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15 Link Building Methods
Park of knowledge have lots of callection in new technology . Now a days
one technology
come in number one position which is known as SEO technology .In this
tecnology we are
optimize our website by two method .
* On page optimization
* Off page optimization
In Off page Optimization we point to maintain our IN bound and Out
bound link. Here we
discuss some releted topics. Please follow this method for Link
Building.
“Content is king”, that’s what everyone says. And it’s true.
However, content is useless if
it doesn’t get read. When you’re a beginner and you’re not yet
quite so known, the best thing
you can do is to combine great content with good link building
methods. I’ve compiled a list of
15 different methods of link building, each with a rating in
three departments: difficulty to use,
time consumed and quality of links that it generates. My advice
would be to spend your link
building efforts on methods that give High Quality backlinks. Yes,
they might be much harder
to obtain, but take my advice, between 100 backlinks in forum
signatures and 1 backlink from
a high profile blog, take the 1 backlink.
I’ve also attached some advices on improving your chances of getting
good value for your link
building efforts for each of the methods. Please feel free to contribute
with advices in the comments
if you have anything to add.
1) Forum Posts
· Difficulty: Low – Read the thread, think of something to say and write it
· Time Consumed: Low – Seriously, how long does it take to write a reply in a forum
· Quality: Low – Most forums are seriously handicapped when it comes to SEO. A lot of similar threads,
centered around the same core keywords, loand ugly URL’s, very few if any links pointing to threads, most
just to the main page, duplicate content issues
Improve your chances:
Post in threads that make it to the front page of Digg or other social
media sites.
Look for posts with high linkability value. For example, a thread on
DigitalPoint about how a guy got
banned has extremely low chances of getting links. A thread on how
a guy made $5000 in a month using
a new technique has better odds of getting some link love.
Post in sticky threads. They’re just 2 links away from the main page
all the time and should get some
good link juice.
2) Social Bookmarking
· Difficulty: Low – now much to it. Just enter url, title, description and some tags.
· Time Consumed: Low – first time is more time consuming as you make your accounts on the websites.
After that it takes less then a minute for each social bookmarking site to save a link.
· Quality: Low – a lot of them don’t give link juice. But even if they do, the tags that are linked from the
front page are the most popular, so plenty of links are entered there all the time. Your link will be slipping
to the back pages and moving their position all the time, from the first page of that tag to the 5th, 10th, 20th
page and so on.
Improve your chances:
Create your own tag. For example, instead of submitting all your links
to the link building tag, submit
them to the “link building links” tag. On less used sites, your tag could
end up being linked from the
front page all the time, if you save enough links in that tag. Your links
would be just 1 link away from
the front page this way.
Add as many tags as possible to every link you submit, as long as they
are relevant to the subject of
the article.
3) Social Media
· Difficulty: High – building up your profile, becoming a top user, getting friends, writing good linkbait. None
of these come easy.
· Time Consumed: High – writing good linkbait is time consuming. Not everyone has the luxury of posting funny
or cute photos on their blog.
· Quality: High – if you get to the front page you get a good number of links usually, depending on your subject.
Also, the page where your link is listed can become a PR4-5 on Digg.
Improve your chances:
Build up a good profile on a niche social media site that is suited to your
blog’s subject. Less traffic, but more likely to subscribe or be interested
in the rest of your articles. Network with other bloggers, and once in a
while, ask them to vote your story, if indeed its front page worthy. A
story with a number of initial votes and a few comments is much more likely
to be voted by other users of that social media site. Work your ass off on your
linkbait.
4) Guest Posts
· Difficulty: Medium – writing a post for a blog with the same subject as yours should be easy to you.
· Time Consumed: Medium – it needs to be good quality. You’re trying to get some of their readers to subscribe
to your blog. Don’t waste this opportunity by writing a low key article.
· Quality: High – if you pick the blog right, and you write a good article, it should bring you new subscribers, a
link from a blog in the same niche as you and maybe links from other bloggers in the same niche.
Improve your chances:
Write linkbait in your guest posts. Some say that your best content should
stay on your blog. I
disagree. If you have 30 subscribers and you write a guest post for someone
with 10,000 subscribers,
it can bring you couple of hundred new subscribers if you play your cards right.
Prepare your blog for the incoming visitors. Before your guest post goes up,
make sure that at least
your last 2-3 articles are of great quality. Even better, make them part of a
series, and if you know
what the new visitors are interested in, then they should be much more
inclined to subscribe in order
to follow that series.
5) Interviews
· Difficulty: Medium – approach a few bloggers in your niche that have a fair number of subscribers. Try and
get interviews with people from new companies that generate a lot of hype. DealDotCom and BlogRush, a lot
of people interested in them these days. Did anyone try to get an interview with some juicy details from people
working for these two?
· Time Consumed: Medium – study the subject, see what people are saying about them, what kind of questions
they have. Make a list of questions and do a good quality interview. Be unique, don’t ask the same questions
they’ve been asked before 100 times (study the previous interviews they gave).
· Quality: High – Links from high profile blogs in your niche and maybe links from their readers.
Improve your chances:
Try and secure interviews with bloggers/people that people have talked
about lately and that they might
be curious about. If you can bring some extra details or another point of
view on the subject it can be
good linkbait
Don’t waste the opportunity. Think of what people might be interested
in knowing about that guy, try
to get some good tips from him, see what others failed to ask him before
you. Don’t ask just generic
questions.
6) Linkbait
· Difficulty: High – it might come easy to SEOmoz or Aaron Wall, but for most people it will take a few tries
before they get it right. When you’re small and not a lot of people follow your blog it’s not that easy to get the
linkbait out there. Make it appealing to others and work hard on promoting it.
· Time Consumed: High – again, as a small blogger you have to put a lot of effort and time in your linkbait.
Then comes the promotion part.
· Quality: High – a lot of links from blogs writing on the same subject as you. Links from old and high authority
domains if you get picked up by the media.
Improve your chances:
Think outside the box. Writing yet another list of link building methods
doesn’t do much good anymore.
Put a twist on it. Like this article does
Let other people know about it. Don’t contact high profile bloggers with
each article you write. Once or
twice a month, if you write a high quality article, you can send them a
mail if they’re writing about the
same thing. Contact Daniel from Daily Blog Tips or Kevin from
Blogging Tips if you got a blogging tip(both great guys), or contact
John Chow if you got a money making article.
7) Linking Out
· Difficulty: Medium – the difficult part is not using a link to others in your articles, but actually making it part
of a very good article when linking to high profile bloggers.
· Time Consumed: Low – find a way to link out to other bloggers with every good article you write. If you’re
doing research for an article, link to those that served as inspiration.
· Quality: High – again, if they like your content and write about it, links from high profile bloggers in your
niche.
Improve your chances:
Link to articles or about pages instead of the index. If they have to
approve the trackback then they
will probably come and see if your blog is trackback worthy. They usually
have plenty of links to the index page and deep links are always good.
If you see an article that the blogger put a lot of effort into, but doesn’t get
much reaction from his readers, link to it and recommend it if its good. He
will probably appreciate more the attention on an
article like that, then if you link together with 100 other people to a more
popular one.
Link Exchanges
· Difficulty: Medium – finding people that are wiling to do link exchanges in the same niche as you might be
difficult for some, especially if you want good links
· Time Consumed: Medium – it takes time to write all those emails, even if you have a template for it and just
change the name. It doesn’t hurt to put a
little effort in creating that email.
· Quality: Medium – they are links from the same niche, but they’re sitewide blogroll links.
Improve your chances:
Link to them before you send the email. Let them know that you’ve already
put them in your blogroll
and if they like your blog they can do the same. Don’t be upset if they don’t
want to exchange links.
I’m not too crazy after blogroll link exchanges for example. They can become
quite a long list of links
on each of your pages, diluting the amount of link juice that you can give.
Don’t do link exchanges with everyone. Pick some bloggers with authority
in your niche, that you know
they’ll be there in the long run. Network a bit before you ask something like
that and know when to
ask. For example, you can network with Darren Rowse all you want, I still
don’t think he’ll exchange
links with you.
Offer some value with that link exchange. Gain some authority before you
start sending emails to people
asking for link exchanges.
9) Directory Submission
· Difficulty: Low – completing forms is not exactly rocket science
· Time Consumed: Low – takes a few minutes for each submission
· Quality: Low – pages and pages full of links. If they’re general directories then you’ve got links from cars to how to
make soap sites. Before supplemental results were removed I used to look at directories and almost all their pages
were marked as supplemental. Not much value there.
Improve your chances:
Some directories still provide some value. Especially those that Google
thinks that they’re actually taking
care of who they let in, and they’re not in it just for the money. Niche
directories might also bring some
value.
10) Free Templates or Themes
· Difficulty: High – you actually have to know how to make one and have a good eye at design
· Time Consumed: High – it can take anywhere from a few hours to one week. Depends how much experie
nce you have and how good the theme is.
· Quality: Low/Medium – you do get some good links from articles announcing your theme, but most are
footer links from bloggers with lower authority. The likes of John Chow, Shoemoney, Darren Rowse have
custom themes. Authority bloggers that don’t have custom themes usually don’t change what they have for
another free theme. They either go custom at some point, or they stay with what works for them right now. So
your theme and your footer links will largely come from new blogs, that might take some time to get authority.
Still, a very good theme can get a huge number of backlinks and it’s not that unusual to see PR5-6 blogs that
got their PR from themes they released.
Improve your chances:
Study successful themes, make yours Adsense ready, SEO them. Talk
with friends and other bloggers and
see what they like to see in a theme, ask for feedback as you develop it.
Do it the Nate Whitehill way. One custom theme for John Chow
and one redesign for Shoemoney got him
$13,000 worth of orders. If he had made a free theme with similar layout
as the one used by John Chow,
he would’ve gotten a huge number of backlinks from those that try to
be like John.
11) Create a WordPress Plugin
· Difficulty: High – again, you have to know how to code, more so then with themes
· Time Consumed: High – from a few hours to days, depends on how complex it is
· Quality: Medium/High – if you make something that people need, it can bring you a ton of good quality links
Improve your chances:
See what other bloggers need. They might need an Adsense Plugin,
a DoFollow plugin, A SEO plugin or simply a Buy me a beer plugin.
If you manage to do something new that most people would embrace,
that plugin page will get linked to quite a lot.
Promote it. Plugin directories, blogs that announce new plugins and
themes, blogs that are giving blogging
tips. Contact those people and tell them what you’ve created.
12) Hold a Contest
· Difficulty: Low – make the announcement, promote the contest, give away the prizes
· Time Consumed: Low/Medium – it really depends on how successful it is. 200 entries would be quite a
hand full, 5 of them not that much.
· Quality: Depends – if you give $4000 worth of prizes away, then you might get the big bloggers as well. If
you’re giving $5-$20 or just a few links and you’re not high PR, then the quality of links might be lower.
Improve your chances:
Let people know what value they’re getting if you’re not giving away
money. Put banners up in your blog if you’re giving away free advertising
space (like I did in my contest – check it out). Don’t ask too much as a
condition to enter the contest. Unless you’re giving away hundreds of
dollars worth of prizes, I wouldn’t ask for a full review or post dedicated
just to your blog.
13) Create mini-blogs and link to your main blog
· Difficulty: Low – writing shorter articles on the same topic as your main blog should be easy
· Time Consumed: High – you do have to write a number of articles and maybe do some link building
for it
· Quality: Low – links from blogs in the same niche, but without much authority. The time spent writing
articles for mini-blogs can be spent better if you use it to
write pillar content for the main blog.
Improve your chances:
If you do decide to make mini blogs to support the main one, at least
don’t use your hosting account because it would be the same IP class.
Use Blogspot, WordPress.com and other free blogging hosts. Create a
mini blog on each one and write at least a few articles with links to your
own blog in them.One way of doing it is for linkbait that doesn’t belong
on your main blog. Maybe you have an idea for a funny piece that wouldn’t
be appreciated by your readers, but is still somehow related to your subject.
Use a mini-blog and try to get it on Digg to gather some links.
14) Buying links
· Difficulty: Low – not hard, you just need money and to know what you need
· Time Consumed: Medium – contacting other sites/bloggers, looking for good pages
· Quality: High – if you can afford to pay for them
Improve your chances:
Don’t go the Text Link Ads route. Everyone can see the blogs that are
selling links there.
Instead, use Google and search for articles centered around your
keywords. Look for the backlinks and see who linked to it, see what
PR it has, how far away it is from the main page. Then contact the
blogger/site owner and offer him money to transform that keyword
from his article into a link to your blog. It might get expensive, but
if you can manage to find articles about your keywords that were
linked a lot, then getting a link there would be much better then
getting a side-wide blogroll link.
15) Paid Reviews
· Difficulty: Low – others write about you, not much effort there
· Time Consumed: Medium – do it right. Study the blogger and his past paid reviews to see how he
writes them.
· Quality: High – articles dedicated just to your blogs, with your chosen keywords in them
Improve your chances:
Don’t just pick a blog and ask for a paid review. Study other paid
reviews done by the blogger, see what he usually didn’t like and
what he did. If that blogger doesn’t like Adsense and says it in
every post (Tyler  ) then take the ads out before you order that
review. The blogger’s obligation is to tell his readers his real opinion,
your duty is to get as much bang for the buck as possible. I’m a subscriber
of Tyler’s blog for quite some time
now, and it never ceases to amaze me that people still pay him for reviews
without taking the Adsense out first.
Adapt your blog to what that particular blogger that you’re paying likes to
see. At least when it comes to ads or minor elements of design.
Also, make sure you’ve got some good posts up when he comes and after
he gives his review. Again, make sure you get the most out of your money
if you want to pay for a review.
Regards,
Ravi Kesarwani
mailto: ravikesarwani007@gmail.com
http://www.ravikesarwani.wordpress.com
http://www.parkofknowledge.blogspot.com
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