How to find the perfect link

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This is a way that i use to get a perfect link to my site. Wrote this as part of te 30 day article challenge

Finding the perfect Link

It's common knowledge how much google has changed in the recent years, and getting a slice of the SEO pie is getting harder and harder for a lot of people, especially those that are inapt when it comes to evolving with search engine optimization. When reading some of the busiest SEO forums on the internet, it really is amazing how many times people ask why they are not seeing SEO results when they keep using tactics that worked BP (before panda). You can tell who evolves and who fall behind. As much as the gurus (some self proclaimed some not) try to advise them, it seems it all falls on deaf ears. So i'm writing this, to hopefully give some sound advice on linkbuilding in the modern age.

No, link building isn't dead. Its a lot different, and maybe a little bit harder than it was. I like to look at it as the same as it was though. You need less links but need to spend more time finding those quality opportunities, so the same amount of time is required in my opinion, if you know where to look. I'm going to share with you my 2 rules that i put in place before i make a link.

Is it more than just relevant?
Just because the site you are getting the link from is a site in the same industry, is it really relevant? I know 70 percent of people would take a link to their mobile phone site from a site about laptops if they saw a decent page rank, but why waste your time, its not that good anyway, compared to others you can find.

Is it useful?
Is it useful, or is it there for your benefit only, or is it providing readers for those who see it? I always judge this by asking myself " am i going to get and traffic directly from that link?" if people click on the link after seeing it to visit your site and read its content, you have a good link. If you check your analytics account and start seeing some traffic every single day from a link, you can rest assured its doing a load of good and will help you out for a very long time. This method was good a long time ago and it still is now. I found this out when i built my first site when i was 13 or so. I knew nothing about SEO, literally never heard of it.

I was playing an RPG at the time and was fascinated with the idea of setting up a website so found a sitebuilder (similar to what weebly and webs are) and wrote about 30 different tutorials for this game and posted them. I checked the analytics every single day when i got home from school and saw no visitors and was wondering why. I wanted peoples eyes on my site, not for money but just satisfy my curiosity. I decided to go to forums and other sites and started telling people what my site was about and if they could check it out and give me some feedback and ideas for other tutorials they wanted to see. I repeated this about 7 or 8 times before i got bored of creating accounts. Needless to say it worked because i then started averaging about 10 hits a day, which i was over the moon about. Looking back i would say half of those links were deleted for blatant self promotion, but maybe some of the webmasters gave me the bnefit of the doubt, as i had honest intentions, the site had no ads on it, and the site had all the stuff i said it had. Plus some of the forums i checked back on had a few pages of positive messages and suggestions. Thats the kind of link i look for nowadays. Provide real value for people who are actually going to want to see it. Not by blatant promotion on just forums, i know that now, but there are a lot of ways to get your backlinks in front of the eyes of people who are looking for what your site has.


Where to find Link Opportunities!

Guest posting!
Guest blogging is an amazing way to get a backlink, and you can grab some overnight fame by doing it too! When you find someone who is in a specific niche like you, build up a relationship with them, comment on some of their posts and build up a rapport over email! Once you have established a friendship, you should start writing a really, really nice article that is going to attract links, and send your new found buddy an email! Say something along the lines of "hey man i just wrote a really cool piece of content and thought you might like to use it for your website, as a guest post?

You get a cool piece of content i get a link, win win right?" if he says alright, grab yourself an anchor text link if he/she allows it and add an about the author bit at the bottom or top, with a link to your homepage. Now if you did a really good job on the article you should have a nice link there, as his followers and traffic should share that article/post, and link to it possibly in there blogs. And they they will build link to their own blogs of course so you just got a one hundred percent natural link pyramid with good links for free Obviously it doesn't always work that way, but if you do your due dilligence before handing over a guest post, it should always work out well.

Now there are tonnes more ways to build links, but this is by far my favourite way. Nothing is automated, you are providing quality links to people that need them or want to see them.
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  • Profile picture of the author seonutshell
    Originally Posted by Austinlanger View Post

    Large number of guest blogging also can prove harmful for site and anchor text is one of the important part in that.
    where did i mention that quantity was better than quality?
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