Link Building | Useful Resources

Reference

100 Ways to Build Backlinks
Over 100 ideas for building backlinks, including a large number of free opportunities.

Advanced Search Operators
A useful breakdown of the various advanced search operators that can be used to better target your hunt for prospective link partners when using Google.

Advanced Search Operators for SEO
Another useful guide to the use of advanced search operators, this one specific to SEO (Link building, competitive analysis, SEO site auditing and keyword research.

10,000 Search Queries for Link Building
Examples of search queries (some employing advanced search operators - see above) for finding link building prospects.

Tools

50 Link Building Tools
From SearchEngineWatch, a run-down of 50 tools you can employ to automate your link building, from analysing backlinks to prospecting for links. Fear not, there are no link farm tools here.

Knowledge

How Search Engines Value Links
From the SEOmoz Blog, a useful post titled 'All Links are Not Created Equal: 10 Illustrations on Search Engines' Valuation of Links'.

Ideas and Opportunities

'Broken Link' Link Building Strategy
An outline of the opportunity and tools to find broken links as a link building strategy.

My Blog Guest
Register to provide guest blog posts, or use posts on your own blog. Here's how the first option works in a nutshell: you register, publish blog articles, interested blogs then request to use your post, you accept or reject a request (e.g. based upon suitability of the requesting website etc). My Blog Guest is like article submission, but you dictate who can use your article, thereby ensuring links from high quality sites; quality over quantity. This video explains the service in greater detail: