Link building is critical if you want to organically improve your website’s rankings. We could spend time guessing what could be “the next big thing” in link building strategies.
Instead, I am going to show you the top five link building strategies that are currently effective and should work even better in 2018.
Check out the top strategies below and leave your comments in the comment section. The five killer link-building strategies are:
- Internal Links
- Citations and Brand Mentions
- 2018 Jacking
- Blog Commenting
- Guest Blogging
So let’s get started.
Internal Links
Internal links are the most powerful link-building tactic you should use. Well-known websites are already using this strategy. For example, Wikipedia has strong internal links, and Wikipedia pages are in top positions for most generic terms.
What Are Internal Links and Why Are They Important?
Internal links take you from one page to another page within a website:
Image source: Advanced Web Ranking
In the above image, Link #1 is an internal link, i.e., a link from one page to another page within the website. Link #2 is an external link, which is a link to a page on a different domain. Link #2 takes you to Unsplash’s site to give credit for the image.
There are four reasons why internal links are important for your website:
- They help users to navigate websites.
- Internal links spread link juice and help you to rank better in search engines.
- Adding internal links boosts page views and improves usability through call to action anchor text.
- Smart internal linking helps search engine bots to easily crawl and index the deeper pages of the website.
Citations and Brand Mentions
We all know that building local citations is an essential building block in order to rank higher in the search results. Moreover, we all know how time-consuming it can be to create citations manually.
A local citation is the combination of the three terms nicknamed “NAP”: name, address, and phone number.
Benefits of Local Citations
There are a number of benefits to local business citations when it comes to local SEO rankings. Local listings:
- Can appear on the first page of local search results.
- Give you qualified leads and help to improve your rankings.
- Help you beat your local competition.
- Improve your visibility on major local search results.
- Increase traffic to your business.
- With local citations, you can easily attract new customers.
To find local citations sources, you can head over to this comprehensive list of 160+ Business Listing Sites with High Domain Authority (DA)
You can also find city-specific and keyword-specific citation sources by using the following commands.
City-Specific Citations:
- (city) business listings
- (city) business directory
- (city) directory
Keyword-Specific citations:
- (keyword) business listings
- (keyword) business directory
- (keyword) directory
Brand Mentions
Brand mentions are the future of link building. Brand mentions are when someone refers your product or services to others via his/her blog or website.
Google has made it clear, being mentioned by others is the only way to do SEO properly.
Head over to a nicely written post on How to Increase Your Rankings by Building Brand Mentions by Neil Patel.
2018 Jacking
Users always prefer to check the latest and most updated post. So add the current year or add some call to action terms to your content titles. By doing so, you can maximize your chances of hitting the first page results in search engines.
Suppose we have two posts with the following titles:
- “5 Link Building Strategies to Focus on in 2017”
- “5 Link Building Strategies to Focus on in 2018”
It is obvious that users will give preference to the post with the most recent date in the title. Also, use the following phrases (call to action terms) in your post titles. Do not forget to add “2018.”
- Top
- Discover
- Free
- Get
- Try
- Greatest
- Fastest
- Newest
- Oldest
- Most Expensive
- Easiest
- Unbelievable
- Best
Blog Commenting
There are many ways to build links. Building links from blog comments is one of the easiest ways, but it is also very time-consuming.
To find quality blogs, you can use the following advanced Google operators:
- “add new comment” + “your keyword here”
- “leave a comment” + “your keyword here”
- “leave a reply” + “your keyword here”
- “post a comment” + “your keyword here”
- “your keyword here” + “leave a comment”
- “your keyword here” + “comment here”
- “your keyword here” + “add comment”
- “powered by WordPress” + “your keyword here”
- “your keyword here” + “you may use these HTML tags and attributes”
- “your keyword here” + “post a comment”
- “notify me of follow-up comments ”
- “your keyword here” + “notify me of new posts”
- “comments on this entry”
- “sign in to comment on this entry”
- “log in or register to post comments”
- “you must be registered and logged in to leave comments”
- “this blog uses premium CommentLuv”
Head over to this post if you want to know more about how to do the blog comments in the right way: 11 Powerful Link Building Techniques to Gain the Most Engagement
Blog comment links are very effective, and some of the blog commenting benefits are:
- Some blogs have a high domain authority (DA) score, and a high DA benefits your search engine ranking.
- Even if a blog backlink is nofollow, the search engines will still find and index your website. More importantly, consistently commenting will improve visibility, establish credibility, and build your relationships with bloggers.
Guest Blogging
Guest blogging is one of the most powerful ways of driving quality traffic, building brand recognition, and getting exposure for your site.
I frequently pitch guest blogs on top sites such as SEMrush, Advanced Web Ranking, DZone, Template Monster, Upwork, SiteProNews and YourStory. In fact, I get custom author profiles and backlinks to my site from all these sites.
The 5 Real Benefits of Guest Blogging
- By doing guest blogs on high authority sites, you will get natural backlinks that will not hurt your website or blog.
- Guest blogging is one of the major sources of quality traffic and increased exposure.
- Building relationships is very important in digital marketing. Guest blogging helps you build strong relationships with your audience.
- Guest blogs on top sites, such as SEMrush and Template Monster, help you capture a broader audience.
- Guest blogging helps you to discover better business opportunities.
Key Points to Consider When Guest Blogging
- Do not waste your time on websites with low domain authority (DA).
- Always consider websites that have a high social follower/following ratio.
Check out this List of 180 websites that accept guest posts.
Link Building Strategies: Conclusion
Link building is crucial to any SEO campaign. Thankfully, we can still rely on a few link-building techniques that will work in 2018.
I hope you will implement all of these link building strategies in the right way so that you will move ahead of your competitors.
What’s your experience with these strategies? How have they helped your SEO? Share your views in the comments section.
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Ashok Sharma
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I haven’t had someone mention me but this brand mentioning thing, I think I have to up my game. It’s good to learn that it helps in SEO. Thanks a lot.
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Is really Blog Commenting useful or is it like playing Russian roulette?
The best strategy for me so far to get useful backlinks is creating unique landing pages with a unique mix of written text, photographs, illustrations, infographic, and videos, always do keyword research every time you create new content… this is long term the way to go, internal linking is also a really important aspect that you have to master, you will be impressed how fast good articles get backlinks from websites and social media sites, guest posting is also good IF you are writing on a high authority website.
cheers
Arnold
Awesome article. Blog commenting is one of the best way to build links and the list which is in this article of baklinks was also great. It is very helpful for me for creating baklinks.
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Thanks for sharing this.
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Thanks once more.
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Great Work!
Link building is one of the best way to rank our website on particular keyword,but only with quality backlinks
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Thanks,
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Your article is good & I agree with your mention points. Blog Comments and Guest posting always give a good result.
It’s not only useful for links, but It also helps you to make a connection in the market. Both strategies come with a vast number of opportunities.
Also, it useful to read about Citations and Brand Mentions, I didn’t know much about that, but it seems quite helpful. Thanks for sharing.
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Hi..
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Hello,
To get links indexed faster, link to the page you want indexed from a page on a site that is crawled regularly and quickly. The crawler will follow from the page it crawls to the new site or page on another site.
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Thanks for posting this article. I found it very helpful. I’ve found blog commenting as very powerful and effective way to build backlinks to my websites. They are a great way to build 2nd and 3rd tier backlinks Guest posting can be much more time consuming that blog commenting, but it is such an effective way to build backlinks that Google really likes.
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Thanks
Is guest blogging a good idea to create backlinks. I have heard that it could attract penalty by Google.
Hi Arijit,
Google penalizes sites at their whim. Anything you do to build links could result in a penalty, but not doing anything means no one will find your site. Catch 22 where only Google wins.
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Thanks
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Link Building is important – as much as the on-page seo. Link building should be done for rankings.
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Great info Ashok!
I wish you had mentioned Drop My Link in your article.
I love using this tool to find websites for backlinks.
Thanks for this wonderful article!
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Hi Rajesh,
If people use tools like that, they need to not do it as a spammer. I wish he hadn’t named it Drop My Link because that is what a lot of people will use it for and that is a very bad idea. Spamming just gets you a bad reputation and may or may not be good for SEO in the long-term.
Finding sites to write excellent content for or to leave insightful comments or participate in discussions is a good idea. Link dropping is not.
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what about for a local level strategy? create intern job pages in multiple cites in United states and then linking that pages to the local product page in the same location. easy way to generate the local trafic with the intern page and then passing it to right product or service regarding to that page. In this way you would be able to kill two birds with one stone with this strategy.
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Hi ashok,
Thanks for your greateful tips for providing an information on link building. I am a beginner in this so can pls post more blogs on backlink that will be helpful for the society.
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I notice your name becoming quite familiar with SEO searches Ashok. So allow me to congratulate you, well done. And as always another great post. Internal linking is crucial which is why I use an SEO plugin to suggest the best links. I still have to get into the Guest Posting side of back-link building. I do find commenting quite rewarding though with regard to visitors. But then it also requires quality content to inspire curiosity.
For comment back-link building my current favorites are Drop My Link and Put My Link. And I do prefer the CommentLuv enabled blogs. Also an excellent plugin for WordPress. I will be checking out your guest blogging suggestions, thanks for sharing. Have a lovely weekend.
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Nice article. This has helped me a lot to build backlinks on my website.
Hi Richa,
Please make your comments here less generic or they are likely to be deleted.
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Thanks for sharing valuable information with us. These Link Building Strategies will surely help to rank much faster on Google. Hope you will come with more valuable information in Future.
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I strongly believe on citation and guest blogging in your list..it’s really nice to read..
thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Great article, Blog commenting is one of the best way to build links. thanks for sharing this article.
Great post ashok! Link building is the back bone of our search engine visibility and your post give us the ideas how to build links. Good Job!
Dear Ashok,
This is the second article of you I just read, you are too good on this fact. Thanks again and keep going. Waiting for the next information in 2019.
Great Post!!! Very helpful tips for link building. Thank you so much for this awesome blog.
Great post on link building ! With Google is getting better and better with the algorithm Link building has become tougher with the time.
Among these are some of my favorite techniques, as m already using them in my campaign. These techniques really helped me in my cases as I’m a beginner. Thanks for sharing and I’ll surely share this informative post with my friends too
Hey Ashok,
Will these tips work for any kind of website?
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Amazing write-up! I really loved it. waiting for the next update of SEO.
Hi Ashok Sharma,
Thanks for this awesome strategy.
Worked for me.
Bookmarked your site for more content in future.
Hey Ashok Sharma,
Great tips, as everyone wants to first position on SERP, but not following the correct method for that, as I am working on a project of SEO these tips will help me, thanks for sharing.
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I must admit that internal link is effeminately an superb strategy. I always used to go further to get more information to the underline words. Moreover, Get on the one article put the reader away from your blog or writing. I notice the blog of manufacturing and supping providing so many internal inking to their blogs to engage their reader and also give them a great impact on reader because of their vast source of information.
Without doing link building it’s quite difficult to rank in search engine. I really liked the blog. I will start applying these techniques in my SEO. Thanks for this article.
Great Post! Link building is an important part of SEO. In order to achieve great amount of traffic and high domain authority, you need to build high-quality backlinks for your website. Thanks for sharing this guide. I really loved reading it!
These are some amazing strategies that you have mentioned here. I shall be following your rules and tips while making some links for my site.
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Thanks for sharing these link building strategies! I really appreciate it. Does having many backlinks help your site to gain traffic and maximize metrics? I really need to know what is its importance. I’ve been doing link building for 4 months already and I don’t find satisfying results doing it. Thanks.
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Hi Donnelly,
If you have relevant backlinks from authority sites that can help your content rank for specific keywords, but only if the content is written around a particular keyword phrase. You need to first do keyword research (how-to use the free keyword research tool Ubersuggest here).
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Hi Gail Gardner,
I already know how to do keyword research and I’m using KWFinder to get the keywords for those that hit the sweet spot of high search volume and low competition. It seems that it’s really hard to get relevant backlinks from authority sites because most of them require payment. Guest blogging also is not that effective as it was. Can you provide more in-depth strategies to get high-quality backlinks? It seems that I’m just wasting link building nowadays. You can visit my site: CRM Singapore
Hi Donnelly,
What people still don’t seem to understand is that if you want to attract high quality backlinks, you have to publish exceptional content. Sites don’t end up with backlinks because they want them – they end up with what is called “earned” media for a reason – because they EARNED them.
You earn backlinks by creating content so excellent that people will organically link to it. That means long-form, thought-leadership pieces, case studies, and including current statistics. The #1 reason for a writer to link to your site is as attribution for current statistics or excellent information not available elsewhere.
There is a reason that tools like SEMrush and people like Neil Patel suggest content lengths of 2400-2500 words. That is what it takes to outrank the best content that currently exists for the keyword phrase you’re hoping to rank.
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It won’t rank no matter how good it is to begin with so you have to get it in front of writers on major sites. You do that using social media, or advertising, or by reaching out to specific writers and building relationships with them.
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Very valuable and informative guide. All the link building tips and tricks you mentioned are very helpful to target the audience. Keep carry on dear 🙂
Hi Ashok
Very informative and valuable article. All the link building strategies you mentioned in the article are very much helpful for any blog or website promotion. Keep up the good work 🙂
Thanks, Ashok.
Your link building strategies are awesome.
Q? Should I focus on Quality or Quantity of backlinks?
Hi Vijay,
Hopefully, Ashok will also weigh in. In my opinion you should first focus on RELEVANCY and then QUALITY. Quantity, if necessary, must still be relevant and quality.
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Hii Ashok,
As everyone Knows,Baclinks are the most vital factor to rank any website.And the strategies you have given in this article is phenomenal.Your post has also taught me How to write a good deep valuable post.Thanks man for that!
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Hey!
Thanks so much for sharing this excellent article. This is amazing.
I believe link building will experience some important changes soon, but it will still remain as an important part of SEO.
The strategies shared for link building was awesome .internal link building strategy was very successful in my website..the content share was very productive..thanks for sharing the info…
Hi Ashok
Thanks for sharing wonderful content, I read this topic this is very impressive, yes link building backbone of Seo. please share this kind of content in the future, this is very helpful for me, and increase my SEO skills
Hey Ashok Sir!
What an epic blog post on Link Building Strategies!
You definitely keep your word. I see you are going with the Link Building type of blog post style. I follow all of these tips – to get more engagement on my blog posts. It all starts with the quality of your content and the promotion of it.
You could have the most amazing blog post, But if barely anyone is reading it, what is the point of having on your blog?. You have to promote the heck out of your blog post. High-quality content alone will not do the trick.
One of my best methods to promote my latest blog post and also get more engagement would be blog commenting. I do it a lot and I do it on blogs within my niche that are getting a good amount of traffic. It is key to make sure the blog where you are leaving comments gets good targeted traffic. Thank you so much for sharing such a informative article!
Hi,
Great article!! Link-building is must in DM & there are various ways to do it but after going through your post, I got the point that stick to relevant niche is very important to get ranking on search engine. Thanks for sharing!
Hi, Ashok
Thanks for sharing this wonderful information with us.
we should always keep the target audience in mind when creating an infographic. Ensure that it is relevant and simple. And Charts and graphs are a good way to impress the viewers.
Great work…
Link building is the one of the top three rankings parameters. Link building helps increase the traffic and rankings.
Thanks for sharing your great thoughts …
Thanks For sharing the post. I agree with the content but some of the google search operator doesnt give the accurate result. Rest of the article is good
Hi Ashok, Thanks for sharing valuable Information. Blog Commenting and guest posting have given no follow links Is it good to implement these strategies. Can you explain what is jacking? I want to learn new link building strategies.
These are definitely the best methods!
Thank you so much for such informative content!
Keep up the good work!
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Hi Ashok,
Thanks for sharing such a powerful knowledge with us. I completely agree with you that link building is a major factor which we have to think about.
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Is it ok if you keep using Wikipedia links or should you diversify where your links are coming from? I’m trying to grow my personal training business but finding it difficult because my competitors are using some off the book tactics.
Hi Scott,
You mean getting links from Wikipedia? That is one strategy, but you need links from diverse sources. If you have Skype, you could add me and I can offer suggestions. My username on Skype (and everywhere) is growmap. That is the fastest.
If you don’t use Skype, you could message me on LinkedIn or Facebook. But I don’t leave those open, so I won’t generally answer right away.
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Sorry I meant internal reference links to Wikipedia, not external.
Thank you for sharing awesome SEO tips with us. I really found the 2018 jacking point very useful. I will apply the same for some of my websites and keep you updated on the result.
I use DropMyLink to find sources for comment backlinks and forum backlinks.
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great post though I would like to add some thoughts on it. you can also do web 2.0’s such as blog.wordpress.com, tumbler, wix and other web 2.0’s. it can gives you very good results in short time.
Hello Ashok,
This is one more excellent post written by you. Good job!
Since I’ve read this article near the end of 2018, I can confirm that these techniques paid off. Although we haven’t really paid that much attention to citations and brand mentions, but it’s never too late. Other techniques from this list brought us more traffic, quality backlinks, and above all good relations. What more could one ask for, right?
We wrote a similar article on the Easiest Link Building Techniques. Would you mind to check it out? You and the GrowMap readers may find it helpful.
Best regards.
Hi Ashok,
I was wondering, is this still relevant for today? Or have things changed? What I´m curious about is how this will carry out. Like what will the trend be for this kind of stuff.
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Hi,
nice article. well said, link building is must to make your presence on websites. it improves ranking of the website. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Ashok,
High-Quality Backlinks are the most powerful factor for Ranking.
and your tips for Backlinks building is amazing.
thanks for sharing tips with us.
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Hi Ashok Sharma,
Very informative article on Link building. It helps me a lot to improve my skill in SEO and the strategies. Thanks for such a great article for sharing.
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Hi Ashok,
You write very helpful guide for the beginners in blogging. The strategies are good and easy.
Without link building, your SEO strategy is doomed. I know for a fact that building high-quality links, both internal and external will boost your SEO efforts.
Thanks for sharing this insightful post , Ashok.
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For new bloggers, it is a challenging task for SEO. You have shared some nice tips especially the blogging area. I have bookmarked this article to visit again and again to remember the methods for blog commenting.
Hey, Ashok.
very Informative article!! It’s helped me a lot for Building backlinks. really a Search hacking tricks.
Thanks for sharing with us.
Hi Ashok, I have a gamut of experience in Tech Support, BPO, Recently joined the eCommerce industry and learning SEO . Found your article very informational and helpful. Hope I will be able to get more assistance from you in future. Thank You.
Very nice link buidling strategies you share .thank you for sharing and also keep wtritng greate articles
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Hello Ashok,
Guest Posting and Blog commenting mentioned by you are effective techniques to improve the authority of the site. Additionally, link earning techniques are getting the huge popularity in 2018. They are link roundups, link bait, Broken link building, link reclamation and many more.
Hi Ashok,
Thanks for Sharing Post, It’s obvious I like to use daily in my habit of Blog Commenting and Guest Posting. and both of Great Technique to generate more traffic instantly. I bookmarked you we post . will use my future preference
Thank you so much for sharing this valuable post! I have question about blog commenting, those comment that are waiting for approval can still get link juice from a site? I want to try that strategy for my other sites, currently I’m using properpbn.com for my business sites. I just want to get more traffic for my sites.
Hi Nicholas,
No, comments that haven’t been approved would not have link juice – not that it matters since comments are almost always nofollow which means that theoretically, they never have any link juice.
Please note that using PBNs is considered black hat and likely to get a site penalized.
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hello Sir,
Good post for webmasters and seo professionals. I am sure these techniques will help them.
i learn much via this
keep posting♥
these are the best strategies to build links of our blog posts very nice method to increase traffic on our blogs indeed keep it up i really appreciate it…. thanks
Excellent article.
Blog commenting really brings quality traffic to your website. Some professionals just ignores the importance and role of blog commenting while performing seo for their websites. I really liked going through your article.
Thanks for sharing this list and these tips. They are very helpful.
Hi,
Ashok Sharma
Really great tactics you introduced in this article. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work.
Cheers
– Jatin
Hey Jatin, Glad you liked the post. Thanks for sharing comments.
Hi, you forget one another strategy for backlinking.
Joining forums website is one of the easiest and fastest ways to get high-quality dofollow backlinks . There are plenty of forums on the internet that give dofollow backlinks that will surprisingly boost your site. But these forums have some rules you have to obey their rules.
Hi Nadeem, Yes forums are good but try to use them for building relationship not just for building link by adding the signatures.
Hi Ashok,
Great tips, it is well known that guest blogging is one of the most important parts of digital marketing strategy, but I would like to add that relevance plays a major role here as well. You shouldn’t write for the sites that are completely irrelevant to your niche as that can reduce the value of your link.
Once again, awesome post, thanks for sharing it! 🙂
Thank you so much Selena for your kind words. 🙂 you are absolutely right relevance plays important role in guest blog pitches. Before doing any guest blog check niche, DA, PA, Popularity etc.
Thx Ashok….for you great information that how to link building and what is internal link,how to do guest blogging or what us benefits of guest
posting….thank you for this great article…….😊😊
Thank you Abid, Glad you find the post useful.
Hello Ashok Ji.
Good post for webmasters and seo professionals. I am sure these techniques will help them.
Thank you, Glad you find the post useful. 🙂
Thank you very much for sharing! Definitely insightful and helpful for the company that I am currently working for and for them to improve their rankings.
I am going head to straight over to “11 Powerful Link Building Techniques to Gain the Most Engagement in 2018” and read more about your tips on using link building for engagement, because that is what we are working on the most right now.
Thank you again and have a great day!
Thank you Tyler , Glad you find the post useful. 🙂 Do Share your experience
This is a great help to my website Ashok. I will definitely implement all of these link building strategies specially the jacking strategy.
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Thank you for sharing the comment. Do let us know what are the results for your hacking strategy.
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Hi Ashok,
Thanks for sharing wonderful content, yes link building is a very important factor for ranking. I will follow your tips to create backlinks.
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Thank you Tayyab, Glad you find the post useful.
unique and informative article regarding link building strategies.
Many people know that backlinks are hearts of SEO or search ranking for your keyword.
you explained it clearly
thanks for sharing
Thank you Nadeem, Glad you loved the post. You can also head over to this post:
https://www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/11-powerful-link-building-techniques-to-gain-engagement
Thanks for the tips . I totally agree that link building is the best way to increase traffic for a website.
We just launched our freelancing company online . I believe this is the best way to lead traffic on our website.
Do you mind if we post this article on our blog ?
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Hello,
You would get more benefit from writing original content than republishing content you cannot outrank.
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Thank you for sharing your views, Glad you loved the post 🙂. You can post this article to social media sites
You can also head over to this post if you are looking for some more techniques: https://www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/11-powerful-link-building-techniques-to-gain-engagement
Well, I found out that Guest Post is the best of them all. I have ranked few keywords in days with 5-10 guest posts.
No need to do tons of comment backlinks or forum postings, I don’t even know if they work now.
Guest post is good to gain quality traffic but the quality commenting and niche forums are also good to increase the quality links and both are god way to build relationships with your audience.
Thank you for your great information. Apparently, am focusing on Internal Links which is one of the most powerful SEO tools for getting high rankings in Google.
Mostly am. focussing on link building.
DR. Loden Thanks for sharing your views, internal links are my favorite one, we can take Wikipedia as example for internal links
One of the good post regarding link building strategies. Actually, have any benefit in creating social profile links for SEO purposes. we have published an article about google drive space.
Hi Vimal,
It continues to amaze me that SEOs are not smart enough to stop reporting everything they do directly to Google using gmail, other email that is routed through Google, Google Drive Space, Google Suite – ANYTHING Google.
That is simply not a good thing to be doing. Google consistently decides what used to be ok is now “black hat”. By giving them detailed information about what you, your client, and sites are doing, you are setting them all up to be penalized or even deindexed in the future.
Their rep has already stated that he believes that links in guest posts should all be nofollowed. Other reps have said they need to be nofollowed if they’re “for link building” but not if they aren’t. Who gets to decide that? They do!
So even if you guest blog to increase your visibility and audience reach, they could decide that isn’t why you did it. See this post on SearchEngineLand Google: Guest Blogging For Links? You Better Nofollow Those Links.
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Thanks, admin for sharing this new link building strategy. I hope all will be benefited obviously me also and can be learn more from your article.
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Thank you Rezowan, Glad you loved the post 🙂. You can also head over to this post if you are looking for some more techniques:
https://www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/11-powerful-link-building-techniques-to-gain-engagement
Thanks was looking for link more building strategies for our websites. Is directory link building still useful or not?
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Hi Jimmy, Thanks for sharing your views. In my personal views avoid low quality directory links, there are other many ways to create link. Just focus on them. Good luck
Wow thanks for coming up with great points about link building strategies.I really appreciate your contents.It was worth reading it.Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Bibek, Glad you liked the post 🙂. You can also head over to this post: https://www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/11-powerful-link-building-techniques-to-gain-engagement
I was looking for this post. Link building is very important for SEO purpose. Without link building, it is very difficult to rank a keyword. These techniques help us to make backlinks in an effective way
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Thanks for sharing your views Sumit 🙂
Thanks was looking for link more building strategies for our websites. Is directory link building still useful or not?
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While Google scared many people off of directories, the quality directories that moderate who can list are still valuable for SEO while the low-quality should be avoided.
Read Are Business Directories Still Viable? Get the REAL Scoop Here for what happened back then and which directories are still considered valuable.
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in my personal view, avoid low quality directories, there are plenty of other options to try.
Hi Ashok, reading your 1st article posted here and I must say that it is well explained and easy to understand. Keep in touch with us through your articles.
Looking forward to read your next article. Thank you.
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Thank you Yatindra, Glad you loved the post 🙂.
Hi Ashok,
Thankyou for your help and tips about link building. I am very new to all of this and found it both helpful and insightful!
Thanks Jackie! I’m glad to hear that you liked the content 🙂
Excellent Information on link building and more.Great strategies on improving rank on major search engines. I will definitely use Your Advice for my website.
Thanks so much.
Thank you Ash, Glad you like the post. 🙂 Share your results with us.
Great tips Ashok, will definitely use all of these on my blog.
Thanks for sharing.
Keep it up 😉
Thank you Virendar, Glad you like the post. Thanks for sharing your views. 🙂
Great info about link building. One of the easiest SEO strategies. Will really help me a lot thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much Erika, Glad you find the post useful and i appreciate your kind words. 🙂
Hello Ashok,
Thanks for sharing this article. Its really impressive and good.
Ans the information of content is also amazing. Keep sharing your ideas with us.
You’re welcome Aparna, Glad you like the post. Thanks for sharing your views. 🙂
Awesome post!
This was a great insight on link building I look forward to using some these methods on my blog.
I will be back to read more content.
Steven, Thanks for sharing your views. Glad you find the post useful. Good luck 🙂
Thanks for sharing awesome content regarding Link building because link building plays a crucial rank to rank high in google.
Thank you for you comment. Yes, Link Building is must if you want to improve your rankings.Have a great Day Sapana🙂
Hey Ashok,
One of the greatest article. I totally agree with your mentions, you are absolutely right, Blog Comments and Guest posting is always give good result , It’s not only effective for links but It also helps you to make connection in the market. Both the strategies comes with an extensive number of opportunities.
Also it good to read about Citations and Brand Mentions, I didn’t know much about that, but it seems quite effective.
Thanks for sharing.
Regards
Maria.
Maria, Thanks for sharing your views. Blog Comments and Guest posting both are important, but always focus on quality sites and both should be done in natural way. Also Citations are good for local businesses. Good luck 🙂
Thanks for writing such a good article on backlinks . It is not only bendy in backlinks . People always try direct method but most of time these trick don’t works. Your tips are helpful for the person to make good backlinks. Thanks for your help for link builders
Thanks
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You’re welcome Rakesh, Glad you like the post. Thanks for sharing your views. 🙂
Hi Ashok sir,
This Article will definetely help me for my clients and myself.
I just checked your Website today for Blog for SEO, and it has a huge knowledge together here. I have start following you on social channels you mentioned at the bottom.
Keep posting and I support you.
Thanks for such a great article.
Thanks Pav Singh! I’m glad to hear that you found the post useful 🙂
I do comment for homepage backlinks.
This piece is useful and worth reading, especially “2018 Jacking” part is nicely mention.
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Emanuel, Thanks for your comment and kind words 🙂 Glad you liked the post.
Hi, Very good article. Thanks for sharing such as beautiful information with us. I hope you will share some more info about Link Building Strategy.
Keep sharing the good work.
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Hi Ashok,
Thank you for these linkbuilding strategies for 2018! I will be making more blogpost highlighting the 2018 Jacking and the commenting strategy in my SEO campaign moving forward.
Tanya, Thank for sharing your views. while creating content on blogs, It’s more important to focus on quality rather than quantity. Good luck 🙂
Love your article. Link building seems to become only more important for SEO. But indeed, it can be very time consuming. I have to reserve more time for it 🙂
Thanks Jessie! I’m glad to hear that you liked the content 🙂 You are right link building is time consuming and important, always make sure about the quality of site by checking the DA of the website, and we should not create too many links in short span of time.
I am trying to make backlinks for my website since last since months from different directories and after submitting to 2000 directories only 10-20 directories have approved in this long journey. can someone tell tell the exact strategy of link approval on free directories.
Rakesh, I personally do not recommend in investing too much time on the directories submission. Work on link earning techniques by generating some in-dept content.
Awesome tips. Blog commenting is one of the best way to build links. Your query list is awesome. You can also use crawlertag.com to find relevant blogs.
Thanks! I’m glad that you enjoyed it. Will check the mentioned site as well.
Thanks for sharing this article, it’s really amazing and informative, helpful for people who are in search of it like me.
Divya, glad you liked the post. 🙂 Good luck!
Hi Ashok,
Really like your link building tips.
Link Building can be boring ass H#ll but when doing it the right way the rewards will be great 🙂
Cheers man
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Thanks Michel! Link building can be boring but its the one of key thing to improve website’s rankings organically. 🙂
Lots of excellent advice for link building here, will recommend your article to some friends as they are struggling!
Keep up the good work!
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WOW… I love this post. Love the way you write your posts. The information in this article is really unique and useful for me. After reading this article, I think I have some ideas for myself.
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Thanks for posting this article. I found it very helpful. I’ve found blog commenting as very powerful and effective way to build backlinks to my websites. They are a great way to build 2nd and 3rd tier backlinks Guest posting can be much more time consuming that blog commenting, but it is such an effective way to build backlinks that Google really likes.
Anna, Glad you liked the post and yes we can say blog commenting is very effective if done in right manner.
For last few days, I was searching for blog commenting tactics but I didn’t get the satisfactory answer, but after reading your blog I get the answer and the tactics of blog commenting. So thanks for such helpful article.
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Ellina, Glad you like the post. Thanks for sharing your views.
Good to know these strategies still work effectively this year. I agree with blog commenting – time consuming but effective and a great way to engage with fellow bloggers. Internal links and brand mentions are very good ways to increase traffic and page ranking. Definitely working on them. Thanks for the suggestions Ashok!
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Yes, These strategies still works, blog commenting is most effective if done in right way.
Thanks for reading the post Ashley and I really appreciate your comments. 🙂
Very helpful article for beginners. I am a beginner too, so these all tips help me a lot-thanks for sharing.
Thanks Zoid, Glad you like the post. 🙂
Thank you Ashok, since I have now been given the task of training some of our staff, as well as select clients on this stuff, I really appreciate the simple laid out information. I will refer to this frequently I am sure.
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Hi dear, I am doing SEO for 1 year and have quite good knowledge of link building strategies. But you for revision your article was the best. Thanks dear for the article. Keep going!
Glad you like the post. Thanks for sharing your views.
Just what the SEO doctor ordered for me! Thanks for breaking down the priorities in 2018. Your points about internal link building proved the most helpful to me. Now I am reviewing my pages and adding internal links to spread the link juice around and help my readers with more related content, which will increase my time on site and ultimately Google’s view of my site quality translated to better rankings. Thank You
Marsha, Glad you like the post. Thanks for sharing your views.
i will use all of this ways to be in first page of google thank you for these tips
Glad you like the post.
Thanks for sharing with all these wonderful link building techniques especially this coming 2018. Keep up the great work always! Planning to share this with the team so we can brainstorm to new strategies.
Thanks Tristan, Glad you like the post.
Hi,
I appreciate these tips on link building because these are all helpful and beneficial for all SEO people who want to rank up their websites on Google. Thank you so much for sharing. 🙂
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Thanks for the post it easily helped me to understand the important parts.
I hope you keep posting.
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Glad you like the post.
I admit, Internal Links is definitely an effective strategy. It is always tempting to visit that underlined word to gain more information. However, putting too much of it in one article can also drive readers away.
My team from a BPO Philippines company called http://onehalf.com.au/ will definitely try those other strategies. Thank you for sharing, this has been a great help!
Cheers!
Yes, Internal link building is must for incredible results and Thanks for reading the post and I really appreciate your comments.
I noticed you also read Neil Patel’s blogs. I visit his site from time to time to keep up with the latest marketing and SEO strategies. He’s been a great help.
Jacking is a smart and easy way too. I can see that it works 2 ways; assist with the SEO and also helps you recycle those old blogs for when you get writer’s block. lol
Cheers!
Yes Neil’s blogs are good to read, and personally i loved his way of explaining the things. Jacking is one of my favorite and i always works.
Thanks for sharing your tips. I personally believe that commenting on blogs is one of the easiest ways of building backlinks. Somewhere you know you are reading what other bloggers have to say and share what you think about their ideas and tips. I am not an SEO though, the posts with tips pretty much help me understand the basics. At least there is something i can do myself without hiring someone by reading articles and following their tricks.cheers
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Thanks for reading the post and I really appreciate your comment. 🙂
thanks that you mentioned link building. there are millions of people who avoid this and focus on other strategies. do follow links, linkbuilding and basically backlinks are still keys and important. thanks
Thanks for reading the post. Glad you loved the post.
Hi Ashok,
Thanks for sharing valuable tips and tricks. I believe link building is the most crucial factor when it comes to ranking in search engine. Without this, I don’t think you can get high rankings. All methods you’ve mentioned above are essential to gain top page rankings.
Glad you loved the post.
It’s a really good article and these tips will surely help a person like me who is looking to learn more about link building as much as possible. Thanks !!
Thanks for reading and I really appreciate the support!
Hi Ashok,
Thanks for your tips. Agree link building is optimal way to increase traffic to your site. I have started with blog commenting strategy. Really like your tip for finding quality blogs and 2018 Jacking strategy.
Thanks,
Disa
Thank you, appreciate your feedback:)