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9 Link Building Ideas for Bloggers which Still Work

August 16, 2008 by Amit Bhawani

SEO has never been really easy and in case of blogs generally bloggers start seeing visitors from the search engines because SE’s like Google have started indexing content in super speed which means that the moment you generally make a post on your blogs it gets indexed and you can find the blog posts in the google search and google blog search almost within a minute’s time.

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In order to get better rankings in the search engines and getting visitors from the search engines you need to perform On Page & Off Page Search Engine Optimization. In order to perform the most of your On Page SEO you need to install plugins like All in One SEO and for Off page SEO you need to perform some of the following link building ideas.

Effective Link Building Ideas

Link Building Ideas for Web Blogs :

  1. Web Directory Submissions : Though many people dont recommend web directories but its a very good way to build quality links. You need to perform good research before submitting your links to web directories. Here are some very good high quality web directories which can be recommended to make sure your blogs are instantly indexed because of the backlinks from these directories. Yahoo Directory, Google Directory, Best of the Web, Dmoz, Ezilon & Business.com. Some of these web directories would charge your listing fees and some are free directories but take good amount of time for approving your submitted website listing. There are many other web directories which may be of lower page rank or value but still they help and its worth submitting to any of these. Just make sure that these directories dont list any adult/bad network websites because in that case your website/blog can also get penalized.
  2. Press Release Submissions : Press Release is not always a free service but its worth the money paid because you get backlinks from very high reputed sources like PRWeb(Paid PR Submission which costs upto 360$) and also gives you a great exposure in the form of real visitors and listing in their network of News websites. There are free press release submission options like Free Press Release which you can use to get quality exposure to your website/blog.
  3. Blog Directory Submissions : If you are looking for building websites for your blog’s you can start submitting your blogs to blog directories. The advantage of this is that search engines can easily understand your blog’s theme when listed in authority(quality) blog directories and help you in ranking better in your niche. Some of the best blog directories would be Blog Catalog, Blog Hub, Blog Fusion, Blog Flux, Best of the Web Blogs, BlogoRama. You need to make sure you add a Original and different description for every different blog directory you submit your blog into and also submit to the most relevant category to make sure you get the best results.
  4. One Way Link Building : If you are looking for more one way permanent links you need to contact a SEO Company for building one way links which are theme based and can help you in gaining quality links. This can help you out because it offers you quality backlinks which are related to your website/blog’s niche and also have better authority than your website.
  5. Networking with Others : Be it websites or blogs, it does help if you link with other related websites and get linked back from them. You should not do this to the extreme but try to limit to around 20 maximum outbound links. You need to contact related website owners and try to get your website listed on their sidebar/homepage. If thats not possible try to write very useful information and get listed on other related websites with link back to these posts/pages.
  6. Starting Contests : Generally most bloggers keep offering contests in order to gain subscribers and traffic but with these contest they get a lot of link backs too with the minimal costs and helps them in better search engine rankings. Try out to create killer contests because they spread like fire and you can gain lot of backlinks from related blogs.
  7. Offer Discounts/Coupons : If you run a website and are looking for backlinks try to offer discounts/coupons of different products in the form of regular lists and these can be attracted by social networking websites where visitors keep sharing within their network in return offering you with lots of live backlinks. You can also offer the same in the form of blogging tools/web hosting coupons which bloggers would get attracted to.
  8. Article Directory Submissions : Submission of original articles which are related to your website/blog to article directories like Ezine Articles. There are hundreds of quality article directories where you can submit articles and they offer you a resource box where you can add live linkbacks to your websites/blog. Generally these all are Do-Follow and can help you in gaining Search engine rankings and Page Rank.
  9. Social Bookmarking : There are several high ranking social bookmarking websites like Delicious, Digg, Technorati, Propeller, StumbleUpon, Reddit and Fark. Most of these offer you with No-Follow but still it helps you in Search Engine Rankings in the long run.

There is no such rule that any of these would help your website/blog in search engine rankings, but if all of these done at the same time in a phazed manner then it would help you grow in long run. Nothing can be achieved in a day’s time because your website/blog would need sometime to gain authority.

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Comments

  1. Blog Traffic says

    August 16, 2008 at 5:27 pm

    To expand on your link building ideas: Combine #3 and #8.

    Backlinks from blog directories combined with backlinks from articles you submit (on topics closely related to your blog’s most important keywords) with dramatically improve your link popularity.

    A properly developed backlink program will deliver far more targeted traffic to your blog due to its impact on the search engines than due to the actual directory links themselves.

    I maintain a list of The Top 101 Blog Directories & RSS Submission Sites on my blog

    Since I update this list weekly there are now 276 entries with NO DEAD LINKS.

    Best of success,

    Robert A. Kearse

  2. Free tutorials says

    August 16, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    Gr8 Article I think all the tricks are known but really works. But I think you forgotten one point i.e. commenting on others blog may also be there.

  3. David-Gerrard says

    August 16, 2008 at 9:16 pm

    What about RSS, we have had good success by submitting our feed to feed directories.Most of them don’t require any membership or login details and the process is very quick.Try It!

  4. adda4u directory says

    August 17, 2008 at 1:33 am

    Awesome

    Starting Contests –Its really a good odea to get quality backlinks …thanks for wonderful tips …

    Keep it up
    Sri

  5. Venkat says

    August 17, 2008 at 5:15 am

    Thats a nice list of what to do when you start a new blog,I am planning to start one very soon and will try these tips and see how this works out.I hope this works out well for me and the visitor base and search engine exposure also increases for.Thanks for the tips It will be really useful If you can come up with articles more often.

  6. Patriot says

    August 17, 2008 at 7:29 am

    Amit u r greate. I have read many articles written by you and found all were well written and very informative and useful. You are Grea8 SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEO.

    Keep Posting such articles so others can benefit

  7. Amar says

    August 17, 2008 at 7:43 am

    hey i think this article can be really helpful for the new bloggers ( including me )

    link building seems to be the most difficult part but if we work hard then its worth it πŸ™‚

    so all the bloggers out there.. go ahead and do it πŸ™‚

  8. BharatBoom says

    August 18, 2008 at 5:41 am

    Really deep introduction to new blogger must read article good description Amit well done

  9. brijesh says

    August 18, 2008 at 9:20 am

    Hey Amit. Your article is very helpful and informative article for beginners like me.

  10. neil says

    August 19, 2008 at 7:54 am

    good link building article! link building is a difficult process but well worth it.

  11. Syed Taha says

    August 19, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    great article. i agree that link building helps over a period of time. most of the people lose hope cos they dont see results overnight.

  12. SEO Services says

    August 20, 2008 at 8:40 am

    I definitely agree on your list Link Building Ideas.

  13. Mahesh says

    August 20, 2008 at 10:53 am

    Social Bookmarking can give you relevant(targeted) traffic & also i helps to increase SERP’s

  14. Mahesh says

    August 20, 2008 at 10:53 am

    Social Bookmarking can give you relevant(targeted) traffic & also it helps to increase SERP’s

  15. Sherry says

    August 23, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    you are right about starting contest, so many blogger using contest to get linkback to their blog. Great idea.

  16. Sherry says

    August 23, 2008 at 3:02 pm

    As for social bookmarking I am still learning. Not sure on how its done.. but trying my best.. learning everyday..

  17. Patriot says

    August 24, 2008 at 4:25 am

    I implemented some of missing seo tips as suggested by you and i see little difference in alexa ranking and backlinks. I hope implementing these all would help in great way.As submission to directories is one of the easiest and best way to get back links and more traffics. Joining of social network site is another effective way to push your website ahead of others. Mr Amit please continue posting such article to help others in learning SEO tips and tricks.

  18. vinay says

    September 21, 2008 at 7:39 am

    Hi,

    serached for this article after speaking to you personally . nice one. . thanks for the info

  19. Piyush Shekhar says

    June 18, 2009 at 4:40 pm

    Great Article Amit. Nice list there.

    P.s. I am a first time reader here.

  20. Kannan says

    October 5, 2009 at 4:35 pm

    Very good and useful post

  21. Abhijeet Mathur says

    November 13, 2009 at 5:20 am

    Does signature adding on forums still a good idea for quality backlinks??

  22. freegame4u says

    November 24, 2009 at 7:10 am

    nice post.. i will surely try out some of your suggestions..

  23. Shahab khan says

    December 27, 2009 at 6:27 am

    Pretty nice ideas specially the point no. 2nd.
    I will give them a try.

  24. Rishabh Agarwal says

    January 9, 2010 at 10:38 pm

    I never got this directory submission thing

  25. Nancy Grandison says

    September 6, 2010 at 8:42 pm

    Some optional items you could include in your RESOURCE BOX are:

    1. Your Ezine Subscription Address: While getting your interested visitor to surf your website is nice, capturing their email address can help you begin the confidence/trust process. If you’re going to do this strategy, include a URL for your ezine subscription address and do not use an email address for the “join” address.

    2. Your Contact Information: Such as your business phone number or how to reach you for interviews or your press/media kit. Keep in mind that article marketing is a timeless strategy and you may not have an easy ability to retract what you put in your article once it hits major distribution.

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    December 25, 2010 at 12:55 pm

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  27. Shalin TJ says

    February 13, 2011 at 1:18 pm

    Nice One Amit. Pretty comprehensive…

  28. Deepanshu says

    April 28, 2011 at 9:51 pm

    nice tips πŸ™‚ will concentrate more on article submission and web directory submissions…just did forum posts till now πŸ™‚ need to work hard πŸ™‚

  29. chiranjeev kumar says

    August 9, 2011 at 5:18 am

    Awesome article now i will implement all of these with my website
    i think it can give me more traffik on my blog

  30. Vikash Yadav says

    March 19, 2012 at 9:36 pm

    Hi Amit this is geart idea to link building of bloggers

  31. Vikash Yadav says

    March 19, 2012 at 9:47 pm

    Hi Amit this content is very helpfull of all bloggers

  32. Vikash Yadav says

    March 21, 2012 at 4:39 am

    Hi Amit your Link Building Ideas is great.

  33. Lamar Mccullum says

    July 5, 2013 at 12:35 pm

    Do you have a spam problem on this site; I also am a blogger, and I was wondering your situation; we have created some nice procedures and we are looking to swap techniques with other folks, why not shoot me an e-mail if interested.

  34. Rohit Singh says

    March 28, 2015 at 8:05 am

    I think link building is great if you do it properly but you are opting the route of spamming with money making keywords then Google will penalize you greatly for sure

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