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Link building is one of the oldest and most effective SEO tactics. It’s also one of the most productive ways to grow organic search traffic. But you have to be cautious with how you go about earning quality links. Links have been a major part of how Google and other search engines determine how trustworthy a website is from the beginning.

They viewed each link as a sort of recommendation, so the more links a website had pointing to it, the more credibility it would hold, and the higher it would rank in search results.

Unfortunately, some site owners and SEOs attempted to “game” this process by acquiring links through questionable tactics. Since then, many of Google’s updates have largely been about getting ahead of these suspicious link-building efforts. We’re now at a point where only very “white hat,” or ethical, link building methods still reliably work. It’s basically impossible to beg, borrow, steal, or buy links in a way that will boost rankings. For site owners that used to rely on shady link-building tactics, this is bad news. But if you’re willing to put in the time it takes to earn valid links, it’s still entirely possible to boost your credibility (and rankings).

That’s why in this post, I’ll explain six smart ways to earn legitimate, high-quality backlinks that will help show Google and other search engines that your site is worthy of high rankings.

With the following six strategies, it’s entirely possible to build a backlink profile that will help you improve your rankings and have a lasting, positive impact on your search visibility.

Guest posts:

“Guest posting” is the practice of contributing free content to another website or blog in exchange for a link back to your own site. These links can either be placed in the author bio section or used to cite information within the body of the post.

This has long been a popular link building method since it’s a win-win for both sites: One gets free content to share with their audience, while the other earns a high-quality link. Or at least that’s how it’s supposed to work.

Public relations:

To some digital marketers, “public relations” might sound more like a traditional marketing strategy. And in a technical sense, it is. But in the context of link building, the term simply refers to the practice of using the same methods to get backlinks that you might use to get press. One of the best ways to do this is to get cited as a source in a news article or other online content. In the past, the only way to do this was to hire a publicist with connections to journalists and prominent publications. Today, you can eliminate the need for this third-party help by signing up for Help A Reporter, or HARO. This service allows journalists to put out calls for sources within their daily newsletter. Indicate which areas you have expertise in, and you’ll get a daily list of journalist needs that are related to your skills directly in your inbox on a daily basis. Then, you can reach out to these journalists — and if they’re interested in what you have to say, they’ll cite you as a source.

Broken link building:

Even reputable, well-maintained websites suffer from broken links. Each link on a site originally links to another page online. But because websites often move their content around, some of those links will eventually “break,” or point to pages that no longer exist. When a user clicks on a broken link, they’ll arrive on a 404 error page telling them that the content they’re looking for no longer exists. This not only provides a poor user experience but also makes it difficult for search engines to efficiently crawl and index websites. Broken link building fixes this — and is a great way to build valuable links. This strategy involves finding broken links on other websites, identifying the content they originally referred to, then offering the site the chance to replace their broken link with a valid link to relevant content. That content, of course, will be on your site. With this strategy, everyone wins. The site owner will have fewer broken links. Their visitors will see more up-to-date, useful content and fewer 404s. And you’ll get a high-quality backlink.

Skyscraper content:

Skyscraping is the process of finding content in your space that’s already awesome, and then out-awesoming it. This concept was originally popularized by Brian Dean of Backlinko and is still a great way to come up with valuable content ideas that will earn links to your site.

Compile a resource:

Many of the links you build to your site will be to blog posts and other informational pages. These are typically made up entirely of your own original content and are an effective way to build credible links. But the content you create to earn links doesn’t always have to be 100% original. Of course, I’m not advocating for plagiarizing or re-publishing other sites’ content. Instead, you can look for ways to compile research and other information that’s relevant to your industry in a helpful, user-friendly way.

Find competitors’ backlinks and “steal” them:

I mentioned above that if a site links to a competitor, they’ll probably link to you, too. And while we’ve looked at ways to figure out which sites are linking to specific competitors’ domains, you can also use tools to identify additional sites that are ranking for your target keywords and determine how they’ve achieved their level of authority.

It’s quite amazing, the brazen attitude with which people ask for advice in a public forum on things that the know is illegal — that it’s okay as long as you’re not caught. Just because you cannot quantify software the same way you can with physical objects, doesn’t mean that you do not do any harm when you “download stuff”. If that were true, lawyers and psychologists should be working for free — after all, all they do is talk, right?

For a proper answer: Downloading from these sites is by law illegal if it is obvious to you that the source is suspect. In Germany, the nature of piracy lawsuits is that the defendant has the obligation to prove that he/she is not guilty. It goes without saying that uploading is very very risky. The reason law firms do not go after the downloaders, is that it is not cost effective for them to do so. In lay terms, you are not worth the lawyer’s time. It doesn’t mean they can’t or won’t. It isn’t hard to get a court order to force the site admins to spill the German IP addresses that downloaded files with a specific hash (something akin to digital fingerprint of a file).

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