Creative Link Building Techniques

As we all know, it is necessary to create a beautiful and elaborate backlink structure in order to rank well among SERPs, specifically Google’s. Remember I said beautiful, not black hat and other techniques that will end up getting you banned from Google. You are probably shocked that I’m giving away this type of information for free, but I feel that by giving away such useful information that I will generate some backlinks for myself. Content is king! Enough with the talking, here is the information.

1. Analyze Competitors Backlink Structure – Where are you competitors getting backlinks from? Are you able to also place your link on those resources? Remember not to spam if its a blog or something like that or your posting will get deleted.
2. Forums, Blogs, and Other Similar Sources – Be sure to check that the links are DoFollow rather then NoFollow. That way you can get credit for the link, I have a list of some of these on my Link Building section.
3. Search Digg.com for related Keywords – I guarantee that you will be able to find some places to add your link to when you search for your related term. Such as blogs, or forums as listed above.
4. Contests – Run a contest if possible, this will build incoming links for sure! If the contest is good enough I guarantee you will notice an influx of traffic and one way links (natural)!
5. Offer Your Services – If possible offer your services to high PR websites in exchange for a link. Can you do SEO? Can you write? Find out a service that you can donate to for a quality incoming link.
6. Review Blogs – Review blogs are a great asset to you and to other people, create a community based review blog where people can communicate and give feedback for products. You will build a great resource and a high PR website.
7. Expiring Domains – This is a very unique idea and I was hesitant to give it out. Keep an eye out on expiring domains. This will allow you to purchase an old and dated domain which is great for PageRank and other reasons!
8. Upload your pictures from your site to Flickr, making sure to add a link (deep link) in the description area of the flickr.
9. Reciprocal Linking – Link to others and others will typically link back. You’d be suprised how people will do that.
10. Yahoo Answers – I did an experiment with an unused domain, I created some simple articles and created a search engine friendly website and simply answered Yahoo Answers questions with my link supplied after the very informative answer relating to the topic. I generated a PR of 4 within the first PR update and the site was no more than 1 month old on that update. This is really a very nice tip and you can generate some great results, DON’T SPAM THOUGH! Your comment will be deleted and typically so will your account.
11. First Comment – Be the first to comment on blog posts, why? Because those responses will be on the first ‘page’ of the blog and will rank well if that particular post begins to build PR. Remember substance people, don’t add a bunch of crap.
12. Wikipedia – This is another secret that I didn’t want to share, but try to get your link on to Wikipedia. Remember that you will need to build up your Wikipedia account first so that you can add credibility to it. After that edit an article and add your website if possible. I know that Wikipedia is a no follow but alot of websites scrap info / links from it and are DoFollow links. Be creative and this can be the best backlinking strategy you have seen yet.

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