Blog | 10 must see link building articles from 2011

Link Building, like all SEO, is constantly changing. Something that worked in 2005 may not be as effective nowadays, so it’s important for any link builder to constantly read new blogs and articles on the subject. 

Luckily, there are a lot of great new articles on link building by some of the important people in the industry. You can set up a Google Alert that emails them to you. You can also do a search on blog search engines as well as social networking sites. This post shows you a few recent blogs and articles that I’ve found very useful.

Link Building Lists

10 link building techniques for higher search engine rankings – SEO Bricks

This article, by Anil Agarwal of SEO Bricks, gives you 10 essential link building techniques to improve your search engine ranking. If you follow all of these properly, you can expect to see some good improvements.

30 Tools to automate your link building – Search Engine Watch

There is no way you can automise your entire link building campaigns, but there are some really useful tools to make your job more efficient. This article, by Jeremy Bencken of Search Engine Watch, lists 30 tools in order to make the link building process quicker and easier.

Link Baiting

How to use link baiting the right way – Angry Toast

Linkbaiting is the art of putting something out there that people want to link to. It’s very important, as if done correctly, is much more effective than just asking bloggers and sites for a backlink. This article, by Tynan, from Angry Toast, explains link baiting clearly enough for even beginners to understand its value.

10 Techniques for linkbaiting content – Content for Success

Staying on the linkbaiting subject, here is an article written by Giselle Borg Oliver of Content for Success. It gives you 10 of the most popular linkbaiting techniques that are still useful in 2011.

Guest Blogging

10 Major benefits of guest blogging – Young Pre Pro

For link building, I can’t stress enough the importance of guest blogging. This detailed article, written by 17 year old entrepreneur Onibalusi, from Young Pre Pro, shows you 10 major benefits of guest blogging, along with a couple of charts to show just how important it is.

How to get a guest post in 5 simple steps – Organic Development

This is a post by me (Daniel Kidd), of Organic Development, giving you a step by step guide of how to get guest blogging opportunities. Starting out in blogging or link building, it can be difficult to get noticed. It can be a long process, but here are a few tips on making it a little easier.

Social Media

Social media link building – Search Engine Journal

Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past couple of years, you’ll have read countless articles about social media and its impact on all things SEO. This article, by Todd Heim, of Search Engine Journal, explains how links from social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook pass SEO value.

“Hours on Twitter” spam uncovers a blackhat SEO douchebag – The Next Web

Now this isn’t necessarily about link building, but I’ve added this because it’s a great story of how a Twitter spammer was uncovered. Anyone who is a frequent user of Twitter will agree that spammers are irritating, annoying creatures. Any article about uncovering a spammer is definitely worth a read.

Link Buying

Better ways to use your link buying budget – Search Engine Watch

Another article from Search Engine Watch, written by Chris Biggs. It’s no secret that Google does not like buying links. In fact, if you get caught buying links, there’s a chance your site or blog will be penalised. This article gives you some useful tips about what to spend your link buying budget on if you previously had one.

Infographic

10 Commandments of link building – State of Search

Here is a really cool, original infographic by Bas Van Dan Beld of State of Search. Infographics are quite big in SEO at the moment, and this one gets the message across, as well as being original and eye catching.

There are hundreds of useful link building articles out there, and these ten are just a selection of what I’ve read in the last few months. As I mentioned earlier, it’s important for you to keep reading, as link building is changing constantly.