Knowing how and where to get Build Strong Outbound Links To Your Blog is vital to your SEO success. It’s important to create helpful content before building links to your site and a good SEO company would map out strategies to garner natural links without sacrificing relevance.
I’ll share with you 4 smart ways to get strong back links. Back links are those links that come from sites that you don’t own. And these days, Google is constantly rolling out their updates; we all know the weird Panda and thought that was all. Then suddenly, the Penguin left the sea – over optimized blogs were penalized.
So, the strategies we shall be looking into are white hat (legit and Google-friendly). I’m ready to spill the beans, here we go:
Build Strong Outbound Links To Your Blog With Featured Article Links (F.A.L)
Where can you feature a unique and valuable article in order to build authority links? There are several places online that accepts well-written contents. In the blogosphere, featured article is called ‘guest posts.’
And guest posting on niche-specific sites can make the links stronger and juicier. What you should aim for is to have your anchor link right inside the article. Most established blogs wouldn’t mind linking to resourceful and relevant contents within the post. It’s no big deal – only provide what they need. We’ve seen guest bloggers who crafted excellent posts but didn’t utilize the anchor texts. What a waste of link-juice?
Having your links on the author bio is good but you should make attempt to link from the article itself. Since it’s a featured article, blog owners would be glad to share the love. It’s a win/win content marketing system.
User-Edited Social Portals
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Web 2.0 sites are being neglected these days. Guest blogging has taken over and the competition is fierce. But web 2.0 sites which are user-edited can be a great source for building links. 95% of these sites have high pagerank. Tumblr and Squidoo are great examples of sites where you can build quality links.
However, these sites have strict linking policies. They expect you to submit only relevant articles that can engage users. Link building cannot be done overnight. Spend time creating original articles – research user-edited sites and share your content.
The competition out there is too much. Guest posting can be a good source of traffic, back links and brand building, but everyone is doing it – you should too. But you can speed up the entire process and build relevant links on steroids – use web 2.0 sites fully to improve Google ranking.
Create Epic Contents
There is a better way to get hundreds of quality links to your blog. All you’ve to do is create epic contents and get others to promote it willingly. Writing a tutorial-based blog post can attract hundreds of people to it. Tutorials are evergreen content strategy.
Beginners to blogging and intermediates are always looking-out for tutorials on SEO, Social Media and Content Marketing and so on. Whatever niche or business model you’ve chosen, spend time studying your audience to know the exact problems they’re facing.
Afterward, use the information gathered to create helpful and evergreen content which can remain useful for months (maybe years too). Your target audience would share it willingly, generating good outbound links to your pages and improving search engine ranking. Blogs that are popular have usable contents in them and they’ve built 1000s of backlinks naturally – position your blog today.
Create Link-Wheels
A link-wheel is a group of links that are connected to each other. The objective of creating a link-wheel is to strengthen a particular page to rank higher in search engines. Link-wheel works best if you’re selling a product or providing a special service online.
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Rather than building links to different web pages at a time, you’ll be linking to one particular page. For this strategy to work, you’ll utilize authority sites like Hubpages.com, Squidoo.com, Tumblr.com, Connotea.org, Facebook.com, blinklist.com and so on. Use one of the established sites as a link-hub.
This is where the entire link would rest. Links carry weight and they will rest on the hub. Let’s assume you wrote an article and published at hubpages.com – your anchor links embedded off course.
Now, start writing guest articles and get them featured on A-list blogs. Now, here is the deal: when you want to add links on the author bio, add the published link to Hubpages.com (the link-hub). Don’t link to your primary site. We’re talking about link-wheel here and the way it works is to create a wheel-like structure for your money-page. Google and other search engines appreciate such link structure.
Great Links Pays
It’s no longer the amount of links you generate, but how relevant and helpful they’re to your audience. Focus on engagement and Google will reward you with quality organic traffic. See you ahead!
This is a guest post and the views of the author do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of this site. The author, Brian Nixon, is a professional search engine optimizer who writes for Pitstop Media Inc, a Canadian company that provides top rated SEO services to businesses across North America. For more information please visit www.pitstopmedia.com
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Hi Brian,
Thank you for the methods described above. I have a question if you don’t mind: You mention “For this strategy to work, you’ll utilize authority sites like Hubpages.com, Squidoo.com, Tumblr.com, Connotea.org, Facebook.com, blinklist.com and so on. ”
The first three sites are micro blogging sites where we can write articles and put backlinks to our money site. What about facebook.com? How do you suggest to use it apart from creating a fan page ?
Thank you
Lenia. You will leverage FB’s authority to link to other micro blogging sites you built.