Everybody knows that links are the key to SEO. Links are also the key to selling advertising. Links are the key to Making Money Online. Links also are they key to traffic. Hmm did I miss anything? Links are the Key to everything! I’ve compiled a list of the top ways I generate links, hopefully some of these will be new for you.
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Make blogs posts that are lists. For some reason, the blogging world is addicted to these things. It used to be seeing the dollar symbol, but that is so overused now, when people say 35 ways to do so and so, then everybody wants to see the article. If it’s a good article as well, people will link to it. You can make a list either proving things, or even disproving. People like seeing posts on things that aren’t true for some reason, so you can make a list of myths and people will still link to it.
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Us Social Media sites. Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon, Delicious… these are all great ways to get links. Ask people to publish your articles on these, and you will get links. Make sure your article is good, and do some self promotional, and this can give you tons of links.
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Ask questions. Lots of popular bloggers like to have Q and A times. For example dailyblogtips.com has a continual going one. All you have to do is ask a question, to get a link from a Very popular site. That’s a high PR link as well. These come along often, you could even good for them, I’m sure you could find a bunch. Make sure you ask good questions, but this is a great way to get that question answered, and get a link.
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Comment on Blogs. I won’t beat this already very Very dead horse again. You know the idea, commenting on blogs will greatly help your site, Why are you still not doing it?
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Write Guest Posts. This ways is an awesome way to get links, and traffic. Email top bloggers, and ask them if they’ll let you guest post. If they say no and try the big guys in your niche. Shoot for the top and work your way down. If you can write a good informative, helpful post on a popular site, you can get a lot of publicity for your site.
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Submit to Blog Directories. Don’t go crazy with this, as in the end I don’t think it’s more valuable then say four blog comments, which you could do in the same amount of time. But this can be nice for a quick high PR blog. Always try the DMOZ directory, that one is definitely worth a shot.
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Preform Studies and Surveys. People like it when you conduct several week studies. It gets them following your blog, and checking back for the updates. Also reading through the archives to find out what else you’ve said on the topic. So find original studies that people haven’t done before, and try them out. People will link if it’s done well.
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Steal off other Contests. Be like Eric Tan and offer part of the prizes from other people’s contests, in case you win. And in return ask for links… stumbles…. comments. I can’t believe this works, but apparently it does because he keeps doing it. And hey if it works, that’s a pretty awesome idea. This isn’t meant to bash Eric by any means.
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Blog Carnivals. These get your posts posted on a bunch of different sites, you should definitely try one of these. This is a great way to publicize your site, for free.
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Make a self updating list. Learn from the top 100 site of 45n5, and the top IM sites by Winning the Web. These are great ways to get links. If you are a good programmer these will get you TONS of links if you can advertise them right.
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Use Forums. Forums are great ways to get traffic, but make sure you are giving helpful advice first. Only use your posts when they are relevant, and don’t spam and get yourself kicked out. Forums can be a great source of traffic and links if you use it correctly.
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Publicize it on Wikipedia. If you have a fairly popular site, create a new page about it on wikipedia. If nothing else you can show it to other people, and brag about how popular you are. You can also publicize yourself on Google Groups, and Yahoo Answers.
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Create a Squidoo. These can be useful, as they are essentially like miniature websites, except they are only one page. Make one, write some original content, and then post a link to your site. Do some publicizing, and you can build up the PR of it. Squidoo lens get really high Search Engine rankings. So take advantage of this.
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Post Often. If you are posting often and originally, then links will come organically. You just need patience, and good self publicizing skills.
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Create a WordPress Plugin. These can give you a lot of links, if it’s a good one. I went to plugin recently that had 4300 trackbacks, on this on post alone, because it was that popular a plugin. I you can make a good one, the reward will be great.
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Create a WordPress Theme. There are lots of good ones already, so don’t expect to make too much money from this. However, offer them for free, and you’ll get lots more links that way. If you calculate it up, the more links may be worth more then the extra sales.
These last two, are the top linkbaiters in my mind. If done correctly these reap you great rewards.
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Hold a Contest. These are great linkbaiters, especially if you are offering great prizes. Everybody wants in on a great contest. So choose carefully, your sponsors, and the details. Don’t ruin this great opportunity. Yan is running a blog contest now, which has very unique prizes. If you notice there are no ECs, Ebooks, Advertising Spots, and only one blog review that is a very special one. The prizes are unique because they are off internet products, so they are worth a lot more. So don’t waste your time with a stupid contest, make sure it’s the best prizes you can get. And spend as much time as you can spare advertising it, because that is the way you’ll get links. If you give people a big bonsus for blogging about the contest, you’ll get a lot more links.
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Be a Sponsor. This is the top way to get links in my mind. It’s so easy to be a sponsor, all you need to do is offer 500 ECs and you can be given free links. Or a text link ad, or a 125×125. Think of the potential? Right now Tons of bloggers are running christmas contests, take advatage of this. Ask them all if you can be sponsors. I sponsored Five contest this past week, that’s five links alone. Now say each of them get’s linked to five times, (which is very little,) that’s 25 links. Now two of them were on fairly popular sites, so they’ll get at least 10-15 links. So with offering five different prizes, only one of which cost me any phyiscal money, I just generated 40-50 links. And that’s assuming these are small contests. Are you starting to realize the potential? Don’t miss this great opportunity, to get links.
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You can also submit articles. I know it’s a bit old hat… but it works. Also instead of posting just one article, use a service like spindistribute, which will let you spin up your own article and then it will post a different version to lots of article directories. Again, it’s very easy to do, very effective and also very cheap!
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You can also create a free software and submit it to hundreds of download sites to get free traffic and back links.
All of the above are very good points.
Thanks for sharing it with us.
I would add to this: write some utilities that people can use; online if you can.
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Thanks for such an informative article. I would like to add one more thing to your list. I like to use press releases.
I mix sending targeted press releases to editors along with sending releases to free services online. They have both brought me free targeted traffic.
This can be helpful for to get links in different ways.
I was able to grasps so many useful points here. Your really need to find the right strategy that suites your work. I think the last part is applicable to people who have enough funds to support the sponsorship.
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i really know most of these ways and can guarantee that they are usefull and productive.
allthough some of these are brand new, and i can’t wait to give them a try. thank you very much for this information.
Thank you for very useful information, I’ve added your blog to my favorites list, you have some very interesting tips for blog SEO. But which ones are you using?
Another really effective method of acquiring quality links is through the use of document sharing sites.. Many of these sites allow you to use live links in the body of an article. Most accept articles in TXT, PDF and DOC format, these sites can be very effective – Ken
I’m new and i understand that those are very difficult for me.But i really liked your ways and will try to apply.
O God! you have revealed all the secrets.. lol… I think every one can post content regularly, optimize it as-well but the most important part lies in backlinking. Because the biggest source of traffic is the search engine mainly Google. And to be the part of the Google’s first page you need high Page Rank…
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This is a great list of ways how to generate links. Some of here are new to me and I would likely to try them. Thanks a lot for this list
Some ideas are very good like Guest Blogger and Blogging one but wikipedia page idea is not going to work.
Moderators are eventually gonna delete the page unless you are very popular website. Again if you are popular then you are not working on building backlinks. Are You?
This is quite an exhaustive list of how to build links back to your site. And I would like to add something I have learned quite recently that reinforces forum posting. And here it is: Usually, most people have a single username they use when doing forum posting/blog commenting. When you find such one, e.g. Max, the comment just above mine, you want to find all the places ‘Max’ has left comments, so that you can also leave comments.
Open Google.com and go to ‘Advanced Search’. Then in the ‘all these words:’ field, enter ‘by’, followed the person’s username. So in our case it would be ‘by Max’.
And then hit Advanced search. This will bring up all the high PR pages ‘Max’ has left comments and links on. So that you can also leave valuable comments and get good links back to your site as well.
I hope I have not confused you.
Best regards,
Jason
It is very effective to use social media sites. Why? Because people who are using the internet always checked on their social media accounts and see so many links on it.
I’m new and i understand that those are very difficult for me.But i really liked your ways and will try to apply.
This a nice way of building link for a blog, one need time to carryout all this tips.
The easy way to get links is make a contest that link to you blog..and to get attention from visitor for join the contest, you should prepare an interesting prize
i feel so hot,and i can not stand the weather any longer!
oh!my God!how could that be.
Hot Posts !. Really the post are very helpful to people to get backlinks to easy. Thanks for your Helps and Best Regard
I think this is a great article and I’m going to forward it to a couple of people.
Can you explain more about the last point? I don’t even know what an “EC” is although I searched for it. Also, it’s not clear how by sponsoring their contest people ended up linking to you. Thanks!
Great list, I just wish I knew how some of these guru seo cats get direct .edu lin_s…
I suggest you will also use social media sites because more and more people are using them such as facebook and twitter.
Shared a beautiful subject. Thanks to the person that opens the topic.
I’m still struggling doing links. Probably I’ll go build great contents first.