Basic Linking Building
Find sites to submit your website to or trade links with. There are many ways to find link trades or websites to submit to. Some are webmaster boards, friends, search engines and directories.
Search Engines are a great place to find sites you can request a trade with or submit to. Try searching for the keyword your site is themed for, like add url+keyword, or submit link+keyword, etc.
Directories are an excellent source to find sites that are in the same niche as your own. Try contacting the owner to get a link trade going.
Create a List
Whenever you do any research for link building, create a list of the sites you find. You have spent valuable time finding these sites; this is time you can save later.
You can create this list in Excel, html or Word. Whatever program you feel comfortable using. I do prefer Excel because I can add notes easily and add new tabs for different niches or unique sites I find.
Filter Your Link Building List
Okay; now I know you are thinking, what the hell is she talking about? Filter my list? Filter it for what? Well filter it for IP?s is the first step. Use
IP Reportto find out if your list has separate Class C IP?s.
IP Report is free to use, and you can find duplicate IP?s easily. There are other ways I?m sure but this site is the one I use.
Organize Your Link Building List
Once you have gone through your list, you can move some trades or links with the same class C IP to the bottom of your list. Why to the bottom? Well this time you probably won?t submit to them, but for another site later on you might use them.
Prioritize your list, submit to all the places that are on different class C IP?s first. Submit to any that you know you will get traffic from as well.
Save Your Link Building List
This list is a time saving tool for you in the future, so save it! Good luck with building your own valuable link building list.
Tips:
Check out the site that you are asking for links from. Make sure they aren?t using any type of script on their links. Directories or top lists that track clicks are usually not worth the time if you are looking for links for SEO purposes. Also, sites that are scripts that spiders can?t index won?t be great for link building purposes. A link with many variables like:
http://site.com/script.cgi?variable=...e&site=thatone probably isn?t getting indexed so a link on that page to your site probably isn?t going to help you much.
Anchor text for links you are building (you know the external links, the ones that you are getting to link to your site).
Mix the anchor text up! I don?t know how many times a person has asked me why they are sandboxed or how come they have 1,000?s of links to their site but are still on page 10 on Google. My first question to them is usually, "what text are you using in the links to you?" They usually say their keyword phrase. I tell them to vary that, they tell me, "No I heard to use that." I tell them to vary that. They tell me they don?t think that is it. Then 3-4 weeks later they are still not sure what the problem is. I tell them the same thing I said before. They finally give that a try, and their rankings start to rise. Example, if you are going for Adult Toys, instead of building all your links with the term ?adult toys? try varying that with Adult Toy Store, Adult Toy Stores, Sex Toys, Adult Sex Toys, Sex Toy Store, AdultToys, SexToys, etc. (another hint, easy rankings are usually misspelled words and phrases with no spaces!) I usually do 50-60% for my main keyword and vary the other 40-50%.
Written by goodgirl, Director of Internet Marketing at Got Web Host & AdultSEM. goodgirl is a full time SEO, with seven years experience building and designing successful websites. Her vast knowledge in SEM helps make Got Web Host & AdultSEM. the valuable resource it is today