#1: Find out which sites are linking to your competitors’ websites.
#2: Build or provide top-quality content
#3: Social Media Link Building
- Squidoo.com
- Hubpages.com
- Twitter.com
- Digg.com
- Del.icio.us
- Wikipedia (very good if you can get links from here)
- 43things.com
#4: Link building with blogs and feed directories
#5: Building content to get links (Link baiting)
- Informational hooks – Provide information that a reader may find very useful. Some rare tips and tricks or any personal experience through which readers can benefit.
- News hooks – Provide fresh information and garner citations and links as the news spreads.
- Humor hooks – Tell a funny story or a joke. A bizarre picture of your subject or mocking cartoons can also prove to be link bait.
- Evil hooks – Saying something unpopular or mean may also yield a lot of attention. Writing about something that is not appealing about a product or a popular blogger. Provide strong reasons for it.
- Tool hooks – Create some sort of tool that is useful enough that people link to it.
- Widgets hooks – A badge or tool, that can be placed or embedded on other websites, with a link included.
Don’t underestimate this method, it’s a VERY good way of gaining one-way links.
#6: Directory submissions
How to submit to directories:
What to write in your directory listings:
How much does it cost to submit to a directory?
Here are some of my favorites:
- Yahoo.com—$299/year, but many sites we submit to Yahoo end up getting top-3 results in Yahoo over time.
- Business.com—$199/year
- ExactSeek.com—$12 you can get a top 10 listing.
- Dmoz.org (free) — DMOZ is in an open content directory project that organizes Website listings across the Internet. Its name derives form directory.mozilla.org, which was once its original URL. The directory is maintained by volunteer editors and serves directories of the leading search engines, including Google, Yahoo! Overture, Alexa and more who use its titles, descriptions and category metadata.
- Stpt.com—$99 submission, another good directory to be linked from.
#7: Article Writing & Submission
IMPORTANT: Write quality articles!
There are hundreds of article sites out there, here are some of my favorites:
- www.goarticles.com
- www.ezinearticles.com
- www.articlecity.com
- http://www.thewhir.com/find/articlecentral/suggest.asp
- www.amazines.com
- http://www.netterweb.com/articles
- http://www.articleinsider.com
I strongly recommend that you submit your articles to these article sites manually with a tool like Article SubmitterSubmit2Edge to submit them for you. (which also comes with hundreds of article sites pre-loaded, so you just have to plug in your article and go), or pay someone like
#8: Local Link Opportunities
#9 Link brokers and purchasing links
I personally prefer to purchase permanent one-way links rather than renting.
#10 Forum & community links
#11 Press releases
#12 Donations to charity
#13 Social media and Web 2.0 links
#14 Private blog and article networks
#15 Blog/article networks that we recommend:
- PLR Pro—A private label article site that also comes with a blog network.
- PortalFeeder—A site packed full of tools to help you gain higher search engine rankings.
- Article Underground—Another private label article site that comes with a great blog network. (I actually don’t use the articles in this site and feel that their blog network is more the value here.)
- Linkvana
- Unique Article Wizard—we’ve only just recently started using this resource and it seems to be producing great benefits.
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