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We all know that more links = higher rankings.
But building links isn’t always easy.
So I am going to share 15x incredible link building strategies with you today.
(Download our link building checklist here)
You can use any of these proven link building strategies to attract high quality links to your website quickly and easily!
These are the exact strategies my link building team use to build links with great success-
….but you should only use 3x of them.
Why?
Because it’s easy to get overwhelmed and do nothing
- Read through this post
- Pick your 3x favorite link building strategies
- Do the one that is easiest and quickest to do first
So without further ado:
Here are 15 foolproof link building strategies that you can start using to build free backlinks today.
What Will I Learn?
- 1. Leverage Testimonials In Your Niche
- 2. Support New Business Growth
- 3. Sponsor Real World Events
- 4. Show Your Presence On Social Media
- 5. Strategic Guest Blogging
- 6. Help Clean Up The Web
- 7. Harness Internal Link Building
- 8. Replicate Your Competitors Best Links
- 9. Get Listed In Link Roundups
- 10. Get Listed On Resource Pages
- 11. Create Data Driven Content
- 12. Listen To The Web
- 13. Recycle Old Domain Names
- 14. Hijack News Events
- 15. Massage Influencers Ego’s
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1. Leverage Testimonials In Your Niche
This link building strategy almost seems too easy…
Well…
That’s because it is!
With just a few minutes work you can create powerful homepage links to your website.
Let me explain what I mean.
By reaching out and offering positive testimonials for services and/or products that you are using…
…you can have your testimonial published with a link back to your website.
Here is one of my testimonials based on the findings of my Surfer SEO review–
Which includes a backlink to my homepage.
So let’s take a quick look at how to build a number of external links with testimonials!
Step #1 – Generate A List Of Targets
To get started with this link building tactic, you need to find the websites for services and products that you could provide a testimonial for.
Each site needs to-
- Be relevant to your niche
- Have existing testimonials
- Actually be a product/service that you use
If you’re struggling to come up with any ideas you could cheat a little bit.
Look at what other tools and services people in your niche use….
And you’ll quite often find that a free trial will be on offer to test the tool…
Step #2 – Find The Right Person To Pitch To
Now we need to find the right person to contact.
Sometimes you can just ask via the contact form on the website and some will even have dedicated testimonial submission forms.
Or you can use one of these handy extensions to help you find email addresses-
Then you can add each email address to your spreadsheet and start to contact everyone on your list with a pitch.
Step #3 – Send Your Testimonial Pitch
Before spending time creating a testimonial…
First pitch them with the idea that they could have a testimonial created by you.
Here are some thing’s to keep in mind when putting together your pitch:
- Introduce yourself
- Tell them how their tool has helped you
- Include specific results
- Ask them if you can put together a testimonial
- Keep it simple
Step #4 – Writing The Perfect Testimonial
Writing the perfect testimonial is pretty straight forward.
You want to write a short piece of text that includes-
- What you liked most
- How the tool/service helped you
- Specific results
- Your personal recommendation
Here are some good example testimonials from my readers-
Your advice helped me get 30,000 visitors per month
I would never expect that your advice could really help me increasing my search engine traffic rank. I am sceptical at first but my site arieon.my was able to go to another level where I get 30,000 unique visit per month in just 5 months. The best part is that your advice and tutorial is easy to follow.
Arieon
I was able to double organic traffic
Hi Matt, Your online tutorials are quite easy to follow and replicate. I was able to double the organic traffic in many of my clients’ websites relatively easy in very short time. Keep up the good work.
Digital Bang
To learn more on testimonial link building, including exactly how to build these links from start to finish, checkout my full guide-
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Using testimonials as a link building strategy is a fantastic way to build high quality homepage links.
- Generate a list of target services and products
- Find the right person to pitch to
- Send them your pitch
- Write the testimonial
It really is that easy and if you need any more help you can see my full testimonial link building tutorial.
2. Support New Business Growth
Crowdfunding is one of the most unknown and underused link building strategy.
Someone who is raising money for their business through crowdfunding will often place a link to each person that contributed…
See where this is going yet?
The donation can be anything from $1 up to thousands of dollars and can be found for all kinds of projects across all niches.
There are two ways to obtain links.
- Donor links
- Package links
Package links are when links are offered as part of a package you get if you donate a certain amount of money:
Sounds easy right? It really is!
How To Find Crowdfunding Sites For Link Building
There are hundreds of crowdfunding sites out there to search through. But we are gonna take a closer look at Indiegogo.
There is a simple way to look for crowdfunding projects without trawling through the site. Simply do a Google search using these keywords:
- site:[indiegogo.com] inurl:projects +“link to your”
- site:[indiegogo.com] inurl:projects +”donor page”
But they will be vastly narrowed down to projects that either add donor’s details to their donor page or projects that offer links in exchange for your donation.
You will be able to find a bunch of crowdfunding projects that are affordable and an easy way to get links to your website.
You might even benefit from some of their other perks too!
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Crowdfunding is an underused link building strategy.
You can build backlinks from crowdfunding projects by either:
Make a list of crowdfunding sites to search.
- Being included on their donation page
- Receiving a link back as part of a package
Use Google searches to narrow down opportunities:
- site:[website URL] inurl:projects +“link to your”
- site:[website URL] inurl:projects +”donor page”
And find crowdfunding pages within your niche that allow you to build links and are within your budget. Check out my full crowdfunding link building tutorial to learn more.
3. Sponsor Real World Events
Did you know that you can use events as part of your link building strategy?
They could be local, national, and international events that you can utilize to build links.
There are two ways you can do this…
#1 – Hosting An Event
You can create your own event and then have it advertised on third-party event sites which then link back to your website.
These links are usually extremely relevant and come from high authority sites.
#2 – Sponsoring An Event
Alternatively, you can sponsor an event being hosted by someone else as most hosts will list (and link to) all their sponsors.
This is also a great way to build good relationships with other authorities in your industry.
I am going to give you a quick glimpse of how to find events to sponsor. This type of event link building offers all the benefits without actually having to host an event.
How To Find Events To Sponsor
Firstly you need to figure out what type of events are relevant to your niche.
This could be workshops, conferences, lectures, clubs etc…
Then you need to make a list of where these events are likely to be hosted online.
Depending on the event, local events may be hosted on local sites, but national or international events can usually be found on sites like:
To find events that you can sponsor…You can use these Google searches for each of the hosting sites:
- site:[website URL] inurl:events +“sponsors”
- site:[website URL] inurl:events +“link to your”
- site:[website URL] inurl:registration +“sponsors”
- site:[website URL] +“sponsors”
- site:[website URL] + “donation”
- site:[website URL] + “become a sponsor”
- site:[website URL] -inurl:support -inurl:blog +“link to your website”
Search through the results and make a list of any events that are relevant to your niche.
Rinse and repeat for each event hosting site using each search term.
Once you have exhausted all opportunities and set up your sponsorships for each event, you can set up Google alerts to find any new sponsorship opportunities as they appear.
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Event link building is a great way to get backlinks that Google approves of.
There are two ways of building these links:
Finding events to sponsor is easy to do with these Google searches:
- Hosting An Event: Creating an event where third-party event websites link back
- Sponsoring An Event: Sponsoring a relevant event & receiving a link as a sponsor
- site:[website URL] inurl:events +“sponsors”
- site:[website URL] inurl:events +“link to your”
- site:[website URL] inurl:registration +“sponsors”
- site:[website URL] +“sponsors”
- site:[website URL] + “donation”
- site:[website URL] + “become a sponsor”
- site:[website URL] -inurl:support -inurl:blog +“link to your website”
Just add the event hosting site (eg. eventful.com/) and if you need to narrow down the search to more relevant events…
Simply add another keyword to the search.
Rinse and repeat for a range of event hosting sites for each search term or check out my step by step guide to event link building.
4. Show Your Presence On Social Media
Social media backlinks are generally considered by a lot of people to be a waste of time.
This is because they are nofollow and considered to carry little SEO benefit but still form an important base of links most genuine businesses should have. Healthy link profiles include both follow links and legitimate nofollow.
So I am going to show you 5 quick wins from Facebook (accessible for all skill levels) but there are 23 more from other networks listed in my full social media backlinks guide.
How To Build Backlinks With Facebook
As Facebook is the most popular network I thought we would start there…
Let’s dive in:
#1 – Your Profile’s ‘About’ Tab
The best way to connect a new visitor to your website is through your ‘About’ page.
Just add your website URL in your basic settings and be sure to have it set to public.
#2 – Your ‘About’ Page Description
As well as adding your website to your about page contact info, you can also place your website URL in the description:
By having your website appear twice on your about me page…
You are doubling your chances of sending traffic to your website from there.
#3 – Include A Website Link In All Posts
For those articles, you are posting that aren’t directing traffic to your site…
You can still add a link as a reference:
This can easily be worked into all your blog posts.
#4 – Page Buttons
You can add page buttons underneath your cover photo.
These can be optimised to send traffic to your website when clicked:
Simply add or edit your page button and input your website’s URL.
#5 – Picture Descriptions
You can add your website to the description of an image (which most people don’t do).
This works best when done for your profile picture and cover photo:
Don’t forget to update this each time you change your pictures.
To learn more about using social media backlinks on Facebook and other platforms like:
- Youtube
- Quora
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Social media backlinks are more valuable than most people think and there are many ways you can build these links which I cover in my full tutorial.
But here’s a snap shot of how you can build social media backlinks on Facebook:
- Your Profile’s ‘About’ Tab
- Your ‘About’ Page Description
- Include A Website Link In All Posts
- Page Buttons
- Picture Descriptions
5. Strategic Guest Blogging
Boring right?
But guest blogging is one of the most popular, simplest and most effective link building strategy there is…
But Google has given us multiple warnings-
And more importantly:
John Mueller advised to nofollow guest post links.
My point is:
And in the end…
All Google’s ranking algorithm wants to see is specific metrics. It’s your job to feed it those metrics.
And guest posts will always work very well as a marketing function to build a target audience and feed the algorithm the metrics it wants.
The idea behind guest blogging is simple:
- You create a high-quality piece of content
- You add a few links in the content piece pointing to your site
- You get the piece published in another site, preferably one with a high DA
Guest blogging isn’t what it’s used to be a few years ago.
It’s much much harder to earn a genuine link placement in 2022.
Most site owners have caught on and often want payments to place your guest posts.
Which is nothing more than just a long-winded way to buy links right?
And some people are much much more direct-
That’s not to say that guest blogging isn’t worth doing.Feel free to walk that line however you choose.
To get started with guest blogging, there are 5 steps you need to follow:
- Find your prospects
- Qualify the right blogs
- Send outreach emails
- Create great content
- Build relationships
Step #1 – Find Your Prospects
The first step to getting started with guest blogging is to find your prospects. These are the websites where you are going to publish your piece of content.
Ideally, you want to publish in sites with high DA (domain authority), page authority, and high traffic.
Step #2 – Qualify The Blogs
With the list, you have created, run each site through Ahrefs (who just so happen to be the best backlink checker) to check their domain authority.
Take the first website in your list, and go to the Site Explorer. Once you are there, add the website you want to analyze and click on the orange loop icon.
In the menu, take the number that you see in the center of the screen, under the DR sign.
Add these numbers to your list and repeat the process until you have the DR of every site.
Step #3 – Reaching Out
With the list of websites, go to each site and contact the manager to check if they are interested in your pitch.
To contact each blog you can use the following template:
Subject: Writing for SITE
Hi [NAME],I was checking out [SITE] today and found the guest post you published from [GUEST POSTER’S NAME].
I loved that article, I just shared it with my audience.
I’d love to be your next guest author. Here are some topics that I think would do really well with [SITE] readers:
- Topic #1
- Topic #2
- Topic #3
Do any of these ideas look good? Let me know your thoughts.
Best,
[YOUR NAME]
I highly recommend that you customise that a little bit and also take a peek at any specific guest post guidelines they may have.
Step #4 – Creating Incredible Guest Post Content
Once you get accepted, start creating the content.
It’s important to write with the blog’s target audience in mind!
If you need to dig into the site’s audience, read the comments from previous articles and check the blog posts that got the most shares and comments.
Don’t hold anything back, write everything you know about the subject-
- Add quotes
- Add links to other relevant articles from the site
- Add images and videos
- Add anything you can to make it amazing
He teaches everything he knows about becoming a freelance writer.
And he holds nothing back!
Once you finish writing it, send it their way.
Step #5 – Build Relationships
A great thing about guest blogging is that it helps you build relationships with the blog managers.
Creating a network is important if you ever need help promoting a specific piece of content from your site and you want to publish often in a high-authority site.
BONUS TIP: Engage Their Audience
One of the most overlooked benefits of guest blogging is the ability to open direct conversation with someone elses audience.
What does that mean?
Well it means that you should-
- Respond to all of the comments on your guest post personally
- Monitor shares on social media then reply to say thanks
- Setup Google Alerts for the URL to engage anywhere it gets shared
If you do those 3 things alongside your guest post, you will accelerate your results.
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Guest blogging can take some time, and due to the amount of content you have to create, it can get messy.
- Find your prospects with the help of the Google footprints I previously shared
- Then, qualify every blog you found to make sure you are pitching to the right place.
- Reach out to the right people using the template I shared as a basis.
- Send your guest post and get it published.
- Engage with their audience as much as possible.
It can be a pretty long-winded process, but it is an effective one.
It will allow you to find, qualify and reach out to hundreds of blogs in just a few clicks.
If you need help with guest posting, check out one of these guest posting services.
6. Help Clean Up The Web
Most websites have hundreds, if not thousands, of links. Many of them link internally, while others do it externally.
For whatever reason, these links can easily break and stop working.
Most site owners don’t realize this when it happens, and it can break their user experience, reputation, and SEO performance.
In fact as I am writing this, I just did a quick check on my own blog-
And I have broken links from an old a/b experiment where I didn’t redirect the test page!
Finding broken links represent a magnificent occasion for you to-
- Find link building opportunities (especially for niche edits)
- Build a relationship with the website owner
- Add value to them
- And most importantly, get a high-quality link
Broken link building is the tactic Nikolay Stoyanov used to acquire 15 links in 1 day with a 15% conversion rate.
It really is one of the most underutilized link building strategies in my opinion.
Here is how to do it-
Step #1 – Define A Target Website
The first step of this link building strategy is to define the website where you want to get a link from.
You can pick any website you want, but I’d recommend you be realistic about your expectations.
The chances of getting a link from Inc or The New York Times after you find a broken link are slim to none.
The best websites where you can get a link from are personal blogs and small companies.
The site owners and managers will be grateful for your help, and they will likely thank you with a link.
Step #2 – Finding The Broken Links
Once you have created the list of the websites you want to get a link from, you need to start searching for the broken links.
To do so, you can use seo tool like: Check My Links and Ahrefs.
Check My Links is a useful Chrome Extension that finds for links within a specific page.
Ahrefs will analyze the site thoroughly and will make a list of all the broken links it has.
You see exactly how to find broken links with these tools here.
Step #3 – Contacting The Blog Manager
Once you finished analyzing all the sites and pages, it’s time to contact the blog owner or manager to let them know about the broken link.
Your first goal should be to create a relationship and build some trust .
If you have a web page that’s relevant to the page where you find the broken link, then let them know about it.
Don’t do it to get a link; do it to help them have a great page for their readers.
If you don’t have something relevant to offer, focus on fixing the broken link at hand. It’s likely you will find more opportunities later on to ask for a link.
You’ll be amazed at the types of responses you receive from people!
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The key to broken link building is finding the right sites to pitch. Begin by picking websites that you’d want to get a link from.
You can find the sites with the most amount of broken links with the help of a tool like Ahrefs, or you can just check case-by-case with the help of Check My Links.
Learn how to scale this broken link building process with my full broken link building tutorial.
7. Harness Internal Link Building
Internal link building is one of my favorite link building strategies.
Not only do you have complete control over where you place your links…
But:
It is super easy to implement and carries very little to no risk of penalisation.
What Is An Internal Link?
An internal link is a link placed on one web page that links to another web page of the same domain.
For example-
- This is an internal link that points to a page on this blog
- This is an external link that points to a page on a different domain
And because they are internal links that we place on our own sites and pages-
It means that we have complete control over them and the anchor text that we use.
Why Internal Links Are So Valuable
Internal links carry a lot of value and most people don’t realise just how much they help your SEO.
Here’s why…
- Internal links help Google discover new hight quality content
- Internal links help Google to better understand & rank your content
- Internal links can be used to control Google’s spiders
- Internal links can be used to direct traffic to important high converting pages
And I don’t know why-
Because it’s very easy to implement!
3x Internal Link Building Strategies
There are 3x internal link building strategies that I like to use when it comes to placing links…
- My quick and easy method
- My power process
- Manual linking process
I’m going to show you the manual linking process here.
It takes a bit more time to apply…
..but you’ll end up with a powerful internal linking structure and a dangerous amount of know how.
However, you can still learn the other 2x easier methods in my internal link building tutorial.
The Manual Internal Link Building Process
First up you need to make a list of your URL’s and the target keywords.
Then use Google to search for blog posts on your website where you could add relevant links.
Add your links (try to use exact match anchor text) and then repeat for each URL/keyword in your list.
It might take a while – but I promise you it’s worth it.
And remember…
Internal link building is not a set and forget process. You must be sure to add internal links from old content to new content every time you publish!
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Take Internal linking seriously!
It can do wonders for your SEO and you can use them to-
- Help Google find your content and rank it better
- Use them to direct traffic to high conversion pages
Use the manual internal link building strategy to have complete control over your link placements.
And be sure to add internal links to each new post you publish from old content.
Learn more with my internal link building tutorial that also includes a downloadable smart template to help you out.
8. Replicate Your Competitors Best Links
Your competitors spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours developing their link building strategies to acquire high-quality links.
If you have a small budget, why would you try to compete with those companies? You’d most likely fail to get the same quality of links your competitors get.
Instead of hitting your head against your wall in anger and deciding to work harder, you should work smarter.
The idea I’m suggesting is simple:
Spy on your competitors and steal their best backlinks.
You are basically drafting with your competitors; they work hard to get links, you follow them and get the same ones.
This is also one of our most effective ecommerce link building strategies in terms of win rate and overall time invested per earned link-
Let’s take a quick look at the process:
Step #1 – Make A List Of Your Competitors
Start by making a list of 5x competitor that ranks for a keyword you want to rank for.
It doesn’t matter if they are bigger or smaller than you. They will all teach you some valuable lessons.
Step #2 – Analyse Their Backlinks
Once you have your list of competitors, you will need to analyse their backlinks profile.
You can download my intelligent spreadsheets that make this a really easy process.
As you already know, my favorite tool for this is Ahrefs but my spreadsheets also work with SEMRush and SEO Powersuite.
If for any reason you don’t want to use my intelligent sheets, you can do it manually…
The analysis is simple: go to Ahrefs’ Site Explorer, add the link from one of your competitors, and click the orange loop button.
In the left-side menu, click on the link that says Backlinks.
In here you can see all the inbound links my competitor (in this case, a paleo blog) got.
To make your analysis more interesting, click on the Link type button in the bar above the results.
Here you can organize the links by those that are “follow”, governmental, educational, and editorial (i.e., those that are linked naturally within a piece of content).
Let’s say I wanted to see the educational links my competitor got.
These links show this competitor is respected within its industry. Also, you can see some educational sites linked to recipes, which shows interest in that type of content.
Export the list of URLs you find for every competitor.
Once you have found a list of inbound links, start by opening in a separate tab each link one at a time.
From here, you need to start thinking. What did your competitor do to get that link?
As you work through the list replicating links you’ll get a good feel for this process.
You will be able to uncover new opportunities, get a feel for what people like in your industry, and see what type of content gets the most links.
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Reverse engineering is simple, yet it takes some creativity from your end.
You want to know why your competitor got its links; your analysis will try to uncover just that.
- Start by making a list of your competitors in the top 5 search results.
- Then analyse the backlinks with the help of my awesome spreadsheets.
- Or do it manually with Ahrefs, go to the Site Explorer, add your competitor, and once you have the results, click on the link that says Backlinks.
- There, click on the Link type button, and export the whole list of URLs you get.
- With this list, you want to open each link and figure out how and why they got the link.
Ask yourself, is it because of the quality of their content? Is it because they offer something unique and valuable?
You want to know the why behind the link. Learn more about this strategy with my full competitorbacklink analysis tutorial.
9. Get Listed In Link Roundups
Link Roundups are blog posts that “round up” links to awesome content.
This is usually done daily weekly or monthly and often includes a short write up.
Take a look at this blog post example from Matt Diggity’s Blog:
You can find these types of blog posts in nearly every niche.
All you need to do is-
- Find websites that regularly post roundups
- Pitch your content for the next roundup
It doesn’t get much easier than that!
Step #1 – How To Find Link Roundup Sites
Use Google to do the following searches…
…and then go through the results and add any suitable roundup sites to a spreadsheet.
For example:
If I wanted to build links to my Ecommerce SEO guide…
My Google search would look like this-
In a matter of seconds, I have a bunch of relevant search results to add to my list-
- bigapplemedia.com/weekly-link-roundup-no-46-latest-marketing-links/
- theleverageway.com/blog/mobile-ecom-link-roundup/
- blog.spiralytics.com/monday-reading-list-seo-and-link-building-edition/
Repeat the search for each suggestion mentioned above.
And once you have a list ready…
Step #2 – Pitching Your Awesome Content
Find the contact email address for each site by following my email address lookup guide or using a tool like FindThatLead.
Or if you’ve got time search their site for an email address or contact form.
The problem with this kind of pitch though…
Is that the bloggers that publish these kind of roundup posts get emails like this every day-
So if you want to get featured…
I suggest that you use a 2 pronged approach-
- Send the initial outreach email (that doesn’t ask for anything)
- Then pivot to the pitch
You could send something that looks like this at first-
Hey,
I am a frequent reader of #INSERTROUNDUPNAME# – thanks for putting it together every #WEEK/MONTH/YEAR#.
When you featured #INSERTURL# it really helped me to #INSERTRESULT#
Looking forward to the next roundup!
Thanks again for putting it together all the time!
– Your Name
Once they reply, then pivot with your link pitch.
And that’s it!
Link Roundup Link Building is so simple and easy to carry out.
All you need is-
- Some hight quality content
- A bit of elbow grease to find roundups
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There are loads of blogs out there who regularly publish link roundup posts which you can take advantage of.
- Identify blogs in your niche who publish link roundups
- Find contact information
- Pitch your content
Be sure that any content you pitch is top quality & adds value to their roundup.
10. Get Listed On Resource Pages
Most websites have a resource page where they list all the tools, guides and articles that they use or have found useful.
I have a few of them across the blog-
- The Best Free SEO Tools To Super Charge Your Search Rankings
- 42x SEO Tutorials That Will Take You To The Next Level
- 24x SEO Tools That Will Fast Track Your Success
And it’s not just me.
Take a look at this resource page from the Goinswriter team–
This is in essence just a list of links with some added commentary.
I’m sure you have figured out where this is going right?
- Find resource pages in your niche
- Reach out to them asking for a link
Voila!
Step #1 – How To Find Resource Pages
Jump over to Google and search these terms-
- Keyword +inurl:links
- Keyword +useful resources
- Keyword +helpful resources
- Keyword +inurl:useful links
- Keyword +useful links
Just look through the results and pick any that fit your content.
Add those to a spreadsheet and you’re ready for the next step.
Step #2 – Pitching Your Content
The next step is to reach out to the website and pitch them your content to add to the resource page.
But just like we did earlier, it’s better to take a 2 pronged approach to get the link placed-
- Send the first outreach email
- Then pivot to the link placement
It really is as easy as that!
The more people you ask, the more links you will get.
Simples!
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A simple, yet effective link building strategy is Resource Link Building.
Find resource pages that relate to your article, tool, product or service and pitch to the website owner to feature your content.
Give them useful evergreen content and earn a valuable backlink in return.
Want to learn more about how to do this? Check out my full guide to resource page link building.
11. Create Data Driven Content
Creating content that drives attention has become harder and harder as time goes by.
To create relevant and useful content, it needs to stand out.
Using unique data to develop and enrich your content can help it stand out, command the attention it deserves, and attract the link your website needs.
Take a look at this post-
I built 12 tests sites across 12 of the most popular hosts to try and find out who really offers the fastest WordPress hosting.
Then I published the results (data)-
Now, this took quite a lot of time, effort, and money to do.
But it answered a common question with data and attracted a bunch of links-
I also shared data with my case studies and my monthly income reports for the same reason.
To get started, here are a few ideas you can implement to make your content more data-driven:
- Do an in-depth research on your industry
- Create tests of tools/services in your niche
- Find unique data and use it on your content
- Survey your email list subscribers, industry peers, or customers
- Create attractive and unique graphics from your own or someone else’s data
Before you hit the “Publish” button, ask yourself-
Does this article has any unique data?
If not, try to add some so you give it more substance.
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You can make this as simple or as complicated as you want.
- Find a common question in your niche
- Then compile data to answer that question
That might mean running your own tests or aggregating the data of others.
You could even take someone else’s data and do a better job of presenting it with graphics/infographics/interactive charts/tables.
This approach also works well with the NewsJacking strategy above because it’s often easy to compile quick reference data/infographics when a story breaks.
12. Listen To The Web
If you have a respected brand in your industry or location, people likely write about you. When someone mentions you online, an opportunity to get a link appears.
Unfortunately, many times people forget to link to your site when they mention you but fixing that is easy!
Step #1 – Look For Your Company Online
In a moment I am going to show you an easy way to automate this but for now, I want you to understand the process.
First, search your site on Google-
“matthewwoodward.co.uk” -inurl:matthewwoodward.co.uk
This returns a list of results that mention my domain name but excludes all the pages from my own blog.
Be creative with your keywords; people may misspell your company’s name more often than you think.
Step #2 – Find Your Mentions
Make a list of all the sites you find where you have gotten a mention.
Check for-
- mentions without a link
- with broken links
- or with incorrect links that lead to a 404
Step #3 – Outreach
Once you have created the list of websites, find the person who’s responsible for managing it.
If you are in doubt, use the “Contact” page, but it’s better to go straight to the person who can actually fix the mention.
Once you have the email addresses you can just use this template-
But don’t forget to customize it first!
Hey [NAME],
I’ve seen you mentioned us on [PAGE].
Thanks a lot!
By the way, I’ve seen you haven’t linked to our site. It’d be of great use for your readers if you added a link, so they can learn more about us.
Here’s the link you can use: [URL].
Thanks a lot,
[YOUR NAME]
And of course:
Don’t forget to send those follow-ups-
Or you’ll be leaving a bunch of links on the table!
Step #4 – Setting Up Automatic Alerts
Many people won’t answer you because it’s been a long time since they published the page where they mentioned you.
That’s why it’s so important to respond fast whenever you get a mention without a link.
To do this, you should learn how to setup Google Alerts so you’re always ready.
But in essence – every time you see you get a new mention alert, make sure to check there’s a link.
Otherwise, contact the writer or editor of the website and ask for the link, using the template shown before.
This way, you’ll be able to bring high-quality links to your site with no effort from your end.
This Section In Short
Link reclamation is one of the easiest link building techniques there is.
You are basically getting links from people who already like you, so your pitching will be more effective than usual.
- To get started, look for mentions your company or site has gotten via Google.
- Whenever you find a mention without a link, contact the site owner asking for a link with my template.
- Finally, set up alerts with the help of Google Alerts to make sure never to miss any future mentions.
This is one of the more quick win link building strategies that nearly anyone can apply instantly!
13. Recycle Old Domain Names
One of my favourite link building hacks is to recycle expired domains.
Why?
Because some expired domains-
- Have great backlink profiles
- Have high levels of authority
- Are highly relevant to your niche
- Have valuable backlinks from places like Wikipedia, BBC, New York Times etc
You should be wielding their power for your business.
You can buy them for the same price as new domains! (more about that later)
What To Do With Expired Domains
You have a few choices when you buy an expired domain-
- Build a new site on the expired domain with instant authority
- Use the expired domains to link to your site
- Redirect the expired domain to pass on link juice to your site
We used one to build out a new site in November which has already taken 15 number 1 positions and featured snippets-
This is why so many people use them because if you build out a site on a highly authoritative and relevant expired domain it can give you a serious head start.
But the trick is finding RELEVANT expired domains that have authority in the first place.
How To Find Expired Domains
Finding expired domains can be as hard or as easy as you want it to be.
I have used every tool under the sun over the years and for me the best tools by far are Domain Hunter Gatherer and Spamzilla.
They will help you to find expired domains and pull in key metrics for you.
What you do with an expired domain once you have found it is up to you.
This Section In Short
Expired domains that have great backlink profiles are worth their weight in gold!
Buying these domains and either building your websites on them or using them to create links is an intelligent strategy.
Learn more about expired domains and how to recycle them.
PRO TIPS: Selling expired domain names is a great way to make extra income. Learn how to sell a domain name.
14. Hijack News Events
One of the key elements of any effective link building campaign is creating great website content that stands out and commands attention.
Creating content that has a higher likelihood of going viral, however, isn’t easy.
Instead of wasting time trying to figure out what people may like, you can take what people are already talking about and use that as inspiration for your next piece of content.
This tactic is known as “newsjacking” because you are taking advantage of a popular topic from the news and using it to create and promote your own content.
A classic case of newsjacking is what Oreo did in the Superbowl 2013. After the energy shut down in the stadium, they tweeted the following:
This Oreo tweet got more than 15,880 retweets and 6,200 favourites in just a few hours.
They also got a lot of press (and the links that come with it), including mentions in The Huffington Post, Wired, and CNET.
You can use this same press to get links to your site.
Here’s how you do it:
Step #1 – Find Popular Topics
Research what people talk about with the help of Google Trends.
You can put your own ideas in the top search bar and see their popularity, or write down the list of topics that show up on the homepage.
The young royals, for example, represent a great idea for many articles, especially if you are in the design, beauty, and fashion industry.
Go broad with your list of ideas; later you will analyse them in more detail.
Step #2 – Brainstorm content ideas
With your initial list of popular topics, brainstorm a list of content articles. You want both to have some relationship with one another.
For example, if you have a blog that talks about leadership, you could write something related to Tim Cook’s leadership style-
- 5 Things Sales Managers Can Learn From Tim Cook
- How Tim Cook’s Leadership Style Will Accelerate Your Success
- The 3 Leadership Mistakes Tim Cook Made That You Must Avoid At All Costs
Step #3 – Define And Create The Content
With your list of content ideas, define one that suits you best, and start creating the content fast.
Time is your friend in here. The popularity of some topics lasts only a few weeks, if not days.
Make sure to have the article done no longer than a week after you found it.
Step #4 – Publish And Promote
Talking about a popular topic makes promotion easier, but it’s not a fool-proof way of creating viral content.
As it always happens with content, focus on the promotion. Don’t promote it on social media alone; use it as a way to get the attention of people both within and outside your industry.
Reach outside your industry. Using the previous example, you may want to reach blogs that talk about technology, business, Apple, and Uber.
This Section In Short
Newsworthy content always attract attention (and link opportunities).
It’s really easy to do and there are new opportunities every single week!
- To find newsjacking opportunities, get to know what people are searching for with Google Trends.
- You can go deeper with the help of the categories section.
- With the results, brainstorm potential ideas that tie your expertise with the news.
- Create the content fast, and aggressively promote it.
Remember, people like sharing content that’s new and unique; newsjacking can help you achieve just that.
15. Massage Influencers Ego’s
Dale Carnegie said once
Similarly, if you play on people’s ego, the chances of getting links from high-authority sites increase significantly.
First, you build relationships with people that manage high-traffic, high authority blogs/sites.
As you know, relationships are one of the key ways to get anything in life, including links.
If you get influencers interested in your article, they will feel invested. Once you publish it, they will feel “pushed” to share and link to it, even if you don’t tell them.
This is the basis of influencer marketing.
Creating ego bait list posts (ELP for short) has helped get 2000 views to a blog that wasn’t even getting 50 visits per month.
In the image above you can see the sessions went up 482%, while the pageviews increased 1382% and the users 624%.
If you want to get started with ego bait, follow these steps:
Step #1 – Pick Your Headline
As I recommend on the ego bait list article, start with the headline, which sums up the idea of the article.
You can use the following structure:
Number + (industry) blogs/experts + promise/keyword
Pick a list of influencers from your industry, and define the promise that your article will fulfil.
You can pick as little or as many as you want, depending on how much in-depth you want to go with each influencer.
For example you might want to ask what everyone’s favorite link building tools are.
That makes it easy for the influencers to know exactly what they are expected to write about. The audience will also appreciate a specific piece of advice they can use on their own.
Step #2 – Define the Question
Even though you have already specified the main promise of the article, you want to define the question you will ask the influencers.
Be specific and focus on one question only.
Influencers are busy people, that’s why you want them to answer your question with the greatest level of detail possible.
When defining the question, remember what people would want to read about.
Pick a unique angle for the question.
For example, if I were to do another SEO ego bait article like the one I showed you before, I’d focus on something like the best local SEO strategy or favourite 30 minutes SEO quick win.
It still focuses on SEO but has a new angle that brings a good answer to people’s problems.
Step #3 – The Experts
Create a list of all the experts you want to contact. You can brainstorm the experts or search on Google for other expert roundups in your niche & with similar target markets-v
Make sure to define experts that have sites with high domain authority & page authority as well as social following. This will make the sharing as well as the linking more powerful.
After you define the list of experts, find their contact information. Look in their personal websites, use LinkedIn, or simply ask them on Twitter.
Step #4 – Outreach
Finally, send the influencers an email with your question. If they don’t answer right away, wait a few days.
Follow up two times more, and if they don’t answer, ask a different influencer. Don’t be a pushy link builder.
You should get a response rate of around 10-25%, maybe more if you already have a relationship with some of the influencers or if you are one yourself.
This Section In Short
Creating egobait articles is simple.
The key to success is to structure your article for success and be organized with the pitching.
- Start by defining your headline.
- It must convey the value right away so people want to click on it.
- You can use the structure I recommend which is: Number + (industry) blogs/experts + promise/keyword
- Then, define the question (or questions) you want to ask to the influencers.
- Make sure to make it super concise and actionable.
- Then, define the experts you want to contact.
- Finally, contact the experts with the question you previously defined.
- Once you publish your content, make sure you contact the experts so they help you promote it.
Also, remember it’s all about the relationships; once an expert knows about your site, it will be easier for them to link to your site in the future (assuming they like your site).
BONUS EGO BAIT STRATEGY: Take a look at this awesome link building tutorial that you can use to ego bait people in a different way.
Wrapping It Up
I’ve shown you 15x link-building strategies you can implement in 2022 for maximum results.
And the best part is… you don’t need any technical SEO knowledge or SEO skills to get started! But remember, before starting link building, make sure you have built a solid SEO foundation using my 45+ steps SEO checklist.
Then, master each of them!
I recommend you get started with the competitor backlink analysis because it’s the easiest for most people to pull off, it has stood the test of time and has consistently delivered fantastic results for us-
Before long, your website will have gotten dozens of high-quality links that will drive lots of traffic to your site and boost your search engine optimization.
Otherwise, you can just:
- Hire my link building team
- Buy one of these link building packages
…To do the hard work for you and build a number of links pointing to your domain.
And before you go:
Please tell me-
Which 3x link building strategies are you going to be focusing on this year?
Frequently Asked Questions
What is link building?
Link building is the most important Google ranking factor. Each link to your website is essentially a vote for its credibility. The more votes you have, the better! But not all “votes” are equal for example a link from the New York Times is worth more than a link from me.
What are link building strategies?
There are lots of different link building strategies that you can use to try and build a number of links pointing to your website. I have listed 15 different link building strategies for you to try in the full tutorial above.
What is linking strategy?
A linking strategy refers to the plan SEOs create and implement to help them organise, monitor and optimise their links. With the right linking strategy, people see a boost in traffic, sales and an improvement in their rankings.
How do you run a link building strategy?
Before you can run a link building strategy, you need a plan. Decide which pages you want to increase search visibility for and then use a tool like Ahrefs to figure out how many links you’ll need to build. Then choose which link building strategies you are going to use or hire one of these link building services.
How do I build links from relevant websites – to my website?
Just follow any of the 15 link building strategies I have listed in my full tutorial. I would recommend you read through them all and then pick the 2 strategies that you feel most comfortable with to get started.
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Great article Matthew.i’ll try this strategies
Good luck, Angelica
Thanks for these incredible strategies for link building. In fact, I use a tool called Postifluence to guest post on the top-ranking sites. This tool also helps me to build dofollow links 24/7 and brings a huge traffic from those sites. Adding this will be beneficial to your blog.
Hi Jamie. I’m not familiar with this tool but I will definitely look into it. Thank you for the suggestion!
Good info and I look forward to implementing these ideas
Let me know how you get on with it!
Those are some powerful ways to instantly help people better rank their sites with some additional backlinks on higher PR sites.
Thank you for this.
I will try this method and I will keep you notified if I see some results.
Seo and link building are a must have knowledge for a successful website, thanks.
Couldn’t agree more!
Hi Matthew Woodward…
I have gone through your article…
15x Incredible Link Building Strategies For 2022.
It’s great.
What truly interest me in your article are:
– Sponsor Real World Event
– Show Your Presence On Social Media
– Get Listed In Links Roundups
– Create Data Driven Content
– Harness Internal Link Building
Though I haven’t try “Sponsor Real World Event” when it come to building links with that.
I was able to make some corrections on my social media after reading…, “Show Your Presence On Social Media”.
Appreciate your effort in placing a link for “Harness Internal Link Building”.
Thanks a lot
Glad you put into practice what you learned here- Keep it up, Paul!
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Thank you, Pooja!
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Great! Let us know how it goes ;)
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Happy to hear that you’re applying my advice! Keep it up :)
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No problem!
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No problem! Which link building strategies are you going to use?
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Glad it was helpful! Cheers, Nikita!
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No problem! Cheers, Mary!
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Glad it was helpful- Good luck, Richard!
It’s always good to think about what strategies you’ll use a few months or years into the future.
Here are my 2 ideas:
1) Be an expert in one specific field (medical, environmental, etc.). A site which is focused on a niche will always be able to build links easier than other types of sites.
2) Create multimedia content (video, audio podcasts). People love high quality content and with so many new ways to listen to music or watch videos, it becomes very easy to get people interested in your work if the quality is there. Photos can also attract traffic these days if they are interesting and/or thought provoking.
Thank you for sharing these tips with us, Ivan!
Hi Matthew.
Compliments on a superbly crafted article.You have certainly put a different spin on a facet of SEO that I have read countless articles on. I will definitely begin to implement and work on my three link building strategies.
Glad to hear that, Mark- Which strategies are you going to implement?
Good and informative article.
Thank you, Alex!
Thank you for sharing this information
Always happy to help! Which strategies are you going to use?
Thanks for this great article and for sharing valuable information.
No problem!
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Thank you!
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No worries!
Hey Matt,
Nice write-up. Love to read your link-building guides.
I love that you mentioned “Create Data-Driven Content”. Which is the hardest thing for me to promote now.
Yeah I have great data studies, but I really struggled in promoting them. I tried to press realize but it didn’t work.
How do you find and make a pitch for journos? Can you share your exact strategy please how you get links from data studies?
Hey Vlad, I usually promote my content via my social networks. People really love this kind of content so it usually gets attention, comments and shares. I also send an email including a link to the new “data-driven content” to all my subscribers to promote it. I don’t really contact journos to promote my content but if you want to do so, you should try HARO.
Hey Matthew,
Thanks for sharing this wonderful strategies it was very much helpful. I will try doing the roundup and gust blogging strategy.
The best is to pick only 3 strategies at the beginning and become a master of these 3 before trying more ;)
Hi Matthew
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Thanks, Raj!
Link building has evolved so much over time. It is no longer about simply getting backlinks. The quality of the backlink also plays a vital role.
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Hey! You can’t “find” them, you need to build them. And this is what this post is about. I showed you how to build high-quality links.
If you want to know what a good link is made of so you can recognise a good link from a bad link, then, read this: https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/seo/link-building/
Hope this helps!
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Sure thing. Thank you, Kaos!
Thanks for writing this article guide; link building is definitely a science that takes time to learn. look fwd to working through these strategies and seeing what works
Way to go, Tom! Good luck!
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No problem!
Hi Matthew,
Thank you for this information! It’s great to see a step-by-step guide for a range of options. I’d only really considered the competitor analysis before! I will be looking into Event Hosting and writing Testimonials in more detail as two other possible options of backlink building.
Thanks!
Way to go, Jonathan! Good luck!
Useful article thanks for sharing
No worries!
No-follow links make very little impact in link-building strategy.
“nofollow links are considered to carry little SEO benefit but still form an important base of links most genuine businesses should have. Healthy link profiles include both follow links and legitimate nofollow.” Just read the article :)
Some great tips here Matthew! Really top advice to help people take their SEO efforts to the next level!
Thank you, Declan! Glad it helps! Cheers
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Glad to hear that! Cheers :)
Building a link is a matter but quality is a must. As nowadays people only focus on the number of backlinks
Hey Nicholas! I totally agree with you. Because bad links can hurt very badly a website! So building high-quality links is the key!
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Correct!
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thanks to author
Glad it helped! Keep it up!
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Thanks :)
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Glad you found this article helpful!
I’m using the Link roundup technique in my case and it was a really very helpful and effective method for me.
Thanks, Matthew, I really love your contents and strategies.
Glad to hear that! Keep the hard work up!
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No worries! :)
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No worries!
You’re right. It might happen that no one answers our questions, but like you said, weeks later someone may.
Yep, exactly! :)
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Thank Seerat! Wish you good luck with your work :)
Hi there you mention about buying dead websites and touch on the price being like cheap new pages? You say more on that later but then don’t elaborate,? Carter to share here?
Cheers and very useful
Hi Jason! I am speaking about buying expired domains. If want more info about that, read this dedicated post- https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/seo/expired-domains/
Thanks for these awesome link building tips. I want to ask one question can you please write about scholarship link building is it effective or not?
To be honest, I have never done it so I am not the right person to write about it or give advice ;)
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Thanks for those kind words!
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Always happy to share tips with my readers ;)
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Thanks, Roy! Glad you found it helpful :)
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Glad to hear that! Wish you good luck, Cirilo, and let me know how it goes and if you have any questions!
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I’ve just decided to focus on this strategy and bookmarked the other tutorial about crowdfunding. Your content is so convincing to get started. It really make sense to spend $25 or near amount to get a backlink from high DR/DA website.
Thanks, Matt. Have a great weekend to you.
Thank you Mudassir for reading my posts, following my blog, and….sharing my content on social media! I really appreciated it.
Let me know if you need help with anything – Have a nice day!
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No problem – Always happy to help!
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>> “2. Support New Business Growth”
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Thank you Neve! I always do my best to keep it as simple as possible so most people can read and understand my work. :)
How can I boost website ranking without Backlinks
Have a look at this: https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/seo/google-ranking-factors/
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Hi Matthew,
Thanks for sharing this wonderful evergreen post!
Loved the strategies you shared. Indeed, guest posting is not working as it used to be, but at least it is still the way we spread our word out and get links back to our blogs. Even if they are no followed but yet have considerable weight.
Keep it up…
Thank you, Hussain!
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Thank you! Let me know if you try one of these strategies… would love to have some feedback!
This list of link building strategies is so extensive! I am glad that you said early on to just pick three to focus on because it does run the risk of making you overwhelmed into inaction otherwise. Great ideas here though. Now to pick which ones to go for!
Good luck Scarlet! Let me know how it goes for you!
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I always used to check your website for new updates.
I intend to follow some of these steps for my website.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
No worries! Always happy to help!
Hey Matthew,
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Have a great day!
Great news, Sanu! Let me know how it goes!
Good luck.
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I m also follow these techniques to grow links.
Great! Feel free to share you experience & feedback with us!
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No problem – Always happy to help!
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No problem, Aiden. Keep up the good work!
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Thank you for reading it. No problem, feel free to share it!
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Thanks for sharing this.
No worries Dipika. Good luck with your site.
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Thank you for reading!
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Glad to hear that! Keep up the good work, Manjeet!
Great Explanation on about link building….
Thank you! Have you tried one of this strategies yet?
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Thank you! Give it a try and let us know how it goes!
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Great news, Alina! Let us know how it goes for you.
Great information. Thanks for Sharing!
No problem!
Thanks for sharing great link building SEO tactics that really work. I implemented some on my web design services website and my traffic has doubled !!!
That’s great, Daniel! Thanks for letting me know! I love hearing feedback about my strategies.
Blog Commenting is very important to get the backlink. Thank you so much for sharing these with us.Thank you.
No problem! Always happy to share my experience with my readers.
Thanks for Sharing this impressive and Valuable Article. It has so much information in it. Thanks for providing such excellent information to us. The post will be helpful to everyone.
Thanks for reading it!
Let me know if these strategies have any positive impact on you website.
I’m always happy to hear some feedback!
Great info! Thanks for writing an article about 15x Incredible Link Building Strategies For 2020. I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have.
Hey Prince!
Thanks for leaving your first comment on my blog.
Hope it’s the first of many!
Wish you good luck!
Thanks for such a great post ,will surely try to implement the strategies.
Hey Sammer! Great news!
Let us know how it goes for you.
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Thank you!
Go for it!
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it is very interesting and well written. Thank you and good luck with the upcoming posts. I definitely love your suggestion and will give it a start.
Great news!
Keep up the hard work!
Thanks for all that valuable information!! I just want to say your article is very helpful, that’s very clear.Thank you.
Hey! Thanks for your feedback!
VERY INFORMATIVE POST THANK YOU
Thanks for reading!
Thanks for sharing with us, and keep posting, this blog is very helpful
Cheers!
Hi Matthew, Awesome article. Thank you for bringing all of these at one place. Will implement these strategies and definitely get back to you.
Great news! I’m looking forward to hearing about your results.
Hey, I just gone through whole article and I must say that it was worth reading. I’ve also ready these all 3 tips in many articles bit in depth and with example the way you presented loved it. Thanks for sharing and I would love to share it to my network.
Glad you enjoyed reading it!
Thanks for sharing the link building techniques. I will definitely use them.
Great news! Let us know how does it go!
Your work has always been a great source of inspiration for me. I refer your blog to many of my friends as well.
Thanks for reading and sharing around you, Agen!
I still wonder how much time you took to type these worthful words hats off Wood Sir Cheers :)
My hearty wishes and special thanks.
HAHA, the truth is I spend around 8-10 hours a day to produce all this content!
Sometimes more, it depends on how many projects I am working on…
Time & effort lead to great results, Sathik!
It has a very great piece of detailed that content and thanks for sharing this wonderful post. I just read the article, and I found it worth reading. Thanks for sharing such a wonderful contents and I would love to share it to my network
Thank you very much!
Fell free to share it & let’s hope it reaches someone who needs it!
very well explained woodward sir
thanks for sharing such an amazing information
Thank you for reading my work!
thank you for sharing this information
Hey buddy.
Greate content. I wish I had found this blog a year ago! I followed all the expert SEO tips from around the web but nothing helped. A couple of months ago I found this site and I am amazed by the outcome. With so many amazing tips on SEO, it’s a great place to learn SEO.
Thank you, Darshan! Keep the good work up and feel free to share with us your experience!
Thanks for the awesome blog. I am very impressed with your blog.
Thank you, Maria! Glad you enjoy reading my blog.
I really impressed with your article and I can also use your tips further in my web site. Or if you have any more ideas likes this type then please share it with me.
Thank you! I would share other ideas directly on my blog… Keep an eye open!
Some great info here. I learnt not to concentrate on link volume but link authority. Loads of rubbish backlinks can actually do you more harm than good lol. Now if your lucky enough to get top ranking backlink, you will be surprised of its value.
Great article, cheers.
You’re totally right! I am happy you found this article relevant.
It was a very good article. Liked it very much. Congratulations
Glad you liked it!
i have tried to analyse my competitor’s backlinks and many of the backlinks are from sites with low da and high spam score and should i work on those ?
It depends on the amount of effort required to win the link and on your current backlink profile. A natural-looking backlink profile has a range of referring sites with different levels of authority and it’s these website’s links that have put your competitors in the top spots so you certainly need to consider them. Although I would air on the side of caution if the spam score sucks.
This post is amazing and packed full of so many helpful tips to create backlinks. I am going to start implementing a few of these now. Thank you
Cheers Cheryl! Let me know which ones you find the best.
Yes, my site is first again.
Thanks.
very good and really helpful,
Thanks Akon
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See ya next time Arif
Siteground on last position? How.
Not sure where you have seen this but you can see how Siteground performed in my tests here and all the data behind the testing. – https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/blogging/fastest-wordpress-hosting/
Awesome information you have shared thanks for such valuable things about seo
No problem Ravina, there’s plenty more where that came from – https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/seo/
Great blog your tricks i also applied in our blogs and websites and its working & your strategies sort out my traffic problems.
Fantastic news John!
Great stuff, mate! Awesome tricks such as supporting new business which we never thought as a linkbuilding strategy. We’ll definitely try it!
Keep on the good job!
Thanks very much Xavi – let me know if you think there are any other ‘out of the box’ link building strategies.
Thank you for sharing this important information. I am a Fiverr seller. I want to learn how to increase my Fiverr gig rank. Please write an article on it. This information will be very helpful for all Fiverr sellers.
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I’ll follow all these link building strategies for my website. Thanks for sharing this.
Which are your top performers?
thanks for sharing about link building strategy. i really liked your content and tried it and its workings.
Glad to hear it!
This is what I am looking for. Awesome article Matthew, thank you
You’re welcome! Let me know which strategies you decided to use!
Great piece of detailed content and thanks for sharing this wonderful post. What are you take on Blog Commenting. Keep bringing the awesome content.
https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/seo/link-building/blog-commenting/
Hello,
Incredible Article,
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If you are interested in blog commenting then this will help – https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/seo/link-building/blog-commenting/
I am really overwhelmed with this article.I was making links using old school method due to which my DA is not increasing effectively but, when I followed your method, it worked & I’m so overwhelmed with the result. Thanks for sharing. Great work & great websites!! :)
Great news, really pleased I could help Richa! Which strategies did you use?
Thanks Matthew for the best SEO link building strategies list. I was already using 10 of them, but you gave me more SEO ideas to explore. Keep up the good work.
Glad I could throw something new into the mix Daniel!
Great content sir, as your instructions I am earning 500$ Every month. Sir, I create many backlink from your YouTube instructions.
Great news Aman – keep building and hopefully that figure will rise.
Hey, Matthew, I have some info I need to let you know. The pop-up form on your page that asks for email to get your intelligent SEO strategy doesn’t seem to work I have been submitting my email without receiving the confirmation message.
Did you check your spam folder?
Hi Matt,
Thanks for a very thorough and comprehensive post. I always thought that link building is a very tough task. But, learning from your article, actually, some of them are relatively easy to do and straight-forward. For example, leveraging testimonials is very practical.
Newsjacking and messaging influencers’ ego are also very make sense to me.
Thanks again for all the hard work you put together in this post .
Thanks Chris – yes there is certainly a smart way to do link building that gives you a much higher ROI
Great post of detailed content and thanks for sharing this wonderful post. What are you take on Blog Commenting. Keep bringing the awesome content.
https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/seo/link-building/blog-commenting/
all these days I haven’t done any link building for pictures. thanks for the cool tip appreciated. Could you please tell me what’s the maximum number allowed for internal and external links per page. does it need to be balanced?
I would suggest you take a look at your top ranking competitors and see what they are doing.
Really interesting. There are online courses available and we hard;y learn
Yep, most of what you need to learn if available online somewhere for free.
Thanks for backlink strategy,i use those strategy for make more backlinks.i like this tricks.
Happy link building!
Thank you so much for in detailed valued information.
Glad I could help Suraj
Hi
Thanks for this detailed explanation of getting backlinks. I never thought that crowdfunding can also be used to get back links. I will definitely try these strategies.Thanks for sharing and please keep sharing such informative articles. They prove to be very beneficial.
I certainly will do :)
What I like about your posts matthew is teh level of detail you give… Keep it up :D
Cheers! Glad you like my articles and there’s plenty more to come.
this is the amazing implement for me thanks a looot
Hope you find these strategies useful Aman.
its a bookmarking post as a new blogger i need high page rank sites for my blog to get backlinks.. which you made handy for use and very helpful post thanks… will peep into one by one link.
Good luck
A GREAT article that a lot of businesses and entrepreneurs need to implement, and not just read! You always have some of the best and most valuable content out there, and I know the smart marketers will use the content instead of just skimming it. Another great read for sure my friend, hope you’ve been doing well!!
Thanks very much Jon, I hope it proves helpful!
Wow! brilliant tips for the backlinks. Thanks for sharing such an amazing blog with us.It is very useful yet informative.
Thanks a lot.
Thanks for this information.
I’m gonna try this on my websites
Happy link building!
thanks for sharing great information about SEO.
No worries – happy link building
Hi,
Thanks for sharing this awesome post.
It’s really very nice article.
Cheers Hema
“Thanks for sharing such valuable information. It is very helpful for my business. I am making very good quality backlinks from this list. thanks
“
Glad to hear it Rav!
Great backlink Strategies…wow
Thank you so much for this informative artilce. I am trying your strategies. Its start to work. Thanks again.
Great news!
Hi, insightful ideas, very grateful i think am gonna go with guest posting.
Good luck Eric
Already picked my favorite 3 strategies mate. To be true, i was already doing the reverse engineer using the ahref, so i pick 3 other strategies. Thank you very much! I am so happy that i found your article on the right time!
Brilliant – let me know how they go!
Wow! that’s plenty of content. I am always looking for link building strategies and you’ve listed some unique ones such as the “Hijack the Latest News with Google Trends”.
Phenomenal content. Keep it up, Matthew.
Thanks Pavan
Surely im going to do lot of guest blogging gradually,been thinking of trying reddit and reverse engineering too along with building some Web 2.0 links
Best of luck Kumar
Hi, thanks for sharing helpful information. I will surely implement these all strategy in my website.
Just try a few strategies at a time and see which ones bring the most bang for your buck.
Very Good article sir hope you will publish like this thanks.
There’s plenty more where that came from Ayaz
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These are most effective link building strategies I have ever seen.
Get started right away Asif!
Thanks Matthew… I feel it’s quite usefu land I am going to try for few of my site.
Let me know which strategies work for you!
Hey There ,
Thanks for sharing such an amazing tip
Matthew, as a new blogger I will leverage all the tips that mentioned here. Tried a few and it is working for me . I know a thanks is not enough to compliment the efforts that you have put to create a massive guide like this . I am gteatful to read this .
Regards
Chayan
Hey Chayan! Feel free to drop me a testimonial :) https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/testimonials/
Thanks for such detailed post. Favorite part – “Do the one that is easiest and quickest to do first” :)
My favourite saying – keep it simple stupid.
Thanks for sharing an informative post about link building techniques.
No problem, hope you can add some new techniques to your toolkit!
This is the article I’ve been looking for. Thankyou. Heard you on Authority Hacker podcast the other week. Nice one.
Cheers Tamsin! Hope you got some useful things from the Podcast!
Very nice .thank you so much
You’re welcome- have you picked which strategies you are gonna try out?
Thanks . very Useful Information for me
Glad to hear it Rajesh!
Very Useful Pieces of information!
Glad to hear it
I totally appreciate that you have given this much time and effort to write this informative information share with us.
No worries Mia – just hope you found it useful :)
thanks for sharing this post I really appreciate this post
No worries :)
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keep up posting these types of posts.
Thanks for visiting my blog – hope it was useful
Very informational blog thanks for sharing
My pleasure Heena – hope you find these useful.
Thanks a lot. Really valuable content that can help us.
Good luck link building :)
Hi Mathew,
This is an awesome blog post that I will have to go over multiple times to let everything sink in. Here is a quick question about the Ahrefs tool. What do you think about the Lite version. I own one website that I act as the webmaster for where I am always writing new blog posts and editing older ones. My biggest problem is not enough high quality backlinks. I would like to create them myself since hiring an SEO person is expensive for a one man show. I use SEMRush right now but they are not as good for backlinks as Ahrefs. Is the Lite version a good idea or just stick to the Standard version. Thanks a million! Jack
I would probably start with the Lite version and just see how you go. If it’s not enough then you can consider upgrading. Ahrefs will provide you with the most accurate data if you want to work on building backlinks.
Here are a few things you should take a look at:
https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/seo/link-building/backlink-analysis/
https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/seo/tools/best-backlink-checker/
thanks for the explanation this is a very good strategy
Cheer Zilan – you decided which ones you are gonna start with?
Hi Matthew,
This post is quite long. I’ve got all the answers to my questions here. You did not miss any point.
I’ve bookmarked this post. I will be implementing it on my website. You’ve got one of the best link building guides on the internet.
All the 12x Link building strategies sounds pretty cool so I am confused which to choose 3x among them. Which strategies do you suggest for a beginner?
Thanks,
Jeangam Kahmei
You should do internal linking regardless and then I would probably focus on guest posting and reverse engineering.
Hello Matthew,
This indeed more than a definitive guide to link building. Oh my God, this article is enough to turn into a course and sell it.
You really gave out a lot here. Honestly, link building is still very important as far as SEO is concerned in 2017 and beyond. Anyone who still neglecting is only making a grave mistake because, without it, there’s certainly no SEO (Maybe that’s my own opinion).
I’ve read a lot of guides in the past about SEO, but this is the more comprehensive and I will start implementing the strategies right away as I’m currently trying to rank a new Amazon review site I started and I hope the strategies you share will work for me.
Thanks a bunch for sharing.
Thanks Hamza, I hope you find these strategies helpful in ranking your site!
Love your site, lots of great ideas. I am new to the blogging world and hope i can help inspire others just like you have.
Cheers! I hope so too :)
Impressive！Thanks for the post
No worries – hope you found it helpful!
The Link Building strategies you discussed above is really helpful for me. Now, I can easily build link easily for my post. thank you very much for sharing such nice information.
Nothing stopping you now haha
Thanks for those wonderful ideas .specially your Testimonial technique to create the strong backlink is really useful. I love this. and i am really excited to use this …Thank you again. !
No problem – hope you get some strong backlinks placed!
Hurrah! After all I got a website from where I be capable of actually
take valuable facts regarding my study and knowledge.
Awesome news!
Hi Matthew, Very informative article. we can also use case study, Case studies are always unique and bring new information. Make sure you have proven data.
Hey Sarah, yes case studies are a great way to show everything in action.
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Just wanna state that this is very beneficial, Thanks for taking your time to write
this.
Happy to help
Aw, this was an exceptionally nice post. Spending some time and actual effort to produce a great article?
but what can I say? I hesitate a whole lot and don’t seem to get anything done.
Make a plan and go for it!
Thank you so much, I definitely need this! I just got my blog to the point where I consider it ready for people to see–but I have no idea what to do next! There’s so much to learn about blogging and I appreciate how you’ve broken it down so there’s a roadmap to follow.
No problem, just be sure to complete a full site audit before you start link building.
Very informative information, Thanks for sharing
You’re welcome!
awesome article…really helpful information…thank you for this quality post
Great news!
Okay now that was useful and really unique, good work Matthew. Thanks a loads
Cheers Abigale! Do you have any more methods you consider worthwhile?
thank you man this blog was so long and useful for me.
Hope you got some good link building strategies to work with now Milad!
sir would we check backlink website is good or not
Yes… the higher authority the website has then the stronger the link.
Hi,
Great stuff buddy.
Great post, I have read this post here I got very useful information. This is a very useful article for online review readers. Keep it up such a nice posting like this. I started a Blog and Hopefully, it will be successful like you.
Thanks for the share.
Good luck with your blog Ranjeet.
Thanks for sharing your good knowledge.Really I like it.
No problem Amir!
Thank you for giving us the most useful information.
Glad I could help! Hope you use these strategies to develop a fantastic link building strategy!
Very Nice Post, I learned a lot through it. Thanks for posting.
No problem, which strategies are you going to try first?
great article you have posted
Thank you. Hope you have success trying out some new link building strategies.
Link build strategy is vital role play in SEO. It is very difficult to create link because it depend on third party and I think guest posting will be best way to create link.
It certainly is a good way to get links placed!
Hey,Thank you for sharing such an amazing and informative post. Really enjoyed reading it. :)
Awesome, hope these link building strategies prove fruitful :)
Nice Blog More Use full Detail In This Blog.
Glad I could help :)
Thank a lot this is very nice article. very helpful for me
Pleased to hear it… which strategies have you decided to use?
Awesome guide Matthew. I think you have some of the best link building guides anywhere online. You are a great teacher and from the looks of it, one hell of a link builder too.
Thanks for another awesome guide!
Thanks very much, I’ve spent a long time trying and testing link building strategies so I’m glad I can share that with others :)
So nice information thanks for this information sir
Hope it helps Hitesh!
Thanks for sharing your good knowledge.Really I like it.
Thanks, hope some of these strategies are the key to your link building success!
Indeed I found this article more informative, thanks for sharing this article.
Glad you found the article helpful :)
Hey!
I would like to appreciate your information. I found it very interesting and grateful thanks for sharing this with us.
Happy to Hasini!
Nice blog, thanks for sharing.
No worries!
Hi, Matthew, I thing Private blog Network is a black hat technique. What you say.
I would say putting labels on things is stupid.
Thanks for giving this information
Happy to!
Amazing tips man! Thank you so much man!
No worries! Hope they help your link building success!
Hi
The most clear explanation I have ever read! Must read! Thanks for the article!
Keep Sharing it….
Happy to hear it Mack!
Though Google is very popular ( which I used everyday, Googling is the term), I still use Wikipedia when it comes in searching for other topics. Wikiping would be the right term.
Good info
Hello Mathew, thank you for your valuable knowledge. Your posts are very valuable to increase my traffic and that of my clients. You always bring a point of freshness in this SEO.
Regards form Canary Islands, Spain.
Isma González.
That’s great to hear, thanks Isma!
Hi Matthew Woodward ,
As a SEO specialist i appreciate you to publish a very helpful article . Salute !
Thanks very much! You have anymore link building strategies I may have missed?
Great information Thanks for sharing
No worries! Which ones are you gonna try out?
Amazing post. Thanks
Hope it gives your link building a boost!
Hey Matt, this is an amazing guide, thank you for writing it.
I especially like the internal link building and broken link building techniques. If I can get half the results Nikolay Stoyanov got, I’m golden.
Thanks again. I’m going to share your guide on Twitter.
Cheers:)
Hey Nikola! Thanks very much and best of luck!
Thanks for sharing this article…
No problem. Which strategies are you going to try out?
Hi
Thanks for sharing this powerful information and it is really helpful for me.
No worries Caley, hope you found some useful strategies for your niche.
Thanks for your good information, I am sharing your blog..
Thanks for the share :)
It is a great blog link building strategies and it’s informative which helps to understand about the building links in websites & very useful to all.
Perfect! Glad you’ve found it useful!
Hi,
What a fantastic post! This is so chock full of useful information. I can’t wait to dig deep and start utilizing the resources you have given me.
Thanks very much! Hope to see you around the blog :)
Nice and helpful information..
Thanks very much! Hope you picked up some new strategies!
NICE POSTING THANKS FOR SHARING
No problem! Hope these strategies assist you!
Hello Matt,
This article is very helpful for link building work. Keep posting new new articles and keep helping us.
I certainly will :)
Thanks for sharing this information
No worries, hope you found some new link building strategies to try out.
Thanks for your good information
No probs Deva!