What are Link Building.

Link building also called LinkLove, is the method bloggers use to get better ranking in Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search sites. Blogs are about communities and sharing information, they are the best way to build relationships between like minded people. To get links to your site, you first need to give links.

How do Bloggers do this.

The method is to ensure you have a LOT of links to your site on other sites.

By means of:

• Do follow

• Comment on other blogs

• Use a blogroll

• Use trackbacks

Do follow.

Although blog platforms are standard with no-follow tags on links in comments to get rid of spammers, it is a good idea to download a Do Follow plugin (This will disable the no-follow) and use it so you can reward the people that link to you with quality comments likewise.

Comment on other blogs.

Do this by placing comments on blogs that you are sure are receiving a lot of traffic. Do this as much as possible, but beware of comment spam. Many blogs use no-followed links because of comment spam, but be persistent, do post at least one meaningful comment with a post you like and then return again in a few days to see if your comment has received a reply. If so, reply on that reply if necessary. Just remember to place a link to your website as a signature inside the comment and reply. People will read your comments and see your link and go to your site too, to see if there’s anything interesting for them to read. If they like what they see, they might comment on your site too and by doing that they link to you too.

Use a blogroll.

When you find other blogs on topics that you have on your blog. Place links to them on your blogroll. Those people will most likely be alerted by your interest and in seeing what’s on your site, they may do the same on their sites.

Use TrackBacks.

When you see an article on a blog you like and you have a similar article on your own blog, put a link in that article to the other site’s article. The placing of the link is done usually at the bottom of your article by placing something along the lines of "interested in furter reading?, (place link to other site here)". Even if the other sites are no-followed, these links might draw more readers to your site, because you are offering more than just your own insights.

In adition to the abovementioned, do not forget to do some internal linking to related posts on your own blog. Using your categories wisely can go a long way to better your page rank.

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http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/free-link-love-to-get-it-give-it-up.html

http://moremerchant.com/get-link-love-like-john-chow-and-shoemoneycom-give

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Every webmaster wants better search engine rankings, and there is no better way to improve search engine rankings than by obtaining links from other websites. Here are eight proven techniques for doing just that.

1. Requesting links: it’s time consuming but it does work. If you have a site with good content, you may be able to get some one-way links. Generally, however, you will need to reciprocate.

2. Submitting sites to directories can be very productive. A listing in DMOZ or the Yahoo Directory can trigger dramatic results. Listings in other high Google PR directories like the-big-brain, will also produce the desired result.

3. All website owners should write and/or buy brief articles and submit them to article distribution websites. Each article should include an author biography (with your name and website URL), that will be run with the article. That way, every website that uses the artcle will generate a link. It is not uncommon for a single article to be picked up by 500 websites, thereby generating 500 links for the author’s website.

4. Press releases: you can write your own news releases or pay to have them written for you. Either way, be sure they include links to your websites. There are services that will send out your press releases to a few news outlets for free, or numerous outlets for a fee.

5. Unlike the other kind of writing which can generate links, blogging is very simple because you can write about nearly anything related to your website, and good blog posts need not be very long. All webmasters should have at least one blog, write a minimum of one post a week, and link from the blog(s) to their website(s). In addition to short articles, many bloggers post link exchange offers.

6. Many website owners have picked up lots of links from their listings on Facebook and similar sites.

7. Guest blogging, like blogging, is fast and easy. Offering articles to bloggers who share your niche is a great way to get links and reach your targeted audience at the same time.

8. Informative, on-topic posts in guestbooks, forums, and blogs (with your URL in your signature), will make you friends and produce links the search engines will generally count in your favor. Think “low hanging fruit”.

There are other techniques you can try, but be careful about “black hat” tactics like buying links unless you are willing to risk being penalized by the search engines.