Friday, June 17, 2011

Link Building techniques



Over the last 8 years I have developed a list of strategies and techniques for link building for a website. This is a very broad classifications of activities. The effectiveness of link building techniques is usually different for different industries.

  • Directory Submissions
  • Article submission 
  • Press releases
  • Social media profile creation
  • Social Bookmarking
  • Guest blogging
  • Local listing like Google places
  • Create link wheels using social websites and web 2.0 sites
  • Identify where the competitors are getting inbound links from. Approach those resources to find out if you can get a outbound link from those sites. 
  • Add your self to yellow pages and local business listings.
  • Participate in forums and discussions and use signature with a link back to the website if possible. 
  • Guest blogging on other blogs which are in the relevant industry with link backs to the website. 
  • Use http://www.beaucoup.com/ to find vertical engines and directories and get listed in them
  • Participate in question and answer websites by answering questions related to your business or website. 
  • Paricipate in discussions on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and LinkedIn.
  • RSS Submission if possible
  • Blog submission if you are running a blog on your website
  • Create video content and submit to various video hosting services like Youtube.com and metacafe.com
  • Create documents like infographics and PDF documents and submit them to websites like Scribd.com and similar websites. 
Is there a technique that you have used that is not mentioned in the list the please share it by adding comments below. 

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