To an SEO practitioner links are essential and the value of its importance can be measured by the ranking position of the website within the search engines results pages. If you do, link building strategies and these are successful, what you implemented must have been done the proper way, and you get the high rank as a result.A slow but continuous flow of links into your blog or site is that one that you have to get to make the strategy more natural and legitimate. Getting hundreds of these in just one day, especially if these links are coming from a few sites, will make the effort look more unnatural.
Blogging and blog commenting are effective ways of getting links back to your site. But you have to find the reputable and high ranked blogs in your field so that it will have more value in the eyes of the search engines.
How to find these valuable links that are ideal to link to, is therefore the objective in this effort. There are hundreds of blogs probably in your niche field but finding the right one can be more of a challenge.
- Find the active bloggers in your niche and also those so called "influencers" or those with lots of followers. Have good research on these and you will find the answers.
- Look for the professionals in your related field, or those considered authorities or the experts in your niche. These are the people ideal to link to.
- Have a good survey of your costumers or those active in your group or organization. These people may be those good to link to.
- If you join web forums you can have a list of people that can be a prospect in making your link building strategy. A few of these people may be those active or credible and good to link to.
How to ask for links from these people may be a concern that you have to handle. There are ways on how to face these concerns, like:
- Once you find the reputable blog or site worthwhile of the link, make comments that can bring value to their site also. Offer them something of value and make it on a regular basis to bring you authority.
- Make a strong call to action in order to motivate them more to make quick link backs. If you will not make this initiative they may not link back, at all and this will not be good for your efforts.
- Make a blog post and update it more frequently to give it credibility and authority. Make it a give and take system where you link to them and they also link backs to your blog.