What's your Link Building Tactics?

[Angelos_Savvaidis]

So my question is:

What's your Link Building Tactic. I always have a bit of a problem building links for my websites. Also Do you use some kind of a tool? If yes can you reccomend it?

[GregoryTK]

Hi Angelo,

Excellent question!

From what I can see there are some concrete steps you can take for immediate links:

1. You can research where you competitor's links are coming from (or research which websites and Blogs are relevant) and then try to obtain links from these websites. How "odd" then that most of the high-profile websites will however ask you to advertise (in some way)... which basically means you will be buying links from domains with authority (against Google's T&Cs wasn't it?)
2. Commenting on Blog posts is always a quick tactic that allows you to create branded backlinks, while potentially opening up extra opportunities with the Blog owner.
3. Register with directories (also good for Local SEO/Google+ Local)
4. Try to find pages with broken links on websites that are of interest and notify the webmaster while kindly requesting a link to your own domain.

Or, you can put your PR cap on and come up with an "idea" for content in the hope of organically increasing your links as described previously.  A good idea goes a long way!

As to tools to use, I do like Buzzstream since it takes some of the pain out of linkbuilding.

[underscorelive]

Shifts are definitely towards content marketing for SEO - i.e place more emphasis on useful and relavant content as opposed to in-bound link building.

That being said, incoming links are still a measure of authority. The argument for quality content is that this will organically increase links through shares and trackbacks etc.

To get the process started (and to start building links) comment on other peoples articles where relavant, share on social media and generally join / add to the conversation

Good luck!