A thing that has been troubling me in SEO is the linking. It is so important to get links, so is there a free and relatively quick way to do this. If you need 100's - 1000's of back links. 1. You are either going to need a huge links section on your website for: recipricol links. 2. Going to need to shell out $$$ for links 3. Submit to 1000's of directories (which by the looks of it, in the future links from most will be worthless) 4. Wait for natural links, which could take years if it happens at all.. Are there any other better ways to get backlinks??
MGrohan, one idea is to write unique newsworthy content. Take yesterday's example of the Steve Irwin story.
First of all - your question is in the wrong section. Second - better ways - you mean lots of IBLs without hard work in short time frame? Why not invent one?
It is still undiscovered. Best way is to focus on contents and then advertise in niche and then spend money for the purpose of backlinks only. You must give some real value to the webmaster who'll put your link on his website.
So I take it you've read Aaron Wall's new report? - http://www.seobook.com/archives/001792.shtml That's a good breakdown. No. There isn't. Of course, you could do some blog/guestbook spamming and get a few thousand in a coupe of weeks. Sure. The question is, what type of site are you building? Is this a site that is going to be around for years and years to come? Or is this some adsense/satellite site you just want to get a few thousand links to get more money/leads/etc..? Links is VERY important, and just like anything else that is very important, should be taken seriously and with quality, which usually means time is going to be a factor.
I do not think directories are dead meat at all. But if you expect that 1000 directory links will be as good as 25 targeted links from mid-PR sites, then I would I agree that directories won't help ya. But for a good mix of links to your sites, directories should be included. Pick the ones that actually send traffic - there are some that really do. Christoph
Just seems that more and more a good balanced linking strategy which includes link building by directories, blogs, articles and relevant sites is going to be the end all... Google frequently talks about having links as votes... but in the past year or so... they've really pared down their links... Directories will always have a place, but agree with nsusa... it'll water down over time...
The best way to build up backlinks is to make a website full of excellent content. The links will come if your site is worthy.
Try RSS for articles as well as online press releases. For one shot and relatively little cost (RSS is FREE) you can get to a lot of sites. I use PRWEB.com for press releases and got my release(with a link to my new site) listed on hundreds of sites overnight. Is there a downside? Yes, you need to constantly submit articles and/or releases(once a month at least) but it seems more efficient that hunting down backlinks all of the time.