This guest post was written by Black Hat Way.
Want to increase your pagerank? Want better Search Engine rankings? Want to get your blog featured in front of more eyes? Want more visitors?
To make these things happen, you obviously need backlinks. You might think that link building is time consuming and hard, but it’s actually pretty easy and can take you even only a couple of minutes daily!
1. Comment to do-follow blogs! You might be already doing this. You can check if the blog has dofollow enabled with Firefox extension “NoDoFollow”. There are also websites and blogs that list you some dofollow blogs.
2. Submit your site to free directories. These directories might need you to link back to them to gain a free link.
3. Submit to paid directories! With paid directories, you can receive that same backlink with maybe some pr for a few bucks.
4. Write a guest post. That’s what I’m doing now. Write a good guest post to a popular blog and you will hopefully receive a nice link back to your site!
5. Run a contest and ask people to link back to your blog to receive extra entries. (Example in my blog)
6. Write a link bait post that will create a lot of discussion and backlinks.
7. Write an article or ebook and allow people to publish it as long as they leave your backlink there.
8. Use forum signatures
9. When commenting on a post on forums, attach a shameless little link to a related article on your blog.
10. Exchange links with another bloggers! Just make sure that you will exchange just a few links and that the sites fall into the same niche as yours!
11. Ask for links! Add a little text in the end of each of your posts that asks readers to link back to you if they liked the post.
12. Write a list. (Something like this!) and send it to Digg and stumble it. People love reading lists and those will get a lot of Diggs if the niche is right.
13. Be the first one to write about popular news and Digg those.
14. Ask another blogger to write a review about your site (free or paid).
15. Answer questions related to your niche on Yahoo! Answers and link to your site in the resources section.
16. If you got a really good article on a popular topic and add a link to it on Wikipedia. If it doesn’t get deleted, you will get a shitload of traffic.
17. Write a Squidoo page on your niche and link to your site.
18. Give away free eBooks, reviews or other items in exchange for a link.
19. Become a sponsor on a contest of another blog. You will probably get a link back from the holder of the contest and those that blog about the contest. The sponsored prize can be anything from eBooks to Paypal cash.
20. Buy a link building/blog commenting service. If you are really busy and can’t use three minutes daily to comment on your favourite blogs, you can buy a paid link building service from Digitalpoint for an example. These tend to be pretty expensive.. You could also buy text links from a broker like TextLinkAds.
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September 19th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Awesome list! It can be quite overwhelming… all the stuff one can do to promote their blog. It is difficult to do all that promoting AND have the time to create quality content AND perfect their blog design and functions. I just checked out Black Hat Way and subscribed to it, good stuff!
- Jack Rugile
Simple Sapien
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September 19th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
All are great ideas… nice post. For newbies… try just one of these a day. Then try 2 a day… as TUK likes to say… rinse and repeat.
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September 19th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Thanks for the tips man. I just started my own blog, http://www. beam-itcelebrity.blogspot.com and I was just trying to figure out how to get a lot of traffic to my blog. It is very hard with all of the competition out there.
People don’t understand that running a blog is a full time job and you have to make sure you are on top of your game. Did you mention article directories? I do not too much like this method as it is too time consuming. But thanks for the tips.
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September 19th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Actually there are tons and it all boils down on how creative you are. Btw, I think Google frowns of reciprocal linking and if you abuse, you’re gonna get torched. Also Wikipedia links are nofollowed but then Search marketers believe google places special value on those links. great tips but well unless you’re really serious about building your brand, then you’ll not work hard on building links..
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September 19th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
With so many different ways to gain back links, I think new bloggers should focus on one or two at a time so that they do not burn out! Great list!
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September 20th, 2008 at 1:03 am
This is a pretty good list. A lot of these things I am already doing and they are helping me build my website very well. Thanks for the tips and strategies. Soon my blog empire will be booming!!
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September 20th, 2008 at 2:26 am
Best would be to monitor and focus on 6-8 strategies that work well for your blog
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September 20th, 2008 at 8:14 am
To be honest none of these ways are new or something better than link building strategies from months back, but I’m sure it may have helped some people out
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September 20th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Heh, I am not any seo expert, but I just listed some things that I use or or thought that might work. And I’m sure that these are new or helpful to some people.
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September 20th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Hey great list Blackhatway.I hope I wil use these methods to Get PR.Thanx
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September 20th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
another great post from a great blog. I agree on all the ways you have mentioned although I don’t do all of them. I hope I have enough time and energy to do them all though.
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September 20th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
While none of these individual link building tips are new to me, this is an excellent round up in one place. Very useful post, thanks.
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September 20th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Nice list of tips.. I read them all , i will follow it, i hope it will help me out….
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September 20th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
How can i promote any gaming blog.Is there any particular and useful way.
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September 20th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
When promoting a blog, I would pretty much use commenting to other related blogs. Comment only dofollow gaming blogs and you can do these two things at the same time.
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September 20th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
#2 should be limited to trustful sites or your will be blacklisted by search engines.
#3 I think its a waste of money.
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September 20th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
This themes about sites flipping and link building are my favorites. I never get bored of them.
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September 21st, 2008 at 10:17 am
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September 22nd, 2008 at 2:52 am
Fabulous list. I am going to file this away for future reference, it is a bit much to take in all at once.
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September 23rd, 2008 at 3:53 am
Good info… I was actually putting together a list of dofollow blogs in different niches and was going to start a website selling paid comments and links.
As well as other seo work. Might be a good deal.
The other stuff works great too. I have used almost all of those techniques before and have had great success with them.
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September 23rd, 2008 at 8:13 am
What is a squidoo page?
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September 23rd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
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September 24th, 2008 at 8:08 am
great advice. i tend to mostly comment on other people’s blogs. the other stuff i try to do when i get tired of posting comments.
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September 24th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I personally find holding contests and commenting as the best. Contests because I’m lazy. Comments because its easy to comment on other blogs.
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September 24th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Great tips I have used some of these on my blogs. The free directories I have done but now they don’t seem to hold as much weight on google. I have really received most traffic through SEO and blog/forum posting.
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September 24th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Blogs now seem to be taking over regular websites due to their interactivity and these tips should help people get their blog going. My website right now is in the process of getting started but after one month of being up we already have 3 reviews from influential bloggers in place which we have used before with great result.
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September 25th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Yeah, and another thing you could do is go here to look up a whole list of good blogs to comment on
http://www.45n5.com/top100/
I think I’m going to try the whole giving away free ebooks thing
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September 27th, 2008 at 8:31 am
I’ve only managed to do five new things from this list as yet.
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October 2nd, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Can i promote my site on warez sites by buying ad space.will it be fine.
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October 6th, 2008 at 6:34 am
Nice list of tips there. I’ve used some of those tips, but I’ll try to implement more. Inparticular, I’m trying to exchange links with other bloggers and am having some success.
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October 7th, 2008 at 1:46 am
Great list! It’s amazing how many ways there are to get links if you set your mind to it. A few years ago, most of these things were not available to bloggers. Also, I would add to your blog, getting in the top commentators on blogs, that’s a great way to get a link, that will stay for a while as well. I really like your blog, you really give great suggestions to your readers, keep it up!
Jonathan Muller
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October 7th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
This list will really help me with marketing http://www.zencollegelife.com
I do a lot of work on content, but my marketing strategies have really been lacking…
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October 7th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Nice list.
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October 11th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Awesome suggestions! Thank you. The other way to add links (although it take a while) is to write great content, that way people like me are happy to link directly to you.
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November 3rd, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Thats a great Guest Post! 3-4 ways here are new for me thanks a lot
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January 19th, 2009 at 7:03 am
These are all excellent ways to start building backlinks to any website. Thanks for the tips!
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March 12th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Great article. Nice blog. Keep it coming. Mike
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March 30th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Very well written. This is the kind of information that is useful to those want to increase their SERP’s. Keep up the good work.
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March 30th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Finally someone who can write a good blog ! I loved your post and will be telling others about it. Subscribing to your RSS feed now. Thanks
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