Although it is a common knowledge to all that link building is an effective way to build quality and effective inbound links, some are still not confident on investing on this part. They would rather stay practical and to go with the flow, they search for cheap link building taking quality and effectiveness for granted. However, what many do not know is that they can go for affordable link building without neglecting the quality.

What is an Effective Link Building?

If not done properly, link building could be very frantic. However, when proper and effective strategies are applied, huge benefits with many new inbound links are ensured. This is what effective link building is about.

Anyone spending money for his investment would always want the best out of the money he spent. This desire is usually carried out by the essence of the different strategies for effective link building. In fact, it is one of the most vital factors which need to be taken with great consideration to enhance the natural and high ranking of web pages and websites. Moreover, an effective link building helps a lot in order for a site to have an increased referral traffic coming from other websites.

Are Effective Link Building and Cheap Link Building Equal?

In link building, quality and effectiveness should be well-determined. Without quality and effectiveness, link building is useless. Nowadays, there are many professionals offering services for link building. Prices range from the cheapest to the most valuable. As the common fact goes, the more valuable, the better however; the more affordable is always the best.

Effectiveness in link building can never be determined by its value. It should be determined by the results it gives to your website. So how would you know if your link building is working effectively? Below are some of them:

• An effective link building opens more doorways for your site to be easily found by traffic.
• An effective link building helps you have better positioning in many search engines for relevant searches.
• An effective link building helps target and drive the traffic directed to your site towards your site content.
• An effective link building helps you brand your products and services by using the brand in the texts of your links.
• An effective link building builds product and service awareness to your clients and customers.

Nothing is wrong with being practical but nothing could be better than being practical, smart and wise most especially in your link building strategies. Before deciding on the link building, make sure that you understand very well the results it may give you and your website.

Generally links are of various types. Earlier there was the trend of Reciprocal Links. Now there is a trend of building one way links. The most important search engine, ‘Google’ gives a lot of importance to one way links. There are various ways to obtain these kinds of links. The most commonly used techniques are link bait, 3 way linking, press release, article submissions, directory submissions etc. The suitability of above link building techniques will depend on the theme and audience of your website. So you should definitely read this useful blog about link building ideas and can start building Quality links now! You don’t need to pay huge amount of money anymore. Just educate yourself and get started!

I’d recommend you to submit your PR to following PR Sites. However there are a lot other news sites as well those accept PR through online submission form or by email.

Recommended PR/Newswire Sites

• www.prweb.com (Paid)
• www.pr.com
• www.prleap.com
• www.openpr.com
• www.prlog.org
• www.prurgent.com
• www.powerhomebiz.com/newsarchive
• www.malebits.com
• express-press-release.com
• www.pressbox.co.uk

Press Release is entirely different than article submissions, there is certain format that you should follow while you prepare your press release to syndicate.

PRWeb: They were providing free submissions before but now they offer only paid PR Inclusions. I Have submitted many of my clients PR to PRWen and i think it is worth it what you pay. It will not give you direct links but high authority backlinks.

Many advertisers noticed that they provide better CTR and traffic compare to regular paid ads/text ads and banners. As explained on reviewme.com people ignore direct ads. Blog reviews are better for newer sites who need some high quality links.

There are few services like reviewme.com and PayPerPost.com those offers a marketplace for those who wants to review others stuff on their blogs for some fees and those who want their stuff reviewed on blogs.

Must take care of following things when you pay bloggers.

• No of pages indexed by Google (And if they are in supplementals or not. Avoid supplementals.)
• Niche – Weather it is relevant to your site. Avoid irrelevant blogs and blogs those post random content.
  
• Content of Blog.
  
• Quality of Backlinks and Google PR.
• Age of Blog.
• No of Post Per Day. (Frequency of posting)
  

You will also get benefit of linking your website with original content. That will help to create natural link profile for your websites.

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URL:

Make sure, what is your URL, weather it is with www or without www? It is different for search engines according to mattcutts. so it is advised to submit only one.
Many directories DO NOT allow internal pages, sub domains or subfolders. Many directories do not allow deep linking (More than one URL per site.)

Examples:

Good: http://www.linkbuildingideas.com/
Bad: http://www.linkbuildingideas.com/xyz.html
Bad: http://www.linkbuildingideas.com/xyz/

Title:

Ideal: Official name of site + Keywords/KeyPhrases.
Don’t use titles more than 4-5 words, don’t provide multiplie titles.
Don’t use all CAPITAL letters.
No promotional Language. like “Best SEO tips”, “No. 1 Real estate company” etc.. Many directories may reject your site.
Use more than one titles with varied keywords for better results.

Examples:

Good: Link Building Ideas,
Bad: Best Link building resources
Bad: Best Link building resources | Links building | SEO Resources | Website Promotion Tips
Bad: LINK BUILDING IDEAS.

Description.

Again, don’t use promotional language like “best”, “No1.”, “Excellent!!” etc..
Description should be between 150-250 characters. no less than 100 characters and no more than 400 characters.
Don’t repeat your keywords in description.
Use more than one description for better result.
Avoid capitalizing every word in a sentence.
Don’t copy your meta tags directly as title and description. They should be well formatted.

Keywords:

4-5 Keywords related to topic of your website are fine,

Email:

Avoid use of free emails. use either paid email addresses or email of same domain

Examples:

Good: webmaster@linkbuildingideas.com
OK: linkbuildingideas@aol.com
Avoid: linkbuildingideas@yahoo.com

Categories:

Many directories do not allow submission to top level. Try to submit best suitable category and if it is not available, use next most relevant category or suggest new category either by sending and email or by suggestion form if available.
Never submit to irrelevant categories.

Content of website:

Avoid:
Full with affiliate ads, Google adsense ads.
Sites with no content or crap articles.
adult content or content that links to adult sites.
Under construction sites.
Spam, Redirects, Meta Sites, and Links Only Pages.

Good:
Original and useful content.
Professional design/easy to navigate.

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Terms You Can Search for Relevant Pages.

• “Suggest link” +”keyword”
• “Suggest a link” +”keyword”
• “Suggest site” + “keyword”
• “Suggest website” + “keyword”
• “Suggest a site” + “keyword”
• “Suggest URL” +”keyword”
• “Suggest a URL” +”keyword”
• “Suggest an URL” +”keyword”
• “Submit link” +”keyword”
• “Submit Website” +”keyword”
• “Submit resources” + “Keyword”
• “Submit site” +”keyword”
• “Submit a site” +”keyword”
• “Submit URL” +”keyword”
• “Submit a URL” +”keyword”
• “Submit an URL” +”keyword”
• “Submit resources” + “Keyword”
• “cool sites” +”keyword”
• directory +”keyword”
• directories +”keyword”
• List of “Keyword” Directory
• “Your Category” +”add url”
• “Your Category” +directory
• “Your Category” +”submit site”
• “recommended links” +”keyword”
• “Your Niche Category” +”suggest a site”
• “favorite links” +”keyword”
• “Add link” +”keyword”
• “Add site” +”keyword”
• “Add website” +”keyword”
• “Add a site” +”keyword”
• “Add URL” +”keyword”
• “Add a URL” +”keyword”
• “Add an URL” +”keyword”
• “Add resources” + “Keyword”

You can fine relevant website resources with listing option, where you can submit your website to build links.

[1] Vary anchor text of your website.
[2] Include different Keywords in title.
[3] Link site from different class C – IPs (Important factor for SERP.)
[4] Vary Type of site, like blogs, article resources, directories etc..
[5] Not get all links from newer sites, and try to get links from older (and trusted) sites as well.
[6] Not get links from same location (i.e. all links from footer etc..)
[7] Try to get links from relevant content/industry.
[8] Should Have varied PR from pages you’re linking (If you’re getting a lot of PR6 Links that will adversely affect as Google may think, you’re purchasing high PR Links
[9] Try to get authority links, like links from news sites… etc.
[10] Do not try to build hundreds of links quickly.

Submit your website to free and paid quality directories, like..

1. dmoz.org
2. www.joeant.com
3. www.goguides.com
4. www.gimpsy.com
5. www.dir.yahoo.com
6. www.avivadirectory.com
7. www.skaffe.com
8. www.wowdirectory.com
9. www.ezilon.com

Also there are many resources for directories like..

1. www.directorycritic.com
2. www.best-web-directories.com
3. info.vilesilencer.com
4. www.addurl.nu
5. www.directorylist.org
6. www.koopy.org

You can find more free and paid directories from above lists. Avoid automated directory submission software. do all submissions by hand as, many directories will have its own criteria for listing a website to maintain quality. So, you must read those guidelines before submitting your website. Automated software fail to do that.

Article submission:

Write original and quality articles relevant to content of your website and submit it to top article directories. Most of article directories provide credit to author with their article, you can link your websites from authors resourcebox. Submit your article to..

1. ezinearticles.com
2. articlesfactory.com
3. elib.org/articles
4. articles-hub.com
5. www.articledashboard.com
6. www.buzzle.com
7. www.goarticles.com
8. www.isnare.com
9. www.articlecity.com
10. www.articledepot.co.uk
11. www.articlealley.com

Here is a big list of article directories

www.directorycritic.com/article-directory-list.html

You can find a lot of article directories over there.

Press Release Writing / Submission:

Having something newsworthy? Write a press release on it. OR Hire a professional press release writer who can write effective press release. Than you can submit it to press release sites like.

1. www.prweb.com
2. www.i-newswire.com
3. www.pr.com
4. www.theopenpress.com
5. www.pr9.net
6. www.1888pressrelease.com
7. www.prleap.com
8. www.prurgent.com
9. www.prlog.org
10. www.prfree.com

1 way, 2-way and 3-way Link building

Find website relevant to your theme/industry and ask them for linking your website. You can in return, link back to them.

Many of webmaster sending email, calling webmaster or requesting it in public forums/blogs for such link requests. There are many programs running for finding partners for reciprocal link building. I’d suggest you to prefer 3 way link building.

• One way link building:- You will get links from site, you will not provide any link in return.
• Two way link building:- You will link partners site somewhere on your website. in return, your partner will link your site from somewhere on their site.
• Three way link building:- Your partners linking your site, in return, you are linking their site form your Another website. Rather than two way, this is best way to get links as after last google update (Algorithm) Google has started banning many sites those using reciprocal link building methods to improve their link popularity,

I’d suggest you few forums, where you can find your link partners.

• http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=53
• http://www.submitexpress.com/bbs/forum-12.html
• http://www.seo1.net/forum18.html
• http://www.webmaster-talk.com/relevant-link-exchange-forum/

Also you can find partners from directories like…

1. www.linkmarket.net
2. link2me.com

Purchase Links:

Many SEOs use this shorts cuts to purchase links on relevant industry for both relevant traffic and search engine rankings. When you purchase link from other sites, you can consider following factors.

• Google PR of page
• Traffic it receives
• SERP of that site
• Backlinks of page
• Type of link you will get (sitewide or one page.) Relevancy, outbound links
• if you’re purchasing sitewides then No. of page indexed and %of pages in supplemental results (If there)
• Age of Website/document
• Quality of content of website (also, weather it is original or not)
• Price of link
• Place where you will get link
• Tag they’re using (If you’re getting no-followed links, that they are only useful for traffic it will not help you to improve SERP.)
• Prefer links those are for long term / permanent as search engine (especially google) likes aged links.
• Type of site (Blog, Web directory, Forums etc..)

Forum posting:

Register with different related forums, participate in discussion there and place your links in signature. Awesome way to receive traffic towards your website. Many SEOs says that forums signature links are devalued but they are still providing backlinks in my experience.

Here are two forums directories where you can find specific forums

1. www.gandalfdir.com
2. www.big-boards.com

Ask Bloggers to review your website.

This is another effective method of getting links. (Little bit costly though.) there are few marketplace where you can find forums those are available to review websites/products. You can get traffic and in-content links of your niche. you can find many bloggers from forums link digitalpoint forums and bloggers market places like..

1. payperpost.com
2. www.reviewme.com

There are many more methods, that you’ll find from this blog soon!

I offer link building and directory submission services since more than one year.
We generally offer directory submission, article submission and few other methods for building legitimate links for our clients.

I’ve some ideas that i think I’d share with all of you. There is a lot of stuff about SEO and Link building. “To do” and “Not to do” things that i can share with you. This blog will be on latest and traditional ideas on link building. There are many many methods by which you can build backlinks for your website. Keep watching this blog for new ideas on link building.

See you soon!