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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I like this post. It has plenty of Link building tips, each of these would be helpful for promoting blogs.
I agree. This is an awesome list. Thanks janith. I have gotten plenty of fresh ideas for my own link building efforts.
I agree. Great list. The link building never ends and never can be enough….seemingly.
This is a very thorough list. Most of these seem pretty easy to start using right away, which I definitely intent to do! I also appreciate the few DO NOT tips.
Great tips, although I’d disagree strongly with #40 – buying text links through a broker like this is a sure-fire way to get your site penalised by Google. Even the most high-quality blog will suffer a loss in traffic if it doesn’t appear in the search results!
Ha3x, the way we can get back-link from Google, Yahoo or MSN is if we through Adword win an auction, so our ads will appear on their homepages. Of course, every time people click it, we should pay them…..
Awesome list! There are definitely a lot of ways to get backlinks that are totally legit, and you’re right.. they key is NOT TO SPAM! Anyway, I really came to your blog to let you know that I saw this exact article on another blog (a notorious copycat.. she copied from me once as well). I’m not sure if you care or not. But well if you’d like the link to her blog.. feel free to reply to my comment or email me. I don’t want to post it here because I’d just be giving her “link love”. The reason I knew it was copied, because she didn’t even have the sense to remove the “Unquestionably, even here at Blogussion” part. LOL. *sigh…
Great link-building tips. I especially like the info about trackbacks…something I need to implement on my blogs!
Wow, people do that? I mean steal your stuff and don’t even have enough sense to change it. I’m new to this and just learning so these kinds of articles really help me. Many times tho the article will say something like “get backlinks” and not tell you how but you’ve really covered a lot and I’m one of those that didn’t already know so thanks. Now, can you just tell me how to add about 20 hours to my days?
Genius! I seldom bumped into a blog with information as enlightening as this. I’m interested with the freebies thing. Haven’t done that yet. Thanks for sharing that idea. Nice job!
Thanks very helpful but hard to fit
I’ve been searching posts like this to guide me in my link building campaigns. And great, I found this one. But this guide will be useless if I will not follow the tips at heart and doing nothing to improve my sites authority.
Thank you so much for this wonderful post, that’s full of great resources on linking.
It’s an art, for sure.
I’m grasping it, slowly…
The Franchise King®
Running off to go play with Squidoo…actually looks like fun!
Thanks for the suggestions!
Hey,
I am really liking this blog! I especially love posts like this one because you have saved the reader a lot of time by putting these great lists together!
Thanks
Daniel
Thank you so much for the list will wait for more blog list…
working on some do follow blogs will come soon with the list…
excellent post on link building, thank you so much helping newbie !
Thanks for the great information. I will bookmark this page so that I can implement these as I have time. Some of them I had already implemented, but there are still plenty on the list that I have not.
Thanks for the tips! I am just starting out and really appreciate the info!
Wow this is a great list, it really covers everything! I will definitely bookmark this page. Thanks a lot!
Great help for Seo . Fantastic.
Great advice. This site is full of good info. How does a 16 year old know all this already?
Sick!
I was looking at Thesis theme related websites and I found yours, I was quite impressed with the changes you made to your theme, then I was impressed with the content too.
I like the suggestions you made in this post, but what I’d like to know is N 22 Technorati, I still don’t see a clear use of it.
if having time could you explain.
Thanks and keep going
Very cool and important tips to implement in whatever site.
Too bad the digg won’t work anymore. They messed it all up.
excellent tips…great post Now Playing Film
Now that’s a thorough list, thanks for sharing! Lots of ideas here I would have never tried otherwise.
That is a good ;ist of things to get backlinks from. The freebie offers do wrok well. The one link you have to advertise is wrong or you took it down just so you know.
I’ve always had my best luck with the link-baiting techniques. If you get creative and provide value it works.
Trackbacks is a great way to gain backlinks, thanks for sharing.
nice to sharing, you are the chef, and have a lot of interested info here
Hi Janith, thanks for sharing these techniques. I think you have almost displayed all the techniques to be carried in order to move on your blog to top position of SERP. But I always prefer to get a contextual link.
Great List Janith!
Really useful stuff. Thanks!
Nice post about link building , i totally agree with you but i rather using social bookmarking and article submit
Great list sharing because today Link Building is a base of Internet Marketing.Its very difficult or totally to promote business products over internet without using Link Building techniques.
WoW ! Amazing ways to build links. Great links, I’d better say…
Wow, there are really 45 great ways to build links for my site. Really big thanks!
thanks for this beautiful post. there’s a lot of websites ( blog ) that supports comments, and by commenting you can do link building. but always remember first read the article and then comment relevant to it. otherwise the site owner will either delete your comment or wont ever approve it. No one wants to see crap at his site..
Awesome and exhaustive list. My fave would be the “top 100″ page or article, am working on one now for a new site of mine. Let’s see how long it takes me to compile it. Thanks for the idea.
Cheers,
Ian
A great tip to promote blogs and sites, is “Add Links To” (http://www.addlinksto.com). Worth it, great!
Another great list! Backlinks are one of those things that everyone wants, but some people manage to get better than others. It really does come down to reciprocity after a while. You scratch my back… that sort of thing.
This post is very informative. Thanks a lot for sharing this. As for myself, I use social sites to drive traffic to my websites. Its indeed very effective and generates link views by bulk. As for blog commenting, I often look for the word “comment luv” because its clean and commenter’s owns quality sites too.
very useful tips thanks for sharing..
nice tips, but the problem is that a lot of them require a lot of time, so it’s better to outsource some of them
Well, its a good list. I myself use stumbleupon. But i haven’t had much success with them. Most of my traffic comes from search engines. Cheers
Nice list. You can also include the promotion of rss feeds.
Thanks a lot for these link building tips, I was just looking for new ideas to promote my own blog. Great content is the best way to promote your blog in my opinion
While promoting blog don’t forget trackbacks. This may help you in promoting your blog.
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I’m just getting in to social bookmarking, and I can’t believe I never tried it before. Also, I’ve heard some things about selling clickbank products with googlegroups, but I didn’t know how effective they are. I’ll surely try it
Hi, the blog is really good. which helps to get good ranking and giving nice tips for blogging.
thanks for nice articles.
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