| There are a wide variety of link building methods, and | | | | DMOZ, Yahoo!, BOTW and the Librarian's Internet |
| some will work in a given market better than others. | | | | Index. |
| Here is a list of ways you can increase the number of | | | | Participate in Forums. |
| quality of links to your site. | | | | Visit Big-Boards and type in a few keywords relative |
| Reciprocal Linking. | | | | to your market. It will provide with a listing of the top |
| While it may not pack as much SEO punch as other | | | | online forums in your market. These are ideal places to |
| methods listed, trading links with related websites can | | | | build your reputation while increasing your backlinks. |
| be a great way to increase your total number of links. | | | | Article Directories |
| In addition, you'll also gain more traffic from those | | | | If you can write well, you can earn thousands of |
| related sites, which in turn increases your revenue. A | | | | backlinks by leveraging article directories. Write an |
| few membership only sites include Link Metro, Links-Pal | | | | article about a specific issue in your market and post it |
| and 123ExchangeLinks. You can always personally | | | | on a number of article directories; when publishers put |
| contact related websites, though this time consuming. | | | | your article on their sites, they will include your bio box |
| Conducting Interviews. | | | | which contains a link back to your site). The main |
| By offering an interview to a third party website, you | | | | article directories are ArticlesFactory, ArticleDashboard, |
| are helping them create new content while building | | | | EzineArticles and GoArticles. |
| your position as an authority. The backlink to your site | | | | Press Releases |
| is the icing on the cake. | | | | Similar to article directories, you can submit a press |
| Web Directories. | | | | release to an online PR agency in the hopes someone |
| Directories have grown in popularity in recent years, | | | | will republish your release. If you're lucky, your release |
| and while they still have potent SEO power, you must | | | | could wind up on a major news site, providing a huge |
| remain focused on your efforts. | | | | lift in your search rankings. The two main online PR |
| There are three main types of directories: free, paid | | | | firms are BusinessWire and PrNewsWire. |
| and reciprocal. While free sounds good, many of them | | | | These are the tried and true methods of gaining |
| take weeks (sometimes months) to include your site. | | | | backlinks to your website, though there are countless |
| However, some free directories - such as DMOZ- | | | | others (Squidoo, Blogs, Social Bookmarking). Focus on |
| carry high Page Rank and will certainly provide SEO | | | | a few at a time and your backlinks will begin to take |
| power to your site. The main web directories are | | | | hold. |