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Day 38 of The 100 Days To Building A Great Website Guide

Sure, everyone would like to slowly build up their site with content and climb the search engine rankings.  That may be good in the long term, but occasionally you just want some quick and easy links.   They may not have the best anchor text, they may not be as valuable as a review from an A list blogger, but a link is a link

Here are some places you can satisfy your urging for quick and dirty links

Comments

With the Advent of the Dofollow plugin, more and more blogs are shifting from using rel=nofollow tags to handing out the link love.  You can find a list of all the blogs employing Dofollow here.    If you are going to comment for the links, aim for the older pages.  Go back a couple of months to before the last Page Rank update.   Find the pages which have some page rank and focus your time on them.   After all, that is the point, so use your time well.

Note : Do not Spam!  There is a difference between commenting on some one’s blog, and getting a link out of it, and spamming their site.    A good comment might be “I enjoyed the article article, but I think you overlooked this…… It might be valuable to your readers if they try using this Firefox extension instead of that one, which is a little outdated”   A bad comment would be “Nice post”   In fact, so many people just try to use the “Nice Post” gambit that some bloggers I know have added “Nice” to their list of banned words

Forums

Forums are always good for a couple links.  Tossing them in your signature and writing posts or replies can drive traffic and may add links.  (Many forums use no follow)  When doing this I aim for “Sticky” posts at the top of the forum, as these are the posts that people will most likely see.   Once again I stress the difference between a good forum post and spam.

But say you are just about the backlinks, and don’t want to waste your time on a forum with rel=nofollow.  How can you tell if they give out Google SEO juice or not?

Chris at Blog-Op has recently pointed out a great firefox extension that lets you do exactly that.  Search Status will highlight all the links in on a page that have the rel=nofollow extension.   So turn that on and browse your forums.   See a page with a bunch of pink?  Keep looking

Blog Carnival

Good old reliable Blog Carnival.  They are quite great for getting some one way links.  Since many blogs that host blog carnivals are high quality the backlinks that you get can have some value.   To save yourself some time, use the carnival’s Multi Submit page.   You can quickly scroll through the list and find all the carnivals which interest you.