In this article, I’m going to show you 10 of the most powerful
techniques of getting links back to your site. Some of these
techniques will cost you money. Others are totally free. Let’s get
into it!
1. Submit Your Site to Web Directories - There are literally thousands
of web directories online that will allow you to submit your site.
Some will charge a fee, but most are free. The two most powerful
web directories are DMOZ.org and Yahoo. DMOZ is free and Yahoo
charges $299 per year.
2. Participate in Forums - Many forums will allow you to put your
website’s URL in a signature file. Find forums in your niche and
join the discussions. Do not just spam the forum with your link or
you will get flagged. Add good quality to the discussion and your
link will be left alone.
3. Comment on Blogs - Just like posting to forums, you should make
sure you always add good quality and post real comments. Find blogs
related to your website’s theme and post comments. I personally use
a powerful software tool to help me find high quality blogs to comment
on. The tools is called Comment Hut. All you do is input your keywords
and it finds blogs. Check out the free video about it at
http://www.contentfortunes.
4. Article Marketing - Write articles and submit them to article
directories. You will be allowed to leave a link to your site in
your author’s resource box.
5. Social Bookmarking - Make it easy for your website visitors to
submit your site to social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, Digg
and other top social bookmarking sites. Some website owners even
submit their own sites (although this is sometimes considered grey
hat).
6. Submit Press Releases - There are many sites where you can submit
press releases online and link back to your website. Most will
charge a minimal fee to include a link, but there are a few good
quality free press release sites as well.
7. Answer Questions - There are a handful of sites out there that
allow people to ask questions and others to provide the answers. An
example is Yahoo Answers. Join this site, find questions related to
the topic of your site and answer them (along with a link back to
your site).
8. Classified Ads - Place links to your sites in classified ads. This
could include paid newspaper classified ads as well as free
classified sites like USFreeAds.com and Craig’s List.
9. Social Networking Sites - Place links back to your sites from your
profile pages on any social networking sites like MySpace,
Facebook, Squidoo and others.
10. Paid Links - Buy links from other websites and point them back to
your site. This is a controversial technique so use with caution.
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July 21st, 2008 at 9:31 am
Great post, thank you. You desribed most known link building methods that really work. I think that to get better results, a webmaster should use a combination of different link building tactics and not stick with just one strategy.