Link Building this year

31 Dec

It’s already the last day of the year, so it’s time to list the best link building related posts of 2009. Just like last year, I’ve read a lot of great articles. Here’s my personal top three:

1. Link Development Training: How Link Building for SEO is Like Picking Up a Girl – Todd Malicoat
Unfortunately, Todd doesn’t write tons of articles anymore, but when he does, they’re usually great. In this post, he explains how he trains new link builders and which tools and approach he uses. Great stuff.

2. 101 Advanced Tips For The Next Time You Buy Text Link Ads – Gab Goldenberg
Even when you don’t buy links, there’s lots of tips you can get out of Gab’s post. Just replace ‘buy’ for ‘talk your way into…’ or ‘offer services/ a discount/ anything else in exchange for…’, and you’re good to go.

3. 21 Tips to Earn Links and Tweets to Your Blog Post – Rand Fishkin
Rand shares 21 great tips for optimizing your content in a way that you maximize its linking potential. Just try to implement all these tips in one of your articles, and you’ll end up with some killer content.

And here’s a few more excellent articles:

General

Finding & evaluating prospects

Webmaster outreach

Content & link baiting

Most viewed posts of Wiep.net

  1. 69 Link building strategies for 2009 (I know, it’s a post from 2008)
  2. The perfect link request email template
  3. Indispensable link building tools
  4. 10 Questions to ask a new link marketing client
  5. Advertising strategies that improve your link popularity
  6. A good alt is better than a bad anchor
  7. SEO Motivators (also a post from 2008)

This basically wraps up 2009. I hope this year has been as good for you as it was for me. All the best wishes for 2010!

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