I will readily admit I am a terrible link builder for myself.
I write this blog 3 times a week. I have hundreds of videos across the internet. I have a personal blog that I write.
But rarely do I go out and build up links to my stuff.
In reality I should probably be spending equal amounts of time creating content as I do getting people to link to it.
So, if I spend 6 hours a week writing I should spend 6 hours linking.
Most weeks I do zero hours.
I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s too much detail work for my big picture brain. Maybe it feels harder than actually creating the content. Who knows.
But I’m here to tell you: Link building is absolutely crucial.
This article is actually for me more-so than you. But if you find something useful here so be it.
Sage! Here are 5 easy link building tactics you can do right now:
- Comment on blogs you enjoy reading.Don’t worry if the links are nofollow (a tag that some search engines use to decide whether or not to index the link). Just be a good citizen and participate on blogs.
- Do reviews of products or companies.If the review is good chances are they will link back to you (if you ask for the link).
- Take pictures at an event.Do some nice pictures and post them to your blog. Then ask the organizer of the event if he’s be interested in linking to the pictures.
- Hire a PR agent.Just tell them that as they go about their public relations that a priority will be to get links from online publications.
- Guest blogWriting for other people’s blogs is a great way to get more exposure. Look around for sites that could use a little more content (and of course include a bi-line at the end of the article linking back to you).
There you go. 5 quick and easy things you can do to get some good quality links.
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My name is Sage Frederick Lewis. My kid's name is Indiana Sage Lewis. I am filled with love and passion for many things in life. The list of things I like about life is MUCH longer than the things I don't like about life. So, since you don't have all day reading about the mundane things I love (some of which, btw, include: Rocky, Indy, SageRock, movies, pizza, cheesecake, running, exploring.) here are the things I don't like:
Driving
Meetings
Zucchini (I like it fine. I'm just allergic.)
I think that's pretty much it.
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I’ve been reading about tons of these linkbuilding tactics, I think they are still the same. Everything looks so easy, but it is not! How is that possible?
I try to do SEO research for a couple of years, but it is really hard to earn quality links for free, almost impossible to do.
Do you buy links as well? I suppose that it’s my last chance, no doubt.
Thanks for article
The secret to link building is awesome content. Without it you are right. Link building is incredibly difficult.