Link building help

Can someone help me with ideas on how to build links for free, or cheaply. I know about buying links, but it is not worth the risk of being penalized by google.

I have found a few sites that offer manual directory submission and article writing/submission. Are these legit? Will I get penalized for using these as well?

I am looking for free ways to get quality links. I have read all about blogs and articles, but I simply dont know if I have advice that is relevant to promoting my e-commerce site.

I would love to hear ideas and suggestions from those who have built their e-commerce site to have a good monthly profit and have nice SE rankings.

Thank you.

There are several quality link exchange sites out there. Here are a couple we have used with success: Link2Me and LinkPartners

You can also search the major SEs using your own keywords to find sites related to yours and simply ask them to exchange links with you. Relevancy between your site and theirs is the key. If you're concerned about Page Rank, you want to link to sites, and on pages, that have higher PR than yours.

Try to find a Content Only website in your industry and try to contact them. Tell them how they will be doing their readers a service by providing information and then providing a place to purchase as well. (you will get ignored and turned down a lot, but persistence is key).

-BEC

Your marketing efforts will depend on how much competition you have. I had an ecommerce site that was a super niche. With a hand full of directory submissions, I was #2 in Google for my #1 search term. In most cases, I would suggest doing both article submissions and directory submissions. Only submit your site to niche directories or general directories that are authority sites.

With your article submissions, you can write your own articles and post them at places like ezine, Article Base, and Squidoo. To avoid duplicate articles, you can submit them manually and submit the same article more than once.

Another thing you can do is have a blog on your site.

Try blog commenting or Emailing out to other site with similar in a similar niche to your sites.

Social networking sites can help too,

Try looking at the SEOmoz website blog too for help on tips on DO's and Donts for SEO, Matt Cutts blog is good to, for help on staying on Googles good side.

I do not think buy link is a good method to promotion your site.You can submit your site to social bookmarks,directory,forum sig,blog comments.

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Originally Posted by rw11687

Can someone help me with ideas on how to build links for free, or cheaply. I know about buying links, but it is not worth the risk of being penalized by google.

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You can try my link.
Submission and approval process is completely automated. It will take a minute of your time to see your link in our directory. We implemented a novel category recommender system, which makes submission completely automatic and very reliable. It rejects sites with inappropriate content, duplicate submissions, recommends right categories based on the site content analysis, etc. Our expertise in algorithms and technology for website promotion will help to make sure that all submitted links become searchable over time.

I can't say which is 'best', but I can say that none of it is any good. Links from directories like at at worthless - they don't get visitors so you don't get direct traffic from them, and search engines don't like link farms, so you don't get boosted up the search ranks with them...

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Originally Posted by Tamsin Presley

I can't say which is 'best', but I can say that none of it is any good. Links from directories like at at worthless - they don't get visitors so you don't get direct traffic from them, and search engines don't like link farms, so you don't get boosted up the search ranks with them...

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Dear Tamsin,

1) Link farms and Web Directories are very different things (see e.g. Web Directories, Automated Submission Web Directories in wikipedia).

Web Directories are used by Search engines for navigation.

2) If a Web Directory is searchable and links there are organized in a right way (which needs certain expertise and understanding how search engines work), your site will definitely benefit from this a lot.

Link building is the best way to increase website traffic. Do on-page and off-page optimization.* you can do directories submission, social bookmarking, Article, Press Release, Blog Creation and Participating in lot of forums, Google & Yahoo Groups, and Commenting on other blogs.....Use all of these free techniques to increase traffic to your website

Real Link building is reciprocal links. but there are few sites to whom you can link without backlinks. as an example http://www.antya.com
you can search more by struggle hard

Try to exchange links with sites similar to yours.
In my opinion exchange is good, since you choose the sites you want to exchange with and you will just add some links to your site which have the same subject wit yours.

Hi,

You can spread your links on cost-effective reasons by submitting contents to article directories and social bookmarking websites but of course, you should be focused on those websites that will go under your specified niche so that you'll not be banned in the process. Also, by contributing to message boards, other blogs and also having exchange linking, you'll let the readers and even other website owners see that you are introducing a relevant content that may help them find more information and in return, will also help you gain more followers adding to your traffic. The more followers you get, the more it will be possible for your website to be SEO friendly. :)

Hi,
Building links for a website is always time consuming factor and there is no option to buy links as google penalizes your site if you do such things.The best way to get backlinks for your site is to do directory submissions and search terms such as add link, add url with keyword you are targeting, by trying like this you may get link forms related your field and you can submit you details.there are more techniques related to optimization.

There are also services like LinkPartners and Link2Me. I use, and am happy with, both. Both have free levels and, of course, paid levels with more features.

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Originally Posted by rw11687

Can someone help me with ideas on how to build links for free, or cheaply. I know about buying links, but it is not worth the risk of being penalized by google.

I have found a few sites that offer manual directory submission and article writing/submission. Are these legit? Will I get penalized for using these as well?

I am looking for free ways to get quality links. I have read all about blogs and articles, but I simply dont know if I have advice that is relevant to promoting my e-commerce site.

I would love to hear ideas and suggestions from those who have built their e-commerce site to have a good monthly profit and have nice SE rankings.

Thank you.

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Hi Rw,

I haven't seen it mentioned here, so I'll tell ya about a method I use to get some pretty high-PR links..

Hopefully you're using FireFox, and if not then for this you'll have to get it. If you download the add-on "SEO for FireFox" and install it, every time you Google Search something it will give you tons of info under every result, including their backlinks and the exact page they're coming from.

There are tabs for Page links, .gov backlinks, .edu backlinks, and more... I use this to pick off authority links (like .gov and .edu), and most times all you need is a few .edu or a couple .gov links and you're pretty much good.

This is way easier than using other services, and you can rank for your actual product pages really quick, like within a day or two (since they're longer-tailed keywords...assuming this is the kind of store you're operating).

There's software and all that does this too I assume, but this is free and easy. It's really straight-forward too. If you need any help with it, just let me know. I'll try to find the link to SEO for FireFox if you need it as well.

Hope that helps,
-Tom

Thanks for sharing this tips, I really appreciate this..

PPC is temporary seo is forever, well have you tried submitting your site to social bookmarking sites? forum posting and blog commenting might be a big help too

You should see
it will be helpful in resolving your problem.keep using answers

Honestly, your should not have to build links fatly, especially when your domain is new. Building links should be done very carefully and it should look very natural to search engines.
My link building campaign:

1) Social bookmarking - 1st step
2) Directory submission - 2nd step
3) Article marketing -3rd step
4) Blog commenting - 4th step
5) Contextual links from theme related pages - 5th step
6) Theme related Blog roll links - Last step

Link building is an important part of Search Engine Optimization. They carry quality traffic to your website as well as they are taken into deliberation by search engines while formative the rank of your site.

Without Seo you cannot make link for your website. it is a basic need of website.
E.g Social bookmarks
Directory
Blog comments
and some others.

You can showcase your products free on the following shopping engines like Google, Bing and The find. Though it won't contribute to search engine rankings, chances are; it can typically boost your traffic (under the proper category and taxonomy of your products) as well as increase your conversion rate.

The best, and most recommended way to build links is to do it naturally. So to make something on your website that will make people want to link to you.

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The best, and most recommended way to build links is to do it naturally. So to make something on your website that will make people want to link to you.

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... and then find sites you want to link to you and ASK.

Article submissions and Blog commenting are the best tool for Link building.

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Originally Posted by jingwen

I do not think buy link is a good method to promotion your site.You can submit your site to social bookmarks,directory,forum sig,blog comments.

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Yes, you are right. But it is batter to buy links from a physical person from your local market.

Here's the link to the tool that was brought up a little earlier in this posting.

http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html

I haven't used it yet, but I'm gonna check it out. It looks like it could be useful! We'll see!

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Originally Posted by The Old Sarge

There are several quality link exchange sites out there. Here are a couple we have used with success: Link2Me and LinkPartners

You can also search the major SEs using your own keywords to find sites related to yours and simply ask them to exchange links with you. Relevancy between your site and theirs is the key. If you're concerned about Page Rank, you want to link to sites, and on pages, that have higher PR than yours.

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Yes, I also think that after buying the links, your backlinks will increase very much accidently. And it can make focus google to your site that what happen with it.

You have a lot of options: You can build links using social media marketing, forum posting, blog commenting, social bookmarking, article submission, press release submission, web 2.0 properties creation, video marketing, and many more. Just try to explore in the internet on how you can easily build links and what tools to use in order to gain much traffic.

Try appearing at the SEOmoz website blog too for assist on tips on DO's and Donts for SEO, Matt Cutts blog is beneficial to, for assist on staying on Googles beneficial side.

Tell them how they will be behaving their readers a service by providing information as well as then furnishing a place to purchase as well.

Attempt seeming at the SEOmoz site web logs too for help on tips on DO's and Donts for SEO, Matt Cutts blog is good to, for help on appeasing on Googles good side.

Remember these old sites that have a guestbook?!!:eek:

well, you can just find these sites (Keyword + guestbook) and submit
your link with anchor text...

Since these sites are old - The age of the domain gives the link valuable Juice :D

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Since these sites are old - The age of the domain gives the link valuable Juice :D

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Would that be regardless of actual PR?

Yes you can use any sites who are allowing free submission of any say--directory, article, Press Releases, Social bookmarking, classified etc.

Second you can blog commenting and forum posting which you are doing right now.
These all are free way to get quality and relevant backlinks.

for the love of god DON'T SPAM the internet with worthless blog commenting, article marketing etc....

Website owners are ALWAYS on the look out for good quality content, so approach some websites in your niche and offer them some good quality content in return for a backlink. you'll be surprised how many website owners say yes.

Yes, you can do directory submission, article submission, social bookmarking, forum posting, blog posting etc