130 Ways to Get Links to Your Blog

Writing by Blog Marketing Journal on Saturday, December 15, 2007 Comments (1)

Now that you’ve decided to to start a blog for your business or even for your own personal reasons, you need to learn that blogging about a topic is just one part. There is still the dreaded yet highly effective linkbuilding. While there is really no guarantee that YOUR link building efforts will be rewarded the way you want it, it is good to be noticed. I have compiled a list of how to get links to your blog written by successful SEO’s and bloggers like Seth Godin, Aaron Wall, Andy Hagans, and more.

WAYS TO GET LINKS TO YOUR BLOG

1. Provide content in English.
2. Link or comment to niche blogs:
3. Out link a lot
4. Identify your “link-niche”
5. Always verify you pinged or tracked-back.
6. Use StumbleUpon.
7. Submit to blog directories
8. Build a “101 list”
9. Create 10 easy tips to help you
10. Create extensive resource lists for a specific topic
11. Create a list of the top 10 myths for a specific category
12. Create a list of gurus/experts.
13. Make your content easy to understand so many people can understand and spread your message.
14. Put some effort in to minimize grammatical or spelling errors.
15. Have an easily accessible privacy policy and about section so your site seems more trustworthy
16. Buy relevant traffic with a pay per click campaign
17. Syndicate an article at EzineArticles, GoArticles, iSnare, etc.
18. Submit an article to industry news site.
19. Syndicate a press release.
20. Track who picks up your articles or press releases. 21. Trade articles with other webmasters.
22. 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.
23. Write about, and link to, companies with “in the news” pages.
24. Perform surveys and studies that make people feel important.
25. Submit your site to DMOZ and other directories that allow free submissions.
26. Submit your site to paid directories.
27. Create your own topical directory about your field of interest.
28. Tag related sites on sites like Del.icio.us.
29. If you create something that is of great quality make sure you ask a few friends to tag it for you.
30. Look at meme trackers to see what ideas are spreading.
31. Join the Better Business Bureau.
32. Get a link from your local chamber of commerce.
33. Submit your link to relevant city and state governmental resources.
34. List your site at the local library’s Web site.
35. See if your manufacturers or retailers or other business partners might be willing to link to your site.
36. Develop business relationships with non-competing businesses in the same field.
37. Launch an affiliate program.
38. Depending on your category and offer, you will find Craigslist to be a cheap or free classified service.
39. Ask or answer questions on Yahoo! Answers and provide links to relevant resources.
40. Ask to ask or answer questions on Google Groups and provide links to relevant resources.
41. If you run a fairly reputable company, create a page about it in the Wikipedia or in topic specific wikis.
42. Link to expert documents and popular useful tools in your fields, and also create a link back to your site.
43. Submit a story to Digg that links to an article on your site.
44. If you publish an RSS feed and your content is useful and regularly updated, some people will syndicate your RSS content.
45. Leave signature links or personal profile links on forums.
46. Write reviews.
47. Review relevant products on Amazon.com.
48. Create product lists on Amazon.com that review top products and also mention your background (LINK!)
49. Review related sites on Alexa to draw in related traffic streams.
50. Review products and services on shopping search engines like ePinions to help build your authority.
51. If you buy a product or service you really like and are good at leaving testimonials, many of those turn into links.
52. Start a blog.
53. Link to other blogs from your blog.
54. Comment on other blogs.
55. Technorati tag pages rank well in Yahoo! and MSN, and to a lesser extent in Google.
56. List your blog in a few of the best blog directories.
57. Web 2.0-ify your site—use AJAX.
58. Validate and 508 your site.
59. Order a beautiful CSS redesign.
60. Hire a publicist.
61. Hire a consultant.
62. Swap some links.
63. Try to get links from within the content of relevant content pages.
64. Rent some high quality links from a broker.
65. Rent some high quality links directly from Web sites.
66. Become a sponsor.
67. Sell items on eBay and offer to donate the profits to a charity.
68. Buy an old site with a strong link profile, and link it to your own site, than to try to start building authority links fromscratch.
69. Sue Google to draw attention.
70. Post pictures of important events and tell narratives about why they are important.
71. everage new real world relationships into linking relationships.
72. Post engaging, useful, and interesting interviews as they are an easy way to create original content.
73. Design a WordPress theme and a link to your blog on the footer.
74. Develop Facebook applications.
75. Use lists.
76. Be topical..write posts that need to be read right now.
77. Learn enough to become the expert in your field.
78. Break news.
79. Be timeless..write posts that will be readable in a year.
80. Be among the first with a great blog on your topic, then encourage others to blog on the same topic.
81. Share your expertise generously so people recognize it and depend on you.
82. Announce news.
83. Write short, pithy posts.
84. Encourage your readers to help you manipulate the technorati top blog list.
85. Don’t write about your cat, your boyfriend or your kids.
86. Write long, definitive posts.
87. Write about your kids.
88. Be snarky. Write nearly libelous things about fellow bloggers, daring them to respond (with links back to you) on their blog.
89. Be sycophantic.Share linklove and expect some back.
90. Include polls, meters and other eye candy.
91. Tag your postsUse del.ico.us.
92. Coin a term or two.
93. Do email interviews with the well-known.
94. Answer your email.
95. Use photosSalacious ones are best.
96. Be anonymous.
97. Encourage your readers to digg your posts(and to use furl and reddit)Do it with every post.
98. Post your photos on flickr.
99. Encourage your readers to subscribe by RSS.
100. Start at the beginning and take your readers through a months-long education.
101. Include comments so your blog becomes a virtual water cooler that feeds itself.
102. Assume that every day is the beginning, because you always have new readers.
103. Highlight your best posts on your Squidoo lens.
104. Point to useful but little-known resources.
105. Write about stuff that appeals to the majority of current blog readers–like gadgets and web ..
106. Write about Google.
107. Have relevant ads that are even better than your content.
108. Don’t include comments, people will cross post their responses.
109. Write posts that each include dozens of trackbacks to dozens of blog posts so that people will notice you.
110. Run no ads.
111. Keep tweaking your template to make it include every conceivable bell or whistle.
112. Write about blogging.
113. Digest the good ideas of other people, all day, every day.
114. Invent a whole new kind of art or interaction.
115. Post on weekdays, because there are more readers.
116. Write about a never-ending parade of different topics so you don’t bore your readers.
117. Post on weekends, because there are fewer new posts.
118. Don’t interrupt your writing with a lot of links.
119. Dress your blog (fonts and design) as well as you would dress yourself for a meeting with a stranger.
120. Edit yourselfRuthlessly.
121. Don’t promote yourself and your business or your books or your projects at the expense of the reader’s attention.
122. Be patient.
123. Give credit to those that inspired, it makes your writing more useful.
124. Ping technorati or have someone smarter than me tell you how to do it automatically.
125. Write about only one thing, in ever-deepening detail, so you become definitive.
126. Write in English.
127. Better, write in Chinese.
128. Write about obscure stuff that appeals to an obsessed minority.
129. Don’t be boring.
130. Write stuff that people want to read and share.

I know how much you need more time to blog,blog, and blog that you don’t have time to research on newer trends in blog marketing. Read through the list. You don’t have to do everything. Just follow those you know you think you can do.

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