Do You Need 8 Free Link Building Methods That Work?

I was reading Rmccarley’s 27 link building tips over at linkersunion.com today and I thought it was a great list, which inspired me to come out with my version of effective free link building techniques. These link building techniques have helped me successfully gain inbound links on my projects.Hope this would be helpful to you.

1. Ask and you shall receive

When it comes to link building, I am very pro about this option for there’s always no harm in asking. You never know what might happened, with a simple email request.

But it might not be the most effective or efficient method.

A sample guideline that I use for my link building:

- Introduce yourself, place your name in the email
- What do you do, short statement would be great (think towards a catch phase)
- Why do you think they should link to your website
- Call to action, a link or codes for them to cut and paste onto their website.
2. Thou shall build make new friends online

Relationships in life is very important, even in the digital world having a big network of friends helps increase your chances of getting new inbound links. This shouldn’t be the recipocal type of link strategy, let it work like a refer a friend model.

You can start by going to social networking sites like friendster.com, AdGabber.com, to name a few.

3. Take the first step list topic related websites on your blogroll

By making the first move and adding related websites on your blogroll, it helps increase the chance for these websites to link back to you or at least you can approach them easier when you are trying to be friends.

Why not start now by adding my website on your blogroll, I would add you if your website is search related

4. Talk to your vendors

If you are an in-house SEO paying alot for some of your vendor services, just go ahead ask your vendors for a link. If they say no, you can try to entice them by saying you can use us as a case study for your future clients on their website.

5. Compile a list of freebies

Everyone loves FREE stuff, you can either create some white papers, templates or tools for all to use. People will link to you, but wait to make things easier, you can compile your list of freebies on the internet and offer them on your website (of course keep the acknowledgement). People will still link to you if your resource is good stuff.

6. Help others while helping yourself - donate, sponsor or contribute to a good cause

Money doesnt need to change hands here, depending on your business. If you are running a SEO consultancy firm, you could help them optimize their websites for greater exposure, or if you are a lawyer you can provide free advice or if you want you can volunteer to help out at their location in exchange for that link. Sound like pretty hard work, but at least you are doing some good in the process of gaining that link right.

7. Know thy enemy’s strength, Investigate your competition

I know it’s commonly said the enemy of your enemy(competition) is your friend. But in the link building world, the friend of your enemy is also your friend. Why, because by doing a link:www.domain.com on your enemy the search engines would return a set of links that are already linking to your competitor. So being good link builders, you would definately go to these websites and ask for a link right, after all they are already listing your competitors.

Note: Google returns a sample number of backlinks and for Yahoo you got to use siteexplorer.yahoo.com.

8. Share your knowledge, answer questions on Yahoo Answers

Go to answers.yahoo.com and see what are the questions being asked that you have answers too. Answer them and place a link as your sign off or within the answer (if it makes sense). Its a way to get traffic and some link love, give it a try.

PS: if this is helpful to you why not drop me a comment.

Written by SEO Tipster on June 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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