Link Building Checklist

• Submit your site to DMOZ and the other standard directories.
• Create RSS feeds and submit it to feed lists
• Mailing List
• Give them link text that they can use in their own home pages and blogs.
• Make sure that every page on your site has a “link to this page” box.
• Offer a free web tool or script that performs a service and links back to your site.
• Find out who links to your competitor.
• Stay away from link swapping and link buying.
• These practices will hurt your site’s PageRank and SERP standing.
• Do you have the time to devote to link building strategies?
• If not, seriously consider outsourcing this work to a reputable SEO business that has a good track record of getting links.
• Keep a written record of the back links you pick up and what page they link to.
• While back links are SEO gold, internal link building is important too.
• Make sure there are links to your site on all the social profiles you have for your business or website.
• Offer to write a guest post on a blog you admire that’s relevant to your website.
• Don’t get links from sites that themselves link out to SEO related sites
• Don’t get links from sites that discuss Google PageRank in their ad sections.

For more information about the checklist outlined here, go to SEO Moves

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