The year 2013 brought with it many revolutions in the field of computer and technology, things have changed and have changed for good, there is an improvement in almost every field. With so much innovation going on, how can there not be any innovative steps taken by the geniuses for link building strategies for the year 2013! Gone are the days when sub-par links needed to be built in order to gain links. With the New Year come the 5 top tactics that will help you get better with link building, so read away:
1. Make a Buzzword and seek help from Google Alerts
Buzzwords won’t ever get old! The easiest and most effective way of marketing is to initiate a buzzword or phrase and make it spread. Use it so much till it becomes from just a phrase to a catch phrase. Then, use the ever helpful Google to your advantage. Not everyone who will use your catchphrase will email you or tell you somehow that “hey! I am using your phrase”. Therefore, let Google take the reins on this one! Set up Google Alerts and make it take a snap of every mention of your buzzword. There is a mixed chance that they are talking about your coined word or phrase which will help you build a back link to them and voila!
There are many sites which do not give the owners and users the power of coining and spreading the buzzword. If your site is the same then your efforts will only end up vain. Your alternative is to use StumleUpon and pay a fee of $50 to get your article or site in its lists.
2. Produce a Resource with visual ads
Visual ads are always helpful, be it a classroom or an online community. It has an appeal to the human eye that nothing else holds. So take out that camera of yours and make an interesting video, or put together some interesting info graphics, or even take interesting pictures and reach out to the online communities. Welcome all kind of questions and comments and reply with a backlink to your resource!
If you are opting for this technique then make sure you are being absolutely helpful and nothing else. And also make it sound very genuine and helpful, do not be the lame guy someone hired to promote their links.
3. Make A Strong Back Linking for your website
Back linking is a great way to develop your link building. Back links are also known as Inbound links, incoming links, inward links, and in-links that indicates the popularity of your website among different websites and forums. Search engines give more credit to that website that has large number of quality backlinks.
Backlinking is considered as an essential tool in Search engine optimization and way to gain a high ranking for your website. You can check your competitor back links in order to make your better building strategies.
4. Create Viral Content for your website
You will be very surprised to know that the best way to make link building does not involve any kind of outreaching. It is probably the most effective link building strategy forever.
Today, web is full of content and many of them just follow other patterns. A good content creation refers to the creation of unique, interesting and shareable content on your website. Making good and unique content ideas can be a good approach to make a strong and natural link building.
5. Customize an attractive Widget
You don’t have to be a software engineer to put together some widgets in your site that instantly makes the user to download it in his PC! With little practice and patience, you can create widgets for your site which will fit the branding of the site and appearance making it seem natural part of the site!
Do a little research and reach out to the blogs that come under your expertise and uses the widgets which you can understand and recognize. Place the link there and make sure you offer your take on the widgets so the blogger can see it. For those topics which aren’t centered on the technical industry, these techniques are a great help!

