Link building is a vital tool for boosting your search engine rankings via a blog. Once you have your blog up and running then you need to fill it with great, engaging content. It’s also important to have links from relevant, credible sources.

Here we continue our three-part top tips series for link building:

Linkbaiting: You have to get out there and promote yourself so that anyone interested in your blogs/website might then link back to you. But make sure you target the right audiences. Again, you’ll want create useful and relevant content.Make use of Twitter and Facebook for marketing your blog/website. And make your entries interesting and enticing so as to encourage others to link back to you.

Go write: It’s worth writing and commenting on other blogs. People will then start to know your name. It’s also here that you’ll find other people that are writing in your area – and from there you can start to link and network with them. Make sure you link to your blog from other blogs – but only do so if it’s relevant.

Your domain: Include your blog URL in profiles and bios on social media sites.

Write reviews: This is another great way to get other businesses to link back to your blog. Writing test-drives, reviews and testimonials about services and products may lead to link-backs.

Listings: Lists such as events and jobs should always have a link back to your blog. Blogs can be effective tools for promoting events and if you are listing your event with third party services, a link back to your blog post with more details will be useful to readers who want to know more. These kind of links are great for search engines, too.

Tags: blog, link building

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