How to find the authorities site to link from

[Matt-kind]

Hi

It seems getting quality authority backlinks is the main priority to success in your SEO which is also most difficult task as well . How do you find these authority sites that allows you to backlink from them? is there any tools to find good quality sites for backlinks?

Thanks

[Michael-Goode]

Hi Matchonce,

Finding quality authority backlinks is no easy thing. For starters, do a bit of research in your niche and find out who the top sites are. You could then contact each one and perhaps offer a guest blog post so you could receive a link from then. OR if you have awesome (and relevant) content on your own website, you could let them know about it, and receive a link as well in return.

Also, you can use Open Site Explorer (http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/) to find out what links your competitors may have. Export them into a CSV, sort out the bad ones and get started :).

Good luck!

[SEO5Team]

You might find this post from Scott Mclay posted today quite helpful on this link.

The most often used techniques by us include:

• Open site explorer: studying the link profiles of our competitors
• Advanced Search Operators as mentioned by Scott and referenced in this link 
• Researching blogging opportunities with related industry sites.Quite often we have seen that a lot of chamber of commerce sites are very open to having members contribute content for their site and they dont mind if you add a link to your site in your author bio or the post.
• Top 10 list related to the client's vertical.These kinds of posts are always interesting and fun to read and attract lots of sites wanting to share it with their visitors

[Matt-kind]

is there any other option other then using competitors backlinks. It seems you are just copying what other did. how to get links from sites that have better quality then the one your competitors  already getting link from ?

[Keszi]

Hi,

Another option would be a payed tool, it is called Ontolo.

Although it has quite some price, but it helps a lot.

Gr.,

Istvan

[SanketPatel]

Depends on your theme you can find quality blogs in technorati blog Directory.

http://technorati.com/blogs/directory/

You can also try myblogguest for guest for quality blogs. They also accept started infographics  as well.