Beyond the Usual Link Building

[Cricket]

More information coming out of SMX Advanced . .

Live from SMX Advanced:Beyond the Usual Link Building
http://blog.search-mojo.com/2009/06/...link-building/

[juliensimon]

I've been reading the tweets all day. very interested.

I like these two tips:

Tactic 2: Piggyback on current events
Find the topics being discussed — those will get searched and indexed by bots faster because they are hot and newsworthy. You can also take a different angle — disagree with the topic, for instance, to get more links.

Clients and Suppliers
Arnie suggested that you contact clients and suppliers and ask them for a link — perhaps send an incentive. He also suggested using postal mail — just because it’s different than getting an email. Also consider calling.

[micoblanco]

Contests and Promotions
Contests and promotions can be great at driving inbound links, but it needs to be compelling. If you can’t use your own products/services, bring in sponsors. Make it valuable to get attention. Try to be innovative. Finally, be sure to create buzz around the contest through press releases, Twitter, etc.

I like this one^. Holding an online contest will encourage people especially bloggers to put up a link about your innovative contest. It is also good way to enhance your online identity especially if the contest went smoothly.

Added: We have different niche so it would be better if we're going outdo our competitors not only by spying on them but also by coming up with different ideas and strategies that we will implement in our link building campaign.

Examples:
Niche: Website Services
Offering quality freebies like icons, templates, wallpapers, scripts and etc is also a good way to get natural links.

Niche: Health
You can offer free consultations or you can add a separate page for a "Ask the Expert" feature on your site wherein visitors/customers can easily inform you about their concerns regarding your products, services or something that's within your expertise.

[kbeus21]

Good article. I have love there threory on how to increase linkability from edu links. I will definatley be testing that on some of my blogs. I also like the profile pages, such as squido and the others. As of right now I am only using squido, but will try the links they gave to such sites as HubPages, Google Knol, Spoke, Aboutus.org, and HotFrog. Anyway thanks for sharing this should really help put my site above my competitors.

[juliensimon]

hotfrog can rank pretty high.

I've tried squidoo and aboutus.org with limited success. I've never tried hubpages or Google Knol.

Has anybody tried them?

[Cricket]

Do you have your Google profile set up?

[juliensimon]

Originally Posted by Cricket

Do you have your Google profile set up?

kinda

[entrabnetworks]

Originally Posted by Cricket

Do you have your Google profile set up?

Yeah i have my profile there

[pau2x]

Thanks cricket for posting this useful and informative article.

[SEOsecretsTravel]

I love hotfrog too. Google Knol, who really uses that?

[arniek]

Hey Cricket, appreciate you posting the info about our session. Glad you guys liked some of the ideas.

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[sequence]

its very nice tactics for link building..

nice concept beyod of link building..

[zeruel]

Interesting stuffs Ms Cricket!

@Julien: I have used squidoo pages. And right now, I am starting to experiment on some other relevant sites like hub pages, etc. and I will see if this thing will still work a bit. I haven't used Knol as well as hotfrog but I will try to include them on the campaign that I am working on right now.

[gopalseo]

Thanks for sharing very useful article for link building stuff.

[istongtotong]

Actually the link is very informative it has a lot of good stuff thanks.

[webron]

Printing the article now. Thanks for the link Ms. cricket!