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Link Building for New Blogs

Link Building One of the readers of my blog, Chris Brown, today emailed me and asked me a question: “How do I start building links for my fresh new blog?”. I know many people have this thing in their mind when they start a new blog. So many people ask this same question. So I have tried to post some of the easiest methods for blog link building here. Please let us know your methods as well.

  1. Start by submitting your site to a list of blog directories.
  2. Make sure you are using the “Update Services” feature (ping services) of your Wordpress blog available at Options’ -> ‘Writing’ section of your Wordpress admin control panel. It can also get you some backlinks.
  3. Find some .edu blogs to participate in. Don’t spam them. Just take part in the discussion and give some valuable inputs to the posts. This can bring you some useful backlinks. You can use following search in google to find such blogs:

    site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment” -”comments closed” -”you must be logged in”

  4. Participate in blogs who do not have nofollow tags to their comments. Here is a list of more than 200 such dofollow blogs. Use your blog as your home url while commenting. As those blogs don’t have rel=nofollow tags, those links will be counted as backlinks in google as well. Again, don’t spam them. Provide some useful input to the post and participate.
  5. Ask other bloggers in your niche to make a guest post on their blogs. Write a good articles and ask other bloggers in your niche to put them on their blog as a guest post. Bloggers are always looking for some good posts for their blogs and if you have a good post, they don’t mind providing a link in that post to your blog. It will add a backlink, will bring traffic and will also provide you some credibility. If you are in my niche, and want to make a guest post on this blog, let me know.
  6. Participate in forums of your niche and use your blog link as your signature. Always remember to update your sig with your latest post, so people would read new content and would get more familiar with your blog. That will add some credibility to your blog as well.
  7. Hold some contest with good prices for blogging about your blog.
  8. Then finally go for traditional way of link building like directory submission, blogroll exchange, 3-way link exchange, press release (may be on other blogs), article submissions, squidoo lenses, social networking (digg/stumbleupon),



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Jim Karter on November 14th 2007 in Blogging, Internet Marketing, Link Building, Traffic Generation

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29 Responses to “Link Building for New Blogs”

  1. martina responded on 14 Nov 2007 at 2:37 pm #

    Hey if you dont make just spam comment you can post in my website running wordpress, it have the dofollow, if you want Jim Ill post the link here, and anyway thank for the great info like always :)

  2. jimkarter responded on 14 Nov 2007 at 8:24 pm #

    Feel free to post the link.
    Thank you.

  3. martina responded on 15 Nov 2007 at 2:21 am #

    my blog is http://www.tutorialsportal.com as I said it have dofollow, but I wont accept spam comment, write something that make sense!

  4. Ashwin responded on 15 Nov 2007 at 4:18 pm #

    Excellent points covered there man!

    I will try these for my personal blog

    Ash

  5. Puneet responded on 19 Nov 2007 at 12:49 am #

    Post is gr8 and i wanted those list of blogs with dofollow links…and list of directories to submit my blog … Thanx again frd.

  6. jimkarter responded on 19 Nov 2007 at 3:07 am #

    The list of all dofollow blogs is given in the post.

  7. Abhishek Daaga responded on 22 Nov 2007 at 11:03 pm #

    Nice techniques for Link Building for new Blogs… I did these for my blog earlier and got good results… though i added some more strategies which worked out well :)

  8. Varun responded on 26 Nov 2007 at 4:21 am #

    Great tips Jim..

    I have tried it in the past.

  9. Fahad responded on 09 Dec 2007 at 10:58 am #

    Thanks so much for these tips!!!
    I really need to start getting some backlinks to my blog!

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  12. kashif responded on 05 Mar 2008 at 2:25 am #

    WOW some great tips for new bloggers like me . I am already practicing few of the above mentioned guidelines and will try the rest .Hope they generate good results .

  13. Richard Legg responded on 06 Mar 2008 at 4:37 pm #

    I always find article submissions are a great way to get some links back to your site.

    Just put your link in the bio-box at the end.

    There are even sites like iSnare.com that will submit your article to multiple sites allowing you to leverage more backlinks from each article.

    Richard

  14. Asia'h Epperson responded on 07 Apr 2008 at 6:19 am #

    Nice information. Have applied your point on nofollow blogs and can see some effect now.

  15. Edwin responded on 20 May 2008 at 2:09 am #

    What do you think about serves like Linkvana.com
    I know the price is a bit steep and not always for the new marketeer but I do see the value in having a network of thousands of sites you can post a one-way link to them

  16. Abdul responded on 15 Jun 2008 at 5:46 am #

    I am trying a lot to build links to my website
    And i am trying for blog pots. Sir, i am requesting you that can this website provide blog posts??

  17. Extreme metal blog responded on 18 Sep 2008 at 9:48 am #

    all the tips are helpful….
    but i dont think that commenting on .edu doesnt help…dunno i think i read it somewhere

  18. SEO Tricks responded on 18 Sep 2008 at 10:17 am #

    Thanks for those lovely tips Jim! Nice info.

  19. rajesh responded on 20 Sep 2008 at 10:56 am #

    Thanks for the blog directories.I think it will help me as i am new to this line.

  20. articlesubmission responded on 25 Sep 2008 at 9:41 am #

    Its very useful information, submitting to directories is always useful for backlinks

  21. articlesubmission responded on 29 Sep 2008 at 12:51 am #

    Hi Jim really this post given me lot of ideas, definitely i wl try this to get good traffic

  22. braveurl.com responded on 11 Nov 2008 at 8:34 pm #

    Thx jim for your tips. It’s very helpful especially for a new blogger like me.

  23. Rajiv responded on 15 Nov 2008 at 6:26 am #

    Hey Jim

    Heard aout your site by word of mouth. Found the whole thing very impressive.

    When I started blogging - few weeks ago. I was concenterating on content and content alone
    Soon I realized that it takes more than simple content to make it a success.

    Thanks for this great post

    Question for you
    My domain name is not related to my niche- does it matter ? a lot?
    I mean the url is rajivnarula.com- my name and I intend to blog on technology

  24. Hesham responded on 09 Feb 2009 at 3:41 pm #

    This is a great post, I have learned lots of it.

    I have started a blog 2 weeks back and I am getting good backlinks from commenting on other blogs. I found this very useful for new blogs as you said.

    I just want to add that it would be more easier if your new blog is supported by and older and more powerful blog of yours, if you have an blog already and started a new one.. then you can ride the waves :)

  25. Rahul responded on 18 Apr 2009 at 9:24 am #

    your information is vaulable for me….i am also making backlink.

  26. Aditya responded on 08 Jul 2009 at 12:09 am #

    Hi Jim!

    Excellent tips on link building.

    Thanks

  27. shahzaib responded on 13 Jul 2009 at 6:59 pm #

    I am a new blogger. I was looking for ideas to make backlinks. Your article is very helpful to me.

    Thanx Jim!

  28. marcus @make money online responded on 14 Jul 2009 at 8:48 pm #

    Another good way to build backlinks is to create an ebook and submit them to ebook directories.

  29. Get a flat stomach responded on 16 Oct 2009 at 11:02 pm #

    You have put together the basic but effective link building strategies without much babbling - shoet and sweet. I think article marketing, guest posts and dofollow blog commenting are the best link building ways and are given high value by Google.

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