How to build links naturally in a super competitve niche where all the other sites ranking are your direct competition?

[Miamirealestatetrendsguy]

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[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi,

That is a huge question with so many possibilities and creating lots of web 2.0 properties and blogs that link back is a possibility, but one that comes with risks if Google finds out. For that purpose, I would state here that you should avoid doing this.

One of the easiest ways to build links is by analysing all of your competitors and see where they have links from (those that aren't owned by them) and see if you can also get a link there also.

Also, the link you gave isn't working so I can't have a look at the site or competition.

• Does your site carry a USP / selling point that other sites would like to link to?
• Do you write regular amazing content and share this?
• Do you ever perform any outreach to other sites and see if you can secure a link?

-Andy

[badgergravling]

The link is working, but when you put a url in the Moz Q and A section without http, it'll append on the end of the q and a url. Copy and pasting the miamirealestatetrends url into your browser will work fine

[badgergravling]

Hi,

This is an issue I work with a lot. Over the last few years it's become a lot harder to earn natural links for my own sites and for client sites, as people move onto social networks, and away from blogging etc.

So what's the solution?

You could try paying journalists/writers. However, it will be expensive, particularly for any reasonable quality links. And real journalists don't tend to sell paid links - it tends to be the lower level contributors in blog and guest post sections, who are quite often found out (I know various media owners who purged their sites of contributors selling links, wiping out £1000s in paid links...)

So what can you do?

Create something amazing and linkable.

It could be something that's incredibly valuable and useful. A guide to all the related local services if someone is moving to the area for example (e.g. house movers, house sitters, useful local organisations etc).

It could be something that's newsworthy. For example, every gift and experience site went through a phase of creating the most outlandish and bizarre gifts they could, themed around current news and holidays. Things like 'the most expensive valentine's day hamper in the world', for example.

You could work with local organisations (e.g. charities), or sponsor a local team of some kind.

That's for starters. Obviously if you want more specific ideas, that's the sort of thing I'm paid to do for a range of businesses!

[DickensLawGroup]

I'm in the same boat...I'm a real estate attorney and there's tons of competition. I'm constantly trying to get good backlinks so my site shows up ahead of my competitors. For the past 2 months I've focused my efforts solely on guest blogging and I've been really happy with the results--and it's been entirely "free." I say "free" because it's been a significant time commitment, but it's been worth it. I've written articles for blogs with a range of DA from the 30s to the 90s. I got started by Googling things like "real estate articles" or "real estate blogs", and then I emailed the sites and ask if they accept guest articles. I've gotten a fair amount of nos and some didn't respond at all, but enough have said yes. For one of my top key words, my site was on page 5 of organic Google results two months ago. As of yesterday, I now show up at the very bottom of page 1 for that key word. So far, the time I've spent contacting sites and writing articles is the best ROI I've gotten on my SEO efforts.

[Miamirealestatetrendsguy]

encouraging idea. I have been trying to do some guest posts lately. This will put the fire in the rear

[Miamirealestatetrendsguy]

Thanks. The killer content idea is a tough sell. Our competitors are blogging machines or 6 foot blondes on the international news circuit =(

I will keep trying to find a great resource and share it like crazy. But until then, I guess it's incremental gains here and there.

[Miamirealestatetrendsguy]

I have started doing best services for specific neighborhoods as a kind of guide for new residents of an area. In these posts I pre-emptively link out to businesses which are not ranked on the first page but have decent reviews on Yelp. So far no link backs, but it's a numbers game. I think I might be on to something but only time will tell.

[DickensLawGroup]

Yeah, I've just had to grind it out. My content isn't anything amazing, but it's relevant and publishable. It's hard to really say anything earth-shattering in my field, and my goal hasn't necessarily been to publish articles that become the absolute authority on any given topic. My goal has been more to get articles published with the most reputable sites possible that will give me a dofollow link. I figure the more reputable backlinks I get, the higher my site will show up on Google, and the more the phone will ring. There's definitely been a direct correlation. When my site starting showing up in the top 3 local results and on page 1 of organic results (about 2 days ago), I started getting significantly more calls from potential new clients.

Another thing that really helped with local results was asking clients for Google reviews. My placing in local results climbed immediately when I started having clients leave Google reviews.