These link building techniques not only benefit the long term goal of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)and Page Rank but at the same can be great sources of direct traffic to your sites as a part of your Internet Marketing Strategies.
Website traffic promotion is a crucial element of marketing your websites and blogs. The notion of "if you build it, they will come" is total crap, this is a hands-on business and it's never more true than in regards to website traffic.
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1. Relevant/Reciprocal Links
This is where you exchange links with sites that are relevant to yours. Make sure they are relevant sites, links on a computer site to a weight loss site are a useless wastes of time! Also, be careful how many link exchanges you do, Google does not like them and they can lead to a penalty because they can be viewed as a link scheme, but doing occasional link exchanges, with relevant sites is okay, and is a natural part of the entire web landscape. Stay away from link pages when doing link exchanges, you want them to be contextual, withing content, link pages are definitely considered link schemes and are a useless waste of time.
2. Get Some Links From Other Blogs
I use Unique Article Wizard a service to submit my articles with the click of one button to tons of different user contributed blogs.
Other great networks like these are:
Blogging Underground
This premium link building service is unique, as it allows you to choose from hundreds of aged blogs with various niches so you can get really relevant blogs to post your articles and links.
Build My Rank
Get really premium links here from high PR aged sites, this one really works to rank any level of competition keywords.
Unique Article Wizard
Same as Article Ranks above, this premium link building service allows you to post your articles and links on user contributed blogs. You maintain control of how many times the article is published and how many links you get.
Article Ranks
This is a great place to get contextual post links (the best links you can get) from articles your write and submit to user contributed sites, this is a network of sites owned by different people with diverse IP's and with all types of niches.
2. Links from Directories: One-Ways & Reciprocal Links - Update 2011 - Directory links are useless now
Another way to get backlinks is by placing a listing of your sites in Internet Directories. These links vary depending on the directory. Sometimes directories require reciprocals, and sometimes they are one-ways. Of course, you want to get the one-ways as much as possible and the higher ranking directories are best as far as link juice goes.
3. Link Building with Forums - One-Way Links
A good way to get a backlink and also get relevant targeted traffic is joining forums that are relevant to your sites theme and those that allow a backlink in the signature. The key to this technique is having a genuine interest and knowledge within the theme.
But, don't join a forum just to get sales or links, with this attitude your posts will quickly translate to SPAM and you will get booted faster than you can say boo. Instead add helpful and meaningful posts, answer other members questions in these forums, participate in a genuine manner and not only will you get a powerful backlink, it will also increase your web site traffic. Traffic that is relevant and will likely convert into sales since the visitors to those forums have a deep interest in the respective theme.
You can find relevant forums for your niche by searching "forums + niche" in Google or use my list 144 Do-Follow Forums by Niche.
4. Comments on Blogs
A great way to build one way links to your sites is by leaving comments on blogs relevant to your sites theme.
Some blogs use a "no-follow" command for links which is a code attribute value used to instruct some search engines that the link should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index. But, if you visit high traffic blogs that are of interest to you this often becomes a source of traffic to your site from the other readers of those blogs.
- Also there are tons of blogs with many topics that offer Do-Follow Links in Comments, like this one, I am not stingy with the link juice.
- Here is a great Do-Follow Diver Search Engine where you enter your relevant keywords and it generates a list (with hyperlinks-which is so convenient
) of do-follow blogs. - You can search the "Do-Follow" Blog Directory
- Also, don't forget the Comment Luv Blogs, while the links are usually no follow, these blogs can get you lots of traffic because they list your last blog post after your comment, find lots of Comment Luv blogs at 132+ Comment Luv Blogs Categorized by Niche.
5. US Free Classified Ads
Get the backlink, it's marked no-follow so does not count for Google, but Yahoo ignores the no-follow, so it counts with them, plus all diverse link profiles have nofollow links. Also, Google loves USFree Ads and so your ads will rank high for respective KW and they have a lot of traffic, people looking to buy! You can submit several adds for different products/niches within different categories.
6. Link Bait - One-Way Links
Another great way to build quality one way backlinks is to use a link bait on your site. This is the method of choice to get get higher page rank sites to link to lower page rank sites. Link Bait is any content or feature within a website that somehow baits viewers to place links to it from other websites. These link baits could be, information hooks, news hooks, humor hooks, tools hooks like a widget or some helpful tool that other sites can use.
7. Answer Sites
Wiki Answers - Answer questions from lots of categories, leave a backlink to your sites in the question, as well as in your profile. Lots of traffic and lots of profile views daily.
Unasked is a site where you answer people's questions (like Yahoo Answers) on a variety of topics. When you answer a question with a link to your site, the link is “nofollow” so it doesn’t count as a backlink, but, every time you answer a question, it links to your profile, which contains the “dofollow” link to your website, with the anchor text of your choice. Good method for one-way link and getting traffic to your site for your respective niches.
Yahoo Answers - Another great answer site where you can leave links as references, don't over do it.
8. Work.com - One-Way Links
If you have ever heard of Business.com, this is one of the top directories on the net with lots of link juice, like Yahoo Directory and DMOZ, and it also comes with a price tag of $299 per year. Yeah, like I'm going to pay that?! The good news is that business.com has another site which is Work.com, a great site where you can post how-to guides related to your business/websites and get a powerful backlink free!
Also, this site ranks high with Google and if you use good keywords in the title of your guides they will rank high and you can get traffic to your sites. Plus, the site itself has lots of members and you could get your guide featured on business.com which exposes you to all of their high traffic.
9. Write a Press Release - One-Way Links
Learn all about these at: List of 41 Press Releases and How To Write Press Releases.
This method is not only great for link building but great for website promotion as well.
10. Link Building with Social Media - One-Way Links
The social revolution is hot on the web. Social News and Bookmark sites are growing in huge numbers and have tons of traffic and members. Join sites, like Facebook, Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Twitter, just to name a few. There are many of these sites and with specific categories where you can submit your site content and get a backlink. Plus, these sites can be a great source of traffic since several of them have high traffic. Read this post to get a hyperlinked list of 45 Social Websites with ratings and category details: Social Marketing - 65+ Social Bookmark and News Sites
11. Create a Squidoo Lens
A Squidoo lens about your site is a great way to advertise your website, get a backlink and traffic. The key to Squidoo is using certain techniques for content and design and they will rank and you will get lots of traffic. You can learn all about Squidoo on my post: How To Squidoo - Steps to Building the Best Lens for Website Promotion
12. Article Marketing
Write articles and submit to the top article directories. Don't go overboard with this method it is not as good as it used to be, only submit to the top sites, like EzineArticles, GoArticles, Article Dashboard, Amazines. But, for new sites it's a good way to promote and get traffic as well.
Finally
Don't rush to build links too fast, long term ranking takes time and sites need to age, many webmasters get ranking penalties because they build too many crappy links too fast, aim for Quality over Quantity. Make sure to see the latest post on link building, 45 Link Building Strategies for Premium Link Building.
Hey great article there JR and some nice website recommendations!
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Thanks Ben! I love your post: Is Your Website the Best Thing in the World?
Hello Vadim,
Thank you and welcome to the blog!
Hello Forest,
You are welcome and welcome to the blog!
Thanks JR I’m a beginner startining a new blog and learning about link building I’ll be back to your site for more. Great stuff!
Larry W
Hi Larry, thank you and welcome, I hope to interact with you more often
Like the idea of article marketing – just hate writing the damned articles.
….wanders off to getafreelancer……
LOL Stu,
Freelancing and outsourcing can be a great option!
I feel ya!
Yahoo answers is also a great way of getting targeted traffic. Your links are not dofollow unfortunately but you can get good quality traffic from Yahoo answers.
Ah very nice list. I am going to go check out the work.com one right now. Right after I read your post about creating a good Squidoo page. Cheers.
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Hi Kyle,
Welcome and thanks, work.com is great, make sure to check it out!
You have no end to useful content. Thanks for the links, especially the backlink builder and article marketer. I thought you’d like to know that your referral link to articlemarketer.com is broken. If you fix it, I’ll use it for all my clients that will let me!
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Thank you so much, I really appreciate it. Article Marketer is having some issue with their link server, they are working on it, I will let you know as soon as it is fixed. I would appreciate all the sales of course
nice article and i interested with link building techniques
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I don’t think google like some forums post testing on some forums seemed to have a negative effect
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Thanks JR. You have a nice blog here with plenty of good information. I actually was doing some research on anchor text and key words so started on the article you wrote about that and found it tremendously informative so poked around more. Keep up the good work!
Linkbuilding could be a tedious and boring task if you are starting your on your SEO phase. But it could greatly benefit your SERPS ranking in the long run. I believe that if you want to achieve something you really must invest a good amount of time and effort on it. Linkbuilding is a proven step in gaining high page ranking, and everyone else is doing it.
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I like how you mention in each tip that the link is one-way or reciprocal. I don’t like tip #1. 99% of the time you are just link exchanging with people who are new and desperate for link exchange. Most blogs come with a standard nofollow code, but it is always good to leave intellectual comments so people can remember you. I really like article marketing! Websites such as ezinearticles.com allow you to publish your articles free, and they have very high PR. Great post!
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Thanks, I too hate doing recips but they are still necessary especially for a new site that is desperate in many ways
Nice list JR, There are lots of different things that can be done, but I think the best ones include making real world friends. When you make real world friends they tend to be willing to help you over the long run as well.
All great advice. I have done many of these, but find that the most referal traffic I get is from my outside blog on a certain nitch that I write about. I have another outside blog that is for a very narrow nitch, it sends very little traffic to my site, but that traffic has converted 3x as much actual closed business. I guess I should spend more time and money on that one.
I’ve just found your site and it is great. I am just getting started on some serious link building and your site is full of great tips.
Thanks!
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Thanks and welcome!
This is a great site you have here. Lots of good info, I will be sure to return.
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I have found this information very useful. For the past few days I have been looking for information on how to market my website. I really do appreciate you allowing do follow comments.
@ Long Beach
No problem, you’re welcome and welcome to the site!
At what point does one begin to see a return on their link building time? That’s my question and it might be a difficult one since each person’s niche is different. I do like your number 8 and 9 suggestions since these are two things I haven’t done yet.
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Valuable and informative post indeed. You almost cover every thing regarding link building and increase how to increase the website traffic. I appreciate your thoughtful writes. I learn lot of from you. Thanks for sharing these helpful link building tips.
I also have a do follow site, but I still don’t understand why it’s important to link to related sites. Is it better for Google, or is it simply that if you link to related sites, you’re more likely to get traffic if it’s a topic that someone is already interested in?
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Yes to both, for Google and for the users. For Google it does not make sense that you link to unrelated sites in your content all the time and it can set off a red flag that your selling links, now, this does not apply to dofollow comments, but links in content. For users links to unrelated sites suddenly appearing in the post is not helpful to them either. It really stinks of a link scheme overall.
Thanks JR
Quite an extensive list of sites for link buildings. Many I haven’t heard of , some I will have to try some of these soon.
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Awesome stuff mate. I’ve had a lot of success with article marketing and directory submissions myself. The most important thing I have learnt is to keep changing it up and be creative.
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The squidoo lens point is a good one that quite a lot of people overlook. If you think of the amount of people that look at squidoo pages, it’s backlinks galore if you post original content that people want to read!
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In short I want to say that one way links are very useful to get high traffic.But it is very difficult to apply all techniques at a time.
good article, but not all of these techniques are effective. previously i was submitting couple of my websites to web catalogues. i submitted each of them to over than 5.000 directories (i’ve spent lots of time). and guess how many visitors i got from there? ZERO! the only pros was that one of the sites got PR 1 instead of 0.
According to my experience the most productive of links are
Links from relative contents
Press Release
Blog Commenting
Forum Posting.
currently i am using article marketing and blog commenting for the link building of my blogs and after reading this article i would go with other link building techniques too. thanks for sharing these methods of link building
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