Where do you look for incoming links?

For the longest time I spent a decent amount of my time submitting to link directories. It didn’t take long to realize it wasn’t a good time investment.

These days I I rely more on natural linking, where I don’t go out and look for links. However, if you run small “niche” sites as I do, natural linking is very little.

With these white-hat niche sites I do submit to directories. However my main source of links and traffic is through article marketing for these sites.

My “IM” related sites/blog rely solely on natural traffic and do well without having to worry about obtaining links.

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Hi Mani,

I don’t know whether submitting to directories does actually help because I haven’t done so far. I believe in natural linking. But do you know these days spam blogs link to each and every post and these links are actually taken into count by Technorati.

Do you get such spam trackbacks?

Hehe nice idea

anyways, i can’t comment much coz i don’t have much incoming links, but i strongly feel that a good and different content is necessary to get incoming links. If you can give something different that is not a modified version of data anywhere in blogosphere, then slowly but surely ppl wud starting to link you. But, as i said content should be interesting!!!
This is my feeling, i cud be wrong.

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Josh, I completely agree to what you said..small niche sites requires some push while content rich constantly updated ones requires contextual links more than anything else..

@Nitin, Yea I get lot of them but I don’t approve any. You can easily make them out from the rest isn’t it?

@Rajan, no you are right. Unique content can get you links automatically but it’s a pain while waiting for it, and in those times a bit of directory listing can help. Wouldn’t it?

Hi,
Buying text links on the sly goes against Google policies, and will have the reverse SEO effect

I think the best way is the natural way - make good content, and the links will automatically come to you.

Naturally, blog directory listings help you a bit, but if its not an “elite” directory - i.e. one in which every entry is not human administrated, well, thats quite next to a link farm…

Guest blogging, and sites like Bligter (bligter.com) are good ideas.

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I personally suggest that if you write a very good article like top ten hot honeymoon destinations or 5 ways to get slim and your cintent is good then deffinately your link juice will increase

Well! I am not an expert, but I have tried directory submissions, article marketing and writing good content!
Natural links are very hard to get by ( they are the best, I am told).

I get bored reading the same blog and move on and un-fortunately online friendships are not made this way! So don’t have any natural links!