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SEO Link Building Secrets

24 December 2008 44 Comments

Link building is tough, unless you have something like a video that has gone viral and brought in a stupendous number of links in a short time.

The rest of us trudge along, building back links slowly and carefully, keeping them natural looking and raising no alarms. You can, of course, get involved in a link farm or a three-way link exchange, or buy a thousand links for $100 from an outsourcing firm, but those typically get found out by Google sooner or later, and then the Google smack-down happens and you have to start all over.

Gyutae Park at Winning the Web has a very good article on building quality links for your site. Since he has said it as well as or better than I could, and I’m busy getting ready for Christmas (just like you) take 5 minutes and head over to read his suggestions: The Secret to Making Every Link Count For Your SEO Rankings.

Happy Holidays to all my readers – I hope yours are warm and filled with love.

Happy Holidays from SEO Diva


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  • http://www.winningtheweb.com Gyutae Park

    Hey Kay,
    Thanks so much for the mention. I really like viral campaigns for the bursts of traffic and links that they provide. But besides that, you’re right – link building is a slow process that rewards those who trudge through it.

    Happy holidays!!!

    Gyutae Parks last blog post..How to Build a Brand Today – The Future of Your Online Business Depends on It

  • http://www.trade-show-guru.com/about/ Trade Show Guru

    hi Kay,
    I think you revealed the biggest secret to link building in your first four words, “Link building is tough.” I would say another “secret” is this: good sites will have a much easier time getting good links than bad sites.
    Merry Christmas! Maybe Santa will bring us both some links this year! ;)
    ~ Steve, aka the link-loving trade show guru

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  • http://www.directsaleswebmarketing.com/ Dennis Edell

    An excellent article indeed, and Merry Christmas!

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    Hi! Thank you for providing the link to a good blog on link building. It’s like a Christmas gift, y’know. I am hoping to learn more on how to drive traffic to my site. I’ll be heading on to this after leaving a warm appreciation and holiday greeting to you and your family. Thanks again :)

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    really link building plays vital role in creating back links to your website.

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    thanks for the tips…

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    What a great resource!! Link building is an essential part of SEO – thanks for sharing that great post!

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    Hi Kay,
    Thanks for your information. I really need this because I’m still learning about SEO.

    Merry Christmas!

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    It is always slowly. for two or three weeks every link

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    Great post and very useful indeed. There is always something new about this subject.

    Thanks for sharing.

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    Link building indeed can be quite hard at times. Thanks for the useful link ! It will be a great help to me.

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    Thank you for the link to such useful information. I completely agree that building safe links is hard and buying links should never be an option. Google seems to catch this practice very fast these days. For those of us interested in gaining links that will stick and not offending the all knowing Google we must take our time and do it right!

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    Hi Kay,

    Great insights. the link you provided its awesome, thanks for sharing with us. keep writing.

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    Link building is a slow and tedious process. I don’t enjoy doing it – but it is a necessary evil.

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    I agree with the author…link building is definitely not easy..in fact i believe that it is the most tough task of SEO as it is slow and also there is no surety about the link approval!

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    This is really interesting articlel for all seo. Thank you for such useful information shared with all. I will use these tips.

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    I do agree with you. This is really help us to get more visitors and get good rankings.

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    Do what we do… drop comments that link back to your site. Even with so called “no follow” links there is always some credit given. Have a happy New Year SEODiva !!

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    I pick up something evrytime I visit your blog. Best wishes in the New Year. Keep up the good work and will be checking back in weekly.

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    Hard work + dedication = results. Good read, checking out the secret to making every link count now.

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    Great insights. Nice Post…

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    Good links can be obtained on Forums and social media sites like digg. Just takes time but on a forum you usually are allowed 3 links in the signature, which shows on every comment.

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    Very good information about Link Building. This is in my opinion the hardest part of a SEO process. Generally we have to have or create a great idea or offer something interesting (better if it is free) to make people link to us. There are some sites that can’t do this and don’t have or can’t create quality content. In theses cases, creativity makes the difference!

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    Even though link building is tough, lasting rewards always wait to those who work hard. Some people might call link builders as spammers but they are wrong. What’s wrong with leaving a warm appreciation–and a link that directs others to your website? I won’t mind them seeing them (the link builders’ trails) in my website. :)

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    Very good information about Link Building. This is in my opinion the hardest part of a SEO process. Generally we have to have or create a great idea or offer something interesting

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    Excellent tips in that article. I would like to add that a great way to build links is to include them in articles published on other web sites. There are various ways of doing this – Google “James Martell” for instance.

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    Quality is certainly more important. The improtance of quality related links has increased manifold in recent years. I have seen some top ranking websites with only a couple of hundred links whereas some websites fail to get a first page rank even with thousands of links.

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    yep, link building is tough enough, we need more time to do that.

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    thank you.the article was nice.patience is everything in blogging – hope everyone understands that .

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    Link building takes time. The article has some good points and anyone would do better if they make sure each link counts. Finding sites related to your sites topic and getting links is most important thing.

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    Thanks, it is one of the best articles on link building I have read in recent past.

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    Thank you for the reference. I’ve just been entering the site. It presents very useful idea and insight. Really, link building is the most hard, painful and much consuming time work relating to SEO issues. But it’s the fundamental step must be done toward strong authority site.

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    Is having a customized video player on your website good for SEO and link building?
    A video player is web tool. It could be designed to have an appearance that would remind of the certain brand and by having the options to be embedded and shared it could help generate links and thus contribute to the SEO efforts. I see it as a web content development, quality content or link bait. What do you think?

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    I think ‘time’ is a very important aspect of linkbuilding. It just takes time to build up traffic and it’s hard to do it overnight.

    Also at the end of the day, quality content will trump everything else.

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    • http://www.seodiva.net Seo Diva

      @raj – I agree with you. Quality content has not only always been important, but is becoming more so with local search.

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    If starting from scratch consider the domain name as if it is phrase specific i.e. http://www.bluewidgets.com, it is of course going to attract links with ‘blue widget’ in the link text.

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    It’s so true that link building is tough! But natural quality links are infinitely better than link farms and their like, and it’s well worth taking the time over building them.

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