Link Building from a different perspective: Let’s do it naturally !

December 20, 2007 – 11:34 pm

Even after all that buzz and rumors about Google ignoring paid links, link building is still the single most important part of achieving high ranking on any Search Engine. With this post, I would like to feature some comparatively unconventional (yet highly effective) ways to garner high quality back links for your website.

Look who’s linking ?
Get ready for surprises. Just enter the search parameter: “name” -linkdomain:name.com (in case of RedAlkemi I will enter: “RedAlkemi” -linkdomain:redalkemi.com) in yahoo and you will get a list of websites which have featured your website but haven’t provided you a back link. All you have to do, is to shoot a warmly written personal email to ask them to provide a back link to your website and you can expect at least 20-40% positive response (which is quite good).

Web 2.0 profile linking
Make a list of your favorite Web 2.0 websites (Digg, MySpace, Facebook, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Yahoo! 360 etc) that allow you to create your profile with a URL and make a natural looking profile with a link to your website. If the web 2.0 website has direct link disabled, you may tag your website and its equally effective.

Butter and link!
If there is a website which you have been desperately trying to link but never knew how to approach, I have a tip for you. Start praising the work of the website on the Social Media and chances are that they will soon get to know that they have a big fan and will feature your praising stories on their website while linking to you. Even if they don’t, you may send them a copy of the story or press release telling them that they are welcome to put the story on their website (with your link off course) and believe me every one loves being admired, they will link to you.

Link to me honey
Look around and make a list of your near and dear ones, who maintain their own personal website, blog, profile. Send them a personal mail to provide an HTML link to your website. If they really like you, you can expect a 100% conversion rate. Now if you don’t value these links, ask your SEO company that how much will they charge you for getting such a link?

Link local too
Make a list of local websites and directories (like yellow pages, Google maps), which can offer you local and global links on sign up.

Punish thieves linkably
If ever you find a webmaster who has stolen your image or content, don’t spare him and shoot him an email and ask him to provide you a back link from quality website he is associated with. It’s a linkable way of punishing the cyber thieves where no one gets hurt.

Even though you can’t rely 100% on such linking tactics, but they actually boost your conventional link building campaign, and if you are looking to start a link building campaign now, you may want to have a look at our ongoing Christmas offer on link building. And one more thing, we have Christmas holidays till 25 Dec, so I would like to wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS in advance ! Cheers !