Thank you so much for the helpful tips on building links. I’ve started going through the DoFollow blogs, but it seems to take a while for the site admins to approve posts. One other way is to submit your site to free directories which you can find with a quick google search.

Great tips Bill. These are all techniques that anyone with basic computer skills can do in their spare time. I have to reiterate what faculty said about one mission and easy link directory. I wasn’t aware of either of these services. Thanks for keeping your on the ball.

Bill,
As you probably know, we have been doing link building for years, yet you listed some sites under #3 that I hadn’t heard of yet.

Good post.

Arnie

Never ceases to amaze me how just when you think you know all of the key social media site, a new list pops up.

Thanks for links and ideas.

Bill,

Nice post –you mention a few sites that I hadn’t heard of before.

I do have one comment. You say: “make a useful comment on a *recent* post, not one from 6 months or a year ago”.

I understand that some people may be tempted to comment on older posts just because their browser toolbars show a little green line that isn’t yet present on newer posts, I also appreciate that most of the “interesting” comments will already have been made after a few weeks, and I can imagine that you don’t like the idea of constantly having to “police” your entire site.

However, if people visit your site for the first time and like it, they will probably read *several* articles, and they may well want to *comment*, perhaps even on more than one… So I think your “rule” should read: “make a useful comment on a *recent* post, [] *unless* you have a really new, really interesting insight regarding an older one”!

Marcel (first-time visitor, through Small Business SEM)

I found this article on webpronews and found it very useful. I even tried some of what you said on a new website i had built and you were correct. The next day google immediately added my site to their index and yahoo has already found 10 links from the sites you had listed above. Thanks for some real advice this time!

Bill,

Do you find that the wunderground site gives you much traffic? I was wondering how it comes into play and how to better utilize it.

Thanks for the advice, I’ve just launched my home restoration site. How can I tell if a blog or site is dofollow or nofollow? Is this part of the SEO plugin for Firefox perhaps?

Thanks for the tips. The number five tip related to broken links checking is something new for me.

Lyndall, when you are on the page, go to the top of your toolbar where is says File, Edit, View.. If you are using internet explorer, go to view, and then select “source”. It will open up the whole pages code on a notepad format. I then usually use the ctrl+F function to search for the word “follow”. If you see Dofollow or don’t find the word “follow” at all, this is good, but if it says “nofollow” near a URL, this is bad, and does nothing for your SERP, unfortunately.. A lot of blog site owners will eventually pay for this attribute and attitude, as they’ll notice the amount of unique content and traffic they receive will drop, once this catches on.. The funny thing is, is that these same blog site owners, themselves want a lot of inbound links, and will post on “dofollow” blogs or sites themselves to market their site and do get a higher pagerank. It’s really about greed, in my opinion. I understand if its spam, and or non-relevant and un thought out comment, but if someone takes the time to add beneficial and unique content to help their site rank higher on search engines for the site they are adding content on, and seems only fair that they would allow the inbound link to follow. Think about it, you writing at times a small article of unique content for them, each time you write out a though out comment. Contrary to belief, a site does not lose pagerank or rankings by posting outbound links.. Google likes sites that spider out, and out penalize spam sites that do this. I think they just don’t want any sites to benefit from receiving the benefit of getting inbound links, although their site itself is highly benefiting from such inbound links from bloging, forums, articles, and related sites. This is one of the reasons why I will be using this blog, and stopped using many others.. This blog has both useful content, and does not have the “nofollow” attribute attitude.. HOwever, if someone is just spamming, and leaving a 1 sentence comment, I do consider this spam, and I don’t think these comments are adding any value, nor should dofollow or their links be allowed..

Just wanted to say thanks for the post… and also thanks for informing me of OneMission.com. I have used the other methods in your article before. Some with good results.. others not so much. Now I am going to test out OneMission and see what thats all about.

Greatly appreciated.

I have already tried one or two things mentioned in your list and they have worked very well in getting traffic. I will try out the rest also so that i can increase the traffic as the traffic is slow. I am not getting it as i am expecting it.

Thanks for your article I happened to stumble upon it ( pardon the pun ) while i was doing more seo research.

Onto the Google duplicate content stuff. What if your take on many sites such as technorati and such having this with many backward and inbound links with good PR from google to it.
1. Do you think they are not being penalized do to being such a big site or authority?
2. Or do you think it has to do with so many in bound links from OTHER resources ( outbound) and that is why all is well and they still have awesome PR.
3. Other factors.

Would love to hear your opinion.

It seems like digg and del.icio.us are becoming less and less approachable though. The popular articles are again and again posted by the same group of people, how can you break through all that and actually get your article viewed?

jessica rose –

there is indeed a plugin that will tell you if a link is nofollow or not, it is called seo for firefox (check tools.seobook.com to get it), but you can also just look at the page’s source and examine the href tag. if is has a nofollow in it, there you go.

Thanks for bringing all this stuff in one short list. But I have one correction – these actions are definitely good for english site, but not all this actions could be applied to non-english site (russian language, for example).

nice tips. i’ve had fan sites since 1999 but just started doing all the SEO and stuff for ‘em. now i’m braching out to different topics instead of celebrity and your tips definitely help. getting links isn’t as easy as it used to be in the old Web 1.0 days when everybody was linking with everybody. now it’s like you have to go out and pull teeth.

Thanks a lot for these link building tips. I was aware of some of the techniques but a couple of them are new to me and look very interesting. But I am a bit confused about the ‘Add your own blog at a few web sites’ suggestion. Do you mean I need to make a new blog at these sites and then add a link to my main site? Thanks for the help!

Great post. It’s nice to see that you also have a call to action that promotes your skills.

Additional tips for those that market to non-English speaking customers:
- it is often easier and more beneficial to get quality links from directories and portals that cater to specific languages
- write articles in the language of your target audience but include English keyword equivalents throughout so that you get picked up by both the niche and the big search engines

Thank you for your tips, i didn’t know about onemission.com and Wunderground.

I think it’s really worth mentioning that a couple of these link-building tactics can really be done in your own downtime. I’ll be honest: I was going to read some blogs and kill time on StumbleUpon to cool off from work, anyway. Now, my time off is still helping the business. Great post.

Thank you for the immediate link building help. It is harder than most people seem to realize to get quality back links without having to give a reciprocal link.

thanks Bill for the post on tips for link building…some new ones here for me, and thanks to Cobra CB for the explanation of checking DoFollow, I have always wondered how to check, and now I know.

Building links is a task that requires some decent amount of time and some extra $ ( optional ) . This is what most of the webmasters and bloggers fail to realize and they only end up no where by just giving up their link building campaign hoping to gain many links naturally which usually does not seem to happen.

Nice article !

But I personally feel 3 rd points is not very much effective .No doubt we can get instant link from there but I experienced that they can’t help to drive traffic until and unless you have good online reputation. I have been doing the same from last few months I got result form other 5 techniques but not from bookmarking sites.