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How to Build Organic Links for SEO

Author: Carl Heaton
He is our senior instructor and originally from Manchester UK. Carl teaches our Web Design and Online Marketing Courses.
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An organic link is a link from someone else’s website, blog or social account where they linked to your site without being asked to. These links can be within the content of the article or listed as a reference at the end of the article. They are a great way to drive targeted visitors to your site because the person that linked to you has vouched for your article or page.

An organic link is a link from someone else’s website, blog or social account where they linked to your site without being asked to. These links can be within the content of the article or listed as a reference at the end of the article. They are a great way to drive targeted visitors to your site because the person that linked to you has vouched for your article or page.

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Participate in the Community

One of the best ways to get links is to participate in the community, the good way is to answering questions for example if some one has a problem and you know the answer to it, you can help the person by answering it by doing this in the future he/she will remember you and when they see your link they might visit your site. So participating in the community, answering questions and help other people can be a big way of getting links.

Content

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Building great content is still the most important way of getting links, if someone just did a little bit of work to dig into a subject is more likely to get links to his site. This would leave a good impression on the mind of a reader all because of original research and a good content writing.

Newsletter and Articles

If you already have audience visiting your website or blog, make it easier for him by creating news letter and articles assigned to his mail-inbox so that can drive traffic and conversions to your site.

Social Media

Social-Media

Participating in Social Media like Facebook, Twitter or Foursquare can be another grate way of getting links, if people are spending at least five hours on Facebook, then maybe you should spend some of your time on Facebook, because getting to know those people can pay in lots of ways not just links maybe you get to present at a conference, if you are doing conference presentation its a great way to get links because people will live blog, its a great way to get links.

Blog

Another great way to get a link is to established your self as an authority is by getting a blog! the good thing about a blog that you don’t have to update them all the time if you want you can use WordPress, tumblr, Blogger we dont have to maintain the software. Its really simple to maintain a blog, if you see a funny picture or something interesting to your reader you can post them to your blog you can get a lots of links very quickly. You can also use your blog to establish your self, your online business card, your profile you can use that to project how you want to be on the internet.

Creating Tutorials and “How-to”

The other good way how to get links is by creating “Tutorials” and “How-to?” like the other day my college he did a tutorial on “How to make an E-Commerce Banner” with this people searching for a way to make a banner for e-commerce can find his articles, even if you don’t get a tons of links to that posts some times that long tail content is enough for people who are searching for it will find you even if you have two or three links to it. So it doest always have to be about links it can also be an exclusive resource where only limited or only you have it on the net. You can also run a servie which people really finds it useful, make a product release it for free or give it to the community, like Firefox or Google Chrome extension or WordPress Plugins. Services are good because people will come to you to try things out. Open Source are also great because people can download it. So you can do the work once and share it the people will be great full to you and this could get you links.

Site Architect

The architect of your site is also equally important, till lately most people don’t give importance to weather if the site can be crawled, can the site URL be bookmark or can Google get to all the pages on my sites? So make it easy to link to your site.

Videos

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And the most easy and simple way to get links to your site by making Videos where you can talk about a “Tutorials” or “How-To” where people can watch it at any point they can get a lot of value out of it and importantly it should be enjoyable. So you can do the work once and its useful all the way down the line.

So those are just few tips on getting links to know join our Online Marketing Training or our Social Media Marketing Workshop.

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