Cool Ideas For Building Links

Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Monday, June 15, 2009 Comments (7)

When it comes to link building there are a lot of ideas floating around. Most of them you’ve probably heard of:

  • Article marketing
  • Directory submissions
  • Link baiting
  • Online publicity
  • Social media marketing
  • Give away a blog theme
  • Throw a contest



You get the picture. They’re all over the place. And these ideas have been rehashed over and over again. But I’ve got 5 link building methods that I’ll mention below that don’t get mentioned very often and they are really cool and unique to implement. Try them out!

  • Start a microblog – Seriously, I’m not talking about Twitter or Tumblr here. I’m talking about a standalone miniature blog. WordPress theme and all. For $10 a year you can build a little blog site, throw an article or two on it and link it back to your website then totally forget about it. When that site is 10 years old you’ll have one awesome inbound link.
  • Post in .gov and .edu forums – It’s no secret that .gov and .edu domain names are really valuable. The links in particular are really valuable. I mean, really valuable.
  • Be a guest blogger – This one is starting to pick up steam, but it’s not quite to the point of being real popular yet. Blog for another blog in your niche. You’ll get a link.
  • Join Rateitall – Post a review, get rated, and rate others’ reviews. Get links.
  • Start a petition – Encourage people in your niche to sign it.

There are plenty more ways to build links. In fact, Carl Ocab has 69 link building ideas right here. Check them out.

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7 Comments

Comment by Arjun

Made Wednesday, 17 of June , 2009 at 3:04 am

Also submitting a RSS feeds to sites like technorati can work well.

Comment by Nick Stamoulis

Made Wednesday, 17 of June , 2009 at 5:05 am

@Arjun – Very good point! Technorati can be great for driving visitors to your blog/site as well!

Comment by david

Made Saturday, 20 of June , 2009 at 1:20 am

Another point is when you are guest blogging is to do a little promotion of your article, it will benefit you aswell as the blog you are posting on.

Comment by Nick Stamoulis

Made Saturday, 20 of June , 2009 at 7:28 am

@david – That is so very true! Promotion of your guest blog post within your social networks is always a great idea!

Comment by Carl Ocab

Made Saturday, 20 of June , 2009 at 9:16 am

Thanks for the link love Nick. Appreciate it :-)

Comment by Nick Stamoulis

Made Saturday, 20 of June , 2009 at 11:42 am

@Carl Ocab – You are very welcome, excellent link building tip list! :)

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