Link Building 101
1) Directories – only a few worthwhile
a. Yahoo
b. DMOZ
c. BOTW
d. Specialty (Industry Specific)
e. Business.com
2) Do-Follow Blog Commenting
3) Articles/Widgets/Tools
4) Analyze high ranking sites
a. Hubfinder by Aaron Wall
b. Common Backlink Tool – Jim Boykin “We Build Pages”
c. Linkdomain:competitor1.com – linkdomain:yoursite.com
5) Ask for links from related sites
6) Look up Search Engine Journal “20 Places to Submit Your Blog”
7) Paid Links from Blogs
a. Look for blogs w/ adsense below the fold – shows they want to monetize the site, but they’re probably not making a lot of money on it.
Paid Links
a. Relevance (page good, site better)
b. Purchase Annually
9) Buying Dead Websites
a. Search “temporarily down for maintenance”
b. Search “site is offline”
c. Contact the webmaster & offer to buy – it’s probably a deadbeat client
d. Look for underperforming websites
e. Search for “copyright 1999″ and things like that
10) Site of the Month
a. Search for “site of the month” + keyword – ask to be the site of the month
11) Google “google doesn’t know the face of evil”
12) Use the Ego Hook
a. Create “Top 100 Bloggers” – contact them, they will link to you
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