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Get tactical to build links effectively

One of the first things you need to do when setting out to build links for your site is to get tactical.  There’s no other way. Aside from setting goals for your linkbuilding campaign, the most important thing you can do is to explore as many strategies and “link venues” as possible.  The key to being succesful with link building is to be creative while utilizing a variety of techniques to hunt, identify, attain, and secure quality links for the long term.

One of the most frustrating links new SEO’s have to contend with is “how” to get links.  Everyone and their mother who knows anything about SEO is starting to realize that strength and presence in the SERPs comes down to building a quality link profile.  Editorial endorsement in the form of text links is powerful, giving social mediaphites online something to link to is invaluable.

The following guides were created with that purpose in mind, and we support their author’s efforts simply because they are amazingly useful to anyone looking for actionable strategies.

Strategy is only second to practicality in the link building game – and if you’re not off to a strong start, go back and make sure you covered your SEO fundamentals. True link masters, ninjas, strategists, builders, and baiters rely on practicality and reaction to get their jobs done effectively – and you should too.

Ten Resources on How to Build Links

The Twelve Types of Links and How to get them

This is an authority article written by a link building legend in the SEO industry. The article breaks links down into tweleve distinct categories which makes lining up your acquisition strategy much less complicated than relying soley on advanced search modifiers to hunt based on keywords.

66 ways to get links

Although there’s some overlap in this list compared with that of the larger authority lists of linkbuilding strategies, there are some excellent suggestions here.  Be sure to pay close attention to #’s 1, 12, 27, 35, and 43.

101 Link building tips to market your website

A powerhouse of great ideas on the subject of linkbuilding. What’s particularly helpful about this guide, aside from dozens of actionable strategies, the author takes the time to outline some “Bad Link Building Strategies”.  Yes. They do exist, and you want no part of them.

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