10 Extreme Link Building Techniques

Link building means getting back links (or inlinks) from websites to boost your website PR and website authority with regards to Search Engines, as well as to generate traffic. Web developers sometimes make the mistake of using the wrong techniques or attempting to find quick solutions by paying someone or using scripts.

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• Advertising like Google Adwords
• Article Writing
• Writing Interesting Content
• Commenting on Relevant Blogs
• Forum Posting
• YouTube Targeting
• Twitter
• Popular Social Bookmarks
• Small Social Bookmarking Sites
• Article Link Exchanges
• Conclusion

Advertising like Google Adwords

If you have the money, using targeted ads such as adwords campaigns can get you highly targeted audience that may even help you generate more content in the end. Although, in my opinion, I think that can get expensive, but it works very well for some developers.

StumbleUpon also has an ad campaign system, although this is a very un-targeted audience, and most likely will be worthless unless your content is indeed valuable or Stumble-Like-worthy.

Some find Yahoo Ad Network or Microsoft Ad Network better.

Some web developers like to directly communicate with other websites which have their target audience and make deals on their own through paypal with the site owners.

Article Writing

This is not submitting your own articles anywhere. You should write articles for other websites. This is by far the most effective advertisement.

Writing articles for friends or relevant websites will not only make you new friends, new fans, but also give you great natural link that Google will respect highly. This is much more valuable than having a link among 2-3 other links on a sidebar.

If the main page of the site you write for has high PR, (usually above 3 nowadays is pretty good), eventually that will spill into your article after a few months and you will get a lot more juice from Google.

For example, our website, allows readers to write articles for us, and they get to post their own biography and website URL that can be displayed at the bottom.

This is more valuable than comments on blogs, because of no-follow penalty.

Writing Interesting Content

If you write great content, there is also a chance that some people will link to you. Most times they will not, but if your content is really high quality, you might be linked in a very effective way.

I know a web developer who now earns more money from his website than his own day job, and he has a great insurance job. His website was linked by both CNN.com and FoxNews.com--I know, he hit the lotto! (He had a celebrity blog, for those curious)

Obviously writing good content is the golden rule of all web developers.

Commenting on Relevant Blogs

Your website has a niche (category of audience), and in that niche there are competitor websites targeting the same audience. There are also relevant niches that are close to your audience but not the same. You should be comment on both of these two types of websites with regards to your niche. Of course, the competitors will most likely delete your comments.

Some web developers will try to use spam bots to attack other websites and leave links back, but this will get your comments deleted pretty fast and may get you banned from certain sites or you might make an enemy and get your website destroyed by a hacker (has happened before).

Others do this, but do it badly--your comments should be valuable to that website, it shouldn't be random or a couple words that add no value. Remember to use a name that has your keyword and add your website URL.

Forum Posting

Helping people on various forums, especially forums with do-follow signatures (as in ones that don't add a rel="nofollow" tag to your links), can really get you targeted traffic and adds fractions of PR to your site (eventually it translates to a lot of valuable links).

It's especially useful for getting your website/blog indexed for the first time.

If you're lucky, and you create a new topic that is really useful, and it gets really popular it may get PR and transfer it to your site.

YouTube Targeting

If your website is an appropriate category, you should start making videos on Youtube. You may not know how or think it's hard but it's not, just grab a free program to record videos on your computer or get a web cam. With effective keywords on your videos you can drive a lot of traffic, especially if you make new videos every so often.

One website we know of, gets 90% of its visitors from youtube, and they are very popular (they post hunting videos, and then drive traffic).

Twitter

Twitter can generate a lot of traffic if you have quite a significant amount of followers (like usually 10,000+). The only problem is, getting that 10,000 followers can be a great challenge itself. Some people decide to bot and cheat the system in a way to get to that number. However, natural friend-building and getting genuine followers you know, is much more effective.

I've known web developers who grabbed 15,000 followers, and got 0 traffic, because they just added random people, and spammed their RSS feed (not the correct way to twitter, you might as well have used that time to write a new article).

Popular Social Bookmarks

If your content is really genuinely interesting, useful, or entertaining in some way, you can probably become really popular on certain social bookmarking websites such as Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, or Reddit.

The only problem is, it is frowned upon to submit your own site, but some people become very lucky or skilled at making things popular at these websites and drive unbelievable amounts of traffic.

You can always submit and just not worry about it, at least it could count as a backlink.

Small Social Bookmarking Sites

There are 1000s of websites that are social bookmarking sites, but are not well known. They allow you to submit tons of links. Since it is automatic-- unlike Link Directories that ignore you and are worthless crappy software--you can easily gather a lot of PR through this method.

I'm sure with some google searching you can find tons of these sites.

Article Link Exchanges

This is pretty effective. No it is not normal link exchanges--far from it, you write an article and link to a website, that website writes an article and in it discusses your website and links to it (you have to make a deal with the owner). This can be difficult to achieve, but if you do it right, it can be pretty useful.

Some say, Google may detect this and not count it as much, true--but it's better than normal link exchanges, especially the worst kind: linking to each other on a "links" or "blogroll" page! It can't hurt.

Conclusion

Just remember that all of these techniques are utterly useless if your content is useless, spam-like, or copies of stuff on other websites.

I see many websites on the web that are talking about a subject that adds no value to the readers.

The idea is, every internet surfer wants a few things out of a website they visit, if all are missing its value is ZERO. Those few things are if a website is entertaining, educational, makes-them-feel-emotions, interesting, gets-them-money or time-saving. If you can't do any of that, you've already lost the battle.