Link Building Tips

Top 12 link building tips that I highly recommend you to use when starting to build your links.

1. Web Directories
Getting listed in DIRS is good for you, you get a lot of back links. I am posting here only high quality, free, human reviewed, PR6+ directories only ( BTW I checked the PR of the directories I am providing with Google Toolbar and I have to say that there is a big difference in their PR since the last update. I have seen many directories that have fallen from PR6 to PR0, I suppose they have used some black seo to get promoted and finally they lost their PR). The good thing about these dirs is that if you get your site listed you will get lots of traffic. The bad thing is that the review process of your site often is more than 3 months.

Of course there are more good high PR directories but I will leave the search for them to you. You can use Google to find some, but the lists that come on first page results shows the old PR of the directories. Don't get mad if you are not listed after 3 months from submission. Your time will come, don't give up!

2. Link Exchange
This is also good way to get back links. When contacting other webmasters write in personalized way. Tell them why you want to exchange links with them, introduce your site to them; tell them more about your site. Try to exchange links with only high quality sites with higher PR. You may find good partners to exchange links, the best way is contacting them in personal, or you may use some forums to find link exchange requests, and last but not least you may use some automated link exchange sites. Here are some of them:

Using these automated link exchange sites will also boost your back links and you will get many relevant links to your site. You can find much more sites like these but to be honest I think these ones will do a perfect job. You can always ask google about something like: 'free automated link exchange sites', 'free reciprocal programs', 'free link building programs' and some more search terms like these.

If you want first to check the page rank of the site you will be exchanging links with I recommend you to use:

http://www.digpagerank.com/ - In this site you can check the PR of a page or site in over 700 Google data centers

3. Article Submissions
Maybe I won't tell you something new but try to write good quality unique articles and post them to the best free article directories. This is one of the best way to do 2 things for your site: first get a lot of back links from the articles and second get a lot of traffic I hope you know that you have to put your keywords that you compete for in the anchor text which is very important for higher results in the SE's.

4. Press Release Submission
This method is something like writing articles and posts them almost everywhere. In fact using this tactic you have to write a press release about your site or a page from your site. The process is the same. You have to submit the press release to good press release distribution sites. Below is the list of the ones that I am using

5. Social Networking / Social Group Sites
Social networking sites are very useful these days not only to get links but also huge traffic. Participating in social group / networking sites are proving to give boost to your traffic these days. Here is my list:There are a lot more but I think these are enough; they are high quality and have a high PR (7+). They are perfect for getting good back links to your site.

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6. Getting link from .org, .gov and .edu sites
The education, organization and government sites are considered much more valued sites and links coming from those sites are valuable. You need to search and find such sites.

Do a simple search on Google with this search term:

hhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Social+Media+Optimizer&btnG=Search

you may use another perfect search term special for edu blogs:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=EDU&btnG=Search

With this string you will get all .edu blogs that allow posting comments and do not require to be logged in. Hope you find this string perfect. You can experiment with it for all kind of domains, it's up to you. Make blog comments and put links in them, make sure your comment is genuine and not Spam. You have to read the whole topic and find something to comment on the topic… job is done. After doing some comments maybe in a week you will see in Goggle index that you have links from .edu domain or .gov