Just year ago I used to wake up and check performances of my websites, sometimes it was an hour long process to check trackbacks, buzz on Technorati, RSS submissions, Google Analytics, and website backend for comments, submissions, and recent activity. Now it just… who Tweeted me?  

 It is sad but people don’t link your site from their blogs, websites, and social profiles. Almost entire web community moved to Twitter and people prefer to Tweet favorite links, good articles, viral stuff etc. Amount of incoming links dropped dramatically especially in blogoshphere, Darren Rowse mentioned that amount of inbound links dropped dramatically. Even annoying individuals who used to comment and link everyone to make friends moved to Twitter and now they Tweet every website and user they can find.
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 Every experienced search engine optimization expert will tell you that the best link is one-way link from related websites. For new site it is hard to receive good backlinks and regular submissions in free directories or link exchanges doesn’t work as it used to. Sometimes webmasters needs to go on other websites and ask for a links.

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 In most cases email which ask to give backlink look spammy and most webmasters delete it and even report it as spam. Let’s look what Google recommends on webmaster guidance page: “Make sure all the sites that should know about your pages are aware your site is online”. Yes, Google suggest to go and tell other webmasters that your site online… hm, but how to do it in legal way without spamming?
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 Digg reported that nofollow tag will be added to some links, “We’ve made a few changes to the way Digg links to external sites that may impact some folks in the SEO community… We’ve added rel=”nofollow” to any external link that we’re not sure we can vouch for. This includes all external links from comments, user profiles and story pages below a certain threshold of popularity” stated on Digg blog. Clear decision made to reduce spam and unwanted links from some SEO’s. It is not a secret that some people don’t really care about news distribution and appearance on frontpage, many webmasters see Digg as a place to get powerfullink and improve search engine rankings.

 For many years Digg was trying to avoid rel=”nofollow” tags hoping that community will bury spam submissions naturally, as we can see it didn’t work really well. Some “smart” SEO’s used to create multiple profiles from different ip and vote for their own submission, some of them even created communities to exchange Diggs.
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 Search engine submission lost it’s importance in web marketing since search engines became faster and can index new website or page incredibly fast. It is useless to use Google submission form because it still takes days and even weeks to index a website. Many webmasters found that link building and participation in social networks guarantee indexation in several hours. In many cases it is enough to submit new website or page in several sites like Digg or Stumbleupon and site will be indexed.

 Many people are getting confused between two terms: search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine submisison. Search engine optimization is a process to improve a website in search engine results and get better traffic from search engines. Search engine submission is a process to list your site on peoplular search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Bing.
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There are many articles about how to build links, some of them provide good information but some of them raise more questions about quality of links and “white hat” SEO strategies. Of course, it is risky and not efficient to submit site in hundreds directories or exchange links with other webmaster. We decided to provide as many good strategies to build links as possible, most of this strategies we use providing SEO services to our clients.

1. Submission in niche directories is an easy way to increase amount of links from related sites especially when your competitors already listed there. Some good niche directories you can find on DirectoryCritic niche directory list but be careful because Directory Critic approves a lot of spammy and low quality directories.
2. Find bloggers with related blogs, subscribe for their feeds, comment, and follow them in social networks. It takes a lot of time and efforts to become real friends in blogosphere but it will benefit your business with more publicity and visibility. Many bloggers link their friend from blog posts or help in social media by Tweeting, bookmarking, and talking about your business and services.
3. Sign up with the most popular social sites and add your link in profile. Be active, don’t just go to create hundreds profiles. Pick only popular and topic related social sites. Example: if you are a doctor you can use popular healthy living and environment www.Care2.com site to contribute knowledge and information.
4. Participate in forums and discussions sharing information with other members. Put link in signature and profile page. Again, use only several topic related forums and become a good member of community.
5. Check who link your cometitors using backlink checkers like LinkVendor , Domain-pop , or Webmaster Toolkit.

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 ”Content is the king”, the most effective way to build links is to write quality content and wait when other bloggers and webmasters link your post as a source. But what if you just created a blog and there are not a lot of readers yet, or your field is very competitive. Link building can send more visitors and improve search engine traffic.

 During the link building process you should not spam, submit blog in low quality directories, or use companies which offer “millions links for few bucks”. There are a lot of good ways to get quality link to your blog and improve visibility.
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