{"id":139,"date":"2008-05-29T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T15:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/blog\/internet-marketing\/linkbuilding-5-reasons-you-should-start-building-links-today\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T14:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T19:02:54","slug":"linkbuilding-5-reasons-you-should-start-building-links-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/blog\/linkbuilding-5-reasons-you-should-start-building-links-today.html","title":{"rendered":"Link Building: 5 Reasons You Should Start Building Links Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i4.photobucket.com\/albums\/y115\/Rizmatic\/iStock_000004874297XSmall.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nAuthor: Henry Adaso<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/website-content-development.htm\">Web Copywriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Link building, a term which generally refers to the strategies people implore in order to attract inbound links, is a good way to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/articles\/google-search-engine-ranking.html\">improve search engine ranking<\/a>. Web users sometimes worry that building links too fast might land them on Google&#8217;s bad side. The truth is, as long as you&#8217;re building links organically it doesn&#8217;t matter how fast you do it. I&#8217;ll get back to that later, but for now, here are 5 reasons to get started with link building:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It gets you noticed:<\/strong> Link building gets you clean, direct (almost always free) click-through traffic. If you&#8217;ve been blogging for a while with no real traffic success, link building just might be the tool you need to get closer to your dream of becoming a webtrepreneur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Your readers will like you better:<\/strong> Your readers come to you for the unique  insight you have to offer, but they also like to get other people&#8217;s perspectives on the same issues. So, linking off to fresh web content elsewhere that they may not have noticed will make them happy campers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Google will like you better<\/strong>: Linking to legitimate sites is a great way to improve Google ranking &#8212; even better, if they link back to you. As I mentioned earlier, the key is in cultivating links naturally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Others will appreciate your gesture &#8212; and probably return the favor: <\/strong>Directing your readers to valuable content on other people&#8217;s sites engenders a feeling of gratitude on the other side. It&#8217;s still one of the most effective reciprocal linking strategies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>All the cool people are doing it:<\/strong> Take a look around. Every successful site is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/articles\/directory-link-building-campaign.html\">making link connections<\/a> (internal and external) these days. It&#8217;s the Internet version of neighborhood block parties, minus the ol&#8217; skool boombox.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>  One more thing<\/strong> (<em>aka fine print<\/em>):<br \/>\nNot all links will get you the search engine optimization success you&#8217;re looking for. Linking to scam websites or other &#8220;bad&#8221; sites, for example, is an easy way to get penalized by search engines. In the same vein, starting a random blog about gulpers and purchasing 10,000 inbound links in one day isn&#8217;t exactly smart link building technique. Peruse the website you&#8217;re linking to and see if it can be valuable to your readers. Reciprocal link is better than no link at all. Form <a href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\/archives\/2008\/05\/29\/17-principles-of-building-good-relationships-with-bloggers\/\">good relationships with other bloggers<\/a>. That will enable you to send brief, polite link requests to them whenever you have something unique to offer.<br \/>\nKeep in mind that it may take a while before your efforts start to yield dividends, so exercise some patience.<br \/>\nHappy link building!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Henry Adaso Web Copywriter Link building, a term which generally refers to the strategies people implore in order to attract inbound links, is a good way to improve search engine ranking. Web users sometimes worry that building links too fast might land them on Google&#8217;s bad side. The truth is, as long as you&#8217;re building links organically it doesn&#8217;t matter how fast you do it. I&#8217;ll get back to that later, but for now, here are 5 reasons to get started with link building: It gets you noticed: Link building gets you clean, direct (almost always free) click-through traffic. If you&#8217;ve been blogging for a while with no real traffic success, link building just might be the tool you need to get closer to your dream of becoming a webtrepreneur. Your readers will like you better: Your readers come to you for the unique insight you have to offer, but they also like to get other people&#8217;s perspectives on the same issues. So, linking off to fresh web content elsewhere that they may not have noticed will make them happy campers. Google will like you better: Linking to legitimate sites is a great way to improve Google ranking &#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[1347],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet-marketing","category-link-building","tag-link-building-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Link Building: 5 Reasons You Should Start Building Links Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/blog\/linkbuilding-5-reasons-you-should-start-building-links-today.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Link Building: 5 Reasons You Should Start Building Links Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Author: Henry Adaso Web Copywriter Link building, a term which generally refers to the strategies people implore in order to attract inbound links, is a good way to improve search engine ranking. 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