When it comes to SEO, bloggers are in a great place.
Blogs are a haven for natural links. Unlike the poor saps who have to build links to a sales pages or ecommerce site, we can churn out quality content that people will want to link to.
While quality content makes for the backbone of any well-linked blog, there’s lot more that goes into building a solid link profile. Building links isn’t rocket science and you don’t need to know every trick in the book.
Here are 3 techniques that are especially easy for bloggers to utilize in their link building endeavors.
1) Forum Blog Post
I’m sure you’ve heard of using forums to build links before. This usually involves using one of two techniques.
1. Creating profiles on forums for the single website link on the profile page
2. Posting in the forum or using your signature for links.
However, there is a less-discussed method for building even better links in forums. Many forums using VBulletin such as the Warrior Forum allow you to add blog posts under your username.
These blog posts are great because you can write an optimized post on a high traffic, high PR forum. You can use any anchor text you want and the links are dofollow. It’s a great opportunity to share a few tips or a short 300 word post.
You could use the blog posts to create “SEO content”, but it can be better utilized. You have the option to display a link under your avatar in every post you make leading to your blog posts. If you comment regularly on a popular forum this can be a great way to drive traffic back to your blog.
Also, every thread you comment on will now link to your blog posts which can in turn link back to your site with any anchor text. Meanwhile, you can still use your signature for whatever you would like.
2) RSS Submission
All you need is a feed URL to start building links with RSS submission. The process simply involves inputting a few site details usually including tags, your homepage URL, feed URL, a description, and category.
My personal top 5 sites for RSS submission are:
- RSS Mountain - PageRank 6
- Feedage - PageRank 6
- RSS Network - PageRank 6
- Feedagg - PageRank 4
- RSS Motron - PageRank 4
Most of these sites require a login which is probably why they haven’t been spammed off the web yet. There are also many RSS directories that don’t require a login.
I have a more complete RSS directory list you can use if you want to make more submissions.
3) Blog Directories
RSS submission is simple and blog directory submission is no harder. All you need to do is submit your URL and a few key details about your blog. Once again, it only takes a decent list of directories to get started, which I have once again for you right here:
- Technorati – PageRank 8
- Globe of Blogs – PageRank 7
- Blog Catalog – PageRank 6
- Bloggernity – PageRank 6
- Blog Flux – PageRank 6
Technorati is the largest and most popular blog directory, so make sure if you just choose one to use, make it Technorati.
Google has started deindexing low quality web directories, but quality blog directories like these have remained largely untouched by the updates.
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This post is very nice and important for any bloggers and also for me as I am also a blogger. So, thanks to Ben for advising such a nice information
Thanks Nilesh, glad you liked the post.
Great ways to build quality links. thanks for RSS site list. It can be a great help.
Thanks for this article on building links! Pretty awesome to have those 40 RSS link submitters list. Everytime I visit Blogpreneurs I come away with some work to do to improve my start-up careers blog http://www.careergeekblog.com.
Hope to keep reading awesome posts! Nice one Ben.
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Haha thanks Faizan, at least the submission only needs to be done once.
Thanks a lot for the tips. I wasn’t really aware about the RSS Link.
thanks ben,
What i felt different in this article of yours is inclusion of RSS submission site.
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Nice work ben. That list of blog directory submission websites is a sure help.
I hope my website gets submitted in most of those.
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Thanks for such a great list. I was successfully able to submit my blog to all of them. The list is great and their pageranks too.
Thanks once again, and keep posting such great articles.
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You forgot Guest Posting, this has been the new link building strategy that almost everybody is jumping on the bandwagon nowadays.
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Nice tips
but most blogger do know these tips need more strategies to roll on
Some really useful ways of link building Ben. I have been doing RSS and Blog directory submission but Forum Blog Posts was something that never occured to me. I do know that we can add forum blogs posts but It never occured to me to use it as a link building method, so dumb of me.
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Hello BEN,
Great stuff to getting the back-links. Promoting a website, to increase the number of back-links.
Thanks for sharing great list.
Hi, Ben. The topic you choose is very attractive, and the content you post is useful. I learnt a lot from it, thanks for sharing!
Hi Ben,
You have share good points to building the back-links of any website/blog. back-links increase the Page Rank of the website. A site contain the high PR, it means it contain more and more back-links. Your article is very informative. Thanks for posting this.
Good tips. I am working on forums and also on blod directories. However not still work on rss submission. I must do rss submission for my blog.I don’t know the benefits from it. Now I cleared the concept of rss.
I would like to add to it.. Blog commenting is another natural way of link building and moreover when you comment on some blog you also increase your knowledge by reading lots of quality stuff as I did just now..
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Hi Ben,
Thanks for such great tips. I just stood by your website and did register and submit for all of my website just now. Although it took me an hour, but I personally feel it was a good investment of time. Do keep sharing such tips as it helps us greatly!
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These are really three best way to build quality backlinks. I am personally using technorati and RSS mountain for building quality backlinks. Anyways thanks author for such a great article.
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Hi Ben
Really this post help me a lot .I have many doubts and queries that got clarified by reading your post.Thanks a lot for sharing such a valuable information with us.
Thanks for sharing this topic. I need these back links strategies for my blog.
Thanks for the great tips. I could use this in launching a new website.