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6 Top Most Effective Link Building Tools

By: Dominique Blanc

Almost every webmaster and Internet marketer who is serious about his online business cares of driving more traffic to his website. We all know that the closer to the top in search engine results the site is, the more it is visited by Internet users. But how to get that cherished place on the first page in the search engine? The answer is link building.

Link building is the process of getting links pointing to your site from other websites. The more incoming links your site has, the more value it represents for search engines. The quality of incoming links does matter too.

In this article I'd like to suggest the tools you can use to build quality links to your website:

1. Articles. Write the articles about the products or services you offer on your website and submit them to article directories. The idea is to include a link to your site into every article. Each article listed in many directories has the potential to build thousands of links for you.

2. Bookmarks. A great idea is to bookmark your articles. Every time you bookmark an article, you are linking back to your website. You can bookmark the web pages with your articles with popular bookmark sites, for example digg.com and del.icio.us, these sites are growing in popularity by the day. Also, adding social bookmark links to your articles makes it easy for readers to save and share your content. You can use this Social Bookmarking Tool to bookmark your articles with more than 50+ social bookmarking sites.

3. Forums. You can search for forums related to your business and leave the posts on them. Include the link to your site into your signature and every post you make will become an inbound link.

4. Blogs. An off site blog is a great means for building links and gaining traffic because every post you make is a separate web page. Link to your website and you'll have some good inbound links.

5. Social networking. With social networking link building comes in when you set up your profile. You'll make friends and drive traffic to your website.

6. Web directories. Directory submission is one of the best ways to get natural quality links for your website. The more directories you list your website with, the more inbound links you have. The easiest and quickest way to submit the site to web directories is to use a directory submitter tool. Directory submission software already has a large database of directories included within the program and automates the process of site submission. So, it is also the more time saving method of link building because you don't waste your time by searching the Internet for themed directories.

You can find many companies offering fast, easy and free directory submission software on the Internet. Conduct a search for "Directory Submitter" or "Link Directory Submitter" in Google, Yahoo or MSN and you will find many websites that offer these types of programs.

Free directory submission software is absolutely the best SEO technique because it allows you optimize your new and existing websites as frequently as you would like and doesn't cost your anything.

I've just scratched the surface in the article presented. You can find a lot more valuable information about how to increase your site popularity by building quality one way links here: Link Building Guide

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Social bookmarking Sites


Digg
Technorati
Stumble Upon
Del.icio.us
Reddit
Furl
Faves.com


Clipmarks


Social Networking Sites


My Space: This is rumored to be a site that's "just for kids" but I would have to disagree. Ever since I've changed my profile to that of a professional marketer, I'm getting friend requests from other professionals as well as generating free leads.
Friends Win:
Facebook: I haven't quite gotten the hang of searching on this yet, but I know that some of my friends found me right away. It's like a grown up's My Space. there are a lot of marketers on here.
Zion 5: This one seems to spread really quickly. I had a lot of people in my friends list fast. Also, you can promote your website or leads generation system or anything you want, affiliate urls, whatever. As many as you want. I have already generated leads from this website and I've only been a member a short time.
Yuwie: Similar to My Space in that you can create cool layouts, email friends, comment friends. But there are 2 differences. You can join clubs with people who share similar interests and you can earn money by being a member.
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Conquer Your Niche: Marketing, Network marketing, submit articles, copywriting, offline marketing.
Digital Point Forum: SEO, affiliate marketing, PPC, keywords, webdesign, website reviews
Work At Home Forum: Biz opp and program reviews, motivation, general marketing, website promotion, Webdesign and hosting, ideas, contests, some actual opportunities forums, squidoo, work at home moms, work at home dads, raising kids.
WAHM Message BoardWork at home mom's forum.
Website Babble: Website babble lounge, website ideas, domain names, web hosting, web design and software, HTML and scripting, uploading/ FTP, images and video, blogging/ RSS, site build it questions, site reviews, website promotion, SEO, link development/ popularity, PPC, money making questions, affiliate programs, selling, Adsense and other ad programs, accepting payments.
5 Star Affiliate Programs: Newbie affiliate forum, affiliate network forums, affiliate and webmaster tools, adware and spyware issues, SEO and search engine marketing, Web 2.0, video and social marketing forum, RSS marketing/ blogging, general Internet issues, webmaster universe, article submission, site review forum, link building, ads and offers.
The Newbie Business Center Forum: This is my forum and it hasn't gotten going yet, but I'm here to moderate and to tell you that you can ask ANYTHING. There are no stupid questions.

Lens Sites


Hub Pages: Create a "hub" about anything you want. Very Google friendly.

Clipmarks: Share things you find online with friends on Facebook, My Space or any other website. Email clips or post them directly to your blog.

Wetpaint: Start your own Wiki. Make it about anything you want. They have 24 templates you can choose from
Xanga: Video blog, weblog, or photo blog.

Squidoo: Create a 'lens" about anything you want. Create as many lenses as you can churn out. maybe 1 per keyword? Google loves these.


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