Jenny's LinkBuilding Thread

After the controversy i stirred up in my linkbuilding truth thread i thought id start sharing some of my link development tips.
Before i start a little about me.
I work for a uk based linkbuilding company who specialise is building quality relevant links so i myself and also the company owner have a good few years experience in linkbuilding.

Ok first tip, Building links by writing about sites, sounds simple? it is!

Look for sites that have a "in the press" or "what others are saying" page. Write about the site(something nice and why their site is so great), then hopefully they will pick it up, if not just send them over a quick email showing them your post and hopefully you will get a nice link back.
There's a few different search strings you could use to find these so just try experimenting with a few.
This a pretty basic stuff and difficult to keep it 100% relevant but great if you have a news blog etc..

Plenty more to follow.....

 

Thank you for bringing something original to the table

 

good advice. Well done!

 

Along this line, which requires a bit more work, is to run an "award" program. You give awards to sites based on certain criteria (layout, etc), then give them code to show the award (which links back to your site). More experienced webmasters will most likely ignore you, but newer webmasters may post the code, getting you a link.

Also in this vein are the numerous "vote for my site" programs/scripts. You host the voting, the participating sites post code that links back to you.

 

good advice. Well done!

 

Thank you for the suggestion

 

What if you have a new site? Would you still write this stuff to be considered "press" material or that person would say so and so said great stuff about my site?

 

Yeah, if it is a new site there is no chance to getting that links ...

I think that you should start for the beggining, and not to show only techniques that involves blogs.

Thanks.

 

This is quite unique. Please post more of your methods.

 

Ok thanx for the responses.

Now for another one
Building links by finding problems with sites.
Il use a recent example.
We had a client who ran a web design business, these sorts of sites can be quite tough to build for.

So we came up with a strategy of finding a security hole or something similar and writing about it on the site.
We found a small but still viable security hole on a wordpress plugin that a lot of design type sites use.
We blogged about it on the clients site then emailed over 3000 sites that had the problem(it was an indexing problem on sensitive plugin files) so pretty easy to find which sits.
In total 400 sites also wrote a small blog and linked to our post on how to fix it and we also had over 50 retweets on twitter aswell as a pretty decent digg and reddit count.

Look for small problems or even spelling mistakes etc.. use your imagination and theres a lot of good links to be found.

More to follow....

 

Hmmmmmm... Good idea actually

 

Sounds really hard! Can you expand it a little bit more for us. Looks more hard work to me !

Please explain it if you can

 

Yes it is hard work but building links it, theres no easy shortcuts to link building.

1. Find something wrong with a site, security problem, spelling, grammer etc..
2. Email them telling them of this
3. Just hope they give you a link

It works a lot better when theres a security problem with a plugin or script etc.. then you can blog about it with a fix and let site owners know of the problem and how to fix it, they should be pretty thankful and may also blog about the problem and link to your post on how to fix it

 

This method is more either the way kind of thing! I am really not sure about it though.

Best of Luck. (I will be waiting for more link building tips from you)

 

someone who knows what he talks. thank you,jenny1985

 

"1. Find something wrong with a site, security problem, spelling, grammer etc.."

The person will like that you found a security problem to help them solve it, but most likely they won't appreciate that you are correcting their spelling and grammar. They will call you a grammar police.

 

lol stick to this thread love

We never once in over 4 years had anyone email us with anything negative.

 

Good thread up to now.. Bookmarked!

 

You are saying that people will backlink to you because you corrected their spelling and grammar errors? I'm pretty sure it's because you have helped them fix a security issue.

 

yeh the security issue is a better one but i emailed a pretty well known site in the past and they had written a post on a similar topic to a clients site.

I told them of the spelling mistakes and they added a footnote to the article with a link to the clients site.

NEVER! stop thinking or and NEVER miss an opportunity when it comes to link building.
I hope to fill this thread with ideas, tips, case studies...

Il post another one shortly which is much simpler but can bring it quality links with very high relevance.