Strategies for off page Link Building, Off Site SEO

Off Site Link building, a creative Technicality

I am going to hit you right between the eyes with a new stirring discussion, this time on the premises of external link building. Our last topic of conversation was on site optimization for the most part, your site mapping and other internal SEO factors are completed easily,, solely by using WordPress as your Content Management System, and fine-tuning the permalinks on the settings tab of your admin dashboard, and setting up either all in one SEO or Platinum SEO as well as cbnet ping optimizer and some other plugins that are the topic of another article, after which you no longer have to consider on page SEO. And although other CMS programs do not posess the ease of use with respect to onsite optimization as WordPress has, each program available has documentation on the topic. WIth that in mind, the next topic to address briefly, before I develop simple studies on each one, is external or off page SEO, your strategy for Link Building.. The topic is just about as exciting as it sounds, but just like you need to have sound on page SEO, if you fail to approach off page SEO and external link building with a full on effort and plan of action, the highly desired continual stream of organic search engine generated visitors will not materialize.

Opinions about External Link building are as varied as the number of SEO "guru's", and acceptable link building strategy crosses many techniques,, for that reason I feel you should employ every method you know is viable, while focusing additional effort on the most effective means over others. I have gone to the source documents of several famous SEO authors, I bought video tutorial courses with PDF guidebooks explaining the techniques, and I have implemented a strategy that has begun to yield results. Afford me the opportunity to make a point right now, is that while all of the "free" traffic generation methods we will address have merit in documented success, you must be certain that the sites where you place your website anchor text on have a degree of quality, because google will penalize sites that are linked to sites of ill repute. Your entire linking strategy may be destroyed, just for the matter of linking to poorly regarded sites, having your web site amidst a jungle of spam websites is no more appealing than building your house in the worst of drug infested ghettos.

There are certain techniques which I know will yield results, and that I feel qualified to exploit, One thing for certain, the processes are time consuming, and given money over time, I would prefer to have others perform the tasks that require little intellectual effort, but individual webmaster resources are as varied as are the personalities, the point of fact being that link building is not optional, and must occur no matter the cost, Having siad that here is a 24 technique long list of methods, by no means all inclusive, that you may wish to consider for your link building plan..

Authority site commenting

Blog Commenting

Forum commenting

Guest authoring,

Yahoo answers,

.edu and .gov commenting

Article directories

web directories

Social bookmarking

PDF directories

Press release directories

Video Directories

PowerPoint directories

Podcast directories

Web 2.0
Facebook
Twitter
LinkdIn
Blogger.com
Blog.com
Hub pages
WordPress.com

Link Baiting
Contest Creation


An effective strategy would be to employ each of the above methods of link building in your plan, a great deal of the work can be used in more than one category..= And having completed the current task of making social bookmarks for a site, then all you will have to do is maintain the strategy by bookmarking pages as they come on line, and the linking strategy may well outlive the active life of the domain. Several of these techniques will avail themselves of multiple uses. For example, after you finish writing an article you can immediatly turn it into a Video, powerpoint presentation and a podcast. I have provided more in-depth information on our home blog at EliKen Marketing.