Link Building 101

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Published 23rd February 2011 |
Read latest comment - 2nd May 2011

I found this on another site and thought it might be useful to give people a better insight into how link building works and things to avoid if your going to link build.

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Types of Link Strategies

Natural Link Building - Adding quality content or something that benefits the end user that they would want to link to
Affiliate Linking - Some companies such as airlines, debt management companies, or other businesses that have vendors that supply a service or product to them, can be contacted and asked to provide a link to the site you are promoting. These are usually especially strong, and easily obtained one-way backlinks because normally they don

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Kevin.Wiles
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Anyone tried using this information to help them get better results? Or even know of some more ways to improve link building?

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Kevin.Wiles

It'll take my brain a while to take this all in. When I tested the two links to look at my own back links the first one showed 1,539 and the second 1,384.

I'm happy with 500 hits every day; I hit 700 last Sunday so I'm getting closer to my target of 1K.

Thanks for the post.

Mike

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Link wheels can be very affective as long as they are done correctly and not done with spam

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Kevin.Wiles

I would dis agree if you create a good link wheel properly and spend time on it then it can be very effective if you rush it then of course it will not pay off.

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Kevin.Wiles

Can one of you SEO bods explain to me what a link wheel is, what makes a good link wheel and what makes a bad wink wheel? I have read both good and bad things about them... I get the odd email asking if I would join one, but have never really understood it so have left well alone...

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Barney

Can one of you SEO bods explain to me what a link wheel is, what makes a good link wheel and what makes a bad wink wheel?

Must admit I never really understood them. Kev started a recent thread on link wheels, and explains it pretty well.

http://www.mylocalforums.com/seo-webrankings-google-yahoo-bing-etc/2985-link-wheels-explained.html

Steve Richardson
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