What else rather than posts for linkbuilding?

[socialengaged]

Hello,

My question is: we all know that blogs or great content is the way to good backlinks. But rather than this, what other ways are to build quality links to a website?

I for example try researching competition backlinks (with opensiteexplorer), or find directories etc.

Is this the right way? I also try to produce great content, but I would have liked more technical SEO tricks for this

And one more thing: how long links are needed before they impact rankings?

Thanks if someone can help!

Eugenio

[Chris.Menke]

Hey Social,

The "technical SEO tricks"  of the past aren't going to pay you big dividends these days. Today's link building is really about being excited about your product and being excited to produce content that others will find valuable.  But there are still numerous, less exciting tactics that you can employ, as Jon Cooper points out in one of his posts on link building strategies.  http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies .  It turns out that link building is about being creative, knowing your product and your audience, and having a passion for spending hours on end discovering new places and ways your product or brand can fit into people's lives.

[DrewR]

You are on the right track, I think. This is the hardest part of the whole process really - the "wall" that you hit after you've posted a good blog. Most of the advice I read, stops there and kind of expects us to know what to do or that people are magically supposed to find your awesome content and start linking.

Here's some extra "technical SEO tricks" that I've started using. Since you've already got the good content - use that to build links (everyone else feel free to chime in, as I'm really new to this):

1. Use the rel=author Markup to link your post to your Google+ page
2. Add social media share buttons
3. Promote your blog on your social media pages (FB, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, LinkedIn)
4. Submit to blog directories (Technorati, Zimbio, Ontoplist, Alltop, BestoftheWeb, Blogarama, etc - All PR6). Make sure you choose the right category, so that all your links source from your niche and look natural - don't "automate" this process.
5. Submit to bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, Delicious - All PR8)

If anyone else has ideas for using their content to build good links, let me know.

To answer your second question, how long a link takes until it adds value, it really depends. I've seen 2 weeks, and I have actually seen 5-6 months afterward, it finally shows up in Moz tools. Strange.

Hope this helps. I'm still learning too - so anyone else have any suggestions?