How new website / blogs can earn backlinks?

[Kashif-Amin]

Hi,

As link wheels, link pyramids and paid links are penalized by google and the only chance to get back links is to earn them.

My Question is that with a new website / blog, how a newbie with no relationships with established bloggers, can earn links?

Because writing quality contents and detailed posts (e.g. more than 3000 words posts twice a month) still would benefits for those blogs having already traffic to share these contents and in case of new blog, due to very low traffic, it would take months or years to enter in the game.

Please propose step by step strategy / plan / footprint for newly born website and marketers.

Thanks

[DirkC]

There are quite a lot of posts on Moz that cover link building. There is of course the beginner's guide, and this category page, which highlights the most important articles on link building.

Remember that all blogs once started from zero: without quality content, quality sites are not going to link to you. Create your content strategy and start building relationships. It will probably take time and a lot of effort, but it pays of in long run.

Hope this helps,

DIrk

[DonnaDuncan]

Just to add to Dirk's response,

Adam Melson at Seer Interactive wrote an excellent post called "Link Building Guide: When You Have No Links". Check it out.

The other thing I'd like to note is, you should plan on spending the same amount of time promoting your posts as you do writing them. And yes, depending on the level of competition you're up against, it can take months or years to gain meaningful traction.