Content Distribution
Blog/Forum Comments
Purchased Links
Reciprocating Links
Social Media/Bookmarking
Embedded Content
Link Reclamation
Natural Links
Link Requests
Links from press releases, article marketing, guest blog posts, aggregated links such as RSS feeds
How to Obtain:Write unique SEO optimized content, publish, promote via social networks
Difficulty Score: 1
Quality Score: 3
Links from forum signatures, posts, profiles, and blog "signing"
How to Obtain:Search relevant blogs & forum topics, register, create profiles, create anchor text signatures for forums
Difficulty Score: 1
Quality Score: 2
Links obtained through direct exchange of money, includes directories
How to Obtain:
Search for keywords + sponsor, advertise, sponsored by, banner ads, submit URL, add URL
Difficulty Score: 1
Quality Score: 2
Links from partnerships, exchanges, and trades (use sparingly, stay topically relevant)
How to Obtain:
Use only highest authority relevant sites to exchange with, try to do a 3 way instead of reciprocal
Difficulty Score: 2
Quality Score: 1
Links from various social media profile pages and bookmarking tools
How to Obtain:
Find top bookmarking sites based on PageRank, Alexa, dofollow and submit website using good keyword anchored phrases
Difficulty Score: 3
Quality Score: 3
Links via widgets, infographics, badges, and other embeddedable content
How to Obtain:
Create visually appealing and useful content, promote via social networks
Difficulty Score: 3
Quality Score: 4
Links to no longer available resources to re-point at your pages
How to Obtain:
Check Google Webmaster Tools for pages not found, contact websites linking to those to change link or redirect on your site
Difficulty Score: 3
Quality Score: 5
Links gained naturally due to link worthy (viral) content, link baiting, etc.
How to Obtain:
Create good, informative content and promote through your networks
Difficulty Score: 4
Quality Score: 5
Links acquired through manual requests from webmasters, site owners, etc.
How to Obtain:
Conduct competitive link analysis, use search operators, keyword searches, manual email requests
Difficulty Score: 5
Quality Score: 5
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