SEO Link Building Tips
May 26th, 2010
Yesterday I was on Webmasterradio talking about link building. I was on with Disa Johnson aka airDisa and Daron Babin aka SEguru. We had a great time but there was just not enough time to talk about all the things I wanted to. Below is a list of link building tips that I prepared for the show.
- First step to link building is to make sure all your incoming links go to existing pages or pages that have been redirected to existing pages.
- Get a list of websites that mention you or your product but don’t link to your website and ask them to link to you. You can get this from Majestic SEO or by searching for your domain name or company name or product name in Google.
- Find websites that link to more than one of your competitors. This means somebody is making a list of similar sites and there is a very good chance you can get them to add your site to the list. One tactic to help in this is to offer a coupon code specifically for that site. Don’t just use a unique random code make it a word that reflects the site name or subject. Search Return will let you do this by uploading your backlinks from Yahoo or you can use an export from linkrep.seofox.com or many of the other backlink providers.
- Study your competitor’s backlink profile. This will let you see what types of sites they get links from. It helps to find out what types of sites link to your type of website. It also helps find the type of content people link to. This will give you ideas to create new content that will attract links. You can do this with many of the different backlink tools out there.
Find broken links to your competitors and inform the site owner that the link is broken and ask them to link to you. - Find sites that link to you with URL’s or junk words like “click here” or “more info” and contact the site owner to change it to a keyword.
- Find bloggers that have blogged about your competitors and ask them to write a blog about you. Offer them something like a free product, or service.
- Directory submissions still work for long tail keywords. I have run a lot of reports recently and we are seeing top sites with thousands of directory links. The key is getting a good list of directory links.
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nice information i like it.In link Building, Directory Submission most Powerful source for any companies it is also one part of SEO .If you getting high Page ranked directory your site will build up.
Consistency for link building is the key— if a link building service goes too fast, it can actually sabotage the site and get it kicked out of search engines rankings at the same time. Therefore, I suggest that site owners should do their research on any link building service and find the one that best suits their wallet and their site.
It’s also worth mentioning that ‘do follow’ links are also very important from a link building point of view. Nice list.
Nice, and thanks for sharing this info with us.
Good Luck!
“Study your competitor’s backlink profile” What software/site do you use to do that?
Two best ways of gaining backlinks is through article writing and directory submission. They really help a lot
HI! I saw you made a post a LONG time ago about Search Engine Commando…recently I have noticed that it has stopped working…are you still using it? Are you experiencing problems? I tried contacting them like 6-7 times and no resuslts…and phone is disconnected…I appreciate your time if you can let em know your finds? mark@mtjnyc.com
Thanks you!!
mark
No I don’t use any more I use Raven SEO Tools now.
Glad you asked. Go to http://www.seolinkreports.com. This is my site.
Useful tips, thank you very much. I would add, having title tags for your coupon’s image would be a good idea as well as linking using a keyword rather than ‘click here.’
Nice post about link building , i totally agree with you but i rather using social bookmarking and article submit
i would disagree that Directory submission is valuable. i guess Directory is an outdated technique now and for getting links there are so many fresh techniques out there. For instance, link baiting is considered to be the best link building technique. Write a controversial post/article, publish it and you are likely to get back links.
Great Post!I agree with link building.But i do article marketing, Social Bookmarking and web2.0 these are a always very effective tecnique.
Oh but spamming my comments is ok. Trust directory submissions are still not dead. They might be depreciated a little but they still work and are very easy to get.
Nice list, i really like the an old technique now and for getting links there are so many fresh techniques out there.
i think Directory is an old technique now and for getting links there are so many fresh techniques out there. e.g link baiting & link wheel is considered to be the best link building technique. Write a controversial post/article, publish it and you are likely to get back links.
I admire you and thank you for tell us this great information and tips. Explain us that social networking web sites are good for link exchange or not.
hi,
good post. I like your post.
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Thank your for article, it’s very interesting
Always make sure that you are taking link on site that is relevant with your theme….
I used the source which is attached by you, that is nice thing.
Hi Ogletree,
Good tips on link-building here – thank you for taking the time to post !