In an ever changing approach by bloggers to keep up with the Google SERP algorithms, many of us get carried away with our “SEO Techniques.” It’s not a surprise nor a shame, because without this experimentation, we are bound to hit a plateau in progress.
Unquestionably, even here at Blogussion — we try many new things, in combination with the old to help build on the traffic from search engines. Whether it be validating the site using the W3C Markup or just typing a new category-description, Search Engine Optimization is a never-ending process that evolves on a regular basis and it is our duty to keep up with it.
However, in trying new things — we shouldn’t forget that some techniques will never die out and must be practiced as regularly as possible. I would just like to outline 45 tips that will help you build quality back-links to your site, with minimal to no costs!
Quality back-links serve two main purposes. Firstly, it helps crawlers find and locate your site. Once this is accomplished, the search engine crawler goes about indexing your site. The next purpose; back-links help crawlers identify how important your blog really is.
The first purpose obviously only applies to new blogs, but the second one will still be valid even 10 years down the track. These back-links also help the Google Crawler to assign your pages with a Google PageRank. Simply to put, the more authoritative websites that are linked to your site, the more important it is perceived to be.
List of 45. Starts Here.
Getting Links for Writing Content
1. Write content that is useful — Writing resourceful content will always attract links, hands down. If you write an article that is overflowing with useful and resourceful information — people will link to it.
2. Don’t forget trackbacks — This handy feature for WordPress can be great way of returning the compliment for a dedicated link.
3. Remind your readers to link to you — After each posts, just throw in a quick reminder that your article can be socially bookmarked or linked to.
4. Make a Top “X” List — Alex’s post on “100 Lists To Become A Better Blogger” is the most successful post on Blogussion, to-date. This just goes to prove how much people love “lists posts” such as your “Top X [Something]”
5. Debunk a Myth — There’s only one thing better than coming up with an idea, is to prove someone else one wrong. People love opposition and to see a debate bubble up, so don’t be afraid to challenge other people’s opinions.
6. Write with a touch of conspiracy — Just reinforcing tip #5. If you can create that atmosphere of retaliation, it will always raise a few eyebrows.
7. Spread the Love — Dedicate a post or two per week to link to other blogger’s posts that you found useful. More often than not, they will tell their readers “Mr.X linked to my post, how cool!”
8. Trade articles with webmasters — Similar to guest posting, just swap articles with a fellow webmaster.
9. Release a Press Release — This guide shows you how to write + submit a good Press Release.
Freebies/Giveaways for Link-Baiting
10. Hold a contest with an incentive. Contests are great for link-baiting because when people talk about it, there will always be “Check it out here” tagged along with it.
11. Release a free design. If you can make/buy a custom WP-Theme then release it for free to your guests, you can really kick off on a viral market. Just don’t forget the “Designed by [YOUR LINK]”
12. Release a free plugin. This serves a similar purpose as a design, but not so much with a direct back-link. Instead, if your plugin is useful, the incoming links will just grow exponentially.
13. When running a contest, reward your referees that bring the most referrals. This will encourage them to blog about your contest.
Connecting With Communities
14. Become active and post on relevant forums
15. Become active and comment on relevant blogs.
16. Try not to forget your signature on forums, otherwise the whole thing is an epic fail.
17. When commenting on blogs, try to use post URLs instead of just your Blog URL — This can help regulate your links evenly amongst your blog, and not just solely to your front page.
18. DON’T spam communities with your links to your site, offer a reason for them to visit and contribute with a purpose.
19. Submit your blog to directories — These are still helpful when it comes to getting indexed, especially these directories listed here.
20. Search up DoFollow Blogs/Forums — These will carry the most significant back-links.
21. Browse Craigslists and they can provide you with a free or cheap link.
22. Build on your Technorati Profile
23. Become a Sponsor — Whether it be a theme, whole website or a small project; the sponsors always get mentioned.
24. Run for Charity, and request others to help spread the word.
25. DON’T spam. This tip cannot be reinforced enough. A deleted comment will server no purpose.
Directories, Social Bookmarking + Discussion Groups.
26. Write content for Article directories — Publish content for directories such as eZineArticles, GoArticles or iSnare. In the “About Author’s” area, you can leave a link to your website.
27. Build a Squidoo Page — It’s easy and if you have the time to develop it, it can be very authoritative. If you don’t there’s heaps of services out there to help you out.
28. Join Discussions over at Yahoo! Answers — Providing useful answers, along with a link is an easy way to earn a back-link.
29. There’s also Google Groups — It’s almost the same as Yahoo! Answers, but owned by Google.
30. Submit your voice on Digg — First build a solid profile, where you have a network of loyal diggers. If you can hit the Digg front page, you are likely to get linked to by a lot of web-masters.
31. Build on your Twitter profile then link to your site using your “Bio Area.”
32. Tweet about your posts using Twitter, then request retweets from your followers.
33. Offer a “Tweet This Post” link on every post your write, this will make Tweeters easier to tweet about your article.
Direct Link Building
34. Contact your fellow bloggers with a personalized email — asking for an reciprocal link exchange. However, keep this to a minimal and be very selective in who you choose to trade with.
35. Post around on forums asking for reciprocal link exchanges, but yet again be warned on your selection.
36. If you are a part of organizations, clubs or schools — Ask them if they can link to you, because these types of websites are more often than not; authoritative.
37. DON’T ask Darren Rowse, ShoeMoney, Matt Cutts or Yahoo, MSN and Google for back-links. It’s just a waste of time, especially the last three “contacts”
Paid Link Building
38. Buy a Review — Most sites that offer reviews will naturally link to the reviewed product/site.
39. Many webmasters buy links on popular blogs for authority, even though it’s against the Google TOS (Use at your own risk)
40. Rent links from others website — Text-Link-Ads is most likely your best option.
Using Blogussion for Link Building
41 Leave a comment — All our comments are do-follow, so the link you chose as your URL will get link-love automatically.
42. Top Commentators — As you can see on the sidebar, we use this awesome plugin. Every month, our most contributing members will be rewarded with a link.
43. We use CommentLuv — Every comment you post, will carry a link to your latest blog posts.
44. Link to our posts — We utilize the uses of ‘trackbacks.’ Hence any links to our posts, will automatically be rewarded with a back-link to them! So, Why not share this post with your readers and followers?
45. Buy a Paid Review — We link to our reviewed sites/products.
That’s it!
There’s many more link building techniques and tips that I haven’t mentioned in this post, but these are just some of the ways you can always rely on for Link Building.
Naturally, following these tips will reward you with a higher PageRank too!
Lastly, is there anything you want to add to this list? Please leave us a comment below 
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Amazing stuff
thank you so much for sharing the informative article.
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I keep finding more lists to look at. It’s too late at night – I should be in bed. I’ll be back to follow up with more of your fab blogging tips. Two 16 year olds?! Fantastic!
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Your website looks amazing,great job.
great info ….a lot of things to do here…
I could read this article over and over and over. Every time I read it I catch something I missed before. How do you all recommend building traffic to two sites? I have my blog: http://whowhatwherewheny.com and my personal site http://toddliss.com which I’m going to use for business. How do you all efficiently build traffic to two sites at once?
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In reading your suggestions, it seems I have a lot to do to get my blog going strong.
A lttle bit every day will add up.
most of the above tips were not known to me because I am a beginner blogger and your post helped me a lot, thanks for your efforts for helping your readers.
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Nice article for how to get back link for site. i think this is more important for me… Thanks for sahring
Great article. Several of these ideas will be getting added to my to do list. Thanks!
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Thanks a lot, these tips have helped me a lot
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This site has been a great resource in finding out how to properly navigate the social media waters with the intent of creating content, meeting great people, and extending a brand.
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Thanks for the useful tips. I can confirm that the digg, squidoo, and yahoo answers work real fast if you want to get result quickly. However, this will only work for long tail keywords. I am still investigating long term strategy of link building and your tips are useful.
I Love this, I have never seen so much useful info in one place.
I have no doubt this info will build my trafic. I am going to place a link to this on my blog http://hisdeciple.blogspot.com/ so others can find you.
Wish I had found you sooner.
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Thanks for the great resources here guys!
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I’m amazed that you and Alex are only 16!
Great site, great article, great info…
Thanks a lot for sharing all these tips!
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Very exhaustive list you have here. You might change #42 however, or perhaps I’m not seeing your top commenters list. I would like to see an entire blog entry devoted to #21, as I do not see near enough written about using Criagslist. #27 is my favorite link building tip. We have close to 300 Squidoo pages and some are as high as a pagerank 6, plus the lenses rank well and receive a lot of traffic. Plus, we receive a passive income of $350 – $400 each month.
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Great tips! Thanks so much- just what I was looking for.
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well done,good job.
fantastic post nice article thanks for brief info about internet marketing
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I love the design of this blog. Great work!
Very detailed tips. I thought link building is the best way to do but when you include the aspect about “yahoo answers”, I totally agree with that. I’ll share this with my friend who is starting her own business. Nice post!
Regards, Alex Tagus
Great article… very helpful thanks.
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Ping Blogs to promote, http://www.pingblogs.us/ could do some good.
Samuel
What a great article ! I love this kind of list and I’ve just found news ideas to get more backlinks. Thank you
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This will definitely be one of my “go-to” resources from now on…Sometimes I find myself getting overwhelmed with different link-building techniques coming from so many sources. This very well thought out list will save me TONS of time!
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These are really a nice tips for newbie like me in internet marketing, I think first point is the key, content must be new and time relevant.
Hey, great post, some of the points are really good.
I will start doing some stuff…
Starting by leaving a comment here.
You have mentioned here some very useful tips for promoting the blog, I already acted on some of the tips and got some good results. Thanks for sharing it.
i am new in blogging and your tip is just very necessary for me. Thanks for that!
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Blogging seems to be harder than I thought it would be!
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awesome tips dude!! about the track backs. can any1 explain how does it work to me? i got some trackbacks on my site but dont know wht its for
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Considering that this post was made in February of 2009, and with the oh-so-many-changes to SEO and Google Algorithms, I was surprised that most (if not all) of the suggestions here would currently work for you. I am in the process of revamping SEO strategies for our sites and this article really helps! Thanks!
You have mentioned about top commentators widget. but it is unavailable on you website???
thanks for share
Thanks for the comprehensive tips! I personally enjoy article marketing! Though it is a traditional way to get traffic, it is a proven source.
I understand that writing an article with good quality takes time and hence I will always do the following re-purposing to explode my traffic, without too much effort!
Here it goes:
1. To sumarise the the article into a powerpoint format and submit to Scribd and other sites.
2. To use Camtasia Studio or other screen captured software to record a video for the powerpoint (with your voice). Now you have a video. You can submit to plenty of video sites like youtube, etc…
3. Extract the audio part of the video and you got audio article! You can submit to tons of pod cast sites.
4. Pdf your article and submit to ebook directories site.
5. Extract part of the content from your article and use it in Facebook or Twitter!
Last but not least, I will also social bookmark video and article to increase the traffic exposure! This will create a viral effect for your traffic sources.
All this only start from 1 article. If you have 2, 3, 10…Can you imagine you will harness tons of traffic from all different places?
Having said that, it is crucial to be persistent and determined to implement the abovementioned. There are honestly just lots of different techniques to increase traffic, but we need to focus on 1 thing at a time before jumping around. The blueprint is there and is up to personnal to implement, tweak, fine tune, rinse and repeat. Results will definitely come.
Use critical thinking process to analyse what works and what does not so that we can tweak things around and improve each method until we master them.
Happy link building!
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Well, as link building is the very important feature of SEO and we should do some strong and emergent tactics so that we can get more and more back links form some reputed domains because back links shows the popularity of the site so that’s why we should work for the contextual link building so that we can increase the value of our website in terms of the Google search results…
I love the tips. I’ve bookmarked this page and will share with all my friends who can use this information too. I really think this site has a lot to offer by way of valuable SEO information. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for this fantastic collection of ideas. It’s so well laid out. I’m printing it for easy reference later.
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This is a good list, except (to my believe) using Craigslist since it is way too hard to maintain an account with them and furthermore they have the “NoFollow” attribute on guard.
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