Link Building for the Industrial Marketplace – it’s a Whole New Game
Link building has always been the most challenging part of SEO for me. It seems like every time I gather a nice set of free sites to submit to, two weeks later they are charging fees. If you have a five figure budget, building links is easy. Unfortunately, most companies in the industrial market place aren’t that lucky. So what is the most effective way to build free links today?
Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a great way to build links to your site. Since social marketing isn’t very popular yet in industrial market, so you may not receive a lot of traffic from these links. These links are still beneficial because they will increase your link popularity. Also, eventually the industrial marketplace will catch up and you will be one of the first to stake your claim in this new territory.
Here are a few sites to submit to. You will first have to create an account. I recommend picking one user/pass and using it for every site to make submitting easier.
Facebook
StumbleUpon
Connectedy
info4it.com
Submit a Press Release or Article
If you have the time to write articles or press releases, this is a great way to get back links and qualified traffic to your site. When you submit your articles or press releases, you will have an opportunity to link back to your site. If you can choose the link text, make sure to include a few keywords. When people find your press release or article in the search engines, they will be able to visit your site!
Here is a popular site to submit your articles to – Ezines
You can submit your press releases to ThomasNet if you are an OEM and meet the rest of their guidelines. This is a great way to get visibility in the search engines for your press releases. Submit to ThomasNet
These are just a few ways to build more links to your site to increase link popularity and traffic to your site. While traditional link building is still effective, it’s taking more and more time to make it work. Try out some of these other ways and see if they work for you!
July 16th, 2008 at 3:34 am
I agree that link building is not as easy as it seems to be. Not every website is worth to put a link to. As you wrote directory submission, article submission and social bookmarking are the most common link building methods. As to directory submission in particular, I am using a semi-automated tool which is provided with only free directories so the submission goes quickly and easily because the form is auto-filled by the tool.
July 21st, 2008 at 9:03 am
Hi, Julia, what tool are you using? I’ve never used an automated tool for link submission, but I’ve read from others that it can be quite effective.