One of
the least thought of ways to get backlinks to your site is to actually
offer real value to your readers! If you create an informative site,
you will acquire backlinks naturally from people who enjoy &
benefit from your content. Other webmasters/bloggers will link to you
as they will want to share your content with their readers
Another link baiting tactic that you can use is to be controversial.
When you write about controversial subjects, people have a tendancy to
get "stirred up" and they'll want to take action by linking to your
site and/or leaving comments.
A great example of this would be this past US Presidential
election. The country was fairly divided between candidates Barack
Obama and John McCain ... and those that liked one basically hated the
other. If you were to post anything negative about Obama, then his
supporters would be quick to bash you ... and McCains supporters would
be quick to support you. Either way you would get plenty of backlinks!
:-)
Here's another link baiting tactic -- pay attention to current affairs
and offer content/tools that are applicable to a major story. For
example:
I have a friend that has an automotive site. Recently when the
price of oil hit $150 a barrel and gas was $4 gallon, my friend added a
"Lowest Price Gas" script to his site that would show you where the
cheapest gas was in your area. All you had to do was just type in your
zipcode. He told me that within a month he had over 1,400 sites linking
to that application. Yep, over 1,400 backlinks just from one little
script!
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(1) The jury is still out about whether there is added value in getting backlinks from sites in your niche (not talking about getting pass-through traffic, just the backlink value). Many many people feel this is way overrated, me being one of them.
(2) With respect to "do follow", it certainly has a value by google, but really no effect as to yahoo, etc.
(3) You briefly mentioned this sort of thing in the "hitch a ride" section, but IMHO the best and easiest way to get great quality backlinks is from putting links in your profile and forum and web 2.0 properties, where the underlying domain has a high PR. Many of us have had phenomenal success with this linkjuice.
(4) Not everyone agrees as to how much of an issue it is to get tons of backlinks quickly. Many believe that the whole Google sandbox thing is way overrated. If we are talking thousands and thousands to a new domain, then OK. but I don't think throwing a hundred of backlinks at a EZA article a day is going to do anything but help you get to the top of google.
