One Way Link Building

Over 100 link building strategies work and you can use any but I’d be sharing with you 7 highly effective one-way link building habits I have just learning from a pro.

The first thing I had to learn was that key is to test each of them and see the results. Usually a combination of a couple of techniques is the best option. As time goes by, you’ll find which ones give you the best SEO results.

#1: Quality Content

There isn’t any link building strategy more effective than the old, enduring formula of writing compelling contents that focus on the reader’s needs.  Link-worthy contents with viral appeal incite people to comment, refer, recommend and link to. This is the science of linkbaiting.

It’s not easy to do but it’s going to be worth all your time and effort from top to bottom. Your content is basically a part of the most important branding assets you have.

#2: Commenting

Dennis Edell is the king of blog commenting.I always looks up to him when I need motivation to comment on blogs. Commneting builds connection with other bloggers; it is a primary source of direct traffic and incoming links. Get rid of the “they will come” mentality when you write content. Ignorance isn’t an excuse for not commenting as you should. Sometimes I am guilty of it too.

There is commenting etiquette. What you need to know first is that the key make relevant, value-added comments. Regular comments like “Great post!” ”Nice One.” “I agree with you!” are frowned at. They are obvious attempts to get backlinks.

#3 : Article Marketing

I love article marketing. It is still one of the best tactics to get traffic to your blog. It converts better than typical search traffic and gives contextual links back to your blog. You can script a killer article, submit it to Ezine Articles and watch your one-way incoming links explode magically.

I experimented with this tactic to build links to one of my niche sites and it has been good.  Believe me link building doesn’t get much easier than that. Besides, article marketing and distribution is now very easy

#4:Guest Posting

Guest posting has huge benefits and it is a win-win situation. It’s an opportunity to reveal yourself before your host’s audience. Never underestimate it.  Guest appearances up your profile as a blogger and you can have links back to your own site.

Note that guest posting not as effective as viral as article marketing, it is still effective. I do of guest posts and my subscribership increased.

#5: Forum Marketing

I’m just getting into forum marketing and I doubt if Google gives much value to forum signature links. They are not the best quality wise. It may be that the value of a link is directly proportional to how easy you get it. This is just my guess though. Even though forum links are much lighter in weight than contextual links, if they are  dofollow, it’s worth the effort to build links with forum signature anyway.

#6: Contest

Contests are just being resuscitated again. This link building tactic is still worthy of mention. Done right, it can go viral and send links to your blog and it’s a win-win game for everyone involved.

#7: The Power of Linking Out

Finally, the last link building tactic is to link out to others to attract links. Sometimes, if you link out first, others return the good act. The golden rule is to link out to the relevant blogs that add valuable information resources to your readers.

Linking building is not brain surgery. Minimum effort is required on your part but you do not always get the attention of those you link out to.

Check out performancing’s 9 reasons why you shouldn’t be afraid to link out. Still not sure? See Why linking to other blogs is key.

Summary

The science of Link building is time-consuming and requires a lot of consistency, patience and the right links.

Jim Boykin wrote on his blog: “Getting a few of the right links, from the right places can be more valuable than getting 100 links from the wrong places”.

These 7 habits of building links will bring your blog closer to the top of search engine rankings. You will be awarded with that coveted Page Rank status. If you like this article, you can link to me!