If you spend any amount of time building web sites and getting backlinks for them, you’ll undoubtedly come across several people that will gladly share their link building strategies. The catch is that these strategies rarely work for everybody. It may take a little longer, but there are some strategies that are like black shoes. They always work and never go out of style. Here are some of them so you know what to do when the latest fad strategy isn’t working for you:
1. Press Releases: Send out press releases related to your niche along with inline anchor text links. That will help with your search engine rankings. 2. Related Niche Directory Submissions: Get your links from related directories first, and you’ll boost the relevancy of your backlinks. 3. Bookmarking Sites: These are a great way to get permanent links, but be careful about spamming them. Get your account deleted, and you’ll lose everything you’ve built. Social networking sites are becoming an increasingly useful tool for link building.
4. Forums: Find forums related to your niche and start making posts. You might even find some forums full of people that will be more than willing to help you start out your business. Make posts, participate in a variety of threads, and get yourself known (or at least recognized), and people are bound to see your links. Pretty simple, but again, try not to spam them. Some forums are very strict about spam and other unwanted content- some even go so far as to change the content of your posts and leave your name up- read: spam a forum, shoot yourself in the foot.
5. Directory Listings: Find good directories- ones that have lots of bad links won’t help you much. 6. Blog Reviews: Find blogs related to your site and post comments on them- get your name out there. 7. Yahoo Answer: Write related articles; search engines crawl here all the time. 8. Submit Articles: This won’t affect traffic directly, but any keywords you use as anchor text helps search engines find you. 9. Blog on Your Site: Regular blog updates using anchor text keywords helps your site rank higher on search engines as well as driving traffic to your site.
These link building strategies have shown their usefulness time and time again, with varying degrees of success. Play with them and see which one works best for you and your niche.
