37 Link Building Tips To Market Your Website

To increase the rank of your website/blog and therefore get more traffic you should build links. I have said this a few times already on my blog but it is important to keep stressing this fact because it will increase the rank of your website and ultimately get you more traffic. If you rank high on search engines such as Google then people will click on the link to your website first and if they like it they will hopefully stick around and read some of your website. Below is a list of a few things you can try to get more links to your website.

Build a “X list”. Meaning a list of however many things you want on your topic. Example: 10 Ways To Make Money Online. People like to link to these type of posts/articles

Create a 10 easy tips on your topic type article

Create a list of the top 10 myths for a specific category

Create a list of gurus/experts. Like how I have done with this post

Make your content easy to understand and follow so that people are more likely to link to it

Put in some effort to minimize grammatical or spelling errors. I have said this before and it is helpful so people can follow you posts more easily

Add a privacy policy and a picture of yourself to build authority on your website/blog

Submit your website to article directories

Submit your website to directories

Trade articles with webmasters

Trade links with other blogs

Post comments on other peoples blogs

Email friends and others about important relevant news and ask them for feedback

Post a review thread in a forum and ask for feedback

Submit your website to DMOZ

Add your posts to social marketing websites such as Digg and get your friends to tag it so

hopefully it gets to the front page of the website and gets lots of hits / links

Join the Better Business Bureau (people will trust your authority more)

List your site at the local library’s website

Launch an affiliate program

Produce a free e-book and put a link for it on your homepage

Add your website to Craigslist

Ask and answer questions on Yahoo Answers and provide links to sources (this is a good one I use to get some quick traffic to my website. It won’t bring continuous traffic but it brings some quick traffic)

Setup a page with Squidoo

If you publish a RSS feed with useful content some people will link to that
Participate in forums and add a link to your website in your signature

Review other peoples products and have a link back to your website

Review related sites on Alexa to draw related traffic streams

Link to other blogs. By doing this most bloggers can track where links are coming from and they may in turn link back to your blog

Add your blog to Technorati

Design your website so it is very easy to navigate and you may find that more people will link to certain content on the site

Sue Google (I do not recommend this one but it will draw a ton of traffic to your website)

Get sued by a company people hate (hopefully you don’t have to deal with this but you would get a lot of links to your website from people who hated this company)
Hold a contest. People love contests where they get things for free so they will most likely link to it

Build a tool collection. Tools are always useful and people like to link to lists of useful tools
Offer free samples in exchange for feedback

Interview someone of authority. People are interested in that type of thing and will tend to link to it

Create and release an open source site design template.

Source : mindofmichael.com