25 Link building tips for SEO Success on Google
Google favours high quality natural links and the results can be fantastic for your serach engine ranking. The greater the number of inbound high quality links, the greater your ranking and the greater the potential for success through your website.
We’ve provided 25 great tips for natural linkbuilding which will go hand in had with the SEO of your website. The observant amongst you will spot the obvious 
1. Get social media bookmarking icons on your web pages.(Just like the ones at the bottom of this article)
2. Add FAQs, Glossaries etc to your website – people can’t resist linking to these things and they can appear on social media sites like Digg.
3. Write a few “10 easy/top/best tips to help you…” type articles and post them on your site. Think how many people search for “wedding tips”, “dieting tips” and so on. People can’t resist bookmarking and linking to these.
4. Upload a page with loads of resources on a specific subject. People will link to this.
For example – on our website we have the http://www.breezemedia.co.uk/2008/11/13/wordpress-ping-blogging-list/
5. Draw up a 10 popular myths list. People can’t resist linking to these things.
6. Post a list of the top 10 experts in a subject like “top 10 pizza chefs in Edinburgh”. Flattery alone can get people linking back to you.
7. Put a picture of you on an every article – it gives more trust.
8. Submit to article sites such as EzineArticles, GoArticles etc. NOTE: Place your own article on your own website for a few weeks before doing so. This allows search engines to index your site as the originator of the content.
10. Submit an article to a news site in your marketplace.
11. GIVE AWAY FREE STUFF. If you sell photographs, give away some free images for people to use with no restrictions other than a link back. If you sell websites – give away free templates – make sure they link back to your website. Add the creative commons licence at the footer.
12. Syndicate a news release. Make it exciting, compelling and email it to a reputable news reporter or journalist.
13. Offer an exclusive to a journalist, local newspaper.Track who picks up your articles or press releases. Offer them exclusive news or content.
15. Sponsor an article on a university website, chambers of commerce, local government or tourism site. Dot gov, .org .ac.uk sites hold a lot of weight as authorities. A link back from one of these can be great for your site.
16. Write an article for websites like the BBC – very very difficult to get listed but if you can get a link back it can be great for your website. Say you are a great chef and have a great recipe then you never know your luck.15. Email a few friends when you have important relevant news asking them for their feedback and/or if they would mind referencing it if they find your information useful.
17. Conduct surveys on your website. This in addition to getting links back is also free marketing research!
18. Run a competition – win a prize etc.
19. Create a forum.
20. Create a directory.
21. Look at the other sites and see what “gossip” is spreading – make comments, stir things up or contribute positively – all good link attractors. Your site may get listed from these authorities.
22. Run an affiliate scheme – whilst the links may not get much SEO value back they still expose your site to more traffic and you can get secondary links as a result.
23. Add stuff to craigslist.
24. Answer tech questions on forums,blogs and groups websites and provide a link.
25. Start all over again and never give up.
Did you spot it?
Some notes on links:
The Link
Equally as important as the back link itself is the actual content of the back link.
If your anchor text is “buy blue widgets” and the resulting page is a site about “buy red widgets” then think again. This type of “gaming” won’t do you any favours because search engine algorithims now eliminate in order to provide relevant and genuine results for the end user.
Use buffer keywords
Say my prime phrase was “blue widgets” the desire would be to create a back link that said “blue widgets”. The smart way is to use a buffer word such as “buy blue widgets” or “hire blue widgets”.
This can help avoid any potential “red flags” the search engine algorithim has in place and it also helps to a degree in SEO for longtail key phrases.
A great example would be (key words in bold)
“quality blue widgets designed” or “Get cheap blue widgets now”
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The first point in this article is a very big myth for link building. Most non-techies do not know what social bookmarking is or how it applies to them.
We have performed surveys on a number of retail websites and the majority of people didn’t know what social bookmarking was. Adding buttons to these sorts of websites will just lead to consumer confusion.
In fact, this entire blog article is extremely vague.. “create a forum”, “add stuff to Craig List”
hmm
@Scott – I think you just took the bait – “The observant amongst you will spot the obvious”….”did you spot it?”
Methinks there’s mischief in the post – point 21 “stir things up”. Very clever indeed…very clever. Deliberate mistakes to attract comments unless I’m mistaken!
On the social media buttons – I disagree. Say a visitor “diggs” an article, it gets dugg, someone else may provide a secondary link as a result of the digg? It’s a valid method of attracting links.
Great post its always good to understand or get a deeper understanding of SEO its a great way to get free marketing. Keep em coming herfy.
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Jonny T.
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Hi theDukeOfSEO
How about write articles and point them back to your site? Also set your site up in a silo configuration.
All good ideas.
Regards
Gerry
Not bad
Social Bookmarking is huge these days. It doesn’t matter that non-techies don’t know how to use them. The link is read by Google and it counts for a non-reciprocal link .
Jay
Do all the above, then:
- Trade reciprocal links in moderation
- Buy links, you can get targeted ones very reasonably priced.
- Offer content for links.
The above 25 are slow and steady, which is absolutely what you want. At the same time large numbers of targeted links continue to push even a 10-page site into top spots for highly competitive keyphrases, so if you combine the quality ideas above with moderate efforts at bulk building as well, you’ll get sustainable, more competitive results in less time. Key is to make everything user-centric and genuinely useful to people.
I have top 10 for multiple competitive keyphrases from 2,000,000 – 108,000,000 results in Google with serious increases in targeted traffic. My best so far is 0-220,000 uniques/month, unwavering for 6 years. From the UK but live abroad, sure wish I could work at Breezemedia
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Great tips! I’m going to start putting a few of these into action NOW!!!
Cheers!
Some great content and advice here, some of these techniques have worked really well for me in the past and I intend to use them going forward, thanks again for the article.
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Hmm, why would a UK site mention Craigslist? Surely Gumtree is a better option.
“Hmm, why would a UK site mention Craigslist? Surely Gumtree is a better option.”
Why would a UK site not mention craigslist? There’s a UK version of CL. Strange thing to say.