Start Your Link Building Campaign Early
As soon as your website is ready, start your Link Building Campaign as early as possible. You don’t need to spend lavishly searching for SEO companies, to get quality inbound links, you can acquire it with the same quality for minimal cost, time and effort. Now what do I mean with “as soon as your website is ready…” I won’t discuss that matter in detail, please visit Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, it’s only three to four pages and it’s the basic policy of Google to make your site a Google friendly website, trust me, it’s worth reading it. So going back, as soon as you can, start your Link Building Campaign the soonest possible time, and if you haven’t done that before, no need to worry, you can still start your campaign right now! Listed below are the basic Link Building Strategies you could immediately start.
Submit Your URL to Search Engines
If you haven’t done yet, start submitting your link to the top three Search Engines, Google, Yahoo and Bing (MSN). The three of them comprise 96% of the total search engine market share in the internet and Google alone holding 70% market share (at the time of this writing). Don’t trust those companies in the web saying they are going to submit your site to hundreds or thousands of search engines (LOL) for a fee. The top three mentioned above are enough to satisfy your needs. Let the other search engines find you naturally through your links. Here are the links, click the link and submit your URL. Before submitting check first in the search area if your site’s URL is listed already or not, if not then submit them immediately, it’s free.
Submit Your Site to Web Directories
Web Directories are your source of one way quality backlink. This is the easiest and most painless way for you to acquire an inbound quality backlink. Many underestimate what web directories can do for your website. You don’t need to submit your site to high paying directories like Yahoo (US$ 299.00 / year), UNLESS you really need to boost your rank with search engines. There are many web directories out there offering minimal cost of inclusion services or reciprocated links and you can still get quality inbound links from them. If you don’t want to spend because you’re really broke, there are plenty of free web directories out there and you can also get the same quality inbound link, although most free web directories takes time before your site get’s reviewed for approval. You may want to check dmoz.org (PR 8/10) the most respected web directory in the internet. This site is also offering a quality backlink, check this out Web (Blog) Directory and the fee is very minimal or you can reciprocate for a lifetime listing of your website.
Join Forums
A Forum is type of website where people meet to ask questions, discuss things, answer questions, promote their website/s, meet new friends or simply to state something useful. Forums can also be your one way source of quality backlink, the link can be placed in your “signature” find it and use a nice anchor text. Although not all forums are generous in giving you outbound links to our website, some does not allow you to place your links at all and some require you to have a minimum number of posts before you can place your links. Because we are in link building campaign, choose a forum that is generous enough to allow you to place your link. Also choose a forum (or category) similar with your site’s genre, niche or topic. If your site is all about computer gadgets, of course you won’t place your link to a forum or category talking about “gardening.” By the way, in forums, you have to post sensibly and within topic or the moderators will ban your for spamming. If you don’t know where to start, search it in Google, type “Forums about xxxx”
Leave Constructive Comments
If you often surf the internet, why not surf constructively by leaving comments to websites that allow you to. Your time won’t be wasted, even if comments presently have the “nofollow” tags (meaning those links will not count or will not be counted as votes) you can acquire immediate traffic just by leaving your link behind. And if your comment is very interesting other readers will get curious in knowing who the commenter is by visiting your website. So even if it doesn’t count as a vote, it is still a link. True, it won’t help in boosting your rank but it can still give you certain exposure, after all, Link Building is all about traffic.
Those are the common and basic Link Building Strategies you may do immediately while you’re at the development stage of your website. Specially if your still on the stage of composing or writing high quality content that you would post in your site.
Thank you for a very detailed yet simple explanation on link building. As you can see I’m starting to follow your suggestions.
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