Practical Link Building
Link Building with Website Directories
Directories are categorized listings of links from around the web. Many, many directories exist and vary in their methods of getting your link posted on them. Directories are a great way to gain backlinks for free. They are easy to submit to and if you have a decent site it is very easy to get approved.
Website directory submission is another very effective way to achieve high search engine ranking. Submitting your website to web directories is a great way to obtain one way permanent links. Website directory submission and directory advertising increases your link popularity through link building, assuring you higher rankings in popular search engines like Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Alta Vista. Higher search engine rankings drive targeted traffic directly to your site.
Link Building with Article Directories
Submitting articles to the article directories can eat up an entire day (oe week)! Most people cannot afford that kind of time, no matter how effective article marketing is. Submitting articles to article directories is, without a doubt, the best way to get one-way links to your websites and blogs. The major search engines love unique content, and submitting articles to the top directories not only adds content to them, but also allow you to add links to your website or blog in the body of your article or in the resource box. Submitting articles to us here at Article Alley will not only boost your business credibility but it will also boost your personal credibility. By continually submitting your articles to us here at Article Alley you are creating trust between your business and the people that use it.
Sites from unrelated sites without a Google Page Rank do not provide any benefit. Sites which just scrape content are not valued by Google. However, sometimes your article may get picked up by a good quality website in your niche. Site developers are becoming more innovative in how they get links back to their sites, and in the process they add more value to the linking site and to users of those sites.
Link Building with Niche Website Blogs
Comment on other blogs is blog link building. Most of these comments will not provide much direct search engine value, but if your comments are useful, insightful, and relevant they can drive targeted website traffic. Major search engines also give value to links from blogs even if it comes from the comment sections, the type of value is given from very relevant sites and is shown through link association more than page rank value. Comment on any added photos/videos/links. Each of these activities goes into your mini feed and your friends?
Link Building with Niche Website Forums
Forum link building is when you do this through forums rather than through website blog commenting, article directories, website directories, or other tactics. It’s very common, and in some cases it is the only reason to even appear in the forum in the first place. If you are hardworking, it will not take long before you learn and understand how the forum link building works. It takes some effort but the result is worth the effort. Finding high traffic forums allows you to guarantee targeted website traffic to your website. Researching to find specific niche forums is half the battle, make sure you review other posts in your thread, and make meaningful comments within the posts. And of course the most important part is to ensure a back link is provided to our website either within the post, nickname or signature.
