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The Ultimate Link Building Strategies

February 14, 2010 - Last Modified: February 16, 2010 by Onibalusi Bamidele

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Link building is the major secret to search engine rankings, I will tell you to forget about high search engine rankings if you forget link building. Here are some ultimate link building strategies to help you have an effective link building and a better search engine ranking.

1. Social Bookmarking Sites

The social bookmarking sites is now fast becoming part of SEO and as we all know how the game of SEO is, every sharp webmaster will want to tap into this. The advantage of social networks/social bookmarking sites is that they have a huge readership thereby a very large amount of content which makes the search engines crawl them fast. They also have a lot of backlinks thus leading to high pagerank and high trust in them by search engines.

Social websites have so many advantages, they are so powerful to the extent of getting your website indexed in a little period of time. Examples are digg,reddit,stumbleupon.

It is also important to consider niche related social bookmarking sites, a good example is the mmosocialnetwork.com and sphinn.com, the former is making money online related while the later is SEO related.

2. Blog Commenting

Blog commenting is an easy yet effective means of gaining relevant backlinks. The simple proccess is to put your desired anchor text in the name field of the comment section of the website you are commenting on while putting your website in the website field. It is also important to know that nofollow links are useless to your search engine rankings (but should be used a little to make your link profile natural), a googd list of dofollow blogs, and you can also try to use 5the dofollow search engine at www.commenthunt.com.

3. Link Exchange

This is also another link building method, the method to be used is to try sending a personalized email to the recipient (the person you are requesting link from, tell him about the high quality content you have, tell him what your websites both have in common and tell him you will also be interested in linking back to him.

Some people advise to try out link exchange programmes, but i think it can devalue your website (try it out if you think it works).

4. Article Directories

This is also an effective but difficult means of getting high quality backlinks; effective in the term that your quality article gets copied by other webmasters thereby increasing your backlinks and difficult in terms of time taken to write the articles. If you have the time, it is a good thing to consider.

5. Web Directories

This is a very good method of giving your website some value, especially if the link is from old and quality directories like yahoo directory, dmoz e.t.c the reason for this is that it makes your website more valouable and respected by search engines but be wise and don’t over do it as it also has negative effects.

Conclusion

All the above tips are to be considered for an effective link building and can help catapult your website to the next level of search engine rankings.

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About Onibalusi Bamidele

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{ 32 Responses }

  1. Noel says:
    there are only two remaining fool proof methods social media and blog commenting , the rest are going to be gone too soon and irrelevant,and gov and edu are just killer, my blog is barely a month old and its already ranked 5th for a low competive keyword ,I believe that is nuff proof, we have all the top notch bloggers, what do you say
  2. Faisal Ahmed says:
    Great article . It will be helpful for me . How can i increase my website backlink ? I submitted my website link in many web directories but my website backlink does not increase.
  3. Lowongan Kerja says:
    Create Comment with not releavan subject also will create problem with google panda, and now we dont know how to communicate with right direction with google
  4. Sabrina Sabino says:
    I've heard a lot about Google's dislike for link exchanges. I think it is definitely something that should be practiced with care. But still very useful in terms of page ranking though, if that's important.
  5. bulir permata says:
    I am very happy to see you here. Thanks for share your thought about blogging. And the best part of it, we all in the warmest community and find the greatest people like you, my friend. I am proud to be your friend here. God bless you.
  6. Rina As says:
    After the algorithm google panda was launched, the social bookmarking one site that can have a huge impact on our blog seo optimization. I think to build links from social bookmarking sites is very helpful
  7. Ben from says:
    Well, link exchange isn't really advisable according to most of SEO specialist that I know. I currently work on blog commenting since it's really powerful.
  8. rahul says:
    I stop reading when i saw Link Exchange on this list!
  9. sudha says:
    I also was having a problem with the title, and I toke a wrong decision by not changing (editing) the title of the post, I am even wondering why people retweeted the post lots!
  10. Fiona Bosticky says:
    Great and simple link building strategies - clear and to the point. I have found "Blog Commenting" so beneficial for so many reasons, especially for meeting and getting to know other excellent bloggers. Thanks for sharing this.
  11. Rommel says:
    Some of here are still effective but some I think are not. Like link exchange. When Google noticed this kind of linking you may got penalized and removed your site to their listing.
  12. Brendan says:
    you forgot the best link building strategy of them all, writing good content. That would get you the most links from the best blogs. .-= NEW from Brendan @ Online Marketing Consultant´s last blog ..Main Street Marketing Machines =-.
  13. Webmaster says:
    Hi, Just found this blogpost from my technorati news feed section, fantastic post, keep it up. Thanks, Kelly
  14. infopediaonlinehere says:
    I know commenting.. what is a backlink dude...this is an useful article .-= infopediaonlinehere´s last blog ..Google App Engine technologies, Google App Engine SDK, Google cloud computing google app engine =-.
  15. karthi says:
    http://mybrainstock.blogspot.com/p/miscellaneous.html says the natural way of link building .-= karthi´s last blog ..ARE YOU LEFT ALONE TO DECIDE? DON'T WORRY! =-.
  16. Anish K.S says:
    Social Bookmarking and Commenting on other blogs, these are my favorites. Thanks for sharing the info. .-= Anish K.S´s last blog ..Paypal Resuming local bank withdrawals to India =-.
  17. Satria says:
    I just start a blog Commenting for link building. Link building is one of the most important of the business blog. I realize this has a good effect for the blog. Moreover, by visiting a blog I got a lot of inspiration. .-= Satria @Best Wordpress Themes´s last blog ..Genesis Theme Framework and Child Theme Explanation by StudioPress =-.
  18. Joe in San Diego says:
    Thanks for the do follow lists! It looks like I have a long night ahead of me :) .-= Joe in San Diego@San Diego Mortgage Loan´s last blog ..San Diego 6 Morning Show, San Diego Mortgage Loans and High Loan to Value Home Financing =-.
  19. Onibalusi Bamidele says:
    @andrew and @Hesham I made a mistake in the title cos it is by no means the ultimate, I just wanted it to get attention. Thanks for the notice.
    • Olusegun says:
      Hi, That tactic can backfire as it is misleading. There are other ways of getting attention without misdirecting people. All the same, all the best. Cheers .-= Olusegun´s last blog ..20 lessons I have learnt about blog commenting =-.
  20. Dennis Edell says:
    I must agree with Andrew. 1-2 good starter tricks, but certainly not the ultimate by any means. .-= Dennis Edell´s last blog ..Blog Updates: New Category-Pages Done, Like It? =-.
  21. Trevor Bandura says:
    Social bookmarking sites are great but you have to make sure that you are posting to the proer category or you stand a chance of getting banned. I had to learn this the hard way but got it all fixed after explaining that I made an honest mistake.
  22. chandan says:
    Hey nice information, for me blog commenting is the best way for building link for my blog. Also social bookmarking help for indexing my post soon on search engine. .-= chandan´s last blog ..New program at google work at home affiliate network-February 10, 2010 =-.
  23. Andrew says:
    The title is "The Ultimate Link Building Strategies" but the vast majority of social media sites including the ones you mention like Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon DO NOT provide backlinks. I certainly wouldn't recommend Link Exchange. You say Article Directories is "difficult" but it's not - it's one of the easiest! Web Directories can work but is not used so much these days as Google knows so many people abuse such a function. Sorry to be slightly negative towards the article but some of the information is wrong or out of date. Andrew .-= Andrew @ Blogging Guide´s last blog ..My Blogging Guide Blog Is One Year Old =-.
    • Hesham says:
      You are right Andrew, The Social Media sub title should be changed to social bookmarking sites! I also was having a problem with the title, and I toke a wrong decision by not changing (editing) the title of the post, I am even wondering why people retweeted the post lots!
      • Andrew says:
        I decided not to Tweet this time! Andrew .-= Andrew @ Blogging Guide´s last blog ..My Blogging Guide Blog Is One Year Old =-.
  24. Tom says:
    You could also include Squidoo lenses, the links in them are do-follow! .-= Tom@Market Samurai Discount´s last blog ..Market Samurai Review | Part 1 =-.
  25. Dana says:
    Social media surely is an important part of SEO this days. It brings a lot of traffics while give precious back link to our site. .-= Dana @ Blogging Update´s last blog ..New Domain Adding in Web Hosting Service by use Cpanel Addon Facility =-.
  26. Anthony Feint says:
    A good guide. I mainly use social bookmarking sites. I guess I also make quite a few comments which add to my backlinks, although most aren't dofllow .-= Anthony Feint´s last blog ..It’s Time to Think About Income =-.

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