How to Get Links on SEO 2 and Other Blogs

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As both blogger and SEO am I aware of both sides of “link building”.

Over the years I got lots of spammy comments from low quality “blog commenting services”.

I often had to delete comments right away.

I rather appreciate blog comments by fellow SEO practitioners.

How to get links on the SEO 2 blog and elsewhere?


Commenters Are Welcome, Spammers Aren’t

Real people with a name in the SEO industry are welcome!

Yet I blog for clients about other topics as well.

Thus I cover topics not related to search engine optimization and I’ve been blogging privately since 2003.

I do not tolerate spammy comments for SEO reasons as a blogger!

Find out how to combine the best of both worlds below!

Learn how to get links on this blog and beyond.


Are You Still Practicing SEO 1.0?

Modern social SEO or SEO 2 has been around for years!

Yet many people still practice low quality link building techniques! l

Worthless blog commenting for the sheer number of relevant inbound links is a prime example!

In SEO 2 we don’t build links, we get links.

You don’t have to force your link upon others.

Others give you a link on their own accord because you rock!

In fact people are often glad to link to you.

That’s one of the most important differences between SEO 2 and conventional SEO.

What do you call it? Is it still SEO? You may call it

the long term strategy these days is the same: Make people link to you. Earn links!

You can’t make people link to you by being an ass or just ass kissing.

You can, but that only works sporadically.

Getting links SEO 2 style is convincing other people that you are worth it.

Once you have convinced them they will link to you again and again.

That’s the whole secret. I have covered the basics of getting links a few times already.

This time I want to focus on how to get links from blogs.

I will use an example close to home, this blog here, SEO 2.


Blog Commenting

Just add a meaningful comment here, saying something more than “thank you, great post”.

Do it three times and your link will be “dofollow“.

Add a link to an additional resource (not necessarily your own) and you get credited in the post itself with an extra link to your site.

This is how I got my first links from authority blogs even before this blog started.

It doesn’t work of course if you offer services like “200 links for 10$”. Then just f*#k off.

Many bloggers are grateful when you add value in the comments. Some will even credit a whole post to you.


Pinging

In case you use a WordPress blog you can easily notify me that you have published a post that links to me.

It works automatically unless you have switched it off. I consider to make all pingbacks “dofollow”.

Some other blogs already do. Their comments are nofollow but their pingbacks (and trackbacks) are real links.

Of course, like above, you can end up linked as an additional resource in the editorial part of the post itself.

Moreover I will check out your blog and know about you.

This might be a beginning of a link love relationship.


Guest Posting

Guest posting is still popular these days. Some friends of mine even offer services for guest bloggers.

I’ve written down my guest blogging guidelines a while ago.

Many bloggers either actively seek out guest postings or are open minded enough to publish them when approached.

Make sure to read the blog first and find out what favorite topics the blogger deals with.

Find out what kind of audience s/he attracts and how their writing style sounds.

Some people want to publish posts on SEO 2 that explain SEO basics.

Low quality guest bloggers write in a boring “me too” way without attempting to be unique. I can’t publish that.

People reading SEO 2 expect advanced SEO and a juicy language.

They don’t want to get bored with another

  • “content is king”,
  • “what is SEO”
  • “on page optimization basics”

posts. They want the cutting edge.

Readers want something they haven’t read in a dozen other places already.


Doing Interviews

Sometimes an interview is the best way to deal with a certain type of news.

I publish interviews whenever I can.

You can publish more often than you are able to write a post yourself.

After all, for interviews you only need to write the questions.

Be around for a while as well!

When the time comes to launch something or a newsworthy event will happen.

I will be glad to interview you instead of rehashing the news everybody else has covered already.

Many bloggers do interviews.

These are some of the best authority links you can get.

Don’t approach me wanting to get interviewed when I have never before heard of you.


Doing Something Linkable

Do something linkable aka remarkable. Just think about architecture and green blogs.

Architecture blogs mostly write about new buildings built by architects.

Green blogs mention seemingly each and every project that is a hope for a more environmentally friendly future.

Even the most obscure endeavor gets publicity there.

The more bizarre the news the more attention it gets on social media.

I will feature more of such news about the growing SEO industry.

In other niches it’s already common place as my examples show.

Also doing something remarkable makes you a more interesting interview partner.


Creating a WordPress Plugin

Do you use a related posts plugin? Sometimes it’s not even a plugin, it’s more of a widget.

You can get an incredible amount of incoming links from perfectly legit and even high profile blogs.

Just offer it for free and check the incoming links with your favorite tool like

Myriads of blogs use a related posts plugin and I actually looked for one in 2023 again.

I tried, installed and customized the one by WPBrigade. You people rock!

This is probably the best example of how the SEO 2 way of attracting links effortlessly trumps the tedious “link building”.

Create a better one and you’ll get even more links.

Many attempted this with social media buttons but this is already a crowded market.

I’d use a good related posts plugin with image preview but haven’t found a perfect one yet.


Applying for Directory Inclusion

Some of the most important blogs out there, think TechCrunch e.g. have their own directories.

You have probably noticed, I have added a directory section on SEO 2 as well in the past.

You couldn’t simply “submit” your site to it. It’s a very high quality niche SEO directory.

I will only added SEO service providers I already knew, trusted and could recommend. Be it

  • companies
  • bloggers
  • software vendors

or whoever fits in. I have added some of my favorite SEO companies to it because I knew them for years.

There was a paid option as well for those who are eligible in the first place.

In case I knew a site already you could get a paid directory entry with highly optimized title, headline, description and contact info.

It included up to 5 meaningful links for users ans search engines alike no “click here” crap.

The basic entry was free but as I said I didn’t accept submissions.

In the end it didn’t work out very well. It was a lot of work and I got only three paid entries which wasn’t very profitable.

Generally adding a directory to a blog is a great idea.

You just need enough time to take care of it and a large enough market so it makes sense.


What Else Can You Do to Get Links?

What else can you do? Focus on getting links instead of building links.

Getting links means you get them almost as a side effect. You don’t submit somewhere.

The best links are those you deserve not those you build manually.

Change your approach. As a die hard old school you won’t get links. It’s not 2003 anymore.

Offsite SEO is similar to having sex! Either

Then you’ll get it forever for free getting links as in SEO 2!

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