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Insight25 July 2013

Do’s and don’ts of link building

As online marketing experts, we are always thinking of strategies that will help our websites to perform better on the search engines & across the web. Here are some handy tips on how to build links effectively for SEO Do’s

  • Develop a well optimised site and keep it up to date as this will encourage others to link to your site
  • Use keywords in the anchor text of your links
  • Create great content which can be easily shared across the web. People will not link if they cannot share it
  • Become engaged with blogs related to your site
  • Use social media to connect and build relationships
  • Create and publish articles on established article sites. And don’t forget to link back to your website
  • Create online news releases to spread the word about news worth events. Use reputable PR organisations
  • Monitor who is linking to your site and remove the ‘bad’ links you come across
  • Build links to specific pages on your site that you want to showcase
  • Build links steadily and naturally, slow and steady wins the race
  • Guest blog on relevant sites
  • Web contests can generate thousands of quality links
  • Use no follow links, they are a part of a natural profile
  • Balance between root and deep links
  • Sign up for relevant forums and discussions and take part Don’ts
  • Buy links
  • Link farm
  • Use services that claim to build thousands of links automatically, this can get you blacklisted
  • Have low quality content
  • Use unusual anchor text
  • Avoid back links from irrelevant websites
  • Spam sites with generic comments just to get links
  • Exchange links with low quality unrelated websites
  • Use hidden links on your site
  • Embed the same links in multiple pieces of content
  • Spelling and grammar mistakes, discourages others from linking with your site
  • Link several times to the same page in one article
  • Use the same anchor text each time
  • Spam every article and link to Twitter and Facebook
  • Stuff your articles with lots of links
  • Engage in self-promotion, don’t spam fans pages or comments with links to promotions
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