How to Obtain a Link building Blog?
Do you have a link building blog? If not, this is a good time to
start putting together a strategy that will get you consistent
incoming links to your blog. Incoming links and internal links
are extremely important when it comes to getting your site
ranked highly in the search engines so it’s something that
you’re going to have to dedicate some time (and possibly money)
towards.
There are many ways to get incoming links to your blog. I will
mention some of the most important in this article.
Trading blog-rolls (lists of links on your blog that lead to
other blogs) is one method that people use to get others to link
to their site. It’s sort of a
“you-scratch-my-back-I’ll-scratch-yours” concept. There are
mixed feelings on using this for a couple of reasons. some
people use the blogroll to link to other sites that they feel
are valuable for their visitors. Others mainly use them just to
include the link and then to have their link on the other
person’s blog. This has the potential to become a political
nightmare. You need to keep track of who you are allowing in
your blog-roll and if their blogs maintain a professional and
informative status. If you drop anyone from your blog-roll, you
can rile some people up. On the other hand, you can gain many
links fairly quickly with this strategy. It might be something
worth trying out in your earlier blog days and then you can
decide later on if it’s working for you.
Participating in forums is a great way to get people to link to
you. Just include your URL in your signature when you make a
comment or ask a question. Similarly, using your URL in your
email strategy can increase exposure to your site and increased
exposure means increased potential for a link building blog.
Submitting articles is a sure-fire tried and true method for
getting lots of links to your blog. But this one does take time.
If you are an average (or better than average) writer and you
have the time to dedicate to writing articles consistently and
submitting them consistently, this is a great way to gain status
and links. Here you just have to make sure that you don’t submit
duplicate content. Many article directories can help you change
various phrases within your content so that you can submit many
different articles with different keywords instead of just the
one original article that you’ve created. A similar sort of
concept involves you writing as a guest on other blogs. Just
sign-up as a guest blogger for a professional, authoritative
blog and you will see more and more people linking back to your
blog. Publishing videos on YouTube and then linking them back to
your blog in your video description is a great way to get more
traffic and more incoming links to your blog. Plus, it puts a
little fun as go down the road towards obtaining a link building
blog.
posted 9-01-2010 lusul