10 Link Building Ideas You Can Do In a Day

Mark Mitchell

Backlink building often appears to be a complex and time consuming process. But it’s not always as hard as it seems. In case you missed it, we are republishing this great piece featuring 10 simple link buildings tactics that you can implement in a day.

A healthy backlink profile is key to your website’s overall search performance. Google and other search engines consider both the quantity and quality of your site’s backlinks in assessing its importance, credibility and authority. This, in turn, influences your site’s search ranking. So building and then using SEO backlinks effectively is crucial for SEO success.

Most link building strategies for building up your site’s backlink profile tend to be either highly resource-intensive or complicated, if not both. With that in mind, we’ll outline 10 simple link-building ideas to build your backlink profile and thereby boost your site’s search performance and SEO management efforts.

As they are simple, you may find that you are able to implement all of them in a day!

First, A Note

With any of the tactics in this post, you’ll want to create a process for evaluating the sites you are thinking of obtaining SEO backlinks from. You also want to take care with the anchor text that you are requesting or using in your link building – too much exact match anchor text can look spammy.

Check out this post  or this post on link audits to get a better picture of how to assess your backlink profile. Additionally, we created a comprehensive guide to white hat backlink building .

Remember, it’s important that you build links naturally and with integrity, or you could face penalties from Google (like those from the Penguin algorithm).

1. Leverage Your Existing Network

OK, let’s move on. There are a few ways you can leverage your existing network of online related businesses for links:

  • For those businesses with which you already have a strong relationship, consider simply asking them for a link.
  • For any businesses you’ve worked with, offer to write a testimonial in return for a link back to your site within the testimonial.
  • For firms that you do a lot of business with, either as a partner or supplier, ask to be listed on their preferred partners or suppliers page (assuming they have one).

2. Use Your Twitter Profile

First, make sure your Twitter profile is optimized for link building:

  • Go to: settings > profile and check to see that you have a link to your website in the website and/or bio fields.

Next, set up an account with the following sites to receive free, high-quality SEO backlinks:

  • Klout (be sure to look into “Klout for Business”)
  • Twitter Grader
  • Twellow
  • Twitaholic
  • TweetLevel (UK based)
  • Favstar
  • Retweet Rank

3. Build a Company LinkedIn Profile

LinkedIn business pages offer companies the opportunity to:

  • Tell your company’s story
  • Highlight your products and services
  • Engage with followers
  • Share career opportunities
  • Drive word-of-mouth at scale
  • And, get a backlink to your site

4. Build a Google+ Local Listing

With a Google My Business , all links are dofollow, meaning they specify to the search engines to follow the link.

Additionally:

  • Google+ local listings have high visibility in the search engine results pages (SERPs).
  • Businesses with physical office locations or stores should create a local page for each office/store they have.

Tip: Optimize your headline and descriptions with keywords as you would your website. Also, be sure to include a link to your site in the description, using the anchor text of your choice.

5. Make Use of Images for link building

If you use a lot of your own copyrighted images on your website, chances are that other sites may have used them without your consent. This may be more or less of a concern to you, depending on your vertical. So one idea is:

  • Instead of sending notices of intent to prosecute the offending parties, why not ask for attribution in the way of a backlink instead?

To ascertain whether any of your images are being used on another website, go to Google Images and do a site search (for example, Site:yoursiteURL.com):

  • Click each image, then click, “search by image.” This will show if your image has been used on another site.

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If you find images that have been co-opted by another site, here are some steps to take:

  1. Review the sites that have used your images without your consent, and contact those which appear to be reputable (it’s a waste of time to contact spammy, scraper sites that you would not want a link from anyway).
  2. Find the contact information for the site’s webmaster by reviewing social media accounts, website contact form or WHOIS information. (Tip: If you can’t locate an email address or an alternative means to make contact from the above, then it’s probably not worth pursuing.)
  3. Provided you are successful in finding the email address of the site’s webmaster, send him or her a note and politely ask for an attribution link in exchange for them continuing to use your image.

If you don’t have many unique images for your site, it’s a good practice to take some high-quality shots that are relevant to your vertical, of course. (Note: the ideal screen image resolution, meaning the detail an image has, is 72 pixels per inch, or ppi. Images less than 72 ppi will render unfocused, or “fuzzy,” also referred to as “pixelated.”)

6. Award a Scholarship

Consider offering a scholarship to students enrolled in a program related to your business:

  • Designate a page on your site explaining the scholarship offer, as well as terms and conditions.
  • Notify the relevant accredited, reputable universities and colleges about your scholarship offer, and ask them to link back to your page for more information.

The .edu links typically carry high authority, but you’ll have to do your own analysis of each website, as not every .edu is authoritative. Case in point: in our latest research on the impact of Panda 4.1 , some .edu sites did well, while others did not.

7. Create a Case Study

Another solid link building tactic is asking clients to feature a solid case study on one (or more) of the products and/or services your business offers: which have been most successful and made a genuine impact on their bottom line?

Besides using real results and real numbers, structure your case study with these three steps:

  1. Present the challenges
  2. Discuss the solution
  3. Show the results

Have the client feature the case study on their website and use a branded link back to your site and the Web page of your choosing.

8. Flaunt Your Logo

Most businesses have a logo that has been professionally designed. Why not showcase yours? People are interested in logos, whether they be prospective business owners, designers or just pure logo geeks. This means there are a lot of popular websites showcasing different logos with high domain authority .

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Here is a list of logo gallery sites to investigate featuring your logo on:

  • The Logo Mix
  • Logo From Dreams
  • Logo Design
  • LogoMoose
  • Logo Faves
  • Logo Critiques

You can find more logo sites for your specific needs by searching for terms such as “submit my logo,” “logo showcase” and “logo designs.”

An important point to remember is to check the sites are of good quality before you submit your own logo to them (one way to do a spot check is to look at PageRank and Alexa scores).

9. Upload Your Presentations to SlideShare

As the largest network on the Web for sharing presentations, SlideShare offers a number of online marketing benefits.

For link building purposes, there are just a few easy steps:

  • When creating your presentation, be sure to add a hyperlink URL to it (for example, http://www.yoursite.com)
  • Save your presentation as a PDF, then upload it to SlideShare
  • Test if your link is working by running this query in search: site:example.com inurl:/slideshare/

Note: The presence of this link may be worth less than the actual traffic and branding potential that SlideShare could offer as part of a wider strategy.

10. Find Associations You’re A Member Of

If you’re a member of a business organization or professional industry association, it is likely its website carries authority and credibility. If there is a list of members, check yours to see that it has a link back to your site.

Also, if it has a feature such as an “in the spotlight” listing, consider asking to have your business showcased. This would serve to increase the value of your backlink, as well as your brand visibility.

 

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Good to note

Efficient SEO Management . Learn how to easily manage all your SEO efforts with a unique 4-step methodology used by Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Home Depot, and more.

Internal linking.  Backlink building is important, but don’t forget about internal links. Internal linking  boosts your SEO results and also helps users discover more content on your site.

Backlink Management .  As your backlink profile grows bigger it is increasingly hard to keep track of all the SEO backlinks. This is where  backlink management systems could be of great help.

We hope these 10 simple link-building tips create a fast way for you to build some solid links to your site. Do you have other ideas? Let us know in the comments below!