Building links to your website is a successful endeavor, but it’ll take a lot of work on your side. As links are considered one to be increasingly valuable, bloggers will no longer give you links just out of courtesy. As such, you need to build relationships with these people in your targeted niches.
Employ any combination of the below tips to build links to your website:
• Ask. This may sound overly simple but providing a “Link to Us” page on your site with a few buttons and text descriptions can garner new links to your site. At the end of every post or page, encourage visitors to add a link to your site. Not only does it never hurt to ask, sometimes it gets you exactly what you want!
• Build a rapport and relationship with others in your niche. Sometimes a “guru” or online authority will link to your site, just because they know you.
• Make a list. Composing content, such as “101 tips,” “101 ways to…,” “5 myths about…,” and so on are great ways to attract interest and links. They’re typically quick-reads, filled with helpful information, and can make you an “authority” in your field while getting others to link to your site.
• Build a “little black book” online and fill it with resources related to your niche or website. Experts in the field, celebrities that are interested in your topic, resource sites and authoritative information are always good for a backlink.
• Write articles and submit them to the top 10 article directories at Alexa, as well as to other websites that use articles in your niche topic.
• Contact bloggers in your niche who have large followings and offer them original guest posts on a topic that fits their blogs—with a live link to your website, of course.
• Establish yourself as the absolute expert in your niche. For example, Jimmy Brown became known as the PLR guru because he, effectively, invented it. If you do something significant in your niche, people will really want to associate with you and post a link to your website on their portal. In this kind of an environment, a virtual assistant can thrive, generating incredible numbers of potential long term contacts for your business.
• Tell all your family members and friends about a new article on your site or a new resource, asking them to link to it if they would be so good.
• Write posts or articles about companies that create links to corporate news on their sites. Visit the corporate website and look for “media” links or “in the news” and you’ll discover backlinks to anything written about that company online. The larger companies have automatic alerts established to find such articles and blog posts, in order for them to link up.
• Don’t neglect DMOZ and other free directories when looking for ways to get others to link to your site. These directory links can be quite powerful and if you spend a few hours submitting your site, you can get some great links in a short space of time.
• Promote your site locally to get local links as well. Submit your site to local websites, directories, organizations, etc. Join local groups that list their members’ websites online. Sponsor contests that give links to your site. Do everything that you can think of to build backlinks. And to take advantage of this quickly, seriously consider taking on a virtual assistant, or even a virtual assistant team to maximise your efforts in a very short span of time.
It does take time to build a lot of quality back links, but the effort is worth it. Imagine how many new visitors and readers you could obtain with each additional backlink you receive.