9 Free Tips On How To Build Links – How To SEO
- 9 Free Tips On How To Build Links – How To SEO
And that’s where you and I are similar and I really respect the fact that you are not giving up and trying to find a magic solution. Because the magic solution is you, your ability to learn from others and then apply it.
In this article I will try to help you to the best of my knowledge and if you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.
Link Building is not the only thing you have to do in order to get good search engine rankings but it is one of the essentials. I will try to cover everything on how to do SEO in “How To SEO” series but this article is about building links.So lets get started.
Before beginning the tips though for the real newbies you have to know that in order for Google to count a link pointing to your site it has to be “do follow”. Search engines use spiders(the thing SE’s use to find your posts) to crawl your webpages, and there are special commands these spiders respond to. If a webmaster adds rel=’nofollow’ to his outbound links spiders won’t follow them and you won’t get link juice.
There are many ways to find if a site allows ‘do follow’ links I personally have a Firefox plugin that does it for me it’s called Swooty SEO. However, there are many other tools and you just have to search for them. I believe SEObook has a plugin that does this but I’m not sure.
Now that you know that…
9 Free Tips On How To Build Links:
Link Building Tip #1: Get Profile Backlinks:
What is Profile link building?
This is creating profiles on various websites (forums,social networks,web 2.0) which allow do follow links. Google has a little thing called Page Rank which they give to websites. The bigger the page rank the better quality the link is. When you create a profile in a high PR (4,5,6,7) website at first your page will have no PageRank. But because of the way link juice works profile backlinks are counted as high quality. I can’t explain everything in this article because if will became huge and no one will read it, so if I will probably write another post in this topic.
Where to find High PR Profile Backlinks?
YouTube.com – Create a profile in YouTube, and in your profile write your website url. I believe this is the only place where YouTube allows do follow backlinks to external sources.
Identi.ca – create a profile there and put your link. Join some related groups so you get some link juice.
Tattoo.com – create a profile and in the “about me” section you can put your link in HTML.
Colourlovers.com – create a profile and in the BIO section you can put your link.
The way you find such websites is through Google. You can use the search string “Powered by <something>“ and you will find websites running a specific platform (a forum for example – vBulletin). Make sure the site you are registering has at least PR3 and allows do follow links. The way I do it is through the Firefox plugin I mentioned earlier but you can find other alternatives.
I know that there are people selling backlink packages and many people have given good reviews for Paul’s and Angela’s backlink services. They are actually quite cheap so if you have the funds you can buy them if not you can always search yourself.
How To Index Profile Backlinks?
Profile backlinks are all good but in order for search engines to recognize your links they have to first find and possibly index them. I know that few people have even sold books on this subject but it’s so simple I think it’s pure robbery.
1. As you create your profiles, save their url’s into a text file.
2. Go to http://www.links2rss.com/ and paste the links there. Follow the instructions there and create your feed.
3.Upload it to your website.
4.Go to http://www.pingfarm.com/ and paste all the links from the text file and RSS url. Ping them all.
These are the basic steps, there are even more secure ways to make sure your articles will get indexed but I won’t go into much detail now. This way you are at least informing search engines for your profiles.
Next subject…
Link Building Tip #2: Software Websites
I am not really familiar with this method as I haven’t used it myself but I know that this is a really good link building strategy. Many people create toolbars, and simple softwares and then submit them to Software Download websites (such as downloads.com) and they get a high pr backlink.
How to do it?
There are softwares for distributing your program to large numbers of sites but as I haven’t used it myself I can’t really help you here. However, search around and I am sure you will find some information.
How To Create The Software?
Your software can be a really simple exe file you don’t have to be fancy programmer. Get to YouTube and watch some basic programming videos you will have a good exe file in and hour or two.
Link Building Tip #3: Statistics Websites
When this was discovered it was a big breakthrough. Basically the idea is that there are literally thousands of statistics websites (sites which give certain information about a website, like whois data) and you submit your site to them.
The downside is that you can only use it on full domain names. For example mydomainname.com . But you can’t use this on subdomains,pages or posts on your site.
This method is a great indexer if your website hasn’t been index yet. Apart from indexing it’s a quick way for getting your website noticed by search engine spiders or building some links.
I can guess what you are asking yourself, how to find these sites… Well don’t worry because since this method popped up many people made scripts and software’s to do it automatically.
The website http://www.indexkings.com/ is a sister site of pingfarm.com and pings your url to 60 websites. I also have a little software that I downloaded from a forum which pings a site to 3000 places but I’m not sure if I can share it. If anyone wants it contact me through skype and I will send it to you.
Link Building Tip #4: Article Directories
This is a very popular way of getting not only backlinks but visitors as well. Because of the fact that articles on aged high PR article directories rank extremely well on SERP’s many people build backlinks directly to their article in order to get high positions in Google. However, this has some bad side effects:
- You don’t have full control over the site.
- You don’t get much benefit in the long term.
Aside from this, a benefit of article directories is that when other webmasters publish your article you get extra backlinks.
There’s also a thing called Article Marketing where you use only articles directories to earn money online. In fact that’s the way I made my first money. I was a so called “Bum” marketer – I didn’t want to spend money for a website so I created a squidoo lens with a review of a product, published some articles on ezinearticles.com and after just a few days I made my sale.
What Article Directories Do You Recommend?
Personally I publish only in 3 place:
- ezinearticles.com
- goarticles.com
- articlebase.com
I don’t do it so much for link building but for more visitors.
There is a software called Article Marketing Robot which submits your article to around 5k article directories. I have only tried the trial few weeks ago and it was a pain in the neck (at least for me) so I let it go but I will surely buy the full version because I see some great reviews of this little software.
But hear me – I am not saying that I recommend it, I haven’t used the full version. Read some other reviews and try the trial and then decide if you’ll buy it or not.
Aside from that you can again use Google if you need a bigger list for manual submission.
http://www.vretoolbar.com/articles/directories.php
This article covers some good information. Some of the websites there are really what we call web 2.0 but nevertheless good info.
Advice:
For more visitors, try to focus on quality not quantity. For more backlinks quantity is obviously more important.
Link Building Tip #5: Guest Blogging
Now this is just like article directories except that you will probably get a lot more visitors and exposure.
With this method you contact webmasters who have similar topic to yours and tell them you want to share content on their blog. If they accept your offer you are often allowed to put a link back to your site in your article. But how exactly do you do this?
5 Steps To Successful Guest Blogging
1. Write an article just like you would do for your site. Focus on quality!
2. Go to Google and find relevant blogs. Check their PageRank, subscribers and other additional information you are interested.
3. After you have chosen few contact their webmasters. Most sites have contact forms so you can use that. Alternatively use the comments section in one of the recent articles.
4.Your message should look something like this
“Hello <Name>, I am <Your Name> from <yourwebsite.com>.
I like your blog and I was wondering if there is any chance I could post guest blog posts here. I have few quality articles that will suit your content really well. In exchange I would like to include a little resource/bio box at the end of the article. If you want to see my writing style check my website.
I look forward to hear from you.
Regard, Your Name”
This is just a sample that I created in 30 seconds and I am pretty sure anyone can write a better e-mail. Just be nice and tell them what you want. As long as you have quality content most of them will agree. This is also a great way to build contacts.
5. Let them make you a contributor account (if they use wordress) and publish your content.
If you follow these steps you should be good to go. As a matter of fact if you would like to write on my blog (onlinemoneytutor.com) contact me. Right now I don’t have much traffic or PR but as I am getting more and more serious about this website they will all explode 
. So contact me after a month or two when you can have PR and visitor benefits from my blog and as long as you have good content I will be really happy to share it with my visitors.
Link Building Tip #6 Blog Networks
Blog networks are a little more advanced (or maybe degraded, depends on the point of view) version of Guest Blogging.
Basically you join a blog network and you submit articles. If your articles are approved by a webmaster they publish your article. There are a lot of blog networks, some paid, some not.
I will write a separate article on this subject reviewing different networks but right now I just don’t have enough data and experience to give a competent opinion.
I can tell you about two free networks that I know of.
1. Free Traffic System . com – This is a free alternative. From my own experience it’s not the best blog network but after all it’s free. Check out their website and you will get more info. Just don’t blindly believe those reviews because most of these people are given incentives to share their experience.
2.Authority Link Network . com – This one is better but you have to add at least one website with PR to use the network. I believe it was closed for a while and they didn’t accept new users but they are open now. They had a really quality network of sites with PR1-PR5 but after the recent PageRank update I more and more often see sites with PR0. ALN is much simpler and better than FTS.
If you don’t have a blog with PR don’t worry. You can always use FTS. Or even if you don’t use any of the blog networks as long as you are blogging I don’t believe it will effect you that much. Because blogging is about sharing content after all. I think that If you have great content visitors will come and people will certainly link to you.
It has always been like that on the internet and having a spammy website that just tries to sell you something on the first page of Google will only last for so long. Just look at the biggest blog networks and bloggers out there – they didn’t submit their articles to blog networks,they didn’t spam blog comments. They focused on content and contribution. You should too and then believe me how many backlinks you have won’t matter at all.
Back to the subject though. Most of these networks allow spun articles.
What Is Spinning?
Spinning an article is creating many different versions of it with a specific algorithm.
The algorithm for ALN is {word|word|word}.
The algorithm of FTS is [spin]word|word|word[/spin].
For those of you who haven’t used spinning before here is an example.
{I love dogs| I adore dogs| Dogs are really dear to me| I just have a thing for dogs}
With a spinning software this whole thing will produce only one random sentence out of these four.
So I will get:
I love dogs
I adore dogs
…etc
In a an article you create 4-5 versions of every sentence and you will get a 60-70 percent unique article.
Can I Use A Software?
I don’t use a software because the manually written article is much more readable and it only takes me 30-40 minutes to spin a 400-500 word article.
However if you insist to automate this you can use:
The Best Spinner – some great reviews on this software. It is paid though. If anyone wants to use my affiliate link to buy it go here.
or you can just go to http://thebestpinner.com – I’m fine with that 
or
SpinnerChief – this is a free one and if you want more complex features you can upgrade to pro. It is much better deal than the best spinner money wise. Firstly for an average blogger the free version will do a great job. If you want to upgrade because you need the extra features you can do it but you will rarely need them.
The website is http://spinnerchief.com/ and if you don’t have the money for the best spinner it’s a great alternative.
Of course I suggest you to spin the articles yourself. It’s not that hard, it makes your brain work more and you will get better at English! People pay some good money to get these benefits you know 
.
Link Building Tip #7 Use Forum Signatures
This is a version of Profile Link Building. Basically you find a relevant (or maybe not) forum which allows ‘do follow’ signature links. The way to do it? GOOGLE!
Then you can start making posts. Try to help people. If you don’t have time you can always make few generic posts like “this happened to me too”, “I was going to ask the same question” etc. That way you can create a lot backlinks for a short period of time.
If you want to get visitor benefits as well try to find the three major forums on your topic and create accounts on each of them. Every day spend at least an hour answering questions.Maybe start some useful informational threads. In no time people will see you as a an authority there.
Link Building With Forum Signatures Rogue Technique:
This is something I though of and used way back when I was 16 years old and I even have an article about it on my blog! Works great if you are posting on an irrelevant forum.
1.Create a profile.
2.Don’t put your links yet. Comment 10-15(as much as you want) two or three year old threads with little or no answers.
3.Put their url’s on a notepad file.
4.Wait for a week.
5.Put your links on your signature.
6.Use the indexing method I shared with you (for Link Building With Profile Backlinks).
Link Building With Forum Signatures Controversial Threads
Another thing you could do is create a controversial thread on a forum. Use you imagination. Give a negative opinion about an author or someone they really respect in that forum. Justify your opinion.
You will get a lot flame and your post will get really popular. This will give you a lot of link juice. You should check the threads PageRank after the next Google update .
I have never used this method myself but I know there are people who are ‘blackhat’ so if you are one of them you can use it. Some people call this trolling.
Link Building Tip #8 Commenting On Blogs
This is something you should already be doing if you are a blogger. Having few blogs on your topic that you regularly read is crucial. Not only because of the backlink benefits (many of these blogs will be ‘no follow’ anyway) but if you show a competent opinion you will get some visitors and you can create some good relationships with other bloggers.
The way to find blogs to comment on is simple. Can you guess how? GOOGLE!
3 Steps To Finding Blogs To Comment On:
1. Google your subject and visit all the blogs you run into.
2. Check their PageRank and if they allow do follow comment links. Earlier in the article I shared which plugin I use for that purpose. Make a list.
3. Don’t Comment Yet.
Steps To Finding High PR Blog Posts To Comment On
1. Go go Google and write “site:theblogyoujustfound.com”
2. On the left corner click “Search Tools”
3. Click Custom Range
4. Then filter results from one or two (or more) years back. So if today is 7/12/2011, you would chose From: 7/12/2009 to 7/12/2010. You get the idea.
5. Find blog posts. Check their PR. You will see that most of them have high PR. Save their URLs.
6. Repeat for all the other blogs.
7. Be happy!
After doing this you will get a decent list of posts you can comment on. Make a genuine comment. After all you will reap the rewards.
Is There Any Good Blog Commenting Software?
I’ve heard of one called Scrapebox. Never used it. It’s more of a spamming tool as far as I know. But I don’t think you need it. You will have to work a little bit with my method but at least you know you won’t get sandboxed by Google.
Link Building Tip #9 – Use Social Bookmarking
So this is a very popular method. I will quickly give you some resources to use:
4 Websites Where You Can Get Free Social Bookmarking
OnlyWire.com – Since I used them they have changed the way they operate but they were decent for mass bookmarking back then. Haven’t used them in a while so I’m not sure how things are now. They also have a paid program. You have to create your accounts manually.
SocialMonkee.com– Free or Paid. With the free option you can submit 1 url each day to 25 bookmarking sites. Paid version submits up to 3 urls to 100 sites. They support spintax. You can sign up through my affiliate link if you want to – Click Here.
Ping.Fm – You have to create your accounts manually. Spend some time and learn it – this website has some great features.
ImAutomator.com – Free version and Paid version. Free version allows up to 10 Link submits every day to 15 Social Bookmarking sites.
If you combine all of these you will get a good number of bookmarks every day.
Now what?
How to build links to your website?
I gave you some decent tools.
I know a few more methods which I will share with you in other articles. This post was the biggest one I have ever written and my only hope is that this helped you.
I will be really really really happy if I hear you opinion. Add me on Facebook ( I do not guarantee I can answer all of you because aside from this blog I have a lot of other projects so I am really busy). As much as I would like to I can’t sit with you on a live chat for too long. You shouldn’t too – most of the time it’s a waste.
If you have questions use the comments.
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The next article for the How To SEO series will probably be about on page SEO.
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