101 left-field ideas for link-building

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  • Join local chambers of commerce, they should link to you, and they are usually linked to by .gov sites and .edu sites. Write articles for the local chamber and they will link to you.
  • Rent a managed server and offer to host nonprofits for free or at a deep discount, and they will link to you, and they are usually linked to by .gov sites and .edu sites.
  • If your are a developer, offer your services for free or at a deep discount, to others, and they will link to you.
  • Provide a place for anyone to publish content for free or at a deep discount, and they will link to you.
  • Provide a quick reference to specific [ niche ] content sites, and they will link to you.
  • Publish your local sunrise, sunset times, daylight hours, and average temperatures etc, and they will link to you.
  • Create a flash of a street billboard as it changes over the year on a corner near you, and they will link to you.
  • Create a two page formatted page layout as a test, and explain the process of doing it, and they will link to you.
  • Be nice to people in forums, and they will link to you
  • Join forums where there are profile pages, link back to yourself. If the profile doesn’t get indexed quickly enough, try linking to it yourself :-)
  • Be an active participant on forums and blogs that allow link-dropping in posts. Spamming will get you thrown out, but useful posts won’t.
  • Write in your own blogs. New blog post + blogroll = new link to sites in blogroll
  • Write a blog post about something on one of your sites, and include the link naturally in the blog post. Works better if it’s not obvious that the blog and the site are both yours! (And be nice - link to other sites as well, not just yours.)
  • Social interaction of any type leads to links. Speak at a conference? Someone will likely blog about it. Want to get thought leaders to promote your site? Create a community project or contest and ask them to participate. Or give out awards. Lack the budget needed to go to conferences? Moderate forums, comment on related blogs, and build social relationships.

A big thanks to Minnapple over at WebMasterWorld for the thought-provoking original post.

Posted in: SEO, Link-building February 2008


One Response to “101 left-field ideas for link-building”

  1. Judd Muir: Official Home Page » Blog Archive » Ideas for Link-Building Says:
    February 29th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

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