How Do You Really Get Links?
Link building has long been both a feared and a glorified activity for webmasters. Almost everyone knows that links are important, but few webmasters know how to go about getting them inexpensively and without effort. I know of one way that will almost guarantee that you get inbound links to your website, but only if you do it right. And it’s not hard to do it right.
Starting a blog and writing to it every day has more potential to help you build inbound links than anything else you do online. Many webmasters concentrate on creating link bait, but link bait takes time, money, and resources to create. A blog takes commitment and persistence. As for time, you can write a decent blog post in 30 minutes. It takes a little money to start one – not a lot. And all you need is the software, which is free.
The importance of a blog lies in writing to it every day. Write just every once in awhile and you diminish your chances for getting inbound links. The more you write to it the more likely you are to be linked to by someone else. The key is to make your blog unique. Write about interesting topics and that in itself will get other bloggers to link to you. Put your blog on your website and your URL will be the recipient of inbound links. Over time, that will be a huge benefit. It’s the easiest, least expensive way I know to really build good inbound links.
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its amazing how after adding a blog to my website, I jumped to the front page of google. Dont underestimate this method.
If you don’t have the time to write a Blog every day then relevant unique news is a good alternative. It still brings in-bound links, but has the added benefit of getting your site accepted to Google News and other news aggregators. You can also then send out a newsletter or offer RSS feeds which bring repeat traffic. Adfero DirectNews provide such a service. They can also write in Blog style if you prefer.
Blogging is a great start, and writing to it often keeps it fresh which the search engines like. However, with brand new blogs you have to do allot of marketing leg work to build traffic and hence links. Don’t you think?
Should you keep your content in line with your product or just blog about anything interesting?Also if the software is free what are the cost for?
@Cybernaut SEO International – Very good point people often forget that is a blog is a website and needs to be promoted and built up.
@walter – If you are going to launch a blog for your business then keep it relevant to the topics related to your business. I highly recommend WordPress blogging platform.
I have a friend who is just starting to blog. What’s the best advice you can give a new blogger?