Link Building Strategies Part 1 of 10

The article presents a collection of link building strategies. The list has been built during the last 8 years spent as search marketing strategist. This article is followed by ten parts for defining link building strategies. These are given below:

1. Find websites that are mentioning your URL but have not hyperlinked to your website
2. Recruit on a college/university website (even from outside your city/area; you never know what talents you'll find in other cities)
3. Start a coupon program and get links from coupon websites
4. Build some links using Flickr
5. Create link wheels using social websites and web 2.0 sites
6. Use Google Alerts to get notifications for the targeted keywords and get links from newly found sources
7. Create an extensive industry glossary that will attract links from others
8. Create a list of abbreviations used in your industry. Explain each abbreviation in details and get into partnerships with abbreviation websites to link to your website for a more detailed explanation of the abbreviations they list on their websites
9. Create 101 lists (i.e. 101 ways to drive traffic to your site)
10. Get listed in Yahoo! Directory and Google Places; this is especially important for local SEO
11. Search for competitorsite.com site:edu to get a list of most trusted links to a site and get listed there too
12. Join the local Chamber of Commerce and get a link on the member section
13. Exchange links with websites that are complementary but generally not competitive to your own
14. Get listed in ODP
15. Get links from niche directories, especially those manually edited
16. Submit to specialty search engines addressing your niche and market
17. Ask links from your business partners or clients
18. Incorporate the link requirements to your site in all contracts with resellers, vendors and subcontractors
19. Ask links from happy customers who are active bloggers, editors, and social media pages
20. Get your.pdf, .doc, .ppt and other document indexed by file specific engines
21. Use power queries on Google and other major search engines to identify link opportunities (there are hundreds of such queries, but that's in a detailed post)
22. Links from organizations or associations connected with your industry
23. Get links from your upstream or downstream suppliers
24. Get listed in local directories
25. Use http://www.beaucoup.com/ to find vertical engines and directories and get listed in them

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