2012 Link Building Guide

[DaveCain]

Hi BAF memebers and visitors,

Hope you all had a good break recently.

You may like to know that I have recently written a guide to link building in 2012 which covers the following areas:

• General business directories
• Niche business directories
• Local area business directories
• Business forums
• Niche specific business forums
• Blog posting
• Off-site blog posting
• PR article websites
• Social bookmarking
• Social networks
• General link directories
• Guest blogging
• Link bait
• Testimonials
• Video creation
• Design galleries
• Blog commenting
• Interviews
• Infographics
• Nofollow links
• Review websites
• Plugins and app creation
• Polls and user engagement methods
• Authoritative sponsorship
• Paid links
• On-page internal linking

Each area is given a score out of 10 for effectiveness and you may be surprised what the top 5 are and how they connect.

To view the guide, follow this link: http://www.davecain.co.uk/blog/link-building-guide

Thanks,
Dave

[Fergal]

That's a great guide Dave, it will be very helpful to many webmasters as it contains extremely effective and practical tips.

Thanks a lot for including a link to BAF within the article.

[DaveCain]

Thanks for the feedback - glad you liked it.

And BAF is a worthy inclusion

[DanielMilstein]

Wonderful Dave!!! Really liked your guide, I would suggest you to turn it to a PDF/ebook and there are many newbies that can take advantage of the guide! ne small advise if you dont take it otherwise, please add something on citations also as whole lot of SEO guys consider it as an important aspect of SEO today!

[Mark T]

Thanks for the guide. This could actually be a good start for a lot of businesses going online these days - knowing where and what to start and how to build their business profiles.
I'm glad you share some in this forum.

Hope you could share more - especially in business related areas and how to be successful with it, at least just some insights.

[RevaxMedia]

Nice link list, these are one of the best ways to generate links however I can see Social Media playing a big part in link building in 2012 with the launch of Google +

[cramjadeaffin]

For effective link building main factors which we follow are unique content and profile linking in order to increase the page rank and get more traffic.

[ThirdSEO]

This is actually really great information. High quality post, keep them coming and help us improve the forum! Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

[DaveCain]

Thanks for all the great feedback guys! It continues to be one of the posts popular posts on my blog!

[JPM]

Great article, really like the fact you talk about dofollow as well as nofollow. Keep up the great work, following you on Twitter!

[Shahrier]

That is a really good article, Dave. I see you have a lot of experience with internet marketing so I can trust you that this stuff works. Thanks for share!

[harry]

thanks a lot...

[transdermal]

You just helped a new link builder save so much time googling the 101. Every important thing is there. Hope you add more niche sites. :-)

What is your view on social photo sharing... does it help?

[millerg78]

Thanks Dave, i have gone through your guide. It is definitely one of the best articles i have come across regarding link building strategies. The top five ranks are justified.

[jackwills]

Blog commenting and social bookmarking are not very effective. We replaced the blog commenting with forums and social bookmarks with ping.