Link Building Expert Tip

January 7, 2009 by Collin LaHay
Filed under: Link Building 

Here is an excellent “ten minutes or less” link building tip. Earlier this week when I was browsing a lot of SEO and link building blogs/forums, I found a very good idea to get some easy dofollow links.

The idea is that over time, many bloggers and webmasters will talk about your site, and you will inevitably run into a few who mention a blog post of yours, or your homepage URL, but forget to make it an active hyperlink.

Well, you can use Yahoo.com’s site explorer to find the domains that mention your URL but are not linking to you, and this allows you to easily email the owner and have a huge success rate for them just making the link clickable. Depending on how popular and large your site is, the more links you can build.

The original method that is all over the SEO blogs already is to type this into yahoo.com:
yourdomain.com -linkdomain:yourdomain.com

This would show all blog posts + websites that mention “yourdomain.com” in text but do not link to it.

I went above and beyond this and fiddled with it a bit and came up with a better solution for uberlinkbuilding.com, and here was the best query where I found about 4 websites that mentioned me but didn’t link to me (3 of which have now added a link).
uberlinkbuilding.com -linkdomain:www.uberlinkbuilding.com -linkdomain:uberlinkbuilding.com -site:uberlinkbuilding.com

This would query yahoo.com for anyone that mentioned “uberlinkbuilding.com” or even “www.uberlinkbuilding.com”, but were NOT linking to either the www or just uberlinkbuilding.com, and the -site:uberlinkbuilding.com is so that my own blog posts do not get shown.

The reason I choose this query is because on the original idea, if you did -linkdomain:yourdomain.com, it would still potentially show websites that linked to www.yourdomain.com in the results, making you have a lot more pages to scroll through.

So all in all, use this query (obviously with your own domain)
uberlinkbuilding.com -linkdomain:www.uberlinkbuilding.com -linkdomain:uberlinkbuilding.com -site:uberlinkbuilding.com

Hopefully you can find some blog posts that have your URL in it but are not linking to you. A simple email can give you a few more pagerank dofollow links to help you out in your link building efforts. Good luck! :-)

Comments

19 Comments on Link Building Expert Tip

  1. Chris M on Wed, 7th Jan 2009 6:05 pm

    2. I have been doing this for a while and it’s brilliant. I think during December, I got 6 fresh dofollow links thanks to this :)

  2. Donny Gamble on Wed, 7th Jan 2009 9:30 pm

    3. Great tip Collin. You always give your readers tip to think outside the box a little bit to generate some extra link love

  3. web site promotions on Thu, 8th Jan 2009 6:51 am

    4. Thanks Collin. Another great tip. You seem to always find new ways to get quality backlinks. This is by far my favoirite blog about link bilding.

    Great work.

  4. Melvin on Thu, 8th Jan 2009 10:52 am

    5. wow.,.. awesome. I do have a lot of online friends that never link to my sites while mentioning me..

  5. Sacramento Weddings on Thu, 8th Jan 2009 11:12 am

    6. Thanks Collin for another great idea.

  6. Some Guy on Thu, 8th Jan 2009 11:26 am

    7. I’ve heard this tip many times, but the part no one talks about is how to best contact and pitch people to get them to link to you. In my limited experience trying this, I did not get any responses. I’d love to hear exactly how you guys went about getting people to turn a word into a hyperlink.

  7. Collin LaHay on Thu, 8th Jan 2009 4:10 pm

    8. I knew the people that switched the links for me… so I just sent them an email. I guess it really depends on who the people are and how they know you or talked about you.

    Sorry but there is no easy answer to this one.

  8. Lex on Sat, 10th Jan 2009 8:51 am

    9. This one is genius. Collin, you are a link building God.

  9. Sacramento Weddings on Sun, 11th Jan 2009 2:42 pm

    10. Another expert tip I’d like to pass along is “Galaxy”, an advertising site.

    One page that I did, with minimal content and containing a single sentence with my “Anchor Text” words, is now #24 for “Sacramento Wedding DJs” after being indexed by Google on Jan 8, four hours after I placed the “ad” (page).

  10. Tripti on Tue, 20th Jan 2009 1:36 am

    11. Nice tip Collin!
    I have submitted my articles over number of sites .Some of them copied by other websites, they mentioned author bio but didn’t hyperlink the webpage URL.I used to send email for hyperlinked url of my webpage and I have been getting links from there.

  11. emule gratis on Thu, 29th Jan 2009 7:10 pm

    12. I’ve just found this blog, and I’m AMAZED by the quantity of quality information about link building.

    I’ve already bookmarked the Link BUilding Cookbook, now all I have to do is taking action! :)

    Thanx for this great share.

  12. Mark Wilson on Wed, 4th Feb 2009 4:03 pm

    13. Awesome tip! I wouldn’t have thought of this. Thanks!

  13. Justin Brooke on Wed, 18th Feb 2009 3:30 am

    14. Thanks for sharing this information. A lot of site owners will gladly take note of this information and follow the recommendations.

  14. fahim on Sun, 17th May 2009 6:03 am

    15. Hey borther help me i am new
    i want to know that i have place the link like
    uberlinkbuilding.com -linkdomain:www.uberlinkbuilding.com -linkdomain:uberlinkbuilding.com -site:uberlinkbuilding.com
    this to index more pages which have one way link to me please tell me i cannot understand please brother help me to understand this i am totally new in this field

    please give me step by step instruction

  15. Zed power on Fri, 29th May 2009 7:33 pm

    16. Interesting tip on how to examine your links. Thanks.

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  17. finance solution on Tue, 1st Sep 2009 8:20 am

    18. thank you for your tips.. i found your site’s full of great and useful. once again, thanks :)

  18. James on Sun, 13th Sep 2009 12:52 am

    19. In a recent survey of industry experts, four of the top five search engine ranking factors were link-related. Links may not always be the most important ranking factor, but today, it appears they are the dominating force.

  19. James on Fri, 9th Oct 2009 7:01 am

    20. Nice tip Collin!
    I have submitted my articles over number of sites .Some of them copied by other websites, they mentioned author bio but didn

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