42 Genuine Link Building Strategies You Must Try

Really Awesome topic to talk about in every second of a blogger. Because great Link Building Strategies always can boost your rankings more than any other SEO Factor. You want simple and quality link building strategies? Yes, that’s why you’re here.

Even there are many link building strategies around the web, this list includes only WhiteHat or Google loving link building strategies.

You’ll never get penalized by Google for following these strategies as long as you keep the Rate and Relevancy in a constant point.

Reason why this list does not contain any BlackHat link building strategies is – Google doesn’t love them and you’ll not get long term results by following bad strategies. Okay, now you’re proceeding to the 42 Link Building Strategies which delivers you the results you want.

1. Sharing links with your friends

You have so many friends. So tell them to add your link on their little blog. They might not blog professionally. But they can give a link. The link value will be not worth much, But remember it’s worth even a little.

2. Sharing homepage links with other bloggers in your niche

See your competition as your friends, because the word ‘Relevancy’ is in their hands. Start a true relationship with other bloggers in the same niche you blog. Exchange links with those friend bloggers under Partners or Friends section of their Sidebar.

This will bring you Sitewide Links, but it’s always good to use NoFollow attribute link in this case as it is said by Google.

3. Sharing post page links with other bloggers in your niche.

This one is the best method of link exchanging. Because it don’t put you in a Risk!.

Google also likes these type of links, as they are relevant. You need to ask your niche bloggers to exchange links on their posts. Simply, you make a Backlink for him with the requested Anchor Text from your blog post and he do the same for you with your Keywords as the anchor text.

This improves your power for that keyword brilliantly …!

4. Write Professional content regularly.

Yeah I mean regularly. It might be hard some times, but your dedication can defeat it.

Don’t write ordinary posts all the time, instead of ordinary posts you need to write killer posts – They will eat the competition!

5. Use PPC and see the results.

PPC or Pay Per Click can be useful some times, but I don’t use it for ScorpionGod Lair. If your content rocks, the people arrive from PPC Campaign may share your stuff on their Social Media accounts and probably they will blog about your post.

6. Write articles for article directories

You can write some articles to article directories such as EzineArticles, ArticleBase etc.

Usually they all have great rankings and Authority.

So the links from them will manage to flow more SEO juice which are more valuable. Try to write killer professional 30 articles and then submit them to highest ranking article directories. You’ll feel the increase of Visitors after a month.

Don’t forget to add few Backlinks to your website.

7. Submit your feed to Syndication sites

There are many sites that Syndicate content. Try to participate in them. I mean add your blog to those Syndication lists. You’ll have some readers also from those sites.

8. Write Guest Posts

This is the best link building strategy I recommend. Find some well-established blogs in your niche and write cracking Guest Posts.

Those posts also bring you lot of visitors while giving extremely high quality relevant links. So this is the game. Write 50 Guest posts now and select 50 blogs and distribute them within a week of time frame.

You’ll have cracking party in your blog. I’m sure you’ll have that party – If you Do!

9. Email your best content to bloggers in your niche

Yeah, this is looking little spammy. But spammy is your behavior not your work.

If you managed to write Killer Professional Articles, then you can recommend them to bloggers in your niche. Write a professional email saying only that you believe the blogger likes your article. And put the link to it. No need to say stories in your mail. You’re dealing with bloggers. So you need to care about their valuable time.

If your article win the mind of that blogger. Then surely they will recommend it to their readers also. That gives you a link.

10. Submit your blog to DMOZ

This is the first and most wanted Directory you need to submit your blog. This is the ODP Directory or Open Directory Project runs totally by humans.

All the submissions are manually checked by someone. So this directory offers the most valuable links. Authority of your blog also rises. Google and other Search Engines are using information on DMOZ.

11. Submit your blog to Technorati

Then the second Directory you need to submit is Technorati. Register for an account and claim your blog. This is valuable as much as DMOZ.

12. Submit your blog to other Quality blog directories both paid and Free

There are so many other useful blog directories. First, make a list of High Quality Free blog directories and submit to them.

Then if you like try the paid directories. When you submit to blog directories always care about the directory. It might send bot traffic or other spammy thing and will lead your blog to penalized by Search Engines. Google don’t like low quality bot directories. So try the most popular directories only.

13. Submit your blog to RSS directories.

This one also like blog directories but gives more links than those blog directories. So you must try this also. Make sure you review the quality of the RSS Directory before submitting.

14. Tag your blog in Delicious.

Share your blog in Delicious. It will give you more exposure and Backlinks for every time you share your stuff.

Don’t forget to share others’ stuffs too.

15. Share your content in FaceBook, Twitter.

These are the big buddies of Social Media and you want to build your exposure on these 2. Because when you build the exposure, it builds you Backlinks.

16. Get Google +1s for your Posts.

Google is the giant of the Internet and Google Plus is their Social Media site. Having more +1s means you’re increasing the value of your website more than what you will get in other Social Media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

17. Pin your interesting content in Pinterest

This is the new Social Media site which captured a higher place in Social Media list in the world. It’s a cracking rocket for Graphic attachments such as Infographs, Photographs.

Pin your bests in interesting Pinterest.

18. Share your content in Digg

Digg is also another Social Bookmarking site but with higher rankings. Add your best there too.

19. Tell your friends to vote for your Digg & Delicious links

Try to bring your link into homepage or featured list in those social bookmarking sites. Then you’ll have great rankings and much traffic. That traffic also helps you to get more shares on those sites and on other Social Media sites too.

20. Link to other WP blog posts – Trackbacks

You have other bloggers in your niche. Recommend their posts to your readers. Then that blogger will be notified your link to his post and will be appeared in his post under Trackbacks section. You get a link nicely. Do this honestly.

21. Answer some questions in your niche on Yahoo Answers

Another cracking place to grab more links and traffic. You can answer relevant questions and add your link to resource box. This will bring traffic to some extend. Try to answer 10 questions every week.

The more you answer with your Resource Links, the more Backlinks you get. Before you can post clickable links you need to be in Level 2.

22. Post a classified add on Craiglist

Craiglist is a classified ad service for large number of niches. You should try with Craiglist, One of my customers receive more than 500 visitors per day from running Craiglist campaigns.

23. Use Google Groups to distribute your content.

Create a Google group in there and get some members. Distribute your content. Get links!

24. Try to create a Wikipedia page for you or for your blog after becoming popular enough.

Don’t do this one If you’re still not a well-established blog. And Wikipedia don’t let you create pages as you want them. You must offer some value to its readers. So do it only if you have something special.

25. Use Squidoo Lenses

This is same as Article Directories, but Squidoo is a web 2.0 content directory and you need to supply real content

26. Add Links to your RSS Feed

Bad guys use automated software to publish blog posts, interesting thing is they can use your RSS Feed to publish your stories to their blog automatically. When you place links to your Post and Blog in the RSS Feed story footer, you get those links when they publish your stuff.

WordPress SEO by Yoast is a plugin that can do this and lot of OnSite SEO tweaks.

27. Use your blog links in the Signature field of Forums

Use relevant niche Forums and be active on them.

Start a thread about anything with 2 or 3 concrete facts about the topic. If you have relevant articles in your blog, just link them at the necessary place.

Don’t go to do this once after you register there. First be active and show you’re real. Start your Forum journey from WarriorForum and make sure to read the tough rules of WF.

28. Post your blog links in the Personal Profile of sites

There are so many membership sites. Most of them allows you to add your blog link to profile page. FaceBook, Twitter are two examples, But there are non-Social Bookmarking sites too.

You find them!

29. Write Reviews in Alexa for related blogs

Write a clear honest Alexa review for related blogs in your niche. This will add exposure to your blog. Sometimes a link back.

30. Write Testimonials for new Digital Products

There are so many products and services released on Internet every day.

Most of the new products have review copies or just buy the product. Write a testimonial about the product and ask the seller to mention your Website Link with your testimonial.

If the product is a goldmine, it’ll bring you high quality links once it become popular.

31. Write Professional Useful comments

You may already have a list of relevant blogs in your niche. So read their posts and write a Quality & Valuable Comment.

All the big attracting comments get traffic and exposure while giving a relevant link. This one also used by me widely.

32. Hold Interesting contests

Think different and unique way, and Hold a cracking contest. It’ll help you to get large number of links depending on your contest. Try to design one that gives optimum results.

33. Design Few Web Tools

You may be blogging about Blogger Tricks and then you can design some web-based applications or funky tools. For example design a tool to check how many links in a page. There are so many tools like that. So think different.

34. Create some nice looking WP and blogger templates and submit them to template sites.

This one is a good way only if all the bloggers who are going to use these themes or templates are going to be popular. But unfortunately even half of them not going to be success. Anyway you can get links from the footer credits every time when someone use your themes or templates.

35. Try designing a Chrome extension or Firefox Addon

The best face to face fighting browsers in the world are Firfox and Chrome. So create some useful Firefox addons and extensions for them.

No matter what it makes easier for the user. Just make a good one.

36. Write really long Killer articles(2000 words or above)

As I said earlier Killer articles win the game mostly. These are going to be viral sometimes.

37. Write cracking tutorials with every single point included

This one also linkbait post – Posts which have the aim of getting trillions of links. Really great tutorials are going to get links easily. Because it is really helpful in any corner.

38. Write list posts like this.

Another type of linkbait posts. List posts are normally points or facts about a topic. It may be a list of achieving something or it may be a list of myths and so on.

39. If you are using your mother language forums. Then write your blog posts summary or half of the post in your mother language and post in those forums.

Try this method if you love to have country traffic. This method is really effective in normal forums.

40. Write an Ebook or a report and submit them to Ebook sites and directories.

There are bunch of Ebook sites. So create a free report or ebook and submit them to those sites with a linkback. You can grab traffic also. Free-Ebooks is a good one to start.

41. Create a presentation and submit it to Slideshare

If you have something to say which is complex and needs much words to explain. Then try creating a presentation. submit it to sites like SlideShare.

42. Create a Free WordPress Plugin & Submit it to the Repository

WordPress plugins are getting talked by all the people who use them. So try creating a one and submit it to WP plugins page. I created my 1st WordPress Plugin called SEO Advicer which delivers SEO Actions right in your WordPress Dashboard.

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