This document discusses various link building strategies and tactics. It provides over 30 ideas for generating links, including automated content, social media engagement, guest blogging, infographics, tweets, columns, digital media, widgets, and tools for monitoring links. The overall goal of the link building is to create just enough links to rank number 1 for target keywords without putting clients at risk.

1. REAL WORLD
LINKBUILDING
Patrick Altoft
Director of Search, Branded3

3. Goal of Linkbuilding
Create just enough links to rank number 1 for your
target keywords without putting clients at risk

4. DON’T BUILD LINKS
WITHOUT
IMPROVING THE SITE

5. Automated Content Ideas From Analytics

6. Send To Your Writers

7. Vary Anchor Text

8. Google Suggest & Keyword Tool
used cars
used cars for sale
used cars for sale uk
autotrader
auto trader
auto trader cars
autotrader cars
cars
cars for sale
cars for sale uk
click here for used cars
used car search

9. Linkbuilding process
Competitor Search Shortlist QA
Analysis Google sites process
Content Pitch
Place links Story ideas
production stories
QA Promote
Track links
process links

10. The News Method
Monday
Shortlist Press
News Blog Post
Target Sites Release
Brainstorm
Publish Rewrite Syndicate Social

11. Infographics
• Cost per link?
• Good links?

12. Infographics
Seed Paid Social
Create
Socially Campaign
Email Email
Pay For
Industry Infographic
Coverage?
Sites Sites

13. Industrial Strength Tweeting – 6m tweets

14. Lots of Links
• Hashtags
• Keywords

15. How can we get social juice to money pages?
• Each entry sends out
tweet
• Each entry follows
the brand

16. Social Trust

17. Social Linking

18. Quotes

19. Weekly or Monthly Columns

20. Digital Media
• Images
• Videos
• Presentations
• Graphs
• Charts

21. Widgets
• List of hot products
• Dynamically updates via XML
• Wordpress plugin
• Clean links
• Perfect for sites with lots of
product churn

22. TOOLS

23. Link Monitoring
Moz
Metrics
Target
PageRank
URL
Link
Crawler
Anchor
Indexed
Text
Count
Bad
External
Words
Links

24. Financial Modelling of Links vs Time
• How much is a link worth?
• Time = money
• Few links worth >£250

25. Questions?
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• patrick@branded3.com