How to Get Quality Links

So how do you get sites to link to you? Or rather, how do you get quality sites to link to you?

Directory Links: - This is the easiest way to get links, but perhaps the worst. Do not submit your site to 200 Directories – Those links are usually worthless and associate your site with low-quality sites. However, submitting your site to few quality directories is advised (you can sort of determine a site’s quality by their Alexa rating) Directories like Joeant.com and Blogcatalog.com fall into this category of “Free high- quality directories.”

Social Links: - When you think you have a great piece of content, submit it to the social sphere --- sites like Digg, Reddit, delicious.StumbleUpon, and any smaller social sites you know of don’t bank on hitting it big, but you never know, and furthermore, you will still get a little traffic. Also on any forums or blogs you are active on, make sure your signature file has a link. Just don’t become a forum/blog/comment spammer. It doesn’t work, makes you and your site look bad, and takes away time from building good links.

Ask for Links :- If you have friends online ( and most people do) why not ask for a link ? Most people are kind enough to do so and it’s rather easy. It gets a  bit tougher when asking strangers for links, but if you have some sort of “Social Link” (members of the same forum, similar website focus, etc.) write a quick email asking for link. If they like you’re content, they might link to you – just don’t ask them more than once and stay transparent (anything else is usually insulting).

Pay for links: - in Recent years, this has become a popular mode of link-building, although Google frowns upon it (and in a recent Page Rank update, has punished various website for participating). So proceed with caution, but know that many people use the option. You just have to search for “Paid text links” to find a slew of service and information. (Three are exceptions to this rule: sites like Best of the Web and Yahoo provide paid listing/reviews that actually do help you in SEO

Link Bait: - The Current buzzword of link-building, “Link bait” is any content that gives people reason to link to you. What makes good link Bait? Contests, free stuff, great articles (like “101 ways to _________ “), or anything else people find worth linking to Of Course, make sure your great idea gets in front of people by utilizing the social websites and any contacts you might have in the industry.

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