You don’t know how to get links? Try These 1002 ways!

A web developer friend recently asked how he could get links, so here you go, Students.
Ask for links
- Request a link from the local chamber of commerce
- Contact the webmasters on the phone and ask for links
- Email webmaster and ask for links
- Request friends and family to link to you
- Ask to be listed on governmental resources
- Research for articles in your niche and ask them to link to you
- Search sites in your niche linking to dead sites, ask them to link to you instead
- Search sites in your niche linking to inferior sites, ask them to link to you instead
- Find hubs or authority sites in your niche
- Research competitors backlinks – Ask to be listed on there too
- Work for a cause and produce something useful for it; contact organizers and let them know
Link Networks
- Create own private networks
- Create authority hubs – sites that link to your own and competitor sites
- Create multi-tiered networks that feed links into your sites
- Build real value niche sites, cross-link to other relevant sites in your network
- Create a public link network
- Let people trade links.
- Favor your own sites directories
- Start Submitting to paid directories
- Start Submitting to free niche directories
- Start Submitting to the big free directories
- Start Submitting to free general directories – avoid directories with no editorial process.
- Start Creating your own directories
- Link to your own sites
- Start Three-way link exchanges
- Start Creating niche directories, become the authority in that niche.
- Start Creating general directories – charge a minimal fee to cut out the junk.
Buy links (how to get links)
- Start Paying for blog posts.
- Start Paying for reviews.
- Start Making donations – get listed on charity sites, open-source projects.
- Send bloggers freebies
- Offer bloggers cash
- Start Offering DMOZ editors something for a fast review.
- Start Offering forum moderators cash or freebies for a mention.
- Start Giving away merchandise for links – USB, beer, t-shirts, etc.
- Buy whole sites and expired domains – monitor places sites are often sold.
- Buy a word in an existing article.
- Become a link broker -pick the best for yourself
- Sponsor a student project
Give away stuff (how to get links)
- Give away tools and geek stuff.
- Templates
- Plugins
- Code snippets
- Stat counters
- Logos
- Contribute to open-source projects
- Start Branding merchandise
- Start Offering discounts to people placing links on their site.
- Learn How to Release an extension or plugin for browsers and other popular software
- Start Building a website for a local charity or university group that can attract quality links – Spend some time getting the links to distribute
Content (how to get links)
- RSS feeds
- Give away articles
- Submit an article to the industry news site
- Write for other sites for free.
- ezinearticles.com
- goarticles.com
- isnare.com
- Write for other sites and get paid.
- Publish a distribute white papers
- Become a guest blogger
- Become an editor
- Get listed in Google news.
- Get listed in Yahoo News.
- Create press releases
- Prweb.com
- Internet.com
- Businesswire.com
- Prnewswire.com
- Bacons.com
- E-releases.com
- Prfree.com
- Pr.com
- Webwire.com
- Marketwire.com
- 24-7pressrelease.com
- Pressreleasenetwork.com
- I-newswire.com
- Keep Track of who picks up our articles or press releases. Offer them exclusive news or Content.
- Start Publishing ebooks laden with links and encourage people to distribute for free.
Exchange Links (how to get links)
- Start Joining link exchange networks
- Contact webmasters directly
- Start a link exchange network.
- Start a webring(come up with a web 2.0 name but don’t call it a webring)
- Join a webring Forums=
- Links in signatures
- Links in profile
- Links in posts
- Post yourself
- Pay people to post often.
- Ask people you know.
- Entice established members
- Swap signature links with other reviews regularly.
- Start Leaving testimonials on other sites.
- Start Reviewing and recommending local businesses and ask for a link back
- Review products services and ask for a link back.
- Provide graphic. E.g., Voted best website 2022
- Learn how to Get your own site and products reviewed by other blogs.
- Become an expert
- Give interviews on your industry.
- Interview well-known bloggers and content creators.
- Start Leaving real comments on other blogs.
- Learn to Leave feedback without spamming or trying to sell.
- Point out helpful errors
- Make suggestions
- Flatter someone on their success
- Compliment someone on a great post
- Link to people likely to link back
- TrackbacksToo lazy to categorize
- Hire a link building expert
- Start a flame war
- Become an official partner
- Build a list of backlinks that others will link to
- Learn how to get paid to build a website and get a link back.
- Start Submitting great designed sites to web and CSS galleries
- Start Performing surveys and studies
- Start Publicizeing survey results – Publish several articles from the same survey, controversial or unusual results
- Become an editor of DMOZ and other sites
- Make media contacts, provide stories for links.
- Start Finding sites doing website of the day, recommend your site.
- Find top site lists and submit and get listed.
- Get financial sites listed in Google finance.
- Cartoons – include link code.
- Start Sponsoring events – small meetings, put money behind the bar – Others will blog and thank you.
- Set up a Squidoo page
- Provide web hosting for a link
- Provide web software for a link
- Join organizations and associations and get listed as a valued member.
- Become an expert on what you do.
- Start Contacting editors and writers, and let them know you are available as a source.
- Try a link on each article or each time you are quoted.
- Try to get your own bio page.
- Drive affiliate links to your own sites.
- You should Make it a requirement to link to your site in all contracts with:
- Resellers
- Partners
- Subcontractors
- Vendors
Photographs (how to get links)
- Of yourself with celebs
- Of something stupid
- Start taking photographs With well-known people in your industry
- You should be the first to post pictures of an event or social product.
- Create diggable stories often and submit them to social sites
- Study what works for each social site
- Learn How to give your story a push from friends.
- Learn to Entice top members
- Start Creating bogus accounts and push your own stuff.
Linkbait (how to get links)
- David and goliath
- Taboo, sex
- Outrageous
- Unusual
- Tell a secret – Be the first with the news.
- Humor
- Lie – make up a number like 1002 Link building is a constant ongoing task even for sites that are already number one.
So you dont know how to get links? 1002 ways! (how to get links)
Keep a record of all efforts, sites submitted to, people contacted, etc. A lot of this list comes from other sources, mostly arron walls, and Brandon Hopkins. To be honest, I don’t remember where some of these came from, so if I have stolen your ideas, then let me know.