Link Building Tactics
If you're trying to figure out where to obtain links, here is a list of link building tactics we use:
List Of Link Building Tactics
Updated 9/17/2011
- Exchange links with marketing and business partners, clients
- Build and host useful tools
- Comment on industry blogs
- Interview industry pundits
- Forum Signatures
- Optimize press releases
- Be a resource on Q/A web sites like Yahoo Answers (indirect)
- Digital asset submissions: images, audio, video
- Offer testimonials on complimentary services
- Widgets (and submit them to directories)
- Awards (badge)
- Contest (badge)
- Cross link web sites that you own
- Write reviews
- Promote content on social news sites
- Article Distribution
- Submit Blog & RSS Feed to Directories
- Directory Submissions
- Ads on search friendly sites
- Sponsor newsletters archived to the web
- Job listings
- Classified Ads
- Publish comprehensive resource lists
- Post an ebook or substantial whitepaper
- Post surveys
- Write guest posts on others blogs
- Contributed articles to online publications
- Sponsor events
- Social bookmark your worthy content
- Speak at events and offer your PPT deck with links embedded
- Donate where a link of donors is published
- Transcribe video interviews to text as separate posts
- Apply for industry awards, web site & blog awards
- Ensure industry groups you're involved with link to you
- Create a wiki and ask others to contribute
- Create microsites for causes, events, specific purposes
- Leverage your affiliate program
- Monitor 404 stats and ask link sources to fix links
- Solicit links directly from sources
- Provide "link to us" content on blog and/or web site
- Leverage publicity and media relations for links
- Social profile optimization
