February 27, 2008

7 Ways To Build Links To Your Website

The following post on building links to your blog Excepted from ProBlogger.

1) Pick a Niche and Own It With Quality Content

If you aren’t writing material that is new, different, and offers an interesting perspective, you won’t get readers or links to your blog. When you’re getting started, pick a niche and dominate it. Find a topic that you are passionate about and that isn’t too competitive yet.

2) Get Involved In The Community

Once you have picked your niche, get involved in the community surrounding it. No matter what topic you pick there are blogs and forums already discussing it. Join the conversation!

3) Get Press

Create awareness and build links was to get media attention.

4) Social Networking Sites

Social networking is all the rage now but it’s more than just hype. An effective social networking campaign can help drive tremendous amounts of traffic as well as build links to your site. The key is to start off with quality content and then get the community to help you promote it.

6) Directories, Craigslist, Wikipedia

Submit your website to all the relevant directories that I could find. In all honesty I didn’t get many hits from them except from Business.com, but I viewed it as a link building exercise that would eventually pay off. If you run any kind of events, you need to also put them on Craigslist. We run a number of offline events for entrepreneurs and Craigslist helped send us a decent amount of traffic. Their pages also rank well and you can include a link back to your site from the postings you create.

7) Give People An Incentive To Link to You

As wonderful as it is to get bloggers and other website owners to link to you on the merit of your content alone, sometimes they need a push and an incentive to do so. Once you build up credibility in your niche you will have people who want to be associated with you.

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