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Top 100+ Link Building Resources

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

 

Ready to immerse yourself into the world of link building? Here are over 100 links to the best resources on link building training, blogs, tools, and more.

Link Building Education

Free training guides, webinars, and presentations on link building.

  • Link Building Training – A comprehensive training guide to link building including affiliate program links, deep linking, link quality evaluation, free link sources, link analysis and more.
  • Link Building on Slideshare – Presentations and webinars on link building.
  • SEO Webinars – Free SEO webinars including Link Building Strategies for 2010.
  • Whiteboard Fridays – Custom search of all SEOMoz Whiteboard Friday presentations focusing on link building.

Audio / Video Podcasts

Audio and video podcasts on link building featuring experts in the industry.

  • Search Cowboys – Link building Q&A with Christopher Cemper and Google document indexing.
  • SEO 101 – Directory link building with Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal and using social media to improve search engine rankings and help with SEO training.
  • SEO Rockstars – Roundtable with SEO experts on link building topics (spamming, black hat, white hat), link inheritance attributes, and more.
  • SEM Synergy – Link building strategies with Eric Ward, link building best practices, and more.
  • Search for Solutions – Internet marketing scams with paid search links.
  • Ofice Hours – Paid links are evil and overlooked on site issues.
  • Webcology – Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz discussing his Professional Guide to Link Building and link building with Debra Mastaler, author of Link Spiel blog.
  • SEO 101 – Building ranking for sites, link building 101 parts 1 and 2, link building and exchange schemes, nofollow, and more.
  • Run Marketing – Link building for small business.
  • iGary – Link building with search marketer Gary Reid.
  • Bella Web Design – Link building with Desiree C. Scalses of Bella Web Design.
  • Think Around Corners – A link building strategy to gain organic link popularity.
  • Internet Marketing Street Smarts – Sam Niccolls of SEOMoz discusses business strategies of multi-million dollar companies including the best way for a complete beginner to start link building, how personalised search will change rankings, and the number one way to get a site ranked organically quickly in highly competitive markets.

Link Building Blogroll

The following are blogs with link building categories, including the full RSS feeds and link building category feeds when available.

Good to Know

Articles and resources for specific link building elements and strategies.

Popular Link Building Stories

Social bookmarking sites with link building tags and categories.

Link Building on Twitter

Link building discussion and experts on Twitter.

SEO Forums

Discuss link building on the following SEO and website related forums.

Groups

Active groups on link building.

Free Tools

Tools, applications, and browser plugins to aid in backlink research.

  • SEO Book Tools – Free link analysis and keyword research tools brought to you by SEO expert Aaron Wall.
  • Link Diagnosis – This tool can show you all the important information about your competitor’s links. The report includes PageRank, anchor texts, no-follow information and more.
  • Bad Neighborhood – This tool will scan the links on your website, and on the pages that your website is linking to, and flag possible problem areas.
  • SEOMoz Tools – Over twenty SEO free and premium tools designed to help with every aspect of search engine optimization, including on-page targeting, site crawlability, competitive analysis, rank checking and keyword difficulty.
  • Yahoo Site Explorer – Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search.
  • Google Adwords Keyword Tool – Use this tool by Google to get new keyword ideas.
  • SEO Quake – Seoquake allows user to obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters of the internet project under study on the fly.

Search Operators

Advanced search operators for popular search engines to aid in backlink research.

Additional Resources

If you have additional resources for link building, please share them in the comments to help turn this into the best link building resource available.

Kristi Hines

Kristi Hines is a Web Strategist and author of the Vertical Measure’s Guide Blogging for Business.

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DoFollow Tuesday Update

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Believe it or not we have covered almost 20 Vertical Markets in our DoFollow Tuesday features.  Everything from Real Estate to Jewelry to Law Firms.   Our team spent the last couple days looking at the popularity of various articles and posts we have added over the past year or so, and discovered that most of the interaction occurs on our general topics.  This is not a big surprise as our vertical market posts only reach a niche audience — as they are supposed to. 

However, we decided to return to our old format of general topics for a broader audience letting you apply the tips and techniques to your own specific markets.  Don’t worry, we do plan to offer solid link building advice for vertical markets once in a while, but it will no longer be on an "every Tuesday" basis.

Stay tuned as we get ready to roll out a whole series of informative posts covering ever thing from social media for link building, Google smackdowns, link building strategies and more   You will even see some guest posts from industry experts such as Dave Wallace, Chris Lang and Brian Offenberger.

One final note: we are link builders, we generally share the link love, but we are going to be a little more strict on the comment approvals in the future.  Only valuable comments will be approved from this day forward.   See this write up for some great blog commenting guidelines.

[tags] link building advice, link building tips, dave wallace, chris lang, brian offenberger [/tags]

 

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10 Good Links You Can Get in the Next 50 Minutes

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Link Building in 10 MinutesWe’re always talking about keeping links fresh and how important it is to keep up with your link building efforts. It’s great to talk about, but it can be daunting after months of trying to generate new and different links that will register well with the search engines. This week we thought we’d give you ten quick ways to add some links so that you can take a breather from the strenuous stuff and still feel good about adding real link value to your site. Each one should not take more than 5 minutes, a total of 50 minutes!
 
3 Internal Links: Go to your site right now and find three places where you can link your own content to content on another relevant page. This internal linking is often overlooked and is actually a great way to keep people digging deeper within your site. Look for a good keyword phrase on your homepage and link it to an inner page with more information so that readers will stay longer and explore further.
 
3 Free Directories with Value: In the past we’ve warned against indiscriminate use of directories, but there are some free directories that continue to show some value. Here are three that are consistent performers and that have all been seen in Google backlinks. So click on them and add your site right now.

2 places to Go Local: http://local.yahoo.com and http://register.local.com/free/update.aspx are both local searches that are ideal linking opportunities for small businesses. You get great links and you can draw some added local traffic from the many people who routinely use local searches to find local businesses. Yahoo Local includes customer reviews, maps and blogs as well.   Local.com is a more straightforward listing, but does include business descriptions and you can search by zip code or city.

1 Link Site you should join is LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com. This professional networking website provides you with great access to thousands of other business professionals who are members of the network and allows you to connect with others through affiliations with companies, schools and universities you may have in common with other members. You can give and receive recommendations, discover business opportunities and create multiple links as a member.  It’s free to sign-up and takes only minutes to get through the set up process. Look for me at my LinkedIn profile.

3 Blog Comment Right Here. Yep, all you have to do is add two comments to our site and your third comment (and every one after that), will get a “do follow” link right back to your site. Maybe you can even suggest a couple other places to get a decent link in 5 minutes or less!

For some more great ways to quickly add links to your site, check out the link building tips at WIEP.

[tags] internal links, free directories, local links, link building, linkedin, blog comments, link building tips [/tags]

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