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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.

5 Link Building Strategies to Focus on in 2018

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:

Internal Links Link Building

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:

  1. They help users to navigate websites.
  2. Internal links spread link juice and help you to rank better in search engines.
  3. Adding internal links boosts page views and improves usability through call to action anchor text.
  4. 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:

  1. Can appear on the first page of local search results.
  2. Give you qualified leads and help to improve your rankings.
  3. Help you beat your local competition.
  4. Improve your visibility on major local search results.
  5. Increase traffic to your business.
  6. 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:

  1. “5 Link Building Strategies to Focus on in 2017”
  2. “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

  1. By doing guest blogs on high authority sites, you will get natural backlinks that will not hurt your website or blog.
  2. Guest blogging is one of the major sources of quality traffic and increased exposure.
  3. Building relationships is very important in digital marketing. Guest blogging helps you build strong relationships with your audience.
  4. Guest blogs on top sites, such as  SEMrush and Template Monster, help you capture a broader audience.
  5. Guest blogging helps you to discover better business opportunities.

Key Points to Consider When Guest Blogging

  1. Do not waste your time on websites with low domain authority (DA).
  2. 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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  2. this is very useful information to the bloggers and some i have pointed important things are
    1) internal links is helps to increase the traffic signals to sites
    2)easily can build the blogs comment after read your blog.
    3)guest blogs are very impact.

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  4. Out of the majority of the posts that I have read, I really like this one the most I run an internet marketing and self-help eLearning company and as the old saying goes you are never to old to learn and I really learned a lot from this post I will share your post on my social media. If anybody is interested in expanding their learning check us out: https://payhip.com/WorldBusinessTrainer

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  7. Outstanding article, well done! Thank you for so much link building information contained in a single post, I found this particularly helpful. Link building is really hard work if you want to get to the great backlinks. I have learned a lot from your post, keep up the good work and have a lovely weekend.
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  14. Hey Ashok,

    Thanks for this wonderful write-up.

    With regards to link building, I find that the best strategies are definitely guest posting and using the HARO technique.

    I have been struggling to build links and decided to skip the link-building process and write blogs instead.(that did not work so I am back to square one with link-building)

    Your post made me realize how important it is to link build and that there are so many ways to do external link building.

    Thanks!

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  18. Thanks for providing these tips by your side, these are excellent tips and very helpful for every body. I appreciate your efforts and hard work on this post. Excellent work.

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  20. Oh, Really Nice Piece of information and research provided on SEO back links. This is really high priced article for beginners also. Thank you so much for your efforts.

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  21. Hi Ashok,

    Thanks for your tips. I totally Agree link building is optimal way to increase traffic to your site. I have started with blog commenting strategy. Really like your tip, and we hope for more alos from oyu

    Thanks,
    tanu

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  26. Hello,
    This article is so helpful for all of us kindly bring and give us more backlinks to grow our website DR(domain rating) which helps us to grow organic traffic. Hope you bring it more information like this. We all are with you in your good and bad days we want a person like you who helps other people.

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  27. Hi Ashok,

    Thanks for your tips. This is very help full for all the person who want backlinking building .We always support you to make more information like this infuture.

    Thanks.

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  30. This article is amazing and informative. I work as a freelancer for link building and I like to read articles and blogs like yours as the help me improve and grow. looking forward for more content on this topic.

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  35. Thanks for your tips. 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 2020 Jacking strategy.

    Thank you

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  37. I believe building internal links is so much painful sometimes specially for bloggers like me who do not have enough time to do SEO and off page seo. I cannot agree more with everything you have mentioned, but there must be some shortcuts for connecting keywords within content through automatic linking. If you have any plugin in mind please let me know because I absolutely hate citation
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    • Hi Mahira,

      I believe there are plugins that do that because I see that on some sites many individual words are linked. Personally, I prefer to do it manually within content.

      Always add at least one internal link to every new post you publish. Using the CommentLuv plugin adds internal links in your comments.

      Other plugins can add internal links in other places. Consider one that suggests related content, for example.
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  39. This really works..!!! This link building technique is beneficial to grow organic traffic by increasing backlinks through keywords. Just not sure when it can increase the authority of the website.

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  44. 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

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  46. It’s a really good & helpfull article & these tips will surely help a person like me who is looking to learn more about link building.
    Thanks for sharing this.

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  47. This is really a amazing informational content. SEO is very wide field and I always searching for new techniques to improve my strategies. In this content I have learnt new methods. Thanks for sharing it.

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  48. Thanks for the informative article. Really needed this to kickstart SEO campaign for my brand new site. It is so interesting to note that there is much that I can do to build links to my site without getting into Google’s bad books. I think comment linking like this one is easier and fast.

    Thanks once more.
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  53. Hi Ashok,

    Thanks for your tips. I totally Agree link building is optimal way to increase traffic to your site. I have started with blog commenting strategy. Really like your tip

    Thanks,
    tanu

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  54. 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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  55. Link building is the best way til now . You describe these tips in a very simple way . I have a question – Is these link building tips will works in 2020?

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  56. Hi..
    I am Ruhi,
    I am confused about the link building but now it is a little bit clear for me. Thank you soo much for this informative blog about link building and I will be waiting for your next blog.

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  58. I am new with link building and really getting so much help from this post and your blog. It will be great if you can share tips for getting links indexed faster. many thanks.

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  61. This is how I always get inspired with the latest techniques explained by you with practical illustrations.

    This helps me to hone my skills and compel me to judge my efforts for being a seo expert in a real sense.
    Reading your content put me up for a surge of thought that how can things would get better than the best.

    Thanks for posting such a fabulous quality content which enhances my knowledge base and make me an avid reader of your blogs.

    I would like to read more insight from you! Also I am going to share this blog immediately. Awesome!

    Excellent site you have here. I’d really love to be a part of online community where I can get responses from other experienced individuals that share the same interest. Appreciate it!

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I truly appreciate your efforts and I am waiting for your further post thanks once again. Keep going.

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  62. 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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  63. After making my first niche site sale, I thought I was now an expert in affiliate marketing. Then comes link building which is making me feel like running mad. I appreciate this post. I have read so many of them but this one is an exception. I will implement the tricks and come back with feedback.

    Someone has been telling me to buy links which I know may not work. But after reading this, I am sure everything is going to work out. I will try guest posting and see how it work. Thanks a lot.
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  65. This is certainly a great article for me personally as I’m a newbie in this field. Anyway, Thanks so much for such a detailed article. it is really helpful.
    Thanks

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  67. thank you for your tips and these types of blogs are really helpful for the begineers in seo like me and your blog is really motivating for me to work.

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  69. your article on link building strategies is awesome, please guide us how to create backlinks on .gov and .edu websites. let us know if we can use any white hat wordpress plugin or tool for backlink creation.

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  74. Hello, Ashok Sharma
    Thank you for sharing this information I recently starting backlinks and these are really helpful.
    great strategies for backlinks.
    Thanks
    Rahul

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  76. Awesome content. As a blogger, it’s important to have a basic understanding of proper SEO for organic growth and to get your blog exposed to people online. Your tips are definitely something I’m going to start incorporating especially focusing on backlinks and guest blogging. Really enjoyed reading this article.

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  86. Thanks for this wonderful article. Believe me I have struggling to find this and your article solved my problem. Lots of wishes and tons of thank you. Looking for more article from you. Keep blogging. Thanks.

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  87. It is a reasonably good article, discussed tips will surely help a person to learn more about Link building. Thanks!

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  91. No doubt that links building offers you seo a fast boost in ranking however it ought to be done terribly rigorously attributable to google updates which may penalty your web site. Your analysis is de facto nice.

    Thanks for sharing this 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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  97. 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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  99. 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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  101. 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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  103. Excellent skills you have shared with us. These are really helpful. Thanks for sharing. I am having Conference and Events Manager management business. I will definitely use it.

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  106. 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!

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  107. 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.

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  110. 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

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  115. 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.

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  116. 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.

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  117. 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!

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  119. 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 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

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        • 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.

          For most businesses, that means they need to hire a professional writer and get at least one really exceptional piece of pillar content published on their site. And then promote it effectively using social media, online events, Twitter chats, into Facebook and LinkedIn groups, etc.

          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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  121. 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 🙂

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  122. Thanks, Ashok.
    Your link building strategies are awesome.
    Q? Should I focus on Quality or Quantity of backlinks?

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  123. 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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  124. 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.

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  125. 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…

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  126. 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

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  127. 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!

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  128. 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!

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  129. 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.

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  130. 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 …

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  132. 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.

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  136. 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.

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  138. 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.

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  139. 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.

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  146. 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.

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  147. Hey, Ashok.
    very Informative article!! It’s helped me a lot for Building backlinks. really a Search hacking tricks.
    Thanks for sharing with us.

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  148. 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.

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  150. 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.

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  151. 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

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  152. 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.

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  153. hello Sir,
    Good post for webmasters and seo professionals. I am sure these techniques will help them.
    i learn much via this
    keep posting♥

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  154. 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

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  155. 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.

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  156. Hi,
    Ashok Sharma
    Really great tactics you introduced in this article. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work.
    Cheers
    – Jatin

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  157. 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.

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  158. 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! 🙂

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    • 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.

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  159. 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…….😊😊

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  161. 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!

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    • Thank you for sharing the comment. Do let us know what are the results for your hacking strategy.

      While writing content make sure to write in-depth content and the post should be minimum of 1500 -2000 words.

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  164. 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

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  165. 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 ?
    Taskitoo’s mission is to provide a port in which employers and freelancers connect in the most convenient and least time consuming way possible.
    All experience are more than welcome! We `re waiting for you all!

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  166. 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.

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    • 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.

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  167. 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.

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    • 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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    • 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

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  171. 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!

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  176. 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.

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  177. Great tips Ashok, will definitely use all of these on my blog.

    Thanks for sharing.

    Keep it up 😉

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  179. 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.

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  180. 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.

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  182. 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.

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    • 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 🙂

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  183. 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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  184. 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.

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  187. 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.

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  188. 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 🙂

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    • 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.

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  189. 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.

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  190. 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.

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  191. Thanks for sharing this article, it’s really amazing and informative, helpful for people who are in search of it like me.

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  195. 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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  196. 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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  197. 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. 🙂

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  198. Very helpful article for beginners. I am a beginner too, so these all tips help me a lot-thanks for sharing.

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  199. 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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  200. 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!

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  201. 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

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  203. 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.

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  206. 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!

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      • 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!

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  207. 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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  208. 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

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  209. 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.

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  210. 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 !!

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  211. 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

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