New Rules for Link Building

Our knowledgable friends SEOBook have compiled a list of 101 link building ideas.

Personally, I’ve had most success with just phoning up owners of relevant websites and doing some Ari Gold negotiation.
A few of the better ones include:

  17. Perform surveys and studies that make people feel important. If you can make other people feel important they will help do your marketing for you for free.

15. Email a few friends when you have important relevant news asking them for their feedback and/or if they would mind referencing it if they find your information useful.

38. Most forums allow members to leave signature links or personal profile links. If you make quality contributions some people will follow these links and potentially read your site, link at your site, and/or buy your products.

56. In case you didn’t get the memo — when swapping links, try to get links from within the content of relevant content pages. Do not try to get links from pages that list hundreds of off topic link partners. Only seek link exchanges that you would consider pursuing even if search engines did not exist. Instead of thinking just about your topic when exchanging links, think about demographic audience sets.