So you dont know how to get links? 1002 ways!
Web developer friend of mine recently asked how he could get links so here you go Stu…
Ask for links
- Get a link from the local chamber of commerce
- Call webmasters on the phone and ask for links
- Email webmaster and ask for links
- Ask friends and family to link to you
- Ask to be listed on governmental resources
- Find articles in your niche and ask them to link to you
- Find sites in your niche linking to dead sites, ask them to link to you instead
- Find sites in your niche linking to inferior sites, ask them to link to you instead
- Find hubs/authority sites in your niche
- Analyze competitors back links - Ask to be listed on there too
- Back a cause and produce something useful for it, contact organizers and let them know
Link Networks
- Create own private networks
- Create authority hubs - sites that link to your own and competitor sites
- Create multi tired networks, that feed links into your own sites
- Build real value niche sites, cross link to other relevant sites in your network
- Create a public link network
- Let people trade links
- Favor your own sites
Directories
- Submit to paid directories
- Submit to free niche directories
- Submit to the big free directories
- Submit to free general directories - avoid directories with no editorial process.
- Create your own directories
- Link to your own sites
- 3 way link exchanges
- Create niche directories, become the authority in that niche.
- Create general directories - charge a minimal fee to cut out junk
Buy links
- Pay for blog posts
- Pay for reviews
- Make donations - get listed on charity sites, open source projects
- Send bloggers freebies
- Offer bloggers cash
- Offer DMOZ editors something for a fast review
- Offer forum moderators cash or freebies for a mention
- Give away merchandise for links - USB, beer, t-shirts
- Buy whole sites - monitor places sites are often sold
- Buy a word in an existing article
- Become a link broker -pick the best for yourself
- Sponsor a student project
Give away stuff
- Give away tools and geek stuff
- Templates
- Plugins
- Code snippets
- Stat counters
- Logos
- Contribute to open source projects
- Branded merchandise
- Offer discounts to people placing links on their site
- Release an extension or plugin for browsers and other popular software
- Build a website for a local charity, or university group that can attract quality links - Spend some time getting them links too
Distribute Content
- RSS feeds
- Give away articles
- Submit an article to industry news site
- Write for other sites for free
- ezinearticles.com
- goarticles.com
- isnare.com
- Write for other sites and get paid
- Publish a distribute white papers
- Become a guest blogger
- Become an editor
- Get listed in Google news
- Get listed in Yahoo news
- Create press releases
- prweb.com
- internet.com
- businesswire.com
- prnewswire.com
- bacons.com
- e-releases.com
- prfree.com
- pr.com
- webwire.com
- marketwire.com
- 24-7pressrelease.com
- pressreleasenetwork.com
- i-newswire.com
- Track who picks up our articles or press releases. Offer them exclusive news or content.
- Publish ebooks laden with links and encourage people to distribute for free
Exchange Links
- Join link exchange networks
- Contact webmasters directly
- Start a link exchange network
- Start a webring(come up with a web 2.0 name but don’t call it a webring)
- Join a webring
Forums
- Links in signatures
- Links in profile
- Links in posts
- Post yourself
- Pay people to post often
- Ask people you know
- Entice established members
- Swap signature links with others
Reviews
- Leave testimonials on other sites
- Review and recommend local businesses and ask for a link back
- Review products services and ask for link back
- Provide graphic. Eg. Voted best website 2007
- Get your own site and products reviewed by others
Blogs
- Become an expert
- Give interviews on your industry
- Interview well known bloggers
- Leave real comments on other blogs
- Leave feedback without spamming or trying to sell.
- Point out helpful errors
- Make suggestions
- Flatter someone on their success
- Compliment someone on a great post
- Link to people likely to link back
- Trackbacks
Too lazy to categorize
- Hire a link building expert
- Start a flame war
- Become an official partner
- Build a list that others will link to
- Get paid to build a website and get a link back
- Submit great designed sites to web and css galleries
- Perform surveys and studies
- Publicize survey results - Publish several articles from same survey, controversial or unusual results
- Become and editor of DMOZ and other sites
- Make media contacts, provide stories for links
- Find sites doing website of the day, recommend your site
- Find top site lists and submit get listed
- Get financial sites listed in Google finance
- Cartoons - include link code
- Sponsor events - small meetings, put money behind the bar - Others will blog and thank you
- Set up a Squidoo page
- Provide web hosting for a link
- Provide web software for a link
- Join an organizations and associations and get listed a member
- Become an expert. Contact editors and writers, and let them know you are available as a source
- Try and a link on each article, or each time you are quoted
- Try to get your own bio page
- Drive affiliate links to your own sites
- Make it a requirement to link to your site in all contracts with:
- resellers
- partners
- subcontractors
- vendors
Photographs
- Of yourself with celebs
- Of something stupid
- With well known people in your industry
- Be the first to post pictures of an event or product
Social
- Create diggable stories often and submit to social sites
- Study what works for each social sites
- Give your story a push from friends
- Entice top members
- Create bogus accounts and push your own stuff
Link bait
- David and goliath
- Taboo, sex
- Outrageous
- Unusual
- Tell a secret - Be the first with the news
- Humor
- Lie - make up a number like 1002
Link building is a constant ongoing task even for sites that are already number one. Keep record of all efforts, sites submitted to, people contacted etc.
Lot of this list comes from other sources, mostly arron walls, and Brandon Hopkins To be honest i dont remember where some of these came from, so if i have stolen your ideas then let me know.
