3 Sources Of Back Links Left On The Table By 87% Of Online Marketers
What are your chances of striking an SEO bargain called free links? The answer would be: very slim chances. When you’re on a budget and need a starting piece for online marketing, the biggest investment is time.
The reason for this is because you have to move in a thousand different directions to be noticed as a dependable supplier for your market place. Now, in order to get that extra push you have to add in your garnished monthly budget.
Creating attractive content or just simply a cool site that draws social attention is far more effective then the classic link chase powered by blatant comments and hype-packed signatures in forums.
Instead of concentrating on those clasic link resources, try some new alternatives, such as:
1. Untapped places to syndicate content to.
2. Under-the-radar methods for getting backlinks from independent websites
3. Social platforms perceived as trusted link depots
1. Generalizing Content Syndication
The hardest part in link building is not so much the research faze as it is getting the counterpart to react positively to your proposal.
You stand a good chance of acceptance if you show yourself available for a writing gig that will be placed on their site, of course with a link back to your website.
You could further empower your offer by presenting a sample of the future content. This proves to be a sound strategy as 90% today’s internet is based on recycled content and unique approaches are scarce.
If you lack writing skills think of hiring a ghost writer.
When lacking even basic inspiration, thoroughly rewrite some of your previous work. This builds additional relevancy for your site and exposes past (but ever green) content to new readers.
Article and press release directories should remain on your list of content destinations. The reason why I suggest supplementing them with topic related sites is because with some ADs, approving and indexing your content by SEs takes up to 2 weeks.
Plus, working with private blogs you enjoy a certain doze of exclusivity, a rare commodity for directories with hundreds of registered writers.
Contact sites that have an Alexa ranking below 100.000 and a toolbar PageRank of at least three, depending on your own. And track down websites where authority figures publish their content and follow them there.
2. Free back links from testimonials
The beauty of testimonials is that they always come with a back link. If your counter part fails or refuses to do so, simply retract your approval.
On the other hand, testimonials can also be disguised reciprocal promotions, being widely practiced between marketers that know, like and trust each other.
If you’re just making your first testimonial, be sure what you promote because unrealistic claims can definitely backfire.
Just stick with products that you personally use.
3. Social platforms as a trusted link depot
Some easy to get free back links can be obtained from social bookmarking sites, granted that you stick only with the best rated platforms like Digg.com, StumbledUpon and Reddit.
There are two “don’t”s you must follow on the top social bookmarking platforms and these are: 1) exclusive self promotion and 2) never use automation.
Apart from social bookmarking you can use social media platforms like HubPages and Squidoo where you create useful tutorials and “how to”s of interest for your niche.
These two platforms should be taken very seriously as a source for back links, especially if it’s newly launched with no ranking power of it’s own what so ever.
As a matter of fact it’s not uncommon that pieces of content posted here to outrank the bulk or original block of content initially published on your site.
If you’re thinking to use private social bookmarking projects powered by open source software like Pligg and Ning, don’t waste your time. It takes forever for them to get indexed and even when they do, they maintain rankings.
If you’re using submission software, filter out these types of platforms and focus on only the established services mentioned above.
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