Easy Steps To Apply Link Building Methods For Local SEO

Hi Everyone,
Link building is a key part of OFF page SEO campaign. Though On-Page" SEO and good content helps in delivering some relevant traffic, the real process that helps you to achieve higher ranks in Google and Bing is link building often referred to as OFF page SEO. Why the name OFF page? Reason is simple work is done outside your website.

So here I am listing 10 Easy to use Link building methods for your SEO campaign.

Most of the methods listed here are useful for Long tail keywords only. For competitive and short tail ones you really need creative SEO skills.

1. Directory Submission Old school technique but still effective for Long tail keywords and for newly launched websites.

2. Article Submission The game is simple. Get a list of article directories say some 100+, write some 10 unique articles and distribute it freely to all these 100+ article directories. It is really great if you can write a unique article for each article directory but it is really time consuming. Make sure you meet the guidelines of article directories for faster approvals.

3. Social Bookmarking The process of bookmarking your important website pages, articles and blog posts with bookmarking websites like Digg,Reddit etc. This is an especially good method for promotion in search engines, but you need to do it right.

4. Press Release Submission It's more like Article directory submission

5. Guest Blogging The most useful and highly effective tool for link building

6. Local Business Directory Listing Another one similar to directory submission

7. Google Places This one helps you to rank top for your local keyword searches, especially for those related to local shops or local services.

8. Link Exchange An old school stuff and this one still works.

9. Forum Link Building Forums are places where you can not only have conversions but where you can build links.

10. Blog Commenting Interestingly this one still work for websites of certain niche.