What are the strategies in Link Building? How to increase referral traffic?

[PrasanthMohanachandran]

Guys please help me to increase reference traffic for a dry topic website such as automotives, insurance, real estate. I tried social bookmarking and networking but I did not find any difference I even did Blog commenting forum posting but it did not make much difference to me It increased my search rate but it not helped in my referral traffic. So please suggest me better strategies in Link Building for dry topic websites

[MattJanaway]

Blog commenting and Social Bookmarking (should you choose to use these methods) should only be a small/tiny part of your overall link building strategy. Put more effort into on-site content and make it interesting and unique. Then look at doing other things like PR articles, news articles, blogs etc... Also concentrate your efforts on building actual backlinks from strong, relevant sites.

I have uploaded an (old-ish) PDF which might give you some extra ideas However, don't take it as gospel - I would personally ignore the paid links section!

prospectmx_com-link-building-chart.pdf

[Keszi]

Very good reply Matt! I will have to bookmark that 101 too

[MattJanaway]

Thanks

[BlueprintMarketing]

I agree with everything that Matt has said especially stayed away from paid links as their truly a last resort.  I want to elaborate slightly more and let you know. You must diversify your anchor text anchor text is the URL you want to use let us say you are trying to sell toy cars and your web site has a page that is http://www.example.com/toy-cars/ an excellent way to build a link would be from a high page rank site or blog with a do follow relevant to your toy car website you would do best by placing the keyword toy cars inside the content of the website as well then making a link exactly like this

[Toy Cars/a>](http://www example.com/)

[note I can put whatever I want after the .com/"> whatever I want/">](http://www example.com/)

[here's an example like to still use this link to make sure my anchor text is perfect. What I'm getting at is always have your website anchor text say the same thing have it differ for whatever topic you are trying to rank for this makes for a links powerful combination you can practice using](http://www example.com/) http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp

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now please remember when linking it really only matters if the page you're linking from is ranked at least page rank 1 and most importantly has relevance to your website to illustrate my point you in more is a you tube video I have had great success showing people as I believe the man Andrew Masanto knows his stuff.

SEO Lecture - Harvard Business School - Andrew Masanto

http://youtu.be/Y0Id0HiAGD0

I hope I was of some help.

Sincerely,

Thomas Zickell

[BlueprintMarketing]

I wanted to throw out another idea as I am in chemical engineering and a niche business myself. Why don't you if you're not already a member of LinkedIn join LinkedIn start a group for auto insurance people need it all states but New Hampshire require it ( I learned this the hard way last week driving in FL) however you can make to the subject open to people like myself who wanted to spend less on auto insurance I bought from a company and I would have loved more information. When you post excellent content to your LinkedIn group and then have your group point to your blog it is a real win-win. I know Facebook is less likely to be gaga over insurance however Twitter and LinkedIn my opinion are the place to talk insurance and people will care.

Hope that was a help as well please remember to in your include profile a link to your blog as well as inside your group that you plan to create.

Sincerely,

Thomas

[Aran_Smithson]

You may want to mix up you anchor text a bit and maybe throw in some longer tail phrases. Having too many exact keyword phrases may do you some harm.

[PrasanthMohanachandran]

Thank you all for your valuable suggestions about quality back-links. But, am looking suggestions regarding referral traffic to dry topic websites such as real estate and automotive. Could you suggest me effective link building strategies, where I can increase referral traffic.

[BlueprintMarketing]

I  am sorry if I was not right on target on that however take a look at these 2 links

http://www.linkstycoon.com/2012/01/referral-links-can-improve-traffic-to.html

http://www.linkboostup.com/Forum-Link-Building.html

Forum link building is a very decent way to obtain web traffic. Forum links are effective referral traffic sources that also improve web visibility on search engine. Forum participation is capable of bringing visitors searching for specific service or product related to your business. Forum provides one way, permanent back links to your website. Forums are updated constantly with new topics and are indexed frequently by search engines crawlers. Forum provides valuable links to boost your website’s search impression and more impressions improve click rate. If you are looking for forum link building to improve your website ranking, you can enjoy our forum link building service.

I hope this is more on target to what you're looking for if it is please let me know and I'll be happy  to put together more information for you.

Sincerely,

Thomas