I found a article about link building that can be really useful, read it and see if it works for you. Link Building can definitely be an extremely difficult task if you want to take it on based on purely human labor to go out and request for links, whether they are one way or reciprocal. Here I am trying to bring few tips and few resources of link building which you may find worth to have a look Submit to Web Directories: Do slow and continuous directory submissions for your site. This is an important long term work and solution for any site. Start doing directory submission from the very first day you site is up. Here are few free, non-reciprocal directories: Code: http://3w.dmoz.org 9 http://3w.lii.org/pub/htdocs/home.htm 8 http://3w.femina.com 7 http://3w.gogreece.com 7 http://3w.sacentral.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm 7 http://3w.worldhot.com/ 7 http://3w.123india.com/ 7 http://3w.elib.org/ 7 http://3w.ezilon.com/ 6 http://3w.epooch.com/ 6 http://3w.christiansunite.com/ 6 http://3w.toronto1.biz/ 6 http://3w.canadianeh.com 6 http://3w.aardvark.co.za 6 http://3w.nzs.com/ 6 http://3w.aigam.com 6 I have a long list of directories. See list of free, non reciprocal directories. (I am listing few sites here to make sure this thread does not go very lengthy) Reciprocal Link Building: Contacting webmasters of relevant sites requesting for have a link exchange. Write personalized emails to request for link exchange. It will be better if you write 2-3 good things about their site and tell them how link exchange will benefit both parties. Also, mentioning good qualities and PageRank is always good idea. Do not forget to ask and give (1) URL of link, (2) Title of link, and (3) Description of Link Now, main thing is How to find good link partner. Search google and other search engines for terms like: “keyword reciprocal linksâ€, “keyword linksâ€, “Keyword link exchangeâ€, “keyword link submitâ€, “Keyword link partner†etc. Article Submissions: Yeah, write quality articles which have some interesting and useful stuff, and submit them to free article directories. You need to put link back to your site. Let your article do double duty- (1) bring traffic and (2) link building. You need to make your keywords anchor of link to your site. To be very frank, I see quick results when I succeed to place my 2-3 articles on high PageRank and high traffic sites. Some times we need to submit article like submission to directories and sometimes we need to request webmaster via e-mail. You need to tell them why they should put your article on their site. Here’s the list of top article sites you should submit your articles: Code: 1. http://3w.ezinearticles.com 2. http://3w.goarticles.com 3. http://3w.articlecity.com 4. http://3w.a1articles.com 5. http://3w.ideamarketers.com 6. http://3w.searchwarp.com 7. http://3w.isnare.com/ 8. http://3w.amazines.com 9. http://3w.articledepot.co.uk 10. http://3w.articledashboard.com 11. http://3w.easyarticles.com 12. http://3w.articlebin.com 13. http://3w.articlebeach.com 14. http://3w.articlehub.com 15. http://3w.articlegarden.com 16. http://3w.articlesphere.com 17. http://3w.articlealley.com 18. http://3w.articlesfactory.com 19. http://3w.articlewise.com 20. http://3w.articlegeek.com Submit Press Releases: Write press releases about your site or a section of your site and submit them to press release distribution services. Here are few sites which you may find good enough Code: http://3w.clickpress.com http://3w.webwire.com/ http://3w.emediawire.com http://3w.businesswire.com http://3w.prwebdirect.com - http://3w.theopenpress.com http://3w.free-press-release.com http://3w.pressbox.co.uk http://3w.i-newswire.com/ http://3w.pr9.net http://3w.pr-inside.com http://3w.newswire.ca/ http://3w.pressreleasenetwork.com http://3w.marketwire.com http://3w.urlwire.com/ http://3w.prweb.com (small contribution) http://3w.prurgent.com http://3w.prleap.com - http://3w.prnewswire.com http://3w.prfree.com/ http://3w.openpress.com/ http://3w.softpressrelease.com Social Networking / Social Group Sites: Social networking sites like 3w.myspace.com are very useful these days to not only get links but also huge traffic. One more benefit of being active is you get thousands of friends to make and then convert them into your customers. Participating in social group / networking sites are proving boon now a days. There are scores of such sites available these days. People are making money by selling the list if their friends at those site. This is a great way to have links and traffic. Participation in Link Programs: There are some good link programs in which you help others to get them link and other help you. Following are few good ones to join. Code: http://3w.linkmarket.net/ http://3w.linkleads.com/ http://3w.infowizards.com/ http://3w.linktraders.org/ http://3w.linkexchanged.com/ http://3w.linkexchangeit.com/ http://3w.linkpartners.com/ http://3w.123exchangelinks.com/ http://3w.links-pal.com/ http://3w.ads4links.com/ http://3w.spocka.com/ http://links-for-you.com/ http://3w.webmaster-link-exchange.com/ I also recommend Co-op Advertising Network of DigitalPoint All are free, enjoy using them. Link from .org and .edu sites: The education and organization sites are considered more valued sites and links coming from those sites are valuable link. You need to search those sites. Just find out some forums and blogs of the organizations and education body which have content relevant to your site. Make blog comments and put links in them, make sure your comment is genuine and not spam. Read the whole topic and find something to comment on the topic… job is done. Same way leave your links in forums signature. There is few hot topics on forum signature telling importance at seo point of view and traffic point of view. Go ahead and do it, you’ll make valuable links. You can do the blog comment and forum sign at non .org and no .edu sites. Social Book marking Site Submission: Now a day’s people are taking interest in social bookmarking. So, I thought I should start the service of social bookmarking. Yeah, it is worthy enough to pay someone to do social bookmarking. For those who are new to it, in social bookmarking system, users store lists of Internet resources, which they find useful. These lists are accessible to the public for their views and comments. This became a great seo technique now. Here are few good social bookmarking sites: Code: http://del.icio.us/ 8 http://3w.digg.com/ 8 http://3w.blinklist.com/ 6 http://ma.gnolia.com/ 7 http://3w.furl.net/ 8 http://3w.diigo.com/ 6 http://3w.complore.com/ 5 http://3w.tallstreet.com/ 0 http://gamingtags.com/ 3 http://indiagram.com/index.php 5 http://3w.goesby.com/ 4 http://teachershare.org/openig/ 4 http://3w.chaamp.com/ 1 http://3w.a1-webmarks.com/ 0 http://3w.tektag.com/ 0 http://3w.bookmark.it/ 0 http://3w.wirefan.com/ 4 http://3w.linkatopia.com/ 4 http://3w.optimiz.us/ 0 http://3w.web20toolbar.com/ 0 Enjoy and happy link building....
Thanks, that helps a lot. Just one quick thing though, you said : "Article Submissions: Yeah, write quality articles which have some interesting and useful stuff, and submit them to free article directories." You have to watch out not to put those same articles on your website if you use adsense, because i think adsense dosen't tolerate copied content on your site
Excellent suggestions... will these stand the test of time.. or are we at the mercy of search engine development?
Very hqappy to see you, and I expected some forum list too, why you dont consider forum signature and for u not much value
Thanks for sharing. I have done all of those over the last 4 years and the biggest bang came from paid press releases and articles on good related sites.
Thanks for the detailed list. Directory Critic ( http://www.directorycritic.com/free-directory-list.html?sort=date_added&pg= ) also seems to maintain an updated list of directorys where you can submit your site to.
This is not true, adsense can't tolerate scraped content by robots, having duplicate content on your site doesn't hurt your adsense account, it may hurt your traffic driving but not adsense.
Good post. Thanks for sharing. Was wondering if the submitting articles on ezine is enough or should I go for as many as possible from that list, as that is a big list! Citrusweb
yeah im a beginner at this, been going about a month and this has been a very useful article thanks for sharing mate those links have gone straight into my bookmarks