Link building? I really dont get it is there an easy way

[rhutchings]

nice tool Luke.  I have never seen that one before.  Takes the whole search query finding one step further.

[Luke22]

Glad you like it! Hope you will enjoy using it. They did really good job creating that tool... I'm sure with time you will like it even more!

[Pavlicko]

oldie but a goodie, been using it for years. I also really really like Whitespark Citation finder: http://www.whitespark.ca/local-citation-finder/ for local directory links - critical for ranking local sites. Though they've limited the free access a bit since they first started...

[therealmarkhall]

Nice little tool* *This comment is not personal!

[voitenkos]

Why not use seomoz Juicy link finder tool and email all of the site owners on the result page? For 10 "No" answers you should get 1 "Yes".

[Gyi]

Solid advice. Spend the majority of time focusing on your content. Spend the rest of your time getting in front of an audience who is ready, willing, able to link to and further publicize it.

[tomcraig86]

Definitely stop using this service! Simple as that.

Look to get guest blogs, some profile, comments and forum links, (but concentrate your time in other areas). PR and relationships with high authority sites such as newspapers is an absolute must!

[SoFlaWeb]

LOL

[SoFlaWeb]

I have not seen Raven Tools mentioned here.

I am not affiliated with them in any way (other than a satisified customer). And I acutally use their toolset more for reporting than actually tracking links. But I find it easier to utilize their system (and their toolbar) to add an track links than an excel spread sheet. You can always export to excel if you want to do some more indepth analysis.

There is some learning curve to get everthing setup, but the additional features are well worth (just the reporting alone was worth it for me, saves me lots of time every month)

[shandaman]

Hey My Friend,

What the others are saying is true there is no easy way. But depending on the competition for the keywords your after it can be easier then some are stating. Just remember slow and steady wins the race.

[Thos003]

I agree. Being able to track links you've aquired and monitor links you may be working on is a big plus to Raven's tool belt.

[blackrino]

The best thing that I have done so far is article building. Than again they do say now that it's not "good" to share your content across the web and that google will only use the first article. So sometimes I change the article around a little bit. The trick is to actually put GOOD content up! Don't put crap out there that no one wants to read. If you put good stuff out there people will link to you. I have over 10,000 links to my site and most of it is from people reposting my blogs! I also get a lot of traffic from this.

I'm not a big fan of the link farm (you post of mine and I'll post on yours) type deal. I think it's cheesy and it can actually get you in trouble.

About linkmarket, that's a site that does definitely look like it can get you in more trouble than help you. Put it this way, I've got 10,000 links (and a lot of them are high quality) and I didn't pay for one single link. Granted I agree that when you do the article building way there is potential to get some low end links, but it's better than nothing.

[SteveOllington]

One of our tactics is to try to be really helpful about stuff on topically relevant forums and blogs. i.e.

1. We have a client who sells a product to combat penetrating damp.
2. We find forums and blogs where people are having problems with penetrating damp.
3. We research a proper answer for them ourselves.
4. We answer their questions and recommend the product via a keyworded anchor text link.

As long as the post or comment we've made is a valuable contribution and provides a solid, well researched answer (so not spam), then the forum mods don't seem to mind the link staying there

[eyepaq]

I've used linkmarket for about one year - the results were great at that time (2008). It stared to fade as far as results and I've stop using it since it's on the gray area with a lot of dark tones. In today market / SEO i don't advise using it due to the current in place procedures.  Everything that is working great and gets abused will eventually move fast or slow to the dark edge and cross the border...

Now it's the social network session that is looking good. This will also move across the border and become a so called black tactic soon (as soon as to many people are using this and abuse of those signals).

Just my opinion on this matter.

[tomcraig86]

Amazing answer. Put in the groundwork, and soon you'll be unstoppable!!

[PrivateNameAM]

2 things seem to work very well:

The first is to use BOOKMARK pages.

The second is to use MORE of these BOOKMARK pages.

The great complex issue of link building is actually simple!

Example > http:// url. (REMOVE) org/bookmarks/

or  www(REMOVE) buzzster DOT com

[krishrun]

Perhaps you could use service Like BuildMyRank.com ,,, though I am new to SEO and not sure how useful it may be

[BrianFL]

It's always best to have direct control of the sources you purposefully build links from. Anything else just doesn't work out as effectively.

[copykatrecipes]

I began to note, whose blogs had follow V nofollow links, and I would spend more time on the blogs that had the follow links.  I would spend more time on comments with blogs that had a link that would pass juice.  Blogs that use CommentLuv are follow links.

[Marcus_Miller]

Variety is key and we tend to use the following as a starter:

• local, business and niche directories
• google discussion search (as above, find problems, get client to help with answers + a link)
• article marketing across a few sites but with a few quality articles
• content on the site itself that we find discussions relevant to the content and then link to it from the blog/forum etc
• competitor research (opensiteexplorer) to identify potentials linking to our competitors

It's different for each job, usually requires assistance from the client to do social stuff (forums, blogs etc) and always, always, always take a good bit of time and needs a structured approach.

Half the time, if the links easy to get, it aint worth having! So, think not in volume, but in quality. Get 10 links a week and you have 500 by the time the year is out and you are in a much better position.

Cheers
Marcus