75 Ways to Build Quality Backlinks to Your Website
Posted by RevenueGal on
June 15, 2010
75 Ways to Build Quality Backlinks to Your Website
1. Write guest posts on blogs that are related to your field. Many bloggers will be glad to allow you to provide some fresh content for them in exchange for a link back to your site. Just contact the blogger and make an offer.
2. Answer questions on sites such as Answers. Yahoo.com, AllExperts.com and JustAnswer.com. By providing quality advice on subjects related to your site, you link to your pages as related information. Just understand that sites like this frown on website owners simply linking to their sites. You can link when it’s relevant, but you don’t need to say it’s your own site.
3. Apply as an expert at About.com, or as a blogger at a site such as B5Media.com. These sites have lots of traffic, and you can link to your site on your profile page and within articles when appropriate.
4.Offer testimonials for the sales pages of products you enjoy. Internet marketers love to get them, and most will gladly post an active link or at least a URL to your site in return.
5. Post lists on your blog and submit them (or better yet, have someone else submit them) to social news and media sites such as Digg.com. Items such as “20 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Browser” and “Top Five Reasons Reading Is Good for You” are simple enough to come up with, and they tend to get lots of votes and links because they’re both informative and easily digestible.
6. Submit material to niche social media websites. While these have less traffic, it is more targeted, increasing the chance that visitors will be interested in linking to your site. Here is a list that might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
7. Try running a pay-per-click campaign to drive traffic to linkworthy material. If you target the right keywords, this could bring you a fair amount of links. Set a budget and let the campaign roll.
8. Write and distribute press releases to media websites (PRWeb.com for example) about special events your business is hosting. Customer appreciation days are always good in the absence of a special occasion.
9. Distribute press releases about new joint ventures. These are often featured in the business section of TV, radio and online news sites.
10. Distribute press releases about new products. This is an occasion worthy of a press release, too.
11. Organize or participate in community service projects. Send out press releases about this as well.
12. Send your press releases to bloggers in your field. They may not have audiences as large as the media does, but they will be more likely to write about your story if it relates well to their niches.
13. Submit articles to free article directories with your link in the resource box. Placement in the directory alone will give you a free link from the directory, plus other webmasters can use your article on their websites, giving you more links.
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14. Email bloggers in your field and pitch your site to them. If you can craft a proposal that will provide benefit to the blogger and his readers, he might be willing to do a post about your business or use you as a source.
15. Look for “In the News” pages on sites of companies in your industry. These provide links to news stories and blog posts about the company, so write about them and let them know. They might put you on their “In the News” page.
16. Submit your site to DMOZ.org. This is one of the most respected directories online, and getting listed with them can boost your traffic and search engine rankings. It’s also free, although there is no guarantee of inclusion.
17. Submit your site to reputable paid directories such as Dir.Yahoo.com and Best of the Web (BOTW.org). These directories charge a review fee, and inclusion is not guaranteed here either. But these sites are well respected, and getting your site listed can boost your search engine positioning.
18. Join your local Chamber of Commerce. This is good for your business for a lot of reasons, one of which is a link to your website from a respected resource.
19. Join the Better Business Bureau Online. It’s one of the most trusted organizations on the web and they link to members.
20. Find other organizations that link to members’ websites to join. For best results, choose ones related to your niche.
21.Write or edit Wikipedia pages. Even if you can’t get a page dedicated to your business, you could add links to your site as resources on other pages where appropriate.
22. Set up pages on Squidoo and HubPages. You can place your links on these pages, and if they are informative, readers will link to them or your main website.
23. Join and participate in forums. Add links to your site to your signature.
24. Set up a profile and review books and other products on Amazon.com. You can add a link to your site to your profile page, and the more products you review, the more exposure it will get.
25. Do reviews on other sites such as Epinions.com and Yelp.com. Most review sites allow links in your profile.
26. Submit your blog to Technorati.com. Add tags to your posts to have them appear in more places and make them easy to find.
27. Find quality sites to exchange links with. Quality is the key here – trading links with any old site won’t provide much value and could get you into trouble with the search engines. And the links should appear in a natural way (ex. in an article, in a product review, etc.), not as part of a “Links” or “Resources” page.
28. Donate to charity. Charitable websites might thank you by linking to your site.
29.Raise money for charity. Ask visitors and donors to help you spread the word, and send out press releases about it.
30. Have a prize drawing on your website or blog. Submit your contest to contest sites like online-sweepstakes.com, contestguide.com, contestalley.com, etc.
31.Have a referral contest. Whoever refers the most people to your forum, blog or email list wins. Participants will often post invitations for visitors to join on their websites.
32. Have a silly contest. Have participants post a wacky picture of themselves with your product on their blogs, or ask them to post videos of themselves doing a funny dance. Don’t forget to require a link to your site, too.
33. Give away information products. Ebooks, special reports and audio are simple and inexpensive to create, and if you’re giving them away, they can attract lots of traffic and links.
34. Give away free samples or inexpensive products. You can get your giveaway listed on freebie sites, and fellow webmasters will link to it as well.
35. Sponsor giveaways on blogs. You supply the product, and the blogger holds the giveaway. You’ll get a link from the blogger, and you could also request that entrants be required to link to your site.
36. Give webmasters or bloggers exclusive coupon codes to offer their visitors. You’ll get a link and some new prospects, and they will get to offer their visitors something of value.
37. Design WordPress themes, website templates, etc. You can add your link to the footer, and it will appear on any blog that uses the theme or template. If you’re not technical, hire someone to make it for you.
38. Create a widget (with a link to your site) for visitors to put on their blogs. If it’s well designed and useful, this could bring in tons of links. Again, if you’re not technical, hire someone to do it for you.
39. Develop a browser addon. Submit it for inclusion at the browser’s website, and spread the word to tech bloggers who might be interested in reviewing it. A capable coder can help you do this.
40.Create a Firefox theme. Submit it for inclusion on Firefox’s website, and at sites like Customize.org. You don’t have to be technical…just look for someone on rentacoder.com.
41. Offer useful tools on your website. Many real estate websites, for example, offer mortgage calculators. These applications encourage both traffic and linking.
42.Give away stuff. Free icons, clipart and other small graphics, with the requirement that those who use them link to your site.
43. Create profiles on popular social networking sites, and link to your site from them. Some of these will be “no follow” links, but when link building, don’t worry about this…just build good, quality links.
44. Comment on other users’ social networking profiles. Any comment will link to your profile. Only link directly to your site if you can do so in a relevant manner.
45. Link to your site from your blog and other sites you may have. But don’t place links to it on every page, or you could turn off both visitors and the search engines. Link just like you would if you were linking to an external site.
46. Link amongst pages on the same site within your content as much as possible. For best results, use the keywords you’re targeting for the linked pages.
47. Make sure you have good site navigation in place. This means having links to your most important pages on every page of the site. Good navigation makes it easier for your visitors to get around and gives each page more links.
48. Comment on blogs whose subject matter is related to your site. If you take the time to read the post and write a good, relevant comment, the blogger is unlikely to consider this spamming. Be respectful, keep your link in the space provided for your link.
49. Start an email newsletter and fill it with quality content. Offer an online version that readers can link to, or include some articles that you are willing to allow them to reprint in exchange for a link.
50. Create viral videos and upload them to sites such as YouTube.com, and include a link to your site in the description or profile. Visitors will often click the link in search of more information or entertainment. You can also gain links from those who use the video on their own sites. Not everyone who embeds the video will include a link to your site, but some will.
*As a helpful and time-saving resource, I suggest you consider article video robot to quickly create videos from simple articles and submit them to video sites.
51. Make yourself available for interviews, not only online, but with offline media. Most media outlets have websites, and they often post transcripts of interviews there along with relevant links.
52. Post a quiz on your website. It doesn’t really matter if it’s serious or silly, as long as it fits with your site’s theme and makes sense. Internet users love to test their knowledge (or be entertained, as the case may be).
53. Do a survey and post the results on your blog or website. These make great linkbait.
54. Advertise your site on Craigslist and other online classifieds. Most remove postings after a specified amount of time, however, so if you want your link to remain after that, you’ll have to resubmit it.
55. Send promotional items to bloggers in your industry. They may write a post thanking you for them.
56. Ask fellow webmasters and bloggers to review your products. They get a freebie, and you get exposure and a link.
57. Promote your RSS feed. Encourage webmasters and bloggers to add it to their sites. If it contains information that their audiences can use, they will often be glad to.
58. Offer free stock photos through sites such as Stock.Xchng (sxc.hu). You can require those who use them to link back to your site.
59. Go to trade conferences and do some networking. You could find some great people to cross-promote with.
60. Buy aftermarket domain names that have inbound links and redirect them to your site. This can be expensive, but it’s a quick way to get lots of links. But realize, if you don’t develop the website, the benefit of those links will be effective for a limited time.
61. Buy links from sites such as PayPerPost and Text Link Ads. Be forewarned, however, that search engines may discount these links unless they contain a “nofollow” tag.
62. Get your site reviewed. Some webmaster forums connect users who would like to exchange site reviews. And some bloggers are willing to do them as well if you ask.
63. Go local. Search for local websites and see if their webmasters would be willing to link to you. They are often happy to oblige.
64. Check Google Trends (google.com/trends) and see what keywords are hot at the moment. Try to find a logical way to work a post about one of them into your blog. If you use Technorati and social news sites to promote it, there’s a good chance that fellow bloggers and webmasters will see it and link to it.
65. Stir up some controversy. Everyone won’t agree with you, but you will almost certainly get some links out of the deal.
66. Give out awards for site of the week or month. Have a simple graphic created that recipients can display on their sites, and send them the code to display it along with a link back to you.
67. Donate money to open source projects. Often they will link to their donors.
68. Submit your blog to Zimbio.com. Zimbio is a community that allows users to contribute to “wikizines” by submitting relevant blog posts to them.
69. Start a Yahoo group (groups.yahoo.com). It’s free, it allows you to build a community, and it’s another place where you can add links to your site.
70. Submit your site to web design galleries. Some popular ones include CSSDesignVault.com, StyleGala.com, and TheBestDesigns.com.
71. Write instructional articles for sites such as eHow.com. Make them relevant to your site’s content and include it as a resource.
72. Get your hands on some exclusive content. If you can get an exclusive interview with a prominent figure in your field, it will almost certainly bring you traffic and high-quality links.
73. Make it easy for visitors to link to you. Create a “Link to Us” page with HTML coded links that they can copy and paste.
74. Comment on stories at popular news sites. Try to find stories that are related to your blog posts or specific pages on your website, and cite them in your comments.
75. Volunteer as a guest lecturer at your local institution of higher learning. This could get you a link on the school’s website.
