14 Tips On Building Links

January 30, 2009 · Filed Under Link Building

Most people know that building links drives more traffic to their site, it will also improve your Google page rank (PR) and your Technorati authority. Both of these are critical factors when determining the value of your site.The greater the value of your site the more you can charge for placed ads. The easier it is to get top notch professionals in your niche to write guest posts, agree to interviews and provide content for free. The higher your page rank and quality score the less you pay for adwords. High value = higher return.

You’re probably saying, how do I go about building links? There are many ways to increase links to your site. A few are pretty darn easy, others take a little more work. And, all of methods on this list can and will build links to your site.

Spend a little time everyday working on building links.

14 Tips On How To Build Links

1) Leave Comments – Part of an everyday activity for a blogger is to comment. Climb on to the top commentator list. This will provide you with a link.

2) Guest Blog – Offer to write for another blog in exchange for a link back. This is a little more work, but it does build your site’s visibility and increase traffic.

3) Content – This can’t be stressed enough. Unique, fresh, interesting, and useful content will get you tons of links. Content is king and since you are suppose to be blogging, write something that people want to know. It’s probably not what you had for breakfast unless your blog is a food review or recipe site. Put the breakfast thing on Twitter, so we know you’re still alive, and write something else for the blog.

4) Create Controversy – This works for some blogs. You’re bound to have a great conversation and people will link to you whether they agree, or not.

5) Something For Nothing – Give away something free. Something of value, please. Folks will put links on their site back to your site about the freebie. Everybody likes a freebie!

6) E-Book – This goes along with something for nothing. However, it does deserve it’s own mention. A lot of people I know have great success with ebooks. And it’s not as difficult as you may think. If you have several posts about the same topic, you can combine them into an ebook.

7) Have A Contest – Organize a contest. Not only will this build links, but also drive traffic to your site. Ask people to link to you to be entered into the contest. Make it worth their while though. I have to admit, though, I haven’t had much luck with this. The prize value line keeps going up and I think some people may think that the prize isn’t awarded or goes to a friend of the contest holder. It’s difficult to overcome the widespread skepticism.

Amazon – Is your blog about books or products? Write a review on the Amazon site with a link back to your site. Make the Amazon review short and put something at the end to the effect “you can learn more about this product here” and link to your site. Make sure there is more information about the item on your site. Never mislead your visitors.

9) Join A Few Social Networks and Groups – Myspace, Facebook, Hubpages, Mashable, Technorati and gazillion others. Look around and find a two or three that suits you. OH! And,Twitter

10) Give Away Your Posts – Let others use your posts on their site with a link back to your site. Spread the love baby. You will benefit from it in multiple ways. And, you don’t have to give everything away, just a few posts here and there.

11) Swap Content – Swap content along with link back. That gives you an extra, no work, post to use along with a link. And, maybe a new blogging friend.

12) Link Luv – Be the Santa Claus of link love and give out lots of links. Other folks will take notice and return the link love back to you.

13) Create Blog Themes – If you know CSS and PHP, you can create themes. Each theme contains links to your sites in the footer along with your copyright information. You can also install a favicon in the style sheet that links to your site. If you give the themeaway and it becomes popular, you’ll be building links from around the world. There are many free resources where you can learn the necessary coding skills, if your interested enough to try. W3Schools has a huge amount of free tutorials on all types of coding.

14) Get A Remote Blog – Start a blog on Blogger, LiveJournal, Xanga or WordPress.com, and link back to your main site using your keywords in the remote blog content. Hyperlink back to the posts on your main blog. I don’t know if AOL still has a free blog site. If you’re an AOL customer, check it out.

While there are many more ways to get links, these few should get you going. Do you have a tip on how to build links? Let me know and I’ll add it to the list and Give You A Link. I use ContentLuv in my comments sections so you can automatically gain a link for each comment you leave.

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