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Best SEO Link Building Guides, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far)

July 14, 2010

Optimizing a website by incorporating keywords into page titles, headlines, text, page URLs, image alt tags and internal links will help improve the position of a site in the search engines—but it’s only half the battle. As one of the posts linked below notes, “In Search Engine Optimization, things that are happening OFF of your site can be just as important (if not more so) than things happening ON your website.” Search engines look at on-site factors to determine relevance, but at external links to gauge authority.

Best SEO Link Building Tips of 2010 (So Far)So how do you get more links, without resorting to spammy or questionable tactics? Find out here in some of the best blog posts and articles about SEO link building of 2010 so far.

Nine Tools for Your Link-Building Toolkit by ClickZ

Julie Batten offers nine key elements to include in a link-building toolkit–such as lists of targeted keywords and directories–to make link-building efforts more efficient and productive.

5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Page Rank via LinkedIn by VibeLog

In this brief but useful post, Jessica Nielsen explains five ways, such as crafting a relevant “professional headline,” to use LinkedIn to improve your company site’s Pagerank.

Raiding Your Competitor’s Backlinks by Internet Marketing for Business Owners

How to quickly find and replicate backlinks to competitor’s site to improve your site’s search engine ranking.

71 Technical Factors For Backlink Analysis (From 30 Link Building Experts) – Part 2 by Search Engine Land

For those who have waaaay too much time to spend on link building, Garrett French walks through the URL, on-page and sitewide factors to use in backlink profile analysis. Includes helpful commentary from a range of SEO experts like Eric Enge and Aaron Wall.

The 30-minute-a-day link building plan by iMedia Connection

Another piece from Garret French, this one outlining his recommended link building plan, starting with linkable asset identification: “common linkable assets include webinars, job listing pages, PDFs, blogs, forums, subject matter experts, deals, news, a community participant, contests, podcasts, and free tools.”

Top 100+ Link Building Resources by Vertical Measures Blog

An extensive list of blogs, tools, forums and other resources to assist with link building knowledge and tactics.

Simple tips for improving your website’s links by iMedia Connection

Ramsay Crooks presents guidelines for building quality links as well as low-value link building tactics to avoid.

Another Big Roundup of Link Tools by Search Engine Land

The always brilliant Debra Mastaler presents a helpful list of backlink analysis tools plus mini-reviews of several “non-standard, outside of the box link tools like Smarter Search.

Ultimate Guide to Link Building by Agent SEO

Jacob Stoops provides an excellent tutorial, beginning with explaining the process and importance of link building then stepping through different tactics and key sites of different types (directories, social bookmarking, article submission, etc.).

Build Links Backwards by Search Engine Journal

Rather than begging for links or hoping your content will appeal to a publisher, Jennifer Van Iderstyne suggests throwing the process into reverse — contacting great sites (blogs, educators, news sites, associations) and asking what type of content they would be interested in linking to.

SEO & Social Media Track: Show Me The Links: Real Life Link Building by Bruce Clay

In this guest post, Dana Lookadoo engagingly live-blogs a session from SMX Seattle featuring tips from several link building experts including Roger Montii (use target searching, don’t rely solely on competitor backlinks), Arnie Kuenn (targeted email requests, content development and promotion), Chris Bennett (infographics), Debra Mastaler (content syndication, guest blogging) and more.

The Art (or Science) of Building Links by Search Engine Watch

In her first post for SEW, Nichola Stott compares link building to expanding one’s professional network: factors like reputation, connections and relevance all matter in both realms.

Google’s Recommendations for Organic Linkbuilding by 10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Strategy Blog

In this short post, Marc Purtell shares Google’s recommendations for organic link building, which basically come down to: produce quality content.

Case Study: I Listened to Google and I Failed by Graywolf’s SEO Blog

This case study puts Google’s linking advice (see post above) to the test. Is great content really all you need?

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41 Responses


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    I like these tools and tips and I am agree with author points and they will really help me in future.


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    Is lots way to improve PR, but probably best backlinks


  4. Marie 

    Thanks for sharing all these articles. I started using wordloo.com to help me find articles and such for link building. It’s cool because I can search a keyword and get results from multiple places on one page, definitely a time saver. I’m still figuring link building out so these articles should be super helpful.


  5. Dana Lookadoo 

    Thanks for including my SMX liveblogging guest post in your super summary! This is a nice link building resource!


  6. webbiqu1 

    Dana, you’re welcome! Thanks for the great post. That’s one I’ll refer back to – it’s a lot to absorb at once.


  7. Lisa Hammack 

    How does the CMS program create navigational elements? If editors add, rename, or delete pages, are the menus changed by the program automatically?


  8. webbiqu1 

    Hi Lisa – my understanding is that most CMS’s will handle that. However, handling external links to specific pages when those pages change is a bit trickier. At the very least, a site should include a custom 404 error page to try to help visitors who land on a no-longer-used page URL.


  9. Pauline 

    First to thank you for providing a good article on useful information.
    I agree with this: Optimizing a site by using a combination of keywords on the title page, title, text, URL, image alt tags and internal links will help improve the position of a site in search engines but I think it’s really just part of the strategy period. so how is a perfect way, I think Best SEO Link Building Guide, Tips and Tools 2010 provides us, I hope it will be a joint resource nice build!


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  11. webbiqu1 

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    Hi,

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  13. Enrique - SEO in Houston 

    another great way of developing page rank is to search for blogs that are the do-follow type and post into it hoping that the website owner will let you post it with your website url and put in a nice keyword into the name e.g. “Enrique | SEO in Houston. Hopefully the owner will be kind enough to allow the post ;-)


  14. webbiqu1 

    Enrique – it’s critical that the comment also add value to the conversation. Blog owners generally don’t mind giving a bit of link love to a commenter who provides valuable information or furthers the discussion. But commenting solely for the purpose of getting a backlink is comment spam, and most bloggers will tag it as such.


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  16. jase 

    Thanks for the article, hours of reading ahead !


  17. Synflex 

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  18. Jorgen 

    Wow what a comprehensive list of resources – thanks! :-)


  19. Jacob Stoops 

    Thanks so much for including my Ultimate Guide to Link Building post in your summary! It’s an honor to be mentioned along with some of the industry’s most foremost authorities on SEO!


  20. webbiqu1 

    No worries Jacob. I don’t take bribes so the only way to get on this list is to earn it. :-) Thanks for the very helpful post! Well worth sharing.


  21. Raymond Ciesco 

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  23. Per H. Jørgensen 

    I really like:

    The 30-minute-a-day link building plan

    Link building is very important, but it takes a lot of time – so advices on how to limit the time needed is always welcome!


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    Thanks for all these ressources :)


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    Nice blog. This is a great list of resources for anyone doing SEO or internet marketing. Thanks for listing everything in one spot.


  26. Colorado Marketing Companies 

    Thank you for this comprehensive and well digested list. It’s nice when someone with experience is willing to share information from their peers. And good link-building!


  27. Dividend Yield 

    Simple yet great tips. Thanks for sharing. Link building may become very difficult unless you know what you’re doing.


  28. Michael 

    Thanks for the comprehensive list. You can always find a good technique browsing through blog posts.


  29. Austin 

    Really nice resource on link-building. It’s a tough thing to do in a good way – thanks!


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    Excellent resource! Looks of useful and actionable tips here. Thanks for sharing


  31. PeterB 

    All in all you’ve covered a lot of detail which is great,so I thought I would just help you readers with a tip that really Google itself gave.Use videoes lots of them there is a reason why Google bought YouTube.
    To start with if you have no idea how to do this use the free version of Animoto until you know how it works then go for the full paid version.
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    All the best PeterB


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  33. Andreas 

    Very helpful and insightful information.Excellent resource for Link-Building-Thanks for the good work.


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    No worries Andreas, thanks for the nice feedback. The 2011 version will be out soon here – stay tuned.


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  36. webbiqu1 

    Glad you found it, and thanks for the positive feedback!

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