101 Ways to Get Best Quality Backlinks To Your Blog

101 Ways to Get Best Quality Backlinks To Your Blog

When ever we talk about SEO, we divide it into on site and off site SEO. Off site SEO mainly contains backlinks and social signals. Specially, to boost your ranking in SERP’s you need to get quality links from other authority sites. We all know the importance of search engine traffic and that getting high quality backlinks to your blog is one of the best ways to improve your blogs rankings and get better search engine traffic and results, this post will be listing 101 ways by which you can get quality backlinks to your blog.

101 Ways to Get Best Quality Backlinks To Your Blog

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Though before we move ahead, here are things that you need to keep in mind. In 2012, Google launched Penguin update, which is targeted to get rid of sites using spammy or paid ways to build links. Also, many ways which I mentioned in the article are not so good ways to get quality backlinks, so I will strikethrough such ways and you can ignore them.

Also, when you are building backlinks, you need to keep quality of links and anchor text variation in your mind. Also, instead of creating lots of backlinks to your homepage only, start working on building links to internal pages. You can start working on resource pages like “WordPress guide” and build links to them. This way, you can also target Single or double word Keywords easily.

Some of the link building methods, which you should ignore:

Before, I start with my 101 list, here are some of the link building methods that you should ignore:

Avoid site wide link from footer (WordPress themes or plugins)

Avoid buying exact anchor text link (Keep a proportion of 40%-20%–20%-10%-10% for anchor text variation)

Avoid buying bulk links from sites like Fiverr

Don’t opt for link networks (Build my rank was one of such private link network, which got penalized)

Avoid BlogRoll links

Article directory links are not that effective anymore

So, these are something which you should keep in mind when starting with quality backlink building campaign. Out of all the existing method, guest posting is the best way to get quality link and more over, it will help you to drive traffic to your web page.

Smart Blogger guide to build quality Links to your Site:

Highly recommended trick:

Broken link building:

This method will help you to earn quick backlinks from high-quality pages. Broken link building technique is to find broken links on a website (related to your niche) and email the content owner and notify them about broken link. Along with that, give them a similar link from your website (Similar content which you already have to create one), and ask them to update their post.

1.  Submit Guest Post to Other Blogs (List of Blogs to guest post)

2. Comment on do follow blogs and make sure these blogs are relevant to your own blogs. They might not carry too-much of link value, but it will  still be beneficial for overall link-profile of your blog.

3.  Start Relevant Threads in Forums and Link to Your Blog Posts

4. Link to Your Blog in Your Forum Signatures (Only high quality forums)

5. Social bookmarking is also considered as backlinks and you should target following network: Google plus, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest to name a few.

6. Make Use of Discussion Boards by Linking to Your Blog in threads. Quora is one such HQ discussion board.

7. Make Use of Blogging Communities by Submitting Your Blog Posts to Them, some great places to start are Blog Engage, Inbound

8. Ask Questions related to your blog in Answer Sites like Yahoo Answers and Link to Your Blog in your questions

9. Answer Questions in Yahoo Answers and Cite Your Blog as the Source

10. Interlink to your blog and other posts on your blog when writing on your blog.

11. Exchange links with other bloggers in your niche. Make sure to form link pyramid and keep it natural.

12. Submit Your Blog to Top Blogging directories (Again quality mattes here) (Find a list of Blog directories here)

13. Write a mail to influencer who write on the same topic and encourage them to share it on social-network. You never know how much one sweet email can make a huge-difference.

14. Submit your blog to top niche directories

15. Network with other bloggers in your niche (Online and offline) and links will automatically follow you.

16. Submit your blog posts to all social bookmarking sites you know

17. Submit your blog to your top social networking sites

18. Submit your articles to stumbleupon

19. Submit your blog to digg, it is dofollow and Google crawls most of its submissions

20. Work on making your blog go viral on top social bookmarking sites, this alone can bring you tons of quality backlinks from authority sites.

21. Submit your rss feed to feeder sites

22. Make use of press releases, and send press-release about important updates from your blog. You can also compare best product in your niche and send a press-release on the same.

23. Submit your rss feed to rss directories, here is a list of rss directories to get started.

24. Most forums have a website review forum, review your blog on this forums.

25. Release a free theme and include a link to your blog in its footer. (Not recommended)

26. Release a free wordpres plugin and include a link to your blog in it. But don’t keep it sitewide, as sitewide anchor text links are bad.

27. Release a software or compile your ebooks to .exe and submit them to top software sites like brothersoft

28. Convert your blog posts to pdf and submit it to document sharing sites, here is a list of document sharing sites for you to get started.

29. Review top companies and products and they might link back to you

30. Do a weekly link love post and link to many bloggers, they will most likely return the favor. Take advantage of outbound link SEO.

31. Interview top bloggers and ask them to help you share it on their favorite social networks and their fans will link to your interview.

32. Provide testimonials for marketers and also provide your link when doing so, they will most likely link back to you.

33. Make use of web 2.0 sites like squidoo to promote your blog

34. Submit your blog posts to blog carnivals.

35. Write high quality content and you will get strong backlinks

36. Write controversial posts

37. Write news posts and try to be one of the first people to write it.

38. Submit your blog to css directories.

39. Ask other bloggers to interview you.

40. Write linkbait posts.

41. Write top list posts because they can go viral easily.

42. Write a post comparing some top gurus in your niche.

43. Write a post featuring some upcoming bloggers and why you like them, they will most likely link to it.

44. Trade articles with other bloggers in your niche.

45. Submit your site to Dmoz, many other directories use this directory and that alone is enough qaulity backlinks for you.

46. Submit your blog to .edu and .gov forums and blogs, Google so much loves backlinks fom this sites and regards them as authority.

47. Make use of groups like Google Groups and Yahoo Groups

48. Create a Wikipedia Page For Yourself and include your link in the resource section.

50. Write posts that have “the ultimate” in the title, each of these type of post I wrote got over 20 backlinks each.

51. Start a blogging contest and make linking to your blog one of the requirements.

52. Sponsor blogging contest and you will get a lot of backlinks from this.

53. Donate to charity sites, many of them will link back to your site.

54. Build a great tool and many people will link to your tool and your blog.

55. Do a big product launch.

56. Make the news at any cost.

57. Release your own firefox extension and have a page dedicated to it, many people will link to it!

58. Blog about celebrities.

59. Render your services to top people in your niche, for example, the fellow who designed Darren Rowse’s theme was credited at the footer.

60. Write 101 posts, they tend to get more social and natural link love.

61.  Design a top bloggers award and give it to as many bloggers as you can in your niche, they will link back to you.

62. Contact your theme designer and tell them to use your website as an example in their portfolio, they will most likely include a link back to your blog.

63. Creat manuals and long tutorial posts on your blog, this type of post do recieve lots of backlinks.

64. Create a great ebook or membership site and make linking to your blog the requirement to get it.

65. Submit your resume to resume directories while linking to your blog in your resume.

66. Write how to posts, they also tend to get more backlinks.

67. Write posts that starts with numbers e.g. “7 ways to…”, these type of posts do tend to get backlinks.

68. Submit your images to image directories and include a link to your blog in its copyright notice and as a requirement to use it. Ex: How to use Flickr to drive traffic

69. Join blogging contest and you will most probably get backlinks if you win.

70. Have a “link to us” or “spread the word” page on your blog while asking your readers to link to you – it is important to make it easy for them by putting your direct html code there using your desired anchor text.

71. Submit your website to local business directories, backlinks from these sites are regarded by Google as authority.

72. Write on about.com and link to your blog in it, this will likely be crawled and used by a lot of websites thereby increasing backlinks to your blog.

73. Make effective use of april fool.

74. Do very costly jokes on your blog but indicate it is a joke underneath the post (tricky? ahah!), e.g., “Apple has bought Google for $260Billion”, something like this will get tons of links and retweets before people even know that it is a joke.

75. Create niche specific tutorials, which are not only unique but help the community. Such tutorial articles get lots of backlinks.

76. Create viral youtube videos and inlude links to your blog in the video and its description.

77. Create Lots of Websites and Interlink Them to each other. (Avoid private blog network)

78. Offer lots of free downloads on your blogs.

79. Update your blog regularly because this will make more people trust your website and it will also make you rank for more keywords which means more traffic and eventaully more backlinks.

80. Write a great post with a lot of pictures in it – let the post be pictures only.

81. Write a post comparing various companies and services and which is the best, the best comapny will most likely link to it.

82. Compare different top products and link to them, people will most likely link to it e.g. You can comapre a mac with a PC.

83. Get a collection of high quality paid things and make them available for free (make sure you are not violating the copyright of the owner in any way!)

84. Create a directory for your blog and make it important to reciprocate links with you by giving those who link to you higher placement and giving them free featuring on your homepage.

85. Beta test a lot of products and give your review and tips on improving the product, the owner might just link to you.

86. Run surveys on your blog and publish the results for everybody to see, if the survey is good and helpful you will definitely get a lot of backlinks to your blog.

87. Write a list of the “top 10 myths” or “top 10 mistakes” about something.

88. Position yourself as an authority in your niche and try to get attention from the media.

89. Offer to speak at events and seminars related to your niche, don’t forget to mention your blog while introducing yourself, this will most likely help you get some backlinks.

90. Have a special writing style that attracts people.

91. Be transparent on your blog.

92. Get listed in top padi Directories like the Yahoo Directory and the BOTW directory

93. List your product on Ebay or Amazon and include a link back to your blog.

94. Create a podcast and submit it to Itunes, link back to your blog from it.

95. Create web apps and submit them to app directories such as Go2Web20

96. Write a great and very useful whitepaper and ask your blogging friends to help you distribute it around the web, make sure you inlcude a link to your blog in the whitepaper.

97. Run a contest giving people physical products for free, make linking to your blog a requirement to join.

98. Try to know whcih stories are hot at the moment and make sure you blog about them.

99. Blog about very important events such as the independence day and the likes.

100. Start your affiliate programme.

101. Create a news section on your blog with regularly update news in your niche and you will begin to get links fast.

                   ALSO 4 YOUR giFT

So you want to start generating traffic to your blog? Well, as you’re probably aware, the search engines are going to be your best bet for long-term, sustainable sources of visitors.

One of the fundamental factors toward gaining higher rankings within the search engines is the number/quality of links pointing to the individual webpages of your website.

For blog owners, it’s not realistic to be manually building links to each and every one of your articles; however, there are a few great ways to generate organic links to homepage, category pages and individual blog posts.

I’m going to share with you a few of the ways that I do it…

Homepage Links

Building links to the homepage of your blog is a good way to boost the overall authority of your domain. You can then filter all of the PageRank coming from these links through to the other webpages on your blog via internal linking.

Blog Directories

Blog directories used to be a huge part of blog link building. Nowadays they have less power, and in some cases, can have a negative effect. The main thing to understand when building links from these kinds of websites is the quality of the site.

By quality, I don’t mean just looking at domain metrics like Domain Authority, PR, etc. – I mean looking at the traffic potential of the site. Websites that are likely to actually generate traffic through to your blog are a great indicator of a good link target.

Blog directories like Technorati, AllTop and OnTopList are good examples of this. My content gets regular visits from these directories and I have a good link to my homepage from them as well.

Bonus: Here’s a full list of blog directories that you can submit your site to.

Resource/Links Pages

Most blogs have a ‘useful links’ page where they list a few sites that they like or are relevant to their readers. These pages are a prime target for a quick and easy link.

Most webmasters will ask for a ‘link exchange’ for a link on their ‘links’ pages – i.e. you have to place a link to their blog within your site as well. This is something that Google started cracking-down on a few years ago and often devalues reciprocal links; however, you can get around this with a simple trick…

Set up your own ‘useful links’ page that you can use for your reciprocal links but add the following code in the head section of the page:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

This will ensure that any of the links from that page do not pass any PageRank, and will avoid you getting your links devalued.

One quick way to find a load of links/resource pages that are relevant to your niche is through running the following footprints within ScrapeBox (replacing ‘Keyword’ with your niche):

intitle:KEYWORD inurl:links

intitle:KEYWORD inurl:resources

ScrapeBox

Note: If you don’t have ScrapeBox, you can do it the manual way and just search within Google using the same search queries.

Get Interviewed/Quoted

A great way to gain contextual links is to be interviewed or quoted on other industry relevant blogs.

Once you have established yourself within your niche then you will regularly receive requests to give input into other articles. Until then, you might need to do a little manual outreach. This is where we can call on the help of ScrapeBox again by using the following footprints (again, replacing ‘Keyword’ with your niche):

KEYWORD intitle:interview with

intitle:KEYWORD inurl:interview

This should give you a nice long list of sites that run interview articles that you can then outreach to. My advice is to upload all of them into BuzzStream and start dropping some emails their way to see if they’d be interested in running an interview around you.

Links to Your Content

The link building strategies for your homepage often use slightly less ‘natural’ tactics than to those going directly to the articles on your blog. Having said this, there are a lot of ways to gain good quality links other than just having your content ‘organically’ picked up.

Image Attribution

If you run a blog that has a lot of your own imagery within it then there could be loads of quick link building opportunities that can be taken advantage of instantly.

Google Image Search

All you need to do is take a trip over to Google Image Search and click on the little camera icon. You can then paste in the URL of an image on your website and Google will display a list of websites that have also used the image on their site.

Once you find anyone using your images that haven’t linked to the original article, you can get in touch with them and ask them to correctly attribute the image. The easiest link you will get!

Track Mentions

This is a method very similar to the reverse image search method above. What this involves is for you to find webpages that have mentioned you, your blog or other writers on your blog and then ask them to link to you. Most people will link to the person they reference in an article but you’d be surprised to know the amount that don’t. Not only this, but asking someone to link to you when they’ve already mentioned you will often yield high success rates.

mention.net

All you need to do is sign up for a free or paid account on Mention.net and set up some alerts to find when you have been mentioned online. I have alerts set up for whenever someone writes ‘Matthew Barby’ or ‘Find My Blog Way’ (in the same way that a Google Alert works), so that I can reach out to anyone that hasn’t linked to me whilst mentioning my content.

This works great and really takes no time at all – I spend about 5 minutes each day having a quick check and writing a couple of emails so it’s more than worth it.

Get Your Content Translated

This is a tactic that I’ve used a few times in the past to get some awesome contextual links. All it involves is having on of your articles translated into a different language and then placed on a blog speaking the translated language, with a link back to your original article.

This can be scaled fairly well if you can build relationships with international bloggers. I was actually approached by a Spanish blogger recently who translated my link building case study on Moz and placed it on his website. Turned out to be a great second tier link from a DA40 website!

To find these kinds of opportunities it’s often best to search for a writer first, rather than a blog. Most writers will have blogs themselves, or at least the capability to post on them, so you can pay them to write the article and get a nice link in the process – everybody wins!

Take a look through my Followerwonk tutorial video below to see a great method for finding writers:

Find Guest Blogging Opportunities

Guest blogging is one of the staple ways to get good contextual links to your content. The only thing is, it’s a matter of time before Google cracks down on this kind of thing. Jason Acidre wrote an awesome article that looked at how to avoid the soon-to-be ‘guest blogging penalty’ – check it out.

In my opinion, the best way to scale guest blogging is to build long-term relationships with webmasters/bloggers and try to establish regular contributor agreements, rather than just one off posts. If you’re writing for a small number of high quality blogs, it’s going to bring in much better results than loads of lower quality targets. Not to mention it will be less resource-heavy.

Bonus: Check out my link prospecting method to find loads of high quality guest posting opportunities in minutes.

Broken Link Building

Broken link building involves finding broken links on a website and then reaching out to the webmaster with an alternative link to replace it with. The replacement link could be one of your articles (assuming it’s relevant, of course).

I could spend hours writing up a huge process for carrying out broken link building, but instead I’m going to refer you to this amazing guide written by Anthony Nelson on Moz.

Competitive Link Opportunities

Competitive link research is another method that I use almost every day. It involves scouring through your competitors backlink profile to find links that they have gained that you could easily replicate.

Open Site Explorer

Using a tool like Open Site Explorer (image above), Majestic SEO or Ahrefs, you can gather the backlink data for a few of your competitors. You’ll be amazed at what you can find from having a quick look through this data (you don’t always need to re-invent the wheel with link building!).

For a more detailed look at competitive research, take a look at this article I wrote on the Eat, Sleep, Search blog.

Weekly/Monthly Round-Up Articles

Another favourite of mine for getting a quick link building win is within round-up articles.

This is about as simple as it gets…

Find niche-relevant blogs that write regular recaps of the best articles from each month/week.

Gather contact details for the author of the recap articles.

Reach out to them and let them know about your article.

Basque in the glory of your backlink.

You can call in a favour from our old friend ScrapeBox to find a wide selection of blogs that run weekly round-up articles. Just use the following footprints:

"KEYWORD" intitle:weekly round-up

"KEYWORD" intitle:weekly roundup

"KEYWORD" intitle:weekly recap

"KEYWORD" intitle:monthly round-up

"KEYWORD" intitle:monthly roundup

"KEYWORD" intitle:monthly recap

As a little bonus, I’ve pulled off 40 different blogs from within the online marketing niche that you can instantly use for your outreach (if you write online marketing related articles):

http://www.npengage.com/

http://www.myseoguys.com/

http://www.analyticsseo.com/

http://www.wordtracker.com/

http://www.writemysite.co.uk/

http://www.creativebehavior.com/

http://www.ancadumitru.com/

http://www.evergreensearch.com/

http://www.wowinternet.co.uk/

http://waracle.net/

http://www.blogmarketingacademy.com/

http://www.seoconsult.com/

http://www.pushon.co.uk/

http://www.techhowl.com/

http://repcapitalmedia.com/

http://pakarseo.co.id/

http://thesemblog.com/

http://www.netmidas.com/

http://www.seowebhosting.net/

http://upcity.com/

http://www.webpreneurstartup.com/

http://www.punchcomms.com/

http://www.ariozick.com/

http://www.clicksandclients.com/

http://www.brightedge.com/

http://www.ecommercepartners.net/

http://www.canuckseo.com/

http://www.michaelfruchter.com/

http://www.bruceclay.com/

http://www.bestrank.com/

http://www.51blocks.com/

http://seospartan.com/

http://www.linkdex.com/

http://sundayseo.net/

http://www.searchmarketingweekly.com/

http://192seo.com/

http://www.toprankblog.com/

http://atniz.com/

http://raventools.com/

http://www.seroundtable.com/