Link Development Guide for Dummies

[webcosmo]

This is a guide to get novice webmasters get started on link building. As novice webmaster gets experienced they will find many more ways of link building.

With all the methods mentioned below, many website may use the NOFOLLOW attribute with links. If you are upto link juice you have to find out which sites are using it, which are not.

Press Release
Submitting press releases online helps building links, also can keep your website in the news. If your story is interesting enough there are chances of getting published on news media. Write and submit press releases 1 or 2 times a month. Some submissions are free, some paid. I would suggest starting with the free ones.

Article Writing
Write articles and submit to article directories. Most article directories will allow you add 3 links. Put links for the keywords you like to rank your website. This can greatly improve your traffic, and you get backlinks.

Link Directories
Easiest way to get one way backlinks to your site. There are thousand of free directories to submit your site.

Paid Links
You can always buy links from other sites.

Link Bait
Link bait could be writing an interesting article, or developing a useful tool offering it free so other webmasters link to your site. If you have something interesting this could get you thousands of links in no-time.

Social Networking Sites
Social Networking sites (e.g. MySpace.com, Facebook.com) most of the time allows links on the profile page.

Wiki Sites
Many major sites today have added wiki pages with user-edited content. Getting a link from sites like Wikipedia.org would be really great thing to your site.

Forums
There's a forum for every niche out there. Most forums offer signature links. Use them to get backlinks.

Blogs
Used to be a popular method. Lot of people still use that.

Classified Ads
You can post ads on classified ads sites like webcosmo.com etc. Most of those sites offer free postings.

[gobeyond]

Many websites have the "nofollow" tag for links. Links with this tag don't carry that much value. Links vary in their qualities. A good link can be worth of 1000s of links. So, it is more about quality than quantity.

Paid links may be discarded or even penalized by search engines. So, use it carefully. Not sure if links in social networks are worth anything. Myspace is loaded with garbage and not sure if search engine spiders can even find out all the links.

Good summery for link building though. Thanks,

[Eire-Web Design]

Nice summary indeed.
I don't know about "Press Release" - at least not as the first option.
I will put "Blog" higher on the list.

[MrCat]

Good tips. Most are for drawing direct traffic as they don't have any favorable weight in SEO.

[swapw]

Good guide for newbs, keep up the good work Webcosmo your hard work is starting to pay off!

[mrichards1984]

Great share buddy!

[zeruel]

Originally Posted by MrCat

Good tips. Most are for drawing direct traffic as they don't have any favorable weight in SEO.

I agree. Well, those are really some informative tips. But playing it the wrong way couldn't get you a good result...

[arcel]

nice tips. thanks for sharing it.
it sure helps a lot for newbies out there.

[robmac]

Good post! Rep added. thanks for the informative post