Blog

7 Amazing strategies to build links in 2021

**Updated for 2021
Although Google has worked a lot in order to eliminate various exploitive link building methods, SEO experts still find a way to cheat the system.

Now, from the perspective of Google search engine, links should come naturally and you should never force them yourself.

In 2017, we are much more attentive in terms of link quality and relevance. You are no longer able to spam various niches and get batches of links in order to boost a page. Google sees right through it.

Still, even though everything looks peachy, there are numerous gray hat link building methods that are being used on a daily basis.

In this short article I will review 7 awesome link building strategies that still work and will not get you into trouble.

 

  1. Guest posts

Writing guest posts is one of those strategies that should’ve have been long gone. However, guest posting still exists although not in the same way it was several years ago.

Today, it is really important to focus on relevancy and quality. You have to get links from your niche and preferably, from authoritative sources.

I feel that Google still doesn’t want to pursue guest posts due to their obvious advantages. They simply give life to blogosphere.

If you consider that the biggest website heavily depends on guest contributors, you can easily see how the whole system could go down due to this small change.

When talking about link building, guest posting is probably the best method to use; not only do you get backlink and exposure but you’re also working on building relationships with other bloggers.

 

  1. Round ups

Here is another good method. Unlike guest posting which is in the gray zone, roundups are completely straight.

Roundup is a content types where you ask numerous bloggers a question and present their answers within an article. In fact, this is probably one of the best ways to attract attention to a newly created website.

The most important thing about roundups is that it helps you create a list of all the influencers within the niche. You get to copy their emails and website which can be used later on. So, it’s not only a link building method; it is used for competitive analysis as well.

Have in mind that influencers don’t have to link back to you (or better said, your roundup). Still, most of them will share this news with their readers as it is always positive when you’re invited to give your professional opinion.

 

  1. Turning mentions into links

This is one of the best and easiest ways to get links.

Basically, all you have to do is check the web and see where you’re mentioned. After that, you just contact site owner and persuade him to turn that mention into a link.

In theory, this is all nice and well but it does have some drawbacks.

If you’re a small website, there is a good chance no one will be mentioning you. Even if you’re a medium sized one, you will be mentioned only occasionally.

Luckily for you, you can check all the mentions really quickly by using one of numerous tools so at least you won’t spend too much time on it.

 

  1. Broken link building

During broken link building, you need to find a page that was no longer active. Also, this page received a lot of links.

Now, you recreate that page and start pitching people who initially linked out. You mention that there is a broken link on their website and you offer a substitution.

As most of bloggers do not wish to remove their content, they will likely replace the link in question. Still, they might even rephrase the whole paragraph or sentence if it’s not too much of a hassle.

Broken link building is a win-win situation where you actually offer something to the website owner. Again, it can lead to some issues (for example, your broken link building project can reach original article creator and he might decide to pursue you).

In general, it’s one of the most powerful and legit ways to build one-way links to your sites today.

 

  1. Explainer videos

Link building content is constantly fluctuating.

As soon as one type becomes popular, it slowly starts becoming redundant, boring and overused. Suddenly, everybody starts pitching you with emails asking you to read their post and if possible, link out to it.

This is why you constantly need to change your approach.

One of the newest content types that is meant to bring you link is explainer video.

This is a short form video that lasts for 2-3 minutes and is used to define a term or better yet, explain something. It can easily fit on any page and can improve your content.

For example, instead of explaining something with words, you simply embed an explainer video that provides you with a visual explanation.

Explainers can be full of ideas for your link building. I suggest you check these 14 Types of animated explainers by BreadNBeyond which are full of great ideas.

 

  1. Scholarships

This is one of the best methods for building links and yet, it is the most expensive one.

During scholarship campaign, you offer scholarships to students. Basically, you start pitching scholarship departments of various websites and wait to see who responds. If they decide to use your plan, they will post an announcement on their blog. Most often than not this will be a link to your company.

Great thing about this approach is that you will get top notch .edu links which are hard to get otherwise.

The main issue? It takes of time and money.

 

  1. HARO

HARO or Help A Reporter Out is a platform that connects bloggers and journalists. Through it, journalists are always able to get freshest news.

It connects you to biggest media outlets and can provide some awesome links. But, you need to have something that is newsworthy.

This can be a study, research or something else of value that hasn’t been published anywhere else. Link that you will receive will likely be awesome but it will take you a lot of time to get there.

8. Niche edits

similar to broken link building but usually involves in placing links on hacked wordpress sites – not recommended if you’re dont know what you’re doing.

Nikolay Stoyanov is a well-known Bulgarian SEO expert with nearly 10 years of SEO experience. He blogs about SEO on his blog NikSto.com. Nikolay practices 100% white hat SEO and has a vast experience in keyword research, on-page optimization, SEO auditing and white hat link building. He enjoys learning new things, making new friendships and improving his skills all the time.

The 5 Types of Essential Remarketing List Segmentations

Table of Contents

The 5 Types of Essential Remarketing List Segmentations and Why You Need Ad Banner Sets Created For Each

Foreword: This post is draft number two, for a future blog post (so this is unpublished, looking for a home), but I wanted to share it here first because:
A) I think it’s important to know what the essential remarketing segmentation lists to build for own sites or clients and
B) I wanted to get your feedback and questions about the best practices surrounding Remarketing List Segmentation and the blog article overall.

I appreciate any feedback and questions, to help make it a better post, prior to submission. [Note to marketers: Described here are Segmentation Lists you should build using the Google Adwords Remarketing Pixel, BUT the CONCEPTS can be applied to ANY Ad Network/Social PPC use or CRM/Email Marketing Automation tool. Also, this post addresses the importance of each segmentation list, which then corresponds to having a NEED to produce ad banner sets with messaging+creative that matches appropriately to each list.
In other words, up to FIVE different types of Ad Banner Sets is often required for an advertiser to MAXIMIZE the effectiveness of running remarketing campaigns, using these five remarketing segmentation lists. By using these five, the ROAS (return on ad spend) can increase as much as xxx% by using the appropriate ad banner set, with the corresponding remarketing list.] (Portland, OR – by Ed Bisquera) – Alright, so this post isn’t about WHAT remarketing is as much as it’s about what remarketing lists should you build. After all, you could just build ONE remarketing list for everyone that visits your website overall, but that wouldn’t serve your brand well or your offer to your audience justice. You want to be presenting remarketing ads that are pertinent to the buying path your website audience is on AND that is also based upon what content they’ve consumed or actions they have or have not taken.
Let’s also keep in mind that remarketing is here to stay, in our digital marketing toolbox and that by utilizing remarketing businesses can:
1. Increase their overall conversion rates with more remarketing impressions*.
2. Reach 90% of all internet users worldwide using the Google Display Network and Facebook Ad Network*.
3. Increase repeat visitors by 50%, boost conversions by 51% and increase time on site by 300%*!
4. Help SEO efforts seven-fold or make your SEO 7 Times More Awesome, because Remarketing keeps your brand in front of your audience and compels them to take action*.
(* Source: Wordstream.com)

So, let’s get down to what the FIVE different types of Remarketing Segmentation Lists EVERY competition-crushing local business needs to have, before running ANY Remarketing Campaigns. [Disclaimer: First, list segmentation will vary a bit, depending on whether you’re going to use STANDARD or DYNAMIC remarketing. In this post, we’ll focus on STANDARD, then address using dynamic remarketing where appropriate.]

Remarketing Segmentation List 1: Homepage viewers

Strategy: This is a list built upon the most broad interaction a person can have with a business website. So, as a marketer this would be anyone that views your home page, after clicking through from your email signature, social media profiles, business listings, basically anywhere on the web you have listed, promoted and advertised your main url, which goes straight to your homepage. You’ll want to have a general Ad Banner Set, that is more general in nature and speaks to your brand offer, so this type of list would most likely require a “Branding” type of Ad Banner.

Why create list 1?: To reinforce your brand across the web after people visit your home page, but that doesn’t dive deeper into your site’s content OR that have visited your website but haven’t crossed into the other types of segmentation lists as described below. It is said that a person needs to see your ad/brand at least SEVEN times before they begin to trust your brand/business and are able to recall well. If the person has never heard of you but had an initial introduction in some way to visit your home page for whatever reason and didn’t take action, they likely clicked away. Recapture their interest, present your brand again and again, by using an ad banner set to reach this list of people. How to do it: See attached document from Google.

Remarketing Segmentation List 2: Category Page Viewers

Note: As a marketer of mostly “static” services, you may or may not have categories of services and/or content categories on your website. It’s assumed that you maintain a blog and produce content on your website, that is categorized. So while this may not pertain to you at the moment, understand that you may have a need for creating this type of list in the future for your own consulting company and more importantly it’s likely your clients will need to create this type of List. This list and strategy, works especially well for multi-service category sites or e-commerce.
Using Standard Remarketing Strategy: Showcase display banner ads that match up to different product or service categories. People in this list have shown interest in a particular category or “division” of your marketing service company, let’s say content category of “Video Marketing” so your ad banner messaging to this list can speak to specials, discounts, or beta programs directly related to this category/division of your company.
How to do it: You’ll want to create separate Remarketing Lists FOR EACH Service (or Product/SKU) Category using a URL that contains the “category name.”
You’ll also want to setup an “exclusion list” for users that move deeper down the purchase funnel, so you don’t overlap your Remarketing Lists+Remarketing Ad Banners. Basically, you don’t want people to see this List 2 Ad Banners, once they move to the product purchase phase and/or complete a purchase.
You do this by creating a custom combination list CONTAINING Service/Product Category page viewers, THEN EXCLUDE Lists 3-5 (described below, which is the offer page viewers, shopping cart abandoners, and past converted buyers). You’ll then repeat for each category this same process.
Using Dynamic Remarketing Strategy: This is an advanced strategy, reserved for experienced marketers that have worked with ecommerce sites/clients, dynamic product feeds and shopping cart systems. How to do it: If you care to dive into it deeper, see attached Google document or contact me with your questions and needs for your particular situation.

Remarketing Segmentation List 3: Specific Service, Product, Offer or Landing Page viewers

For marketers, this would be pages such as landing pages with lead magnet offers. So, if you’re running a cold email marketing campaign, this could be a list built from those people that open your email, click through to the landing page you want them go to, BUT that didn’t take any further action, for whatever reason. Or traffic could come from search ppc ads, social ppc ads, or from other advertising channels.
This list could also be specific service or product pages on your website people have viewed, but did not go any further down the purchase funnel. They didn’t click on the buy button, add to shopping cart, or in the case of a lead magnet offer, they didn’t “Optin” with their email.
Strategy: You’ll want to create an Ad Banner set that re-engages users with ads content referencing this page type (landing pages and/or specific service or product pages) or with “dynamic ads” if an e-commerce site. These Ad Banners would include the Service/Product the person previously viewed (for dynamic remarketing of e-commerce sites we’ll discuss later in a follow up post). Your messaging+creative that is designed in the Ad Banners, may also speak to special discounts or offers that resonates with your potential customer to take immediate action.
How to do it: You’ll just create a remarketing list that includes all visitors to specific service or product pages on your website. Then you’ll want to EXCLUDE list types #4 & #5, “Shopping Cart Abandoners” and “Past conversions,” respectively.

Remarketing Segmentation List 4: Shopping Cart Abandoners

These are folks who added products to a shopping cart OR clicked on the buy button, but didn’t complete the purchase. These are also visitors that filled out a Lead Magnet Form BUT didn’t press the “Submit” button on the form. This list is likely going to be smaller overall, but they usually perform better, conversion-wise, versus a more broad based type visitor to your homepage.
Strategy: So basically you’ll want these visitors who were “almost done” completing the wanted action (buy conversion or lead conversion) and invite them back through the Ad Banners’ creative and messaging, to complete the process.
How to do it: You’ll build it from the logic of “Visitors of a page who DID NOT visit another page” in the drop-down menu (on the Google Adwords dashboard, under Audiences, which is beneath the Shared Library Tab). You’ll choose the URL of the shopping cart page OR the URL of the Lead Magnet Form Page.
Next, just EXCLUDE visitors who DID CONVERT, by selecting the conversion page aka the “thank you page” or whatever confirmation page that confirms those people have converted or submitted a completed lead form.

Remarketing Segmentation List 5: Past visitors that have CONVERTED

These are the visitors that bought from your site, who are now customers OR they took a conversion action, such as submitting their contact info in a lead form.
Strategy: You’ll want to run Ad Banner display ads to upset or cross-sell these customers since they are now part of your list and have actually taken valuable action on your site already. Your Ad Banner messaging could also recommend similar content, services or products to they’ve already consumed or bought.
How to do it: Easy peasy – just create a remarketing list who have reached your conversion page or purchase confirmation page. And that’s it, you’ve just built the FIVE Remarketing Segmentation Lists, highly recommended to maximize your remarketing advertising campaigns.

It is recommended you keep the overall number of remarketing lists to the strategies listed above, and you may have fewer or more, depending upon your volume of site traffic and the way your site is structured. Keep in mind the fewer the lists, the more people will be available in the lists and it will often be easier to optimize and track the statistical differences.

One last thing to note: the length of your “cookie duration” (the length of time Google keeps those visitors that have been “pixeled” aka “cookied” by your remarketing pixel) will depend on your objectives and the RELEVANCY your ad is.
For example, an e-commerce site selling Halloween costumes, may choose a shorter cookie length, say 15-30 days, since it is an date specific event and it may not take as much time for a person to decide to purchase. On the other hand, a financial services or real estate company may choose a cookie length of 3 months to a year since the sales cycle is much longer.

Remarketing is a very powerful digital marketing tool for advertisers and marketers, and using the best practices of building, at minimum, the Essential FIVE Remarketing Segmentation Lists for your website, will help you maximize your remarketing dollars and help you reach and/or exceed your ad campaign goals.
If you have further questions or comments, please feel free to leave them below. And I invite you to follow me on Twitter at @edbisquera for further content regarding remarketing, or just to say “hey” and stay in touch.

SEO Services In Richmond Hill NY

If you are looking for a reliable advertising agency to take care of all your SEO needs in Richmond Hill NY, look no further!

We are experts at what we do and with over 8 years of experience in online marketing doing SEO mostly you can count on us to take care of your online presence.

Richmond Hill SEO services

We at GODRANK will make sure to do the PROPER keyword research and the PROPER competition analysis so we can get an accurate estimates and get our clients the best ROI.

Don’t wait, your competition are working everyday on their brand and online presence.

We will work to get the clients come to you instead of your competitors.