Link Building Without Magic
You can also call this link building the aquarium way.
The search engines don’t like the link building tools. They want our website to look natural right? I have been searching and searching for some magic link building tool. But I never find any magic tools out there.
Let me present a really great way to get your backlinks from sites relevant to your keywords. You are going to use Google (or one of the other search engines) – so no magic.
It’s all manual work no link building tool.
Find the right websites for commenting
When we get backlinks to our website it’s important that you comment from the blogs that are relevant to your own site.
So this is how you will find them. Let’s pretend I have a blog about “aquarium”. So I will look for these blogs:
- “aquarium” site:.gov inurl:blog “post a comment”
- “aquarium” site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment”
- “aquarium” “This blog uses premium CommentLuv”
- “aquarium” “Notify me of follow-up comments?”
- “aquarium” “add to this list” site:squidoo.com
This way you are sure that you will comment on the blogs that are relevant to your main keywords. Awesome right?
Of course you will just replace aquarium with your main keyword.
Well we are not done yet – ready for more?
Find the right websites for Guest Blogging
We all know it’s great to do some guest blogging and get our links back this way. While most of the commenting links are nofollow – most of the guest blogging links are dofollow.
Therefor Guest Blogging will not only give you traffic – it will also give you some great SEO juice (read higher ranking).
And with higher ranking you will get more leads to your site right? And more leads will give you higher sale or more downloads (or whatever your goal is for your website).
Here is how you are going to find the websites relevant for your main keyword.
- “aquarium” guest writer
- “aquarium” guest blog post writer
- “aquarium” submit content
- “aquarium” submit article
- “aquarium” submit post
- “aquarium” submit blog post
- “aquarium” add article
- “aquarium” add blog post
- “aquarium” add content
- “aquarium” guest blogger wanted
So that was search operators for Guest Blogging.
Find the right Directory and Resource Listing
Try to get into some of the directories and resource listing that are relevant to your keyword. This a great way to keep good and steady traffic come to your site.
Maybe I can find a site listing favorite aquarium shops – and then get my aquarium shop on the list.
- “aquarium” directory
- “aquarium” * directory
- directory * “aquarium”
- intitle:directory “aquarium”
- inurl:directory “aquarium”
- “list of “aquarium” sites”
- “list * “aquarium” sites”
- “list * “aquarium” * sites”
- “recommended links” “aquarium”
- “recommended sites” aquarium”
- “favorite links” aquarium”
- “favorite sites” aquarium”
Well when I am done with the aquarium I will try to get SeoCustomer on some SEO lists. Well now we are almost done.
Find the right Forum for posting
When you write in forums you will write to people with the same interest as yours.
- “aquarium” forum
- “aquarium forum”
- intitle:”aquarium” forum
- inurl:”aquarium” forum
Wow I didn’t know there were so many websites, directories and forums about aquariums. hmm.
No more talk – now it’s time for you to test these advance search operators.
Good luck.
Henrik
Comments (90)
Thank you for following back.
I’d like to add that using Scrapebox greatly speeds up the process.
Hello Slave.. I dont know Scrapebox… but thx for your comment… best regards, Henrik
Very comprehensive, thank you. I find it can be quite difficult to locate relevant placements but this will help.
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I am going to work on “SEO” this weekend too… and not “aquarium” lol.. have a great weekend, Henrik
I like your so nice and fantastic post and Thankful for link building info. Builder Auckland
Hello Builder.. thx… have a great day
Henrik
Link building is one of the most conventional way of getting massive traffic for your website or online businesses. You can surely create huge traffic without magic like social bookmarking, blogging, article syndication, video marketing and using social media.
Very interesting, but this is NOT the only way for finding backlinks in my opinion. You can find also other ones using “ordinary” searches for your niche!
Hello Mr. SEO… yes…. you can also do normal searches… but its good to have different ideas .. I think… have a great evening, Henrik
Extra-cool!
This post opens minds!
Yes … I have been working with this too for my blog here…. best regards, Henrik
I visit sites where I can get the most out of it. It is not only important to make a site look natural but equally important for searchers and viewers to feel that they are getting the value for their research.
Otherwise if the link is not that useful, the site may not get another chance to be visited again. I also went to check on the “Scrapebox” and your right Slava, it could speed up the process.
This is awesome. I have been looking for a list like this for a long time. Thanks Henrik!
Hello Travis.. I am happy you like it… you are welcome to sign up for the newsletter too. I have 3 ebooks about SEO, SEM, social media traffic and link building.. and next week a new one will be publish….. best regards, Henrik
Rattling excellent information can be found on this web blog.
Thank you Henrik!
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Hello Bob.. thx for your comment… take care out there, Henrik
your thinking is really up to date and i really agree with your thinking with this matter.please write some more information in this matter.great article with useful information
Super list of how and where to get backlinks.I hadn’ thought of most of those ideas – but I’ll certainly be using them – thanks
keith
I have been using some of these tips to get backlinks for companies… it should be written in all SEO guides on page 1…. (well page 10 I guess lol)… have a great day Keith…. all the best to you, Henrik
One of the ways to build back links without a magic is through social bookmarking and link wheel. This kind of strategy are easily get indexed on search engines and can indeed improve your website rankings.
yes it is
Thx for your comment, Henrik
Hi…
Very nice written and informative article. I really enjoyed reading it and being a constant reader of your blog I recommend adding same quality of post in regular intervals.
Recently I saw many blogs having bunch of spam comments and I dont understand why these blogs does not stop those sploggers like you are doing.
Inbeetween your post is really hepful for me…
Regards
Sanyam
Hello Sanyam.. thx for your comment. When you have a blog its can be very hard to stop all spammers… Some of it are very cleaver made. So I have some filters on my blog here… and some of the comments I trash too… but it can be very difficult to see the difference between real comments and robot comments sometimes.. have a great day, Henrik.
Doesn’t that leave you open for NoFollow links? I know some search engines will still recognize nofollow but as far as Google SEO goes they really don’t help much.
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Hello Michael…. yes most of the time commenting are nofollows links but it still helps. Your link building has to look natural so if you only have follow links and no nofollow links Mr. Google (or is it a she?) will think it looks strange.. so its a question of natural linkbuilding. But you are right as far as Google SEO it is not so great.
But again our goal for a website is not to please Mr. Google (well hmm) it is to get traffic and both nofollow and dofollow brings traffic. And a website with higher traffic will also get a higher ranking. So indirectly it will still help. But if you ask me do I want dofollow or nofollow to my website .. of course I want dofollow
And you are right some of the other search engines dont care about dofollow and nofollow – its an old Google invention.
All the best to you, Henrik
PS … did you know that Google just had bday – 14 years old. Amazing …
great post, i am actually looking for that. Thansk to share
these tips are great tools to get traffic… and its free… Henrik
Great Examples are taken and it is helpful for the users always; I always use the tricks which i shared by the admin
yes.. and you get links from related website, thats important too… all the best to you, Henrik
Hi,
Nice topic you have, its really help many new internet marketer and new blogger to build massive and quality link building strategy. keep it up and share more.
Thank
Kamran
Hello Kamran… yeah I think this article really can help a lot of marketers and bloggers… thx for your comment, Henrik
Hey –
Certainly a good resource for using Google to find linking opportunities.
For those of us without the mental capacity to remember them all there’s also a couple of handy solutions.
Chasethefootprint.com is one that I use. Essentially you can enter what you’re looking for and it will submit the advanced query to google for you. Timesaver
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Hello Simon.. I didn’t knew chasethefootprin.com but it looks like its the same thing that it’s doing – but with the codes build-in. So that is absolute an idea too. Of course you can check in here at SeoCustomer.com if you can’t remember the codes lol…. Thx for your comment, Henrik
I had a friend tell me about this Henrick – he said they were called ‘footprints,’ is that right? I knew that you could do it for relevant blogs but didn’t even think to use it for directories and other SEO avenues. I know that relevancy is really important and it also appreciated by bloggers so this will become a powerful tool in my arsenal!
“I have been searching and searching for some magic link building tool.”
Rand Fiskin of SEOmoz recently did a “Whiteboard Friday” video on earning links rather than building links. His point is he same as Matt Cutts’–it’s quality content on your site which earns links; something Google prefers over link building.
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Hello Richason.. I agree with you content is king.. maybe it was only a prince some years ago – but today its king. Still if you comment on relevante blogs you will get some juice… so for me its important not to focus on one stategy only (like great content)… but to have multiple links strategies… I hope you like the content on Seocustomer.com… all the best to you, Henrik
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I will do that mangalashtak… thx for your comment, and have a great day out there, Henrik
Great informative post. I am happy to read it, but most of blogger did not write correct information!! Thank you
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Hello Peter – thx for your comment
and a happy new year to you. All the best to you and your family, Henrik
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Hi,
I know that relevance is really essential and it also valued by blog writers so this will become a highly effective device in my arsenal.
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Hello Moin.. I have used it now for some time… and I think its a great way to get the links. all the best to you, Henrik
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Foot prints can really make it a lot easier to find what you are looking for. Once you have the right foot prints you will def reduce your “wasted” time finding sites manually.
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Hello Trevor.. yeah… you are right about that…. it takes some times… but its worth spending … all the best to you, Henrik
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great info, i will test it
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My pleasure, Henrik
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Great post looking forward to it…
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Hello Ajay.. happy you like the article.. I use the content too, Henrik
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a good idea, thanks for sharing
Hello may suoi… thx – happy you like it. Happy new year, Henrik
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I already have CommentLuv Premium, so it would be pointless for me to enter this contest, but I’m glad to see so many bloggers are giving this plugin away! Does Andy offer it to you or are all of these bloggers buying it to distribute?
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Hello Agung… thx for your comment – but this article is not a contest. It’s an article about link building
all the best to you, Henrik
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useful info. and good to try and implement. thank you
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Hello hitam.. thank you for your comment
all the best to you, Henrik
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Content is king. Also optimize your content seo friendly that search engine can easily find your article. I think lower than 300 words article is not good. Internal linking is also a important matter.
Yes content is king… but maybe linkbuilding is queen? All the best, Henrik
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Thanks for the awesome advice. I have been going back and forth on whether or not I was going to get it or not. After reading your post I think I am going to pull the trigger with the next little bit if income I have come my way. Thanks a lot!
Hello, I use theses tricks too to find relevant websites for my blog here. All the best to you, Henrik
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Thank you sir for this awesome Post. I got more than 10 guest post blog with this trick. Thank you.
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Hello Techbymak – my pleasure. Have a great day out there, Henrik
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great post, i am actually looking for that. Thansk to share
My pleasure
Henrik
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Hi
I have been trying to do this by keeping everything as relative to what I am doing as possible but you soon find that it is a tally quite a long process which is hard to fit in. I am now managing to get a list of relevant p,aces to put my links and hopefully this will have googles approval. I saw in your first comment someone mentioning scrape box I have read about that and they say that is the fastest way now to get your site de indexed. May just be normal rumours but thought I would just add that .
Thanks lee
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Hello Lee… remember to come back and give me a comment about scrape box…. I am not familiar with that one.. all the best to you, Henrik
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Hi there. You make my way of blog commenting so easy. Thanks for sharing this. I mostly use dropmylink.com website to find blog commenting sites. thanks for sharing it.
Thank you Kathy… have a great day out there, Henrik
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Hello anandmaratha… I am glad you can use some of the tips and tricks from here. All the best to you, Henrik
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I am new in blogging line, i Liked the way you present your aticles. I read your blogs regularly. Your posts related to link build up and blogging are excellent.
Can you tell me some way to build quality links quickly?
I have subcribed to your comments and love to know your views..plz share
Hello Vipin… if you what quality links, there are no quick ways
but check out some of the post in the link building category.. you might find some tips and tricks .. all the best to you and good luck with the link building, Henrik
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Thanks for the great tips… was looking for these for a while
Thx glad you can use them, Henrik
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Thanks, for sharing this informative post with us .
My pleasure Orjiakor, all the best to you, Henrik
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this is great thanks for sharing …
My pleasure, Henrik
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Nice way to find other sites. Sometimes I find these searches do not give a full search and you are forced to still look more then few pages on google. I suppose that is where programs come in handy?
Hello Mike… yes its a help to find the right blogs and website… but you still need to do some hard work…
all the best to you, Henrik
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thank you Henrik for the great tips.. a must for sure for SEO
Yeah… backlinks are still very important for SEO … take care out there, Henrik
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Hello Henrik,
Backlinks makes website visible in search engine, backlinks needs be high quality that should be from high pagerank sites with good quality contents.
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You are right Kim. all the best to you, Henrik
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Hi Henrik
In a way I am glad that link building strategies have got back to the more you are prepared to put in the more you hopefully be rewarded. Should put people on an more even playing field.
Great post lee
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Thank you for providing great tutorial on how to build manual and natural links, they were really too helpful to me.
The search terms/operators you have suggested are really too good to find sites, blogs in the niche.
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I was researching about getting backlink for my own blog and for a company I was working for, so I putted it all together in this article.. And I am happy if can use som e of the info. Take care out there Mary, Henrik
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Personally – I didn’t understand the article completely, especially on what was meant by “aquarium way”. I guess I am too young for this but I have some experiences in making links though not really for business purposes.
Hello Keith… no its just me playing with words. A lot of SEO is trying to tell people that they can buy 500 backlinks from them or something like that. My headline was a way to tell people that there is no easy way getting backlink. The aquarium way is because I used a fish pictures and aquarium in the examples in the text … all the best to you, Henrik
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A very comprehensive list of link building strategy we have here. I like that way you associate the fish with the link building strategies. Cute and interesting to read. Keep up your good work.
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I have an aquarium here in my living room… hihi… all the best to you cindy, take care, Henrik
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