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There is no doubt when you are building a new WordPress website from scratch, one of the first promotion methods you need to undertake, is employing SEO link building strategies. I recently published a post on this website about what to do before opening your blog to the world. If you have performed all these necessary steps and added some fantastic content, you are now ready to start link building. These link building techniques can also be classed as blog promotion, as link building will not only get you to the top of the search engines for certain keywords, it can also give you instant traffic through the link. Therefore link building techniques are very important for a new WordPress website. ( I am biased towards WordPress, as you can tell)
Different back linking for different occasions
Leaving a backlink on another website can have different effects on your website.
For example a back link might bring:
- new website traffic
- it might get you to the top of the search engines (SEO)
- it might simply get your website indexed in the search engines along with one or two of the above
It can get very confusing when it comes to choosing which ones are right for your new WordPress website. Then we can also get into the do follow and no follow aspect. For a new WordPress website we will disregard whether a link is do follow or not as we are looking for a variety of links to make it look natural. If we just went out and got all do follow links then this is not natural link building.
5 rock solid link building strategies
There are so many places to get back links for your new WordPress website, however in this article I would like to mention what I do for each new installation. This would probably be the bare minimum, just to get the website off the ground.
Start with solid foundations
#1. Make a Plan
Write your link building strategies down will make everything clear to you. People know how great it is to have a plan, that never do it! If they did actually take the time to create a link building plan and tick off the jobs that are done, the whole task would seem a lot easier.
Here are a few things that I include when writing my link building strategies down:
- identify where your targeted visitors are
- make a list of your main keywords and your related keywords
- identify which websites are your competition and research their back links
- make a list of possible places to guest post on
- make a list of do follow blogs to comment on (hopefully they have Commentluv installed!)
#2. Get Indexed
Go and get your first back links on a high traffic website. This is to help your new WordPress website get indexed as soon as possible. If you put a link on a popular website or blog, the search engine bots will be crawling that website often, see your link and travel through it to your website.
The easiest places to get a backlink for indexing your website are:
- Youtube (nofolow but still works) – Once a week minimum.
- Ezine articles (follow) – Once a week would be good but once a month is OK.
- Blogger.com by building a blog (Google owns this and Youtube) – Make one backlink a week on blogger.
- Guest Posting – Submit one guest post a week.
- Press releases – Once a month, 2 at the beginning.
- Yahoo answers – (nofolow) but can get you indexed if you have the ability to leave links. (I think you need 250 points to leave backlinks)
Some people wonder why some pages show in search engine results and others don’t? This most of the time this can easily be solved by building some back links to that particular page. I know this sounds terribly simple but this is how it works!
#3. Start your engines
Grab your plan start taking action! If you are going to have a link building strategy, you need to implement it. Often Webmasters neglect back linking and presume that it will be done naturally for them. Every website starts off back linking themselves, until they get popular enough, when people naturally start doing the job for them. unfortunately new Webmasters make a couple of back links and see no results from this and give up. You need to persevere to see the real results.
Get out into the Internet world and start guest posting, blog commenting, article marketing, and so on. There is no excuse not building back links to your website. Ben lists 18 link building techniques that you can use to get free back links.
#4. Get the usual basic links
The reason I say you should get the usual back links, is because you should not do anything out of the ordinary to attract unwanted attention. For for example if you get 100 back links to a brand-new WordPress website that has only been launched for one day, this screams automation! However if you go out and make 10 back links on your first day, this says that you are manually making back links the right way. Of course different link building techniques are required depending on the business you are launching. If you have $1 million to spend on advertising, then obviously 100 back links would seem like nothing to that website..
Please share what link building strategies you use on your new WordPress website?
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Opps Don’t tell me there is only 4 tips!!
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Hi Mitz,
I am a newbie and I looking at expanding my business online. Point is, with so many information about marketing your site, it confuses me as to where to start. Your article clearly states the basics (yes the 4 tips means a lot!). I am currently contemplating on outsourcing my PR using Contentbuzz. I hope it would help me rank higher.
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creating back links Is something that you have to do continuously. The easiest place to start is blog commenting. You should also create at least one article to post at an article directory like ezine articles or even better still submit it as a guest post.
Once you get used to doing this you can then step it up a gear.
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Is it better to backlink individual posts or the root domain? If backlinks go to individual posts and assuming a new post is added every 3 days, that leaves very little time to get more than maybe a dozen backlinks to each, will this be enough to rank individual posts?
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Hi Richard.
Hope you don’t mind me jumping in.
Yes, it is recommended you backlink individual posts.
You best try to include the exact keyword you were targeting on that post in your links anchor text, while getting the links from relative, authority sites/posts.
Additionally, you should take similar approach from within your site, linking your posts to and from other posts, and to the homepage, thus passing link juice between them.
As for creating such links, the first thing would be to submit these posts on social sites, then you can add your traditional link building techniques.
Have a great year,
Tobi
You guys and gals are great! Can you get a real back links on social sites? It seems like they don’t show up. CommentLuv seem to be the easiest and most affective.
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Mitz a wonderful basics list of getting your article found. I would add pinging you posts and rolling them all into an RSS and submitting that to rss directories as an additional way to “get found”
But All your ways are great too..since you will want those basline links
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Yes I agree. Great tips Steve! Pinging and RSS feeds are a great way to spark some interest.
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Hey Mitz, what are your opinions on using auto comment posting apps for backlinking? I know this is considered spam but would too many links in a short time period cause a concern for a more established site?
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I believe that the amount and speed of links depends on the age and size of the site. A new site looks wrong if it is getting 1000 links a day.
I do not believe in auto comment posting as I like personal interaction but that does not say it does not work in certain circumstances.
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I’m not really for auto commenting either, just seems like adding more junk to an already cluttered web. But in theory it does sound like an effective way of getting backlinks. I guess the question is at what cost?
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Mitz through your article we r found your knowledge about link building, and its very good for blogging site. thankz
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Glad you found it useful!
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Nice article but i tried all of these and it didn’t help much.. maybe I’m missing something.
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Unfortunately it is an ongoing thing. If it didn’t work then you gave up too early. Link building never ends with a website.
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It is easy to say it, but really difficult to do it. For me the most important thing is the onsite optimization… it is useless to start a linkbuilding campaign if your site is not optimized.
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well all that is fair but what are other ways of bringing traffic to a website other than these mentioned points. SEO is very vast and i believe you could mention some other techniques.
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There are so many ways I could not mention them here…but search around this site and you will find so many articles that your head will spin!!
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Mitz, I totally agree with everything you have said regarding backlinks and creating them naturally.
One thing I would say is the amount of time a person needs to invest to get those backlinks can be tremendous.Only those committed to working hars should apply!
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Hmm yes the hours are huge!! You have to have the self control to get the job done!! There is no BOSS telling you to get on with it!!
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Hi Mitz,
Thank you for the tips. I was happy to see youtube and guest posting as I am just starting these and also ezines. I plan to automate this in the new year. What is your main advice for press releases? Cheers,
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I do not do press releases at the moment, although effective, I find guest posting absolutely does the best! If you find something you like doing then it will work for you.
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I have to agree that guest posting is that the way forward and it’s really good for social proof.
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I concur about your article, and something is also more important to gain traffic like on page, off page approach. Your 5 rock tips are awesome for link building which is given by you. Can any one explain me? Which are better word press blogs and BlogSpot blogs? If I am using BlogSpot Blog, am I able to apply same tactic
Thanks Mitz Pantic
Best Regard
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Yes you can link build for any blog or website. If you are talking about the free wordpress.com blog and blogger, they are both free and on level pegging.
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The backlinking methods being carried out for new blogs should indeed be slow but consistent. I think I could add up by doing 5-10 backlinks from bookmarking sites as well. 5-10 backlinks a day might be a small number, but the fact that these are for a newly created blog could be indeed the best strategy so far.
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Yes that sounds like a good strategy to me! Great tips Argie!
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Nice post Mitz, for fast indexing I always use high PR social networks and pinging. WordPress automatically ping when we post a blog, but advisable to add more at” General setting>>writing>>update services.
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great tips Rammesh! Thanks for sharing!
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looks about right, Mitz. It seems like a new WordPress blog can always find a few easy links. Guest posting is probably a very good idea if they can find related blogs that will let them do it.
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Yes I love guest posting. It is probably got the most benefits.
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Thanks for this article, Mitz. I have #1 and #2 on my to-do list for today.
Now I’m in suspense…is there a #5? And what do I have to do to find out what it is?
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There is probably 20..but I lost my mind when writing this one..LOL
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The main thing would be to continue making backlinks non stop…The job is never done!!
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These link building techniques help us gaining traffic to make our blog on top in search engine..so for this article given to us by Mitz its so helpful keep posting..
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Very true!
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I think the best way of link building is to get backlinks from variety of sites, I mean your main focus should be on your niche site but if you get links from different niche sites then it increases your credibility.
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I appreciate the tips. Getting a new site off the ground is always a challenge.
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You are right get a new site of the ground is all ways hard work but once you get the momentum going to get easier.
Thanks Mitz Pantic just want to say awesome tips. For Me #2 is best way for backlinking.
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Thanks Amit!
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Check out the new features of WordPress 3.3
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Totally loved the new features that they added in.
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Yes they are very cool features!
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Linkbuildiing is very important, and this post can be very helpful for new bloggers in their endeavour to get links to their blog.
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Yes without link building, a blog will never be known.
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Nice tips one must follow.. Thanks for sharing with us all.
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Hey Mitz, Very informative post about basic things. I am new to this work and working as a SEO from last few weeks. I am totally agree with you, planning is very important for every work. Without planning we can not do any thing. Back links are also very important for ranking up our site. After read your post i am feeling myself very innovative.
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I have to have a plan as I forget what I am meant to be doing.. There are too many distractions.
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Hi Mitz
I think #1 is the most essential part of link building – making a plan and then doing it!!
I don’t fully understand Press Releases as I always think of them as being something that you do when there is something newsworthy going on. For example if you make a site on golf or perfume – can you still do press releases for them or does it need to be something more newsworthy?
Thanks
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Yes they do this still…If you would like to know how just browse the press release sites and see how they write them.. I do not like it but it works.
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Hi Mitz,
Getting links through social bookmarking and social networking sites is also a good way for link building. The four points are definitely rock solid. Looking forward for the fifth one, maybe in some other upcoming post of yours.
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LOL yes I totally forgot that one!
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I try using RSS feeds and comments, plus the things you said. Blog directories are also good for getting your new blog out there.
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Yes they are all great ways Anne! Your site will be pumping soon!
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Getting the usual backlinks is the best way for a site to start the link building process. The more natural the numbers of backlinks per day, the more favorable it will be to search engines. For sure, they wouldn’t categorized the site with full of spam links and give the site credit for that.
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I used to make backlinks from forums and recently using commenting on blogs that comluv enabled. yahoo answers drive some traffic to my site.
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Youtube links are indeed nofollow, but your channels link to you blogs are dofollow, meaning you need to raise activity on your channel, links pointing to it, and be an active youtube members ( subscribe, share, comment…). This will get you a high pr property that links to your own domain.
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Youtube partners have dofollow links from their channels but now they are moving to the new design channel that has all nofollow.
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Hey Mitz.
The old Youtube Channel does have one Dofollow link, the cannel’s admin website/blog.
At the moment you can still keep your old channel desing, and the links are still Dofollow, where the new design ( which I don’t really like btw) has no Dofollow links.
Wuestion is, would that be a mandatory switch ? otherwise I cannot see myself optin for the new channels desing.
WDYT?
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Whenever the blog is new, it is also important not to overdo lin building. Google can penalize the website. I have found blog commenting, yahoo answers and social book marking as a great way for link building.
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I am using Yahoo answers , blog commenting and a few directories. I haven’t tried the other things out but I’ve heard they are useful too. Writing for Wikipedia can help too, I believe?
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I’ve found twitter is a pretty good source of traffic and links. but do they count with Google and Bing? You can find the traffic coming through bit.ly and t.com links.
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I want to try wordpress too, it seem wordpress cooler than bg. But later. ^_^
Thanks for the tricks and tips. I learned more now.
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Building backlinks the right way is just as hard as writing quality content, if not harder. Owning a blog under these circumstances is a full time job.
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So refreshing to read an actionable list of things to do, rather than the usual wishy-washy advice “get links” but not clear indication of how! I have never used YouTube to get links, maybe I should investigate that. Could work well on my local business portal ….. thanks for the idea!
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I agree with Ezine, haven’t tried Youtube but now intend to. Yahoo answers and also Wiki answers are great and I swear by Ezal.
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Hi Mitz.. Question.. Im sure I know this as another name but what exactly is a press release?
And thanks for another great post.
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I really enjoyed this article. The tips are basic and straight to the point. I think anyone can do this, yet achieve max results.
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I have used most of the strategies you’ve listed here. They indeed work.
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According to me the best methods for link building are:
1. Contextual Forum Posting
2. Article Submission
3. Profile Links
Because first two creates a relative links which are far more important than social bookmarking, blog commenting, etc.
Third one creates some high PR links for you.
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Great tips. I am using most of the techniques you mentioned, especially commenting and guest posting. I need to more social bookmarking though. I submit to Digg and that is about it at the moment.
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If Mitz writes it and it’s not effective, it’s the fault of the reader, not Mitz
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Making a plan is always the very first step in anything you want to do. Mitz, I completely agree with you on planning yourself and your work out – trust me, it makes everything run smoothly.
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