3 Strategic Ways to Get Links to Your Website

3 Strategic Ways to Get Links to Your Website

Reader Comments (22)

  1. All 3 methods entail the forming (or utilizing) of personal relationships, which makes sense to me. Now, more than ever, people want to associate themselves with individuals they can trust – and so, automation should be reserved for (certain) tasks, not end results. Even in the digital sales process, customers expect some level of human support that extends beyond their purchase.

    • Mario, that’s exactly right. I think some people are under the impression that since this is digital, real-world relationships don’t matter. They matter a lot.

  2. Thank you for this post! it has been very helpful. Getting links coming is can prove to be difficult at times. I’ll be adapting my strategy after reading this.

  3. But it is the best way to get to know people and to create a link to people to your own website. It’s the same as networking when you go to work but it’s digital.

  4. Hey Brian,

    For beginners, it’s one of the biggest challenges. People are striving to get some quality backlinks.

    Guest posting can be a thing to look forward to. But many bloggers are using it the wrong way. It’s not only about building links, it’s about connecting with a different audience.

    I have never given a thought about podcasting but it can be a great idea.

    Thanks for sharing these strategies.

    ~Ravi

  5. Hello Brain,

    Thanks for this detailed and informative post. These are some of the best ways to get links for our website or Blog. I find guest post is one of the best way to get links and it also helps to increase the authority of your blog. I have never tried podcasting, but will definitely look in to this.

  6. Hi Brian,
    I have 2 questions.
    1. Any B2C podcast you have found to be good?
    2. While podcasts work in countries like USA, UK, Australia, Singapore. How do you think podcasts would work in a country like India, especially in a B2C niche?

  7. Hello
    Guest posting can be a thing to look forward to. But many bloggers are using it the wrong way. It’s not only about building links, it’s about connecting with a different audience.

    I have never given a thought about podcasting but it can be a great idea.

    Thanks for sharing these strategies.

    Best Regards
    Sahil Suman

  8. Good tips for getting backlinks. Guest posting is tried and true but can be difficult for those starting out.

    It is also important to make sure you have a website that is worth link back to! Doing all the work getting backlinks just for a terrible site is not worth the time.

    Chris

  9. Brian, I read your post and swore I remembered you telling stories about how you asked for links in the early days of Copyblogger.

    So I checked the record from 10 years ago:

    “Eventually send over an email introducing yourself, but don’t ask for a link or pitch your content. You’re trying to start a relationship, not close the deal.”

    https://copyblogger.com/blueprint-for-a-brilliant-blog-launch/

    Wow, you’ve been giving the same solid advice for a very long time!

  10. Thanks for the amazing article!
    It shows that real life networking is really important for your online business. To improve our branding we should stay connected with the person in same niche.
    Thanks Again.

  11. It is easy to get links as long as you continue to produce valuable content. Once people see the value in your content, they will link to you naturally – that is more valuable than any link you build.

  12. Hi Brian,
    I love your article. The end is hilarious. Thanks for putting a few straight.
    It’s amazing how many people forget that life is about the relationships. It doesn’t matter if they are online or in real life. Automation helps to amplify everything, including people’s stupidity.

    • Automation helps to amplify everything, including people’s stupidity.

      … wins our coveted “comment of the year” award. Well done, Kerstin.

  13. Hello Brian,
    Some useful tips again as usual but unfortunately not a lot of blogs open their doors to guest blogging for beginners. Very rightly so as they have lot of other bloggers who have been contributing for years and years, so it will be an unfair decision to choose a beginner over them. Here blog commenting plays an important role for the beginners like us to reach to well established bloggers. Drop some valuable comments and get yourself noticed before you could again ask them for guest blogging.

  14. Thank you, this is really useful. We are trying to look at ways of building links naturally, and it’s quite time consuming! Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy writing content and it’s great when our articles or other content is linked to or shared, but getting to that point can be difficult. As you mentioned, blog publishers probably get hundreds of requests about this topic, and it’s trying to stand out from the crowd that’s the key. I suppose I just have to accept it takes time!

  15. Hi Brian,

    It is in GIVING that we GET. Which is why your post rocks.

    Big on guest posting and being interviewed on podcasts. Give value. Get value, in the form of links, traffic, income, all that good stuff. I write and place guesties regularly because I love to write and create videos. Fun to me. Naturally, this giving freely results in some sweet getting 😉

    I have received at least 1 cookie cutter request for links over the past few years. OK, 100. OK, probably more. Sometimes I help, offering advice that directs these folks to give, to make friends, then the getting becomes easier. And lasting.

    Thanks for sharing 🙂

    Ryan

  16. For beginners, it’s one of the biggest challenges. People are striving to get some quality backlinks.

    Guest posting can be a thing to look forward to. But many bloggers are using it the wrong way. It’s not only about building links, it’s about connecting with a different audience.

    I have never given a thought about podcasting but it can be a great idea.

  17. I really like your posts especially which are about writing content and marketing, keep up the good work Brian. These days people really don’t link back to one’s content even and its all about making links in reality with them which gets the thing going.
    Thanks

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