Online marketing and promotions are a minefield. There are so many ways out there to get your message out. But there are also a million ways of messing this up. One of the common areas where newbies trip up are in link building methods. This is important as Google, along with other search engines and web crawlers, tends to use the number of links leading to a site while calculating its search rank. Often, many new users, no knowing how the web operates, tend to either neglect this vital part of online business, or mess it up by using link building methods that aren’t very effective.
The best way to go about this is to only use natural link building methods. These are the best ways to ensure a high rank for your site. Here are some ways you can do so:
- Blogging: Blogging is a fantastic way to get your message out there. You can start a new blog or even do guest blogging. This will ensure that your message gets noticed in a natural way.
- Niche communities: You can join a niche community or other web forum where you can contribute. Being known as an expert will help boost your website or links’ popularity in a natural way.
- Use video: Video is the hottest thing online and often shows up first in searches.
- Social networks: You can easily include your website/links in your Twitter profile. Now, when you sign up for another service that uses your twitter handle, all your information will get submitted – including you links.
- Press releases: It might sound counter intuitive but press releases are a great natural link building method – some magazine or newspaper editor might find it interesting and use it as a filler item!
Mistakes to Avoid:
- Buying links – This may seem to be a surefire way to get plenty of links but search engines such as Google have caught on. In fact, getting caught is a guaranteed way to be penalised.
- Keyword anchor-text only: This will raise a red flag as nothing screams ‘junk’ like loads of anchor-text only links without any substantive, unique content!
- Directories: There are many web directories you might be tempted to sign up for. However, many of them are just repositories for junk entries. In fact, aim for only those directories that are relatively hard to get listed in!
- Quantity of content: Low quality content on hundreds of sites will not help your ranking. It’s better to adopt a natural link building method and submit only quality content!
- Mass social network submissions: A complete no-no! This is a horrible method and will not get you anywhere!
Well, we hope the above tips come in handy for you. Keep in mind that web search engines and crawlers are very smart and can easily figure out if you try and ‘beat the system’. On the other hand, use natural linking building methods exclusively and your marketing and promotions will work fine!
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Hi Praveen,
I do a lot of commenting on blogs like this for a number of reasons: most of the comments on my blog come from other bloggers I’ve visited, a large percentage of my traffic too – a lot of these blogs will also give you a DF link back to your blog too (I need to upgrade mine to do the same as it’s stuck as NF as it’s a Blogger blog). But I see commenting on blogs encouraged a lot and I would be hard pressed to give it up. What do you think about it?
Informative post!
I totally agree that nothing works better than natural link building, and have been trying to build backlinks through the things you mentioned.
Haven’t really tried using videos, nor have I really tried press release. What works best is blogging of course, the commenting system and social networking for me. I guess a lot depends on what you are conformable with, provided you aren’t using the wrong ways to build your link – isn’t it?
Thanks for sharing. 🙂
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I didn’t know that there were two types of link building. It was reassuring to see that the only methods I’ve employed, by accident, were the one’s you suggested.
I’ve heard that incoming links are important, but I guess I didn’t realize how much until this post.
I have a question, do the links at the bottom of comments (comment luv), do they count?
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I just did this in my back end. But if you login to your commentluv plugin. You can change whether or not you want comments to be do follow or nofollow. I’ve chosen to give dofollow after a certain number of comments. I.e. i reward people who come back often by giving them seo juiced dofollow links.
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Hi Praveen – this is a helpful and reassuring post. I’m just beginning to slowly build links via regular blog commenting and although it’s time consuming, it’s very rewarding.
I feel comfortable with this way of gradually building up contacts and relationships – seems to me it’s a much more genuine way of developing links rather than the more automated methods, which appear to be all about quantity and speed rather than quality.
Many thanks for your advice,
Sue
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I’m in complete agreement with your post. Natural link-building rocks! It is just unbeatable. Thanks for the share.
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I agree with what you said, and I want to add that even with all the tools to achieve success with your blog, you will need a very important thing: make love, like blogging, lead information. and I could see all this here.Surely their success will be even greater.
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I think there is now too much content distribution. Too many junk blogs created for guest posting and ads that are general themed with no engagement. These blogs will offer no seo benefit.
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yeah, blogging is the best way for link building
Hey Buddy,
Very useful Information you have mentioned. I got many new things from it.
There are so many new link building methods out there online but you have to be focused and decisive on the ones that would give you the best needed results.
As there are so many methods of natural link building but, according to me the most important and effective method of natuiral link building is the back line checker.
You should always prepared to use the back line checker so as to know that where your competitors are heading to at any given time. This is a great and smart tool you should not ignore if you really want to know who is back linking to your competitors and when certain sites aligns with your competitors.
Thanks for sharing this valuable post with us. Keep up the good work !
Regards
Anjali Desai