How to Build Links Yourself For Free

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Link building is a common aspect of search engine optimization and very important aspect as well that you need to make sure you're doing all the time. You can build links to your site very easily for free, and for most webmasters this is the road they like taking in the beginning. I personally prefer using these methods myself as well until my site begins bringing in profit at which point I'll usually start implementing some of my other search engine optimization techniques. A lot of link building can be done if you just spend an hour each day working on your site and you'd be surprised how much progress you make after building links solidly everyday for a couple months.

One of the best ways to build links for free is through article marketing, which almost everyone nowadays does, and if you don't you need to. The problem is most people only submit a couple articles every once in awhile and although that's fine you're not getting the full benefits that you could be getting. Article marketing should be something that you do on a daily basis in order to gain permanent links to your site, and when you begin doing it on a regular daily occurrence you'll start seeing good results from your efforts. It only takes about half an hour to write and submit to short articles to a couple directories each day and if you do it everyday then you'd be gaining 42 one way permanent links each week pending you put three links in your resource box. As you can see if you did that over the course of a year you'd have thousands of backlinks coming just from article directories.

Another great method for free links is social bookmarking sites, and these also give you a boost in traffic. If you write good content then chances are it will be submitted to social bookmarking sites by other people as well, but you should also submit your own pages to all the social bookmarking sites you use. There are hundreds out there so I can't recommend using them all as time would be an issue, but you should be submitting to at least ten of them. You'll get a nice boost in traffic will your story is featured on the social bookmarking site and afterwards you'll end up with a one way backlink, so basically there is no reason you shouldn't utilize social bookmarking sites.

Directory submissions are also another quick and easy method to build free backlinks for your site. There has been a lot of talk about the power of directory backlinks and many webmasters mention that there not worth it, but you should always submit your sites into directories. You need as many links coming from different domains as you can so by quickly submitting to ten directories on a daily basis you're ensuring that you're getting new links each day. In the search engines eyes this looks consistent and you'll therefore start seeing your search engine rankings rise.