Free Link Building Methods

I get several emails a month from readers asking how they can increase their income levels and site SERPs by using free link building methods prior to applying the extreme leverage that link building services offer.

I understand this concern, I truly do… It’s safe to assume that using link building services is one of the steps towards total outsourcing of your site promotions, but first things first, right?

If you’re not a risk-taker or are just spending-averse, then you want your sites to rank well and be profitable by spending “only” time on site promotion and link building (but not money, not yet anyways).

Here are some free link building methods that may help you

Article marketing - manual link building that provides direct traffic that should be targeted and convert at a reasonable rate.  Here’s something I wrote on How to get more backlinks from article marketing

Using Web 2.0 properties - Squidoo, HubPages, Article Directories are some of the more powerful and widely accepted places from which to get backlinks and direct traffic. To understand how you can utilize Web 2.0 properties for direct traffic and link building, you can read this post on Using HubPages for Link building

Blog commenting - Google Caffeine Algorithm has allegedly devalued links obtained from backlinks and while I haven’t done a lot of testingto prove or disprove this, it seems to be the widely held belief nowadays.  A simple and effective way to do blog commenting for direct traffic and backlinks generation is to find higher-ranking blog posts that are related to your most recent content pieces and leave valued-added comments on those posts .

Here are some link building tips that discuss blog commenting, social bookmarking and some other free methods for generating backlinks

Guest blogging - This is a great way to get extremely targeted direct traffic and high quality backlinks from relevant sites amidst content.  You can read the series of posts I wrote on guest blogging to find out more about how to do this properly.

NOTE: There’s a lot of ways to get free backlinks but Web 2.0 properties, social bookmarking, blog commenting, guest blogging,and article marketing are the more effective ones that bear discussion.  Using these methods will bring you the direct traffic needed to increase your sales at a pace commensurate with increased rankings.  As your sites income and rankings increase, you can then afford the “luxury” of investing in and leveraging link building services