Last updated on July 7th, 2014 at 09:26 am
You all know that I’ve launched a Free Basic SEO course. I’m really really excited for you to join us! And I’m excited for you guys as you get to learn more about SEO and venture into the internet marketing world.
I’ve cooked up this tutorial for SEO starters out there who have no idea what linkbuilding is about or how linkbuilding is done. It is a comprehensive per-lesson series that is packed with tips, tricks, advice, and linkbuilding goodness.
The outline of this Link Building Strategies tutorial will comprise of the following:
- As we start with the link building tutorial series, I’d like to first clarify for those who don’t already know: “what the heck is link building”?
Why is Link Building Important?
- Now that we’ve reviewed what the heck link building is all about, we next move on to its importance. Why do we need to do linkbuilding? What are its immediate and direct effects on your website Search engine results page rankings?
- Now that we’ve covered the importance of link building, we move on to the next question that most people and webmasters alike have in mind. Are all links treated equally?
Attributes of a website to get a link from
- All links come from somewhere. Links have to be from a website to a website. Inbound links are links from another website to yours. We’ve already established the importance of having quality inbound links from quality websites but just what are the attributes of a quality website?
- We’ve talked about link building theories and do’s and don’ts – now we’ll start talking about the dirty work. Just how do you do link building? There are two ways you can do it: Organic and Artificial.
- The first type of link building is called organic link building. This type of link building deals with anything that doesn’t have to do with automated systems and/or practices that are frowned upon by Google and the SEO community.
- Artificial link building isn’t altogether bad but some people exploit automated means to the point of redundantly abusing it until they are regarded as spam. And as such, some of these practices are generally frowned upon by the SEO community at large.
- I’m sure you’ve heard this before – link exchange. Ever had an email asking you to exchange links with them – Giving you the “You scratch my back, I scratch yours” kind of a deal?
You can also check our comprehensive all-in-one guide about Effective Link Building Strategies
These 8 entries will be available for you to read and study on. I hope you get to follow them from start to finish as you know how vital links are to your website’s SEO. Link building is not everything – but it has a HUGE impact to your rankings.
Yes, linkbuilding is a heck lot of work – that’s why you have to do it right. If you’re doing it wrong, it’s gonna waste a lot of your effort and time. And that’s exactly what this tutorial is for – to make sure you’re doing link building right the first time around.
Sincerely,
Sean Patrick Si
SEO Hacker Proprietor and Managing Director
I have a link-building assignment with a client. His ebook is hard to read. Thanks for making the topic easy to digest!
Glad that this tutorial made it a lot easier for you Maribeth! Hope you do well with that assignment
This is awesome. Link building is an important part of any SEO campaign. This will surely help many, including newbies. Thanks for sharing.
By reading this article, I felt reading a very useful book for link building. All the basic ideas and tips for link building is clearly explained. I am very thankful I found this article. Thanks.
Sir,
I got this link from your Basic Course Lesson 3. Very interesting. I’ll continue reading. Thanks
Thanks for these extremely geeky tips,Sean. I knew a few of the basic principles but you’ve filled my head with a lot of new ideas about more advanced techniques.
Very useful, thanks for all the updates!
Thanks Leela! Hope to see more of you here!
Link building can be a nightmare for fresh website. This article is very helpful for novices like me. Hope it helps me. Thanks for the share
It’s my pleasure Rajnish!
Your article it is very nice. For my fresh website it’s so hard to get first position in Google but I learn more from your article. Thx!
That was really gold mine article. Strategics in driving traffic to one’s website have been an indispensable one for social media marketing specially link building. Got a handful of tips and learning here. Now its time for applied learning.
Hey Sean – I found you on twitter tonight and am impressed with your articles here! I would love to reference you on my website and offer my clients some of your great advice. Some of them believe that paying for links is the easiest way to get higher while I believe in white hat SEO. You’ve explained this so simply here that I think it would make a difference in their opinion of their whole outlook.
Leesa
really nice post thank you very much
Great post.
Link building isnt an easy task, and quite often is extremely tedious.
That is why automated link building is great, but at the same time, like you said it is quite frowned upon.
totally agreed with you , its a worst part of seo
Linking to “Bad Neighborhoods” should be avoided at all costs. Websites which are penalized by search engines, websites having spammy link pages, link-farm network pages or websites deploying dubious black-hat techniques are considered “Bad Neighborhoods”.
Very good post! Unfortunately link building is a very time consuming and laborious process that most people don’t wanna take the time to do. However, that leaves people like us were willing to take the time and do the job correctly will always have better rankings than those who are just too lazy to do the work.
Hi there, first time arrived here. Very nice post, indeed. I also think link building is not that hard as it takes time and comitment to do it. After you know how to do it, is only a question are you willing to do it. Specially because it takes time. Regards, Matija, Slovenia.