Thread: Link Development Guide for Dummies

Link Development Guide for Dummies


This is a guide to get novice webmasters get started on link building. As novice webmaster gets experienced they will find many more ways of link building.

With all the methods mentioned below, many website may use the NOFOLLOW attribute with links. If you are upto link juice you have to find out which sites are using it, which are not.

Press Release
Submitting press releases online helps building links, also can keep your website in the news. If your story is interesting enough there are chances of getting published on news media. Write and submit press releases 1 or 2 times a month. Some submissions are free, some paid. I would suggest starting with the free ones.

Article Writing
Write articles and submit to article directories. Most article directories will allow you add 3 links. Put links for the keywords you like to rank your website. This can greatly improve your traffic, and you get backlinks.

Link Directories
Easiest way to get one way backlinks to your site. There are thousand of free directories to submit your site.

Paid Links
You can always buy links from other sites.

Link Bait
Link bait could be writing an interesting article, or developing a useful tool offering it free so other webmasters link to your site. If you have something interesting this could get you thousands of links in no-time.

Social Networking Sites
Social Networking sites (e.g. MySpace.com, Facebook.com) most of the time allows links on the profile page.

Wiki Sites
Many major sites today have added wiki pages with user-edited content. Getting a link from sites like Wikipedia.org would be really great thing to your site.

Forums
There's a forum for every niche out there. Most forums offer signature links. Use them to get backlinks.

Blogs
Used to be a popular method. Lot of people still use that.

Classified Ads
You can post ads on classified ads sites like webcosmo.com etc. Most of those sites offer free postings.

Originally Posted by webdigo

Link Development Guide for Dummies


This is a guide to get novice webmasters get started on link building. As novice webmaster gets experienced they will find many more ways of link building.

With all the methods mentioned below, many website may use the NOFOLLOW attribute with links. If you are upto link juice you have to find out which sites are using it, which are not.

Press Release
Submitting press releases online helps building links, also can keep your website in the news. If your story is interesting enough there are chances of getting published on news media. Write and submit press releases 1 or 2 times a month. Some submissions are free, some paid. I would suggest starting with the free ones.

Article Writing
Write articles and submit to article directories. Most article directories will allow you add 3 links. Put links for the keywords you like to rank your website. This can greatly improve your traffic, and you get backlinks.

Link Directories
Easiest way to get one way backlinks to your site. There are thousand of free directories to submit your site.

Paid Links
You can always buy links from other sites.

Link Bait
Link bait could be writing an interesting article, or developing a useful tool offering it free so other webmasters link to your site. If you have something interesting this could get you thousands of links in no-time.

Social Networking Sites
Social Networking sites (e.g. MySpace.com, Facebook.com) most of the time allows links on the profile page.

Wiki Sites
Many major sites today have added wiki pages with user-edited content. Getting a link from sites like Wikipedia.org would be really great thing to your site.

Forums
There's a forum for every niche out there. Most forums offer signature links. Use them to get backlinks.

Blogs
Used to be a popular method. Lot of people still use that.

Classified Ads
You can post ads on classified ads sites like webcosmo.com etc. Most of those sites offer free postings.

This is the kind of information we are looking for in these forums and I must say I have leanred more on this forum in a dday than what I have visiting other ones for weeks. I now have an idea of how to go about Seo which only a few weeks ago seemed like rocket science to me. Thanks guys.

wow. thanks for all the useful information. I will be adding my links on my social networking profiles soon.

This is great webdigo, just like some of the threads I've been making lately. Thanks for sharing!!

Originally Posted by webdigo

Link Development Guide for Dummies

Paid Links
You can always buy links from other sites.

in all the techniques you listed, this is what im not agree. they aren't that helping, they might destructive

Originally Posted by erikko

in all the techniques you listed, this is what im not agree. they aren't that helping, they might destructive

There actually been lot of debate on this; if buying paid links is actually good or bad.

First, I would agree with you that it could be very very destructive. Buyer could end up buying links from a link firm or any black listed sites.

Second, if you carefully select sites it could bring you very good results in short time. Its very easy to buy links from related sites. Without paying..you know the result. From my experience I have seen multi-million dollar companies living with that without any problem. But they have good people who do those link building professionally.

Thanks for pointing out that though. I am sure if anybody read this article would get benefited being careful of that point.

thanks buddy ....