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06-Oct-2011 8 Best Places For
Building Authoritative One-Way Links
By Titus Hoskins (c) 2011
For any online webmaster or marketer, two things will
consume most of your time: rankings and traffic. Usually,
these two objectives will go hand-in-hand. The higher your
rankings, the more traffic you will receive. However, as you
probably already know, getting higher rankings and traffic
can be somewhat difficult.
One of the best ways to achieve both, is to build one-way
links from existing authoritative sites on the web.
Now, let's be honest, building quality one-way links will
take some effort and time on your part. However, this can
be done much quicker if you know exactly where to look for
those authoritative sites or places which will let you
create links back to your site.
Here are some good places or sources for Authoritative
One-Way link building:
1. Press Releases
Press releases have become what article marketing was just
a few years ago... an excellent way to get quality one-way
links back to your site. You can use both free and paid
press releases to get your message out. Many marketers
have had success with PRWeb. It can be somewhat costly
but highly worth it. A well written press release will
usually get picked up and displayed on numerous
niche-related sites, boosting both your traffic and
rankings.
2. Wikipedia Type Sites
Places such as Wikipedia and Google Knol are also
excellent sources of quality one-way links. These can also
give you those all important in-content links, as well as
links in the resource section of the article. Everything
will be theme focused, so your links will carry more
PageRank juice in the eyes of Google.
3. Powerful .edu and .gov Links
Because they are mainly seen as non-commercial and coming
from prestige sites or institutions, .edu and .gov links
are some of the most effective and powerful one-way
backlinks you can receive. Try to go out of your way to
build these types of links for your site. For example, if
you went to a college or university, try getting links
from any Alumni pages. If your college has a newsletter
section, try to get links there.
4. How-To Sites
Yes, we know, Google with its Panda Update and countless
follow-up changes to its algorithm, have hit these kinds
of sites hard. But the quality ones are still great places
to build one-way links. Often, if you write a great how-to
guide in your niche and place it on these sites, you will
get an instant page one Google listing. For starters, try
sites like eHow and Squidoo.
5. DoFollow Social Sites and Profiles
If you haven't noticed, the web has gone social. Some of
the best places for authoritative one-way links are in
these social networking/bookmarking sites and profiles,
especially if you build up your followers and subscribers.
Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Google+... will all give you
opportunities to build your one-way links.
6. Memberships and Testimonials
You must always be pro-active when it comes to link
building, so go out of your way to get links from any
memberships you may belong to. Also, giving testimonials
for your favorite site or product can be another excellent
way to get authoritative links as these links are usually
displayed on the main/index page of a site.
7. Embedded Videos/Slideshows/Software
Many webmasters have had great success by using embedded
software, videos, awards, slideshows... to create one-way
links back to their sites. For example, just look at how
Slideshare.net builds its backlinks. You can try something
similar or use that program to share your content and build
your links.
8. Site And Blog Commenting
While many sites are cracking down or making all their
links NoFollow... commenting on blogs and sites is still an
effective way to get those backlinks. Many online marketers
create Google Alerts for their targeted keywords and when
any related links are indexed in Google, they get an
email. They then thoroughly check out those links to see
if it is worth their while to make a comment.
There you have it, some of the best places to help you
build your all important authoritative one-way links. Many
marketers simply take a few minutes of each day to build
these types of links back to their sites. Over time these
links will grow and you will receive additional traffic and
higher rankings as a direct result of these powerful
one-way links.
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