May 13th, 2009
9. Manually submit your website to the major search engines.
How it works: Submitting your site to search engines reduces their effort in finding you. Once you’re in their database, they can index your pages, and rank them.
Pro: Saves the search engines time. Not like they care…
Con: Based on personal experience and other webmasters experiences posted on forums, you get indexed faster if you submit to some key sites other than search engines. There’s even reports of submitted sites sitting for WEEKS without even one visit from Googlebot. Instead of submitting to the search engine, submit your site map using Google’s webmaster tools and submit to some major DO FOLLOW sites.
By: justjeff
May 13th, 2009
8. Start a blog and submit it to the 100’s of free blog directories.
How it works: Submission to any directory can result in some of those directory sites passing their PR on to your site.
Pro: Free. Third Party publishers that “leech” content off RSS feeds sometimes post your entries with your links intact.
Con: This opens you up to RSS hijackers which scrape your content and strip your links. You can protect yourself from this by setting up your blog to publish only summaries. This setting is in the “READING” section of WP setup. RSS feed hijacking can get so bad that the thieves sometimes rank higher than you for the keywords of your entry!
By: justjeff
May 10th, 2009
7 . Give an unbiased testimonial on a product/service that you have used in exchange for a backlink to your site.
How it works: Highly popular or established product pages will have Page Rank. By posting your domain on their site they pass some of this PR to you.
Pro: Free.
Con: To get full SEO benefits, the product/service must be somewhat related to the niche/category of the site you are building links for. Finding relevant high page rank product/service sites can be time consuming. You are filtering for a) category b) Page Rank and c) do follow. Thankfully, there’s some tools that can make this task easier.
By: justjeff
May 10th, 2009
6. Advertise your website in the appropriate category on www.CraigsList.com.
How it works: Craigslist has a nice Page Rank. Posting your ad (with anchor text) in the right category lets Craigslist passes some of Craigslist’s link juice to your site.
Pro: Free. Backlinks from a nicely categorized high value site. Good for backlinks and direct traffic.
Con: Due to excessive spamming of Craigslist, posting has become more difficult since posters need a Phone Verified Account in order to post. This is quite a hassle specially if you’re not based in the US. Beware of scammers selling fake PVAs. Also, Craigslist employs some anti-spam measures.
By: justjeff
May 10th, 2009
5. Write a press release and submit it to www.PRWeb.com .
How it works: PRWeb has a Pagerank of 7 and it passes on some of its page rank to links embedded in the categorized press releases published on its site.
Pro: Fast and relatively easy way to get a backlink from a trusted site. Not only do you get a backlink, your press release might be picked up sites that monitor PRWeb for category-specific releases.
Con: PRWeb is NOT free. The cheapest available package is $80. $80 for a backlink located on a site that has tons of other backlinks to other sites. To get full media distribution, you have to pay $360. You can get many more backlinks at cheaper rates from SEO linkbuilding services. However, periodic backlink building using PRWeb is probably a good idea to give new sites a good backlink start.
By: justjeff
May 10th, 2009
4. Post in forums and have a link to your site in your signature.
How it works: Whatever Page Rank the forum has is sometimes (depending on a few factors) shared with the links users place in the body of their posts or, to a lesser extent, their signature text links.
Pro: Free. Very easy way to get backlinks. You set your signature and you forget it. The more you post, the greater your links proliferate. Good addition to a daily linkbuilding routine if you visit and post on forums habitually. Some direct traffic.
Con: Link value is diluted by the tons of other links posted by other users. Signature-based links carry less weight than ‘in content’ (in post) links. The value of your backlink is greatly affected by how closely the forum you’re posting on meets the content category of the site you’re linkbuilding for. Also, many forums are now using NO FOLLOW tags for links, in post links, or both.
By: justjeff