#9 Paid links: Paid links or buying links are another way to improve your backlinks but these come at the risk of being detected and blacklisted by search engines such as Google. Google believes that such unethical ways of link building inorder to boost page ranks are methods to sabotage their logic of identifying the relevant links.
#10 Article submission and spinning: Another way of building links is article marketing and/or spinning. This method is explained in detail in one of my posts on article submission sites
Other tips for effective link building
Whenever you bump into a blog in your niche with similar ranks and statistics, make it a point to contact its author via contact forms for potential link exchange queries and/or blogroll entries
Three-way linking (a => b, b=> c, c => a) is supposed to be better than reciprocal linking (a => b, b => a)
Keep track of the URLs or blogs with which you have exchanged links (especially in three way linking). You may loose track otherwise
Make sure that your link partners use dofollow links if they promised to do so
It is always beneficial to exchange links with pages that have a low number of outbound links. This minimizes page rank dilution
Use the NoDoFollow Firefox add-on to check the rel properties of links
You can use free tools like comment kahuna commenting software to search and comment on blogs of your niche and/or have specific keywords in them
Read the comment policy of blogs where you are commenting to save you from the risk of getting marked as spam. Also gently ask the bloggers whether keywords in URL are okay (some of them don’t allow this)
Gradual and slow link building is always better than high speed link-building (such as article spinning or purchasing links in bulk)
Stay away from bad neighbourhood (rated sites, copyright violations, pirated content etc) while exchanging links as blanket bans by Google can put your online life int jeopardy
I hope that I have covered almost all known methods of link building in this post. One of our online buddies has recently started a bigger post on the same topic. You might want to check out his comprehensive guide on building backlinks as well.
Part VIII: Keyword Optimization for Long Term benefits >>
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A couple of posts ago, we saw how internal linking and optimization can be done within your blog or website in order to improve reach and thereby help Search Engine (SE) bots to crawl and link relevant pages. Now, it’s time to learn about various link building techniques in order to obtain a lot of backlinks to your blog (This topic could be boring to those who have read it 100 times elsewhere). As we understood sometime back, no ‘nofollow’ backlinks with relevant keywords in the anchor text will boost the search engine rankings of your pages.
Ways to build your Backlinks
#1 Blogroll & Link exchanges: This is the most common way of building links whereby on mutual consent the links are exchanged using the blog roll space. This is also less spammy in nature and sometimes will do the role of advertising for your blog.
#2 Link love: This is not exactly my way of link building but there are a lot of people who give and take love with no nofollow references to each others’ posts. If you link to and from relevant posts, it is actually beneficial to both the parties. There are people who regularly publish link love posts.
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#3 Directory submission: You can submit your blog URL to directory services some of which provide dofollow listing. In most cases, relevant front page listings come at a cost.
#4 Blog commenting: Blog commenting on dofollow blogs is a great way to improve your inbound links. In addition, if the blog supports a top commentator, commentluv, keywordluv plugins, it can improve your chances of getting dofollow links from more relevant sources.
#5 Forum posting: Many forums these days provide dofollow links via post signatures of signed up users. Though the link strength of forum backlinks are relatively weak, a number of them will always be of help. Please read my article titled High PR forums to help popularize your blog for more information on this method of building backlinks.
#6 Guest posting: Guest posting on popular blogs will not only build one or two relevant links to your blog but also attract some traffic, get some subscriptions and conversions.
#7 Via services such as blog themes, widgets and badges: If you build and market your own free themes and widgets, you will have a chance to put backlinks on those free products (e.g. Free WordPress themes, blog rank widgets etc)
#8 Link baiting: Link baiting refers to the process of publishing some content/post so exciting, unique and compelling that people willingly would link to such content. The baits could be something like plugins, free online services, free tool downloads etc.
#9 Paid links: Paid links or buying links are another way to improve your backlinks but these come at the risk of being detected and blacklisted by search engines such as Google. Google believes that such unethical ways of link building inorder to boost page ranks are methods to sabotage their logic of identifying the relevant links.
#10 Article submission and spinning: Another way of building links is article marketing and/or spinning. This method is explained in detail in one of my posts on article submission sites
Other tips for effective link building
Whenever you bump into a blog in your niche with similar ranks and statistics, make it a point to contact its author via contact forms for potential link exchange queries and/or blogroll entries
Three-way linking (a => b, b=> c, c => a) is supposed to be better than reciprocal linking (a => b, b => a)
Keep track of the URLs or blogs with which you have exchanged links (especially in three way linking). You may loose track otherwise
Make sure that your link partners use dofollow links if they promised to do so
It is always beneficial to exchange links with pages that have a low number of outbound links. This minimizes page rank dilution
Use the NoDoFollow Firefox add-on to check the rel properties of links
You can use free tools like comment kahuna commenting software to search and comment on blogs of your niche and/or have specific keywords in them
Read the comment policy of blogs where you are commenting to save you from the risk of getting marked as spam. Also gently ask the bloggers whether keywords in URL are okay (some of them don’t allow this)
Gradual and slow link building is always better than high speed link-building (such as article spinning or purchasing links in bulk)
Stay away from bad neighbourhood (rated sites, copyright violations, pirated content etc) while exchanging links as blanket bans by Google can put your online life int jeopardy
I hope that I have covered almost all known methods of link building in this post. One of our online buddies has recently started a bigger post on the same topic. You might want to check out his comprehensive guide on building backlinks as well.
Part VIII: Keyword Optimization for Long Term benefits >>

Back Link Building Method

SEO - Link Building Series: Backlink Building Methods
Feb.24, 2009 in Site Promotion, SEO
Posted by Ajith Prasad Edassery
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A couple of posts ago, we saw how internal linking and optimization can be done within your blog or website in order to improve reach and thereby help Search Engine (SE) bots to crawl and link relevant pages. Now, it’s time to learn about various link building techniques in order to obtain a lot of backlinks to your blog (This topic could be boring to those who have read it 100 times elsewhere). As we understood sometime back, no ‘nofollow’ backlinks with relevant keywords in the anchor text will boost the search engine rankings of your pages.
Ways to build your Backlinks
#1 Blogroll & Link exchanges: This is the most common way of building links whereby on mutual consent the links are exchanged using the blog roll space. This is also less spammy in nature and sometimes will do the role of advertising for your blog.
#2 Link love: This is not exactly my way of link building but there are a lot of people who give and take love with no nofollow references to each others’ posts. If you link to and from relevant posts, it is actually beneficial to both the parties. There are people who regularly publish link love posts.
#3 Directory submission: You can submit your blog URL to directory services some of which provide dofollow listing. In most cases, relevant front page listings come at a cost.
#4 Blog commenting: Blog commenting on dofollow blogs is a great way to improve your inbound links. In addition, if the blog supports a top commentator, commentluv, keywordluv plugins, it can improve your chances of getting dofollow links from more relevant sources.
#5 Forum posting: Many forums these days provide dofollow links via post signatures of signed up users. Though the link strength of forum backlinks are relatively weak, a number of them will always be of help. Please read my article titled High PR forums to help popularize your blog for more information on this method of building backlinks.
#6 Guest posting: Guest posting on popular blogs will not only build one or two relevant links to your blog but also attract some traffic, get some subscriptions and conversions.
#7 Via services such as blog themes, widgets and badges: If you build and market your own free themes and widgets, you will have a chance to put backlinks on those free products (e.g. Free WordPress themes, blog rank widgets etc)
#8 Link baiting: Link baiting refers to the process of publishing some content/post so exciting, unique and compelling that people willingly would link to such content. The baits could be something like plugins, free online services, free tool downloads etc.
#9 Paid links: Paid links or buying links are another way to improve your backlinks but these come at the risk of being detected and blacklisted by search engines such as Google. Google believes that such unethical ways of link building inorder to boost page ranks are methods to sabotage their logic of identifying the relevant links.
#10 Article submission and spinning: Another way of building links is article marketing and/or spinning. This method is explained in detail in one of my posts on article submission sites
Other tips for effective link building
Whenever you bump into a blog in your niche with similar ranks and statistics, make it a point to contact its author via contact forms for potential link exchange queries and/or blogroll entries
Three-way linking (a => b, b=> c, c => a) is supposed to be better than reciprocal linking (a => b, b => a)
Keep track of the URLs or blogs with which you have exchanged links (especially in three way linking). You may loose track otherwise
Make sure that your link partners use dofollow links if they promised to do so
It is always beneficial to exchange links with pages that have a low number of outbound links. This minimizes page rank dilution
Use the NoDoFollow Firefox add-on to check the rel properties of links
You can use free tools like comment kahuna commenting software to search and comment on blogs of your niche and/or have specific keywords in them
Read the comment policy of blogs where you are commenting to save you from the risk of getting marked as spam. Also gently ask the bloggers whether keywords in URL are okay (some of them don’t allow this)
Gradual and slow link building is always better than high speed link-building (such as article spinning or purchasing links in bulk)
Stay away from bad neighbourhood (rated sites, copyright violations, pirated content etc) while exchanging links as blanket bans by Google can put your online life int jeopardy
I hope that I have covered almost all known methods of link building in this post. One of our online buddies has recently started a bigger post on the same topic. You might want to check out his comprehensive guide on building backlinks as well.
Part VIII: Keyword Optimization for Long Term benefits >>
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A couple of posts ago, we saw how internal linking and optimization can be done within your blog or website in order to improve reach and thereby help Search Engine (SE) bots to crawl and link relevant pages. Now, it’s time to learn about various link building techniques in order to obtain a lot of backlinks to your blog (This topic could be boring to those who have read it 100 times elsewhere). As we understood sometime back, no ‘nofollow’ backlinks with relevant keywords in the anchor text will boost the search engine rankings of your pages.
Ways to build your Backlinks
#1 Blogroll & Link exchanges: This is the most common way of building links whereby on mutual consent the links are exchanged using the blog roll space. This is also less spammy in nature and sometimes will do the role of advertising for your blog.
#2 Link love: This is not exactly my way of link building but there are a lot of people who give and take love with no nofollow references to each others’ posts. If you link to and from relevant posts, it is actually beneficial to both the parties. There are people who regularly publish link love posts.
window.google_render_ad();
#3 Directory submission: You can submit your blog URL to directory services some of which provide dofollow listing. In most cases, relevant front page listings come at a cost.
#4 Blog commenting: Blog commenting on dofollow blogs is a great way to improve your inbound links. In addition, if the blog supports a top commentator, commentluv, keywordluv plugins, it can improve your chances of getting dofollow links from more relevant sources.
#5 Forum posting: Many forums these days provide dofollow links via post signatures of signed up users. Though the link strength of forum backlinks are relatively weak, a number of them will always be of help. Please read my article titled High PR forums to help popularize your blog for more information on this method of building backlinks.
#6 Guest posting: Guest posting on popular blogs will not only build one or two relevant links to your blog but also attract some traffic, get some subscriptions and conversions.
#7 Via services such as blog themes, widgets and badges: If you build and market your own free themes and widgets, you will have a chance to put backlinks on those free products (e.g. Free WordPress themes, blog rank widgets etc)
#8 Link baiting: Link baiting refers to the process of publishing some content/post so exciting, unique and compelling that people willingly would link to such content. The baits could be something like plugins, free online services, free tool downloads etc.
#9 Paid links: Paid links or buying links are another way to improve your backlinks but these come at the risk of being detected and blacklisted by search engines such as Google. Google believes that such unethical ways of link building inorder to boost page ranks are methods to sabotage their logic of identifying the relevant links.
#10 Article submission and spinning: Another way of building links is article marketing and/or spinning. This method is explained in detail in one of my posts on article submission sites
Other tips for effective link building
Whenever you bump into a blog in your niche with similar ranks and statistics, make it a point to contact its author via contact forms for potential link exchange queries and/or blogroll entries
Three-way linking (a => b, b=> c, c => a) is supposed to be better than reciprocal linking (a => b, b => a)
Keep track of the URLs or blogs with which you have exchanged links (especially in three way linking). You may loose track otherwise
Make sure that your link partners use dofollow links if they promised to do so
It is always beneficial to exchange links with pages that have a low number of outbound links. This minimizes page rank dilution
Use the NoDoFollow Firefox add-on to check the rel properties of links
You can use free tools like comment kahuna commenting software to search and comment on blogs of your niche and/or have specific keywords in them
Read the comment policy of blogs where you are commenting to save you from the risk of getting marked as spam. Also gently ask the bloggers whether keywords in URL are okay (some of them don’t allow this)
Gradual and slow link building is always better than high speed link-building (such as article spinning or purchasing links in bulk)
Stay away from bad neighbourhood (rated sites, copyright violations, pirated content etc) while exchanging links as blanket bans by Google can put your online life int jeopardy
I hope that I have covered almost all known methods of link building in this post. One of our online buddies has recently started a bigger post on the same topic. You might want to check out his comprehensive guide on building backlinks as well.
Part VIII: Keyword Optimization for Long Term benefits >>

Back Link Building Method

SEO - Link Building Series: Backlink Building Methods
Feb.24, 2009 in Site Promotion, SEO
Posted by Ajith Prasad Edassery
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/* DollarShower_Archive_LinkUnit, 468x15, created 8/26/08 */
google_ad_slot = "0731520005";
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 15;
//
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A couple of posts ago, we saw how internal linking and optimization can be done within your blog or website in order to improve reach and thereby help Search Engine (SE) bots to crawl and link relevant pages. Now, it’s time to learn about various link building techniques in order to obtain a lot of backlinks to your blog (This topic could be boring to those who have read it 100 times elsewhere). As we understood sometime back, no ‘nofollow’ backlinks with relevant keywords in the anchor text will boost the search engine rankings of your pages.
Ways to build your Backlinks
#1 Blogroll & Link exchanges: This is the most common way of building links whereby on mutual consent the links are exchanged using the blog roll space. This is also less spammy in nature and sometimes will do the role of advertising for your blog.
#2 Link love: This is not exactly my way of link building but there are a lot of people who give and take love with no nofollow references to each others’ posts. If you link to and from relevant posts, it is actually beneficial to both the parties. There are people who regularly publish link love posts.
#3 Directory submission: You can submit your blog URL to directory services some of which provide dofollow listing. In most cases, relevant front page listings come at a cost.
#4 Blog commenting: Blog commenting on dofollow blogs is a great way to improve your inbound links. In addition, if the blog supports a top commentator, commentluv, keywordluv plugins, it can improve your chances of getting dofollow links from more relevant sources.
#5 Forum posting: Many forums these days provide dofollow links via post signatures of signed up users. Though the link strength of forum backlinks are relatively weak, a number of them will always be of help. Please read my article titled High PR forums to help popularize your blog for more information on this method of building backlinks.
#6 Guest posting: Guest posting on popular blogs will not only build one or two relevant links to your blog but also attract some traffic, get some subscriptions and conversions.
#7 Via services such as blog themes, widgets and badges: If you build and market your own free themes and widgets, you will have a chance to put backlinks on those free products (e.g. Free WordPress themes, blog rank widgets etc)
#8 Link baiting: Link baiting refers to the process of publishing some content/post so exciting, unique and compelling that people willingly would link to such content. The baits could be something like plugins, free online services, free tool downloads etc.
#9 Paid links: Paid links or buying links are another way to improve your backlinks but these come at the risk of being detected and blacklisted by search engines such as Google. Google believes that such unethical ways of link building inorder to boost page ranks are methods to sabotage their logic of identifying the relevant links.
#10 Article submission and spinning: Another way of building links is article marketing and/or spinning. This method is explained in detail in one of my posts on article submission sites
Other tips for effective link building
Whenever you bump into a blog in your niche with similar ranks and statistics, make it a point to contact its author via contact forms for potential link exchange queries and/or blogroll entries
Three-way linking (a => b, b=> c, c => a) is supposed to be better than reciprocal linking (a => b, b => a)
Keep track of the URLs or blogs with which you have exchanged links (especially in three way linking). You may loose track otherwise
Make sure that your link partners use dofollow links if they promised to do so
It is always beneficial to exchange links with pages that have a low number of outbound links. This minimizes page rank dilution
Use the NoDoFollow Firefox add-on to check the rel properties of links
You can use free tools like comment kahuna commenting software to search and comment on blogs of your niche and/or have specific keywords in them
Read the comment policy of blogs where you are commenting to save you from the risk of getting marked as spam. Also gently ask the bloggers whether keywords in URL are okay (some of them don’t allow this)
Gradual and slow link building is always better than high speed link-building (such as article spinning or purchasing links in bulk)
Stay away from bad neighbourhood (rated sites, copyright violations, pirated content etc) while exchanging links as blanket bans by Google can put your online life int jeopardy
I hope that I have covered almost all known methods of link building in this post. One of our online buddies has recently started a bigger post on the same topic. You might want to check out his comprehensive guide on building backlinks as well.
Part VIII: Keyword Optimization for Long Term benefits >>
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A couple of posts ago, we saw how internal linking and optimization can be done within your blog or website in order to improve reach and thereby help Search Engine (SE) bots to crawl and link relevant pages. Now, it’s time to learn about various link building techniques in order to obtain a lot of backlinks to your blog (This topic could be boring to those who have read it 100 times elsewhere). As we understood sometime back, no ‘nofollow’ backlinks with relevant keywords in the anchor text will boost the search engine rankings of your pages.
Ways to build your Backlinks
#1 Blogroll & Link exchanges: This is the most common way of building links whereby on mutual consent the links are exchanged using the blog roll space. This is also less spammy in nature and sometimes will do the role of advertising for your blog.
#2 Link love: This is not exactly my way of link building but there are a lot of people who give and take love with no nofollow references to each others’ posts. If you link to and from relevant posts, it is actually beneficial to both the parties. There are people who regularly publish link love posts.
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#3 Directory submission: You can submit your blog URL to directory services some of which provide dofollow listing. In most cases, relevant front page listings come at a cost.
#4 Blog commenting: Blog commenting on dofollow blogs is a great way to improve your inbound links. In addition, if the blog supports a top commentator, commentluv, keywordluv plugins, it can improve your chances of getting dofollow links from more relevant sources.
#5 Forum posting: Many forums these days provide dofollow links via post signatures of signed up users. Though the link strength of forum backlinks are relatively weak, a number of them will always be of help. Please read my article titled High PR forums to help popularize your blog for more information on this method of building backlinks.
#6 Guest posting: Guest posting on popular blogs will not only build one or two relevant links to your blog but also attract some traffic, get some subscriptions and conversions.
#7 Via services such as blog themes, widgets and badges: If you build and market your own free themes and widgets, you will have a chance to put backlinks on those free products (e.g. Free WordPress themes, blog rank widgets etc)
#8 Link baiting: Link baiting refers to the process of publishing some content/post so exciting, unique and compelling that people willingly would link to such content. The baits could be something like plugins, free online services, free tool downloads etc.
#9 Paid links: Paid links or buying links are another way to improve your backlinks but these come at the risk of being detected and blacklisted by search engines such as Google. Google believes that such unethical ways of link building inorder to boost page ranks are methods to sabotage their logic of identifying the relevant links.
#10 Article submission and spinning: Another way of building links is article marketing and/or spinning. This method is explained in detail in one of my posts on article submission sites
Other tips for effective link building
Whenever you bump into a blog in your niche with similar ranks and statistics, make it a point to contact its author via contact forms for potential link exchange queries and/or blogroll entries
Three-way linking (a => b, b=> c, c => a) is supposed to be better than reciprocal linking (a => b, b => a)
Keep track of the URLs or blogs with which you have exchanged links (especially in three way linking). You may loose track otherwise
Make sure that your link partners use dofollow links if they promised to do so
It is always beneficial to exchange links with pages that have a low number of outbound links. This minimizes page rank dilution
Use the NoDoFollow Firefox add-on to check the rel properties of links
You can use free tools like comment kahuna commenting software to search and comment on blogs of your niche and/or have specific keywords in them
Read the comment policy of blogs where you are commenting to save you from the risk of getting marked as spam. Also gently ask the bloggers whether keywords in URL are okay (some of them don’t allow this)
Gradual and slow link building is always better than high speed link-building (such as article spinning or purchasing links in bulk)
Stay away from bad neighbourhood (rated sites, copyright violations, pirated content etc) while exchanging links as blanket bans by Google can put your online life int jeopardy
I hope that I have covered almost all known methods of link building in this post. One of our online buddies has recently started a bigger post on the same topic. You might want to check out his comprehensive guide on building backlinks as well.
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10 Free Super Simple Back Links Tips


Thu 24 May 2007
10 Free Super Simple Back-Link Building Tips Blurb by Shaun Anderson
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After reading a thread in a forum with some frankly crap link building advice I thought I’d give it my ten bob.
Don’t get a link from “links” pages on sites as these are about 1% as useful as your signature link on the 7th page of a forum thread, unless of course the Page is a PR 9 with a lot of back-links itself
If a site wants to link to you from a page with 100 links on it you can basically forget it as the strength of the link is shared by, well, 100 others!
So if you have a site about Dogs you might want to link out to Crufts or the Kennel Club or Wiki a good one. Naturally, you should also get relevant sites to link to you. If you have a costume website, find a costume website you can add your url to for free.
You need to get into the good neighbourhoods. Try and get links from the neighbourhoods at the top of Google for your key phrases after all Google likes these sites enough to rank them! Find that circle of sites where all the big boys in your industry link to and are linked from and get involved. For instance, try and get a link from a .gov site!
See who links to your competitors and try and get a link as well (or pay money to have their link replaced with yours
Use Yahoo and type “link:yourcompetitors.com” and see who links to them. Yahoo is kind enough to rank pages virtually by the number of back-links sites have in site explorer - making it one of my most used seo tools.
Don’t waste your time with seo tools! Join Social Network tools like Delicious, Technorati and Stumble. There’s three links right there, although to be fair, they are not actually counted as linksby Google becasue of the Nofollow attribute. Digg links count, though.
A link is a link. If someone, anyone wants to link to you accept, just don’t always reciprocate with a link back to them (negates the value of the link, almost) and could see your site lose trust. Remember Google says it is impossible for a site to hurt your site by simply linking to your site, but you can hurt your site if you link to another site with a ’shady’ backlink profile.
It doesn’t hurt to get a link from a low or high Google Page Rank page. Today’s No-PR page might be a PR 5 page in reality, as Google Toolbar is out of date.
Good Google rankings is not all about who you get a link from it’s who you link to - this is thought to be the measure of the trust of a site and seems fairly reasonable to me. Link to authority sites in your industry as well as other sites that look like quality upcoming sites, and stay clear of suspect sites.
Obviously I assume you have a blog with original content on it! And remember it’s quality of links not quantity. What, you want a bonus one as is normal blog etiquette?
Sod it - I can’t be bothered.

10 Free Super Simple Back Links Tips


Thu 24 May 2007
10 Free Super Simple Back-Link Building Tips Blurb by Shaun Anderson
You Found Us! Keep up to date via our FREE newsletter or friend us on Twitter or LinkedIn.
After reading a thread in a forum with some frankly crap link building advice I thought I’d give it my ten bob.
Don’t get a link from “links” pages on sites as these are about 1% as useful as your signature link on the 7th page of a forum thread, unless of course the Page is a PR 9 with a lot of back-links itself
If a site wants to link to you from a page with 100 links on it you can basically forget it as the strength of the link is shared by, well, 100 others!
So if you have a site about Dogs you might want to link out to Crufts or the Kennel Club or Wiki a good one. Naturally, you should also get relevant sites to link to you. If you have a costume website, find a costume website you can add your url to for free.
You need to get into the good neighbourhoods. Try and get links from the neighbourhoods at the top of Google for your key phrases after all Google likes these sites enough to rank them! Find that circle of sites where all the big boys in your industry link to and are linked from and get involved. For instance, try and get a link from a .gov site!
See who links to your competitors and try and get a link as well (or pay money to have their link replaced with yours
Use Yahoo and type “link:yourcompetitors.com” and see who links to them. Yahoo is kind enough to rank pages virtually by the number of back-links sites have in site explorer - making it one of my most used seo tools.
Don’t waste your time with seo tools! Join Social Network tools like Delicious, Technorati and Stumble. There’s three links right there, although to be fair, they are not actually counted as linksby Google becasue of the Nofollow attribute. Digg links count, though.
A link is a link. If someone, anyone wants to link to you accept, just don’t always reciprocate with a link back to them (negates the value of the link, almost) and could see your site lose trust. Remember Google says it is impossible for a site to hurt your site by simply linking to your site, but you can hurt your site if you link to another site with a ’shady’ backlink profile.
It doesn’t hurt to get a link from a low or high Google Page Rank page. Today’s No-PR page might be a PR 5 page in reality, as Google Toolbar is out of date.
Good Google rankings is not all about who you get a link from it’s who you link to - this is thought to be the measure of the trust of a site and seems fairly reasonable to me. Link to authority sites in your industry as well as other sites that look like quality upcoming sites, and stay clear of suspect sites.
Obviously I assume you have a blog with original content on it! And remember it’s quality of links not quantity. What, you want a bonus one as is normal blog etiquette?
Sod it - I can’t be bothered.

10 Free Super Simple Back Links Tips


Thu 24 May 2007
10 Free Super Simple Back-Link Building Tips Blurb by Shaun Anderson
You Found Us! Keep up to date via our FREE newsletter or friend us on Twitter or LinkedIn.
After reading a thread in a forum with some frankly crap link building advice I thought I’d give it my ten bob.
Don’t get a link from “links” pages on sites as these are about 1% as useful as your signature link on the 7th page of a forum thread, unless of course the Page is a PR 9 with a lot of back-links itself
If a site wants to link to you from a page with 100 links on it you can basically forget it as the strength of the link is shared by, well, 100 others!
So if you have a site about Dogs you might want to link out to Crufts or the Kennel Club or Wiki a good one. Naturally, you should also get relevant sites to link to you. If you have a costume website, find a costume website you can add your url to for free.
You need to get into the good neighbourhoods. Try and get links from the neighbourhoods at the top of Google for your key phrases after all Google likes these sites enough to rank them! Find that circle of sites where all the big boys in your industry link to and are linked from and get involved. For instance, try and get a link from a .gov site!
See who links to your competitors and try and get a link as well (or pay money to have their link replaced with yours
Use Yahoo and type “link:yourcompetitors.com” and see who links to them. Yahoo is kind enough to rank pages virtually by the number of back-links sites have in site explorer - making it one of my most used seo tools.
Don’t waste your time with seo tools! Join Social Network tools like Delicious, Technorati and Stumble. There’s three links right there, although to be fair, they are not actually counted as linksby Google becasue of the Nofollow attribute. Digg links count, though.
A link is a link. If someone, anyone wants to link to you accept, just don’t always reciprocate with a link back to them (negates the value of the link, almost) and could see your site lose trust. Remember Google says it is impossible for a site to hurt your site by simply linking to your site, but you can hurt your site if you link to another site with a ’shady’ backlink profile.
It doesn’t hurt to get a link from a low or high Google Page Rank page. Today’s No-PR page might be a PR 5 page in reality, as Google Toolbar is out of date.
Good Google rankings is not all about who you get a link from it’s who you link to - this is thought to be the measure of the trust of a site and seems fairly reasonable to me. Link to authority sites in your industry as well as other sites that look like quality upcoming sites, and stay clear of suspect sites.
Obviously I assume you have a blog with original content on it! And remember it’s quality of links not quantity. What, you want a bonus one as is normal blog etiquette?
Sod it - I can’t be bothered.

10 Free Super Simple Back Links Tips


Thu 24 May 2007
10 Free Super Simple Back-Link Building Tips Blurb by Shaun Anderson
You Found Us! Keep up to date via our FREE newsletter or friend us on Twitter or LinkedIn.
After reading a thread in a forum with some frankly crap link building advice I thought I’d give it my ten bob.
Don’t get a link from “links” pages on sites as these are about 1% as useful as your signature link on the 7th page of a forum thread, unless of course the Page is a PR 9 with a lot of back-links itself
If a site wants to link to you from a page with 100 links on it you can basically forget it as the strength of the link is shared by, well, 100 others!
So if you have a site about Dogs you might want to link out to Crufts or the Kennel Club or Wiki a good one. Naturally, you should also get relevant sites to link to you. If you have a costume website, find a costume website you can add your url to for free.
You need to get into the good neighbourhoods. Try and get links from the neighbourhoods at the top of Google for your key phrases after all Google likes these sites enough to rank them! Find that circle of sites where all the big boys in your industry link to and are linked from and get involved. For instance, try and get a link from a .gov site!
See who links to your competitors and try and get a link as well (or pay money to have their link replaced with yours
Use Yahoo and type “link:yourcompetitors.com” and see who links to them. Yahoo is kind enough to rank pages virtually by the number of back-links sites have in site explorer - making it one of my most used seo tools.
Don’t waste your time with seo tools! Join Social Network tools like Delicious, Technorati and Stumble. There’s three links right there, although to be fair, they are not actually counted as linksby Google becasue of the Nofollow attribute. Digg links count, though.
A link is a link. If someone, anyone wants to link to you accept, just don’t always reciprocate with a link back to them (negates the value of the link, almost) and could see your site lose trust. Remember Google says it is impossible for a site to hurt your site by simply linking to your site, but you can hurt your site if you link to another site with a ’shady’ backlink profile.
It doesn’t hurt to get a link from a low or high Google Page Rank page. Today’s No-PR page might be a PR 5 page in reality, as Google Toolbar is out of date.
Good Google rankings is not all about who you get a link from it’s who you link to - this is thought to be the measure of the trust of a site and seems fairly reasonable to me. Link to authority sites in your industry as well as other sites that look like quality upcoming sites, and stay clear of suspect sites.
Obviously I assume you have a blog with original content on it! And remember it’s quality of links not quantity. What, you want a bonus one as is normal blog etiquette?
Sod it - I can’t be bothered.

SEO Link Building Techniques

SEO: Link Building Techniques

Links building is the most important ranking factor for websites. The links building is required for the following reasons.

  • To increase search engine ranking of a website
  • To increase the PR of a website
  • To increase the links popularity of a website

There are different methods to get the links from the other websites but not all the methods are effective. The search engines update their algorithms and ranking factors quite often. For SEO experts and webmasters it is necessary to update their knowledge with the latest SEO techniques, search engine patents and strategies to rank a website. Some of the most popular ways of getting the back links include the following.
Directory SubmissionsSubmitting a website in a web directory is a most popular way of getting the back links. A web directory is an index of the websites. You have to submit your website in the web directories. There are thousands of web directories and you need to submit your site only in those directories, which are not penalized by Google. Submitting in Dmoz and Yahoo directory is recommended.Blog PostingsThe blogging has revolutionized the link building. You need to find the blogs in your niche and submit your comments and in return you get the back links to your websites. The back links from blogs are considered one of the best links.Paid LinksPurchasing the links from the high PR and relevant websites provide the best results in terms of ranking. But the paid links are devalued by Google. Your website can be penalized if it found to be involved in links buying or selling. If you do plan to purchase links, do so for the traffic that they can provide to your site, and not for trying to improve your PageRank.Articles Writing and SubmissionsWriting articles and submitting in the article directories like Ezinearticles.com and articlesdashboard.com is a popular way to get the back links. You can use your website links in the author’s bio box in articles directories.Reciprocal LinksThe reciprocal links or links swapping is a technique of exchanging links with each other. The reciprocal links are not much effective now as they were in the past.Social BookmarkingThe social bookmarking is the most popular way of driving the traffic to your website and getting one way links. Submitting interesting and useful content pages of your website in Digg.com, Reddit.com, Stumbleupon.com and other social bookmarking websites can provide you excellent results in terms of traffic and back links.

SEO Link Building Techniques

SEO: Link Building Techniques

Links building is the most important ranking factor for websites. The links building is required for the following reasons.

  • To increase search engine ranking of a website
  • To increase the PR of a website
  • To increase the links popularity of a website

There are different methods to get the links from the other websites but not all the methods are effective. The search engines update their algorithms and ranking factors quite often. For SEO experts and webmasters it is necessary to update their knowledge with the latest SEO techniques, search engine patents and strategies to rank a website. Some of the most popular ways of getting the back links include the following.
Directory SubmissionsSubmitting a website in a web directory is a most popular way of getting the back links. A web directory is an index of the websites. You have to submit your website in the web directories. There are thousands of web directories and you need to submit your site only in those directories, which are not penalized by Google. Submitting in Dmoz and Yahoo directory is recommended.Blog PostingsThe blogging has revolutionized the link building. You need to find the blogs in your niche and submit your comments and in return you get the back links to your websites. The back links from blogs are considered one of the best links.Paid LinksPurchasing the links from the high PR and relevant websites provide the best results in terms of ranking. But the paid links are devalued by Google. Your website can be penalized if it found to be involved in links buying or selling. If you do plan to purchase links, do so for the traffic that they can provide to your site, and not for trying to improve your PageRank.Articles Writing and SubmissionsWriting articles and submitting in the article directories like Ezinearticles.com and articlesdashboard.com is a popular way to get the back links. You can use your website links in the author’s bio box in articles directories.Reciprocal LinksThe reciprocal links or links swapping is a technique of exchanging links with each other. The reciprocal links are not much effective now as they were in the past.Social BookmarkingThe social bookmarking is the most popular way of driving the traffic to your website and getting one way links. Submitting interesting and useful content pages of your website in Digg.com, Reddit.com, Stumbleupon.com and other social bookmarking websites can provide you excellent results in terms of traffic and back links.

SEO Link Building Techniques

SEO: Link Building Techniques

Links building is the most important ranking factor for websites. The links building is required for the following reasons.

  • To increase search engine ranking of a website
  • To increase the PR of a website
  • To increase the links popularity of a website

There are different methods to get the links from the other websites but not all the methods are effective. The search engines update their algorithms and ranking factors quite often. For SEO experts and webmasters it is necessary to update their knowledge with the latest SEO techniques, search engine patents and strategies to rank a website. Some of the most popular ways of getting the back links include the following.
Directory SubmissionsSubmitting a website in a web directory is a most popular way of getting the back links. A web directory is an index of the websites. You have to submit your website in the web directories. There are thousands of web directories and you need to submit your site only in those directories, which are not penalized by Google. Submitting in Dmoz and Yahoo directory is recommended.Blog PostingsThe blogging has revolutionized the link building. You need to find the blogs in your niche and submit your comments and in return you get the back links to your websites. The back links from blogs are considered one of the best links.Paid LinksPurchasing the links from the high PR and relevant websites provide the best results in terms of ranking. But the paid links are devalued by Google. Your website can be penalized if it found to be involved in links buying or selling. If you do plan to purchase links, do so for the traffic that they can provide to your site, and not for trying to improve your PageRank.Articles Writing and SubmissionsWriting articles and submitting in the article directories like Ezinearticles.com and articlesdashboard.com is a popular way to get the back links. You can use your website links in the author’s bio box in articles directories.Reciprocal LinksThe reciprocal links or links swapping is a technique of exchanging links with each other. The reciprocal links are not much effective now as they were in the past.Social BookmarkingThe social bookmarking is the most popular way of driving the traffic to your website and getting one way links. Submitting interesting and useful content pages of your website in Digg.com, Reddit.com, Stumbleupon.com and other social bookmarking websites can provide you excellent results in terms of traffic and back links.

SEO Link Building Techniques

SEO: Link Building Techniques

Links building is the most important ranking factor for websites. The links building is required for the following reasons.

  • To increase search engine ranking of a website
  • To increase the PR of a website
  • To increase the links popularity of a website

There are different methods to get the links from the other websites but not all the methods are effective. The search engines update their algorithms and ranking factors quite often. For SEO experts and webmasters it is necessary to update their knowledge with the latest SEO techniques, search engine patents and strategies to rank a website. Some of the most popular ways of getting the back links include the following.
Directory SubmissionsSubmitting a website in a web directory is a most popular way of getting the back links. A web directory is an index of the websites. You have to submit your website in the web directories. There are thousands of web directories and you need to submit your site only in those directories, which are not penalized by Google. Submitting in Dmoz and Yahoo directory is recommended.Blog PostingsThe blogging has revolutionized the link building. You need to find the blogs in your niche and submit your comments and in return you get the back links to your websites. The back links from blogs are considered one of the best links.Paid LinksPurchasing the links from the high PR and relevant websites provide the best results in terms of ranking. But the paid links are devalued by Google. Your website can be penalized if it found to be involved in links buying or selling. If you do plan to purchase links, do so for the traffic that they can provide to your site, and not for trying to improve your PageRank.Articles Writing and SubmissionsWriting articles and submitting in the article directories like Ezinearticles.com and articlesdashboard.com is a popular way to get the back links. You can use your website links in the author’s bio box in articles directories.Reciprocal LinksThe reciprocal links or links swapping is a technique of exchanging links with each other. The reciprocal links are not much effective now as they were in the past.Social BookmarkingThe social bookmarking is the most popular way of driving the traffic to your website and getting one way links. Submitting interesting and useful content pages of your website in Digg.com, Reddit.com, Stumbleupon.com and other social bookmarking websites can provide you excellent results in terms of traffic and back links.