Reprinted article, I feel it is well written. Common external link promotion methods and comparisons for English sites:
- Social bookmarking; Recommendation level: ***** Description: The most basic external link promotion method now.
- Article directory submission; Recommendation level: ***** Description: One of the methods of high-quality external links, but it is relatively difficult.
- Link exchange with other webmasters; Recommendation: ***** Description: The most effective and easiest to control method.
- Forum posting & signature; Recommendation level: **** Description: The most original and relatively effective method, but it is easy to be deleted as spam. If you do this well, it is the most critical.
- Blogging and commenting on other related do-follow blogs; Recommendation level: **** Description: A relatively effective and popular method, with the same shortcomings as above. Also, it is difficult to find do-follow blogs.
- Buy high PR links from sites in your niche; Recommendation level: *** Note: Of course, MONEY is a prerequisite.
- Employ bloggers with high pagerank sites to review your content (eg reviewme); Recommendation: *** Description: Same as above.
- Press release submission; Recommendation level: **** Note: If you have a news source, this method is quite powerful. Of course the difficulty is also quite high.
- Web link directory submission; Recommendation level: *** Description: The effect is not very good anymore. Submitting to some high-quality lists or related lists is enough.
- Search engine submission; Recommendation level: ** Description: Nowadays, few people submit to search engines. Search engines come to them automatically.
- Link exchange websites; Recommendation level: ** Note: Don’t let Google think you are in a link farm.
- 3 Way Linking; Recommendation: ** Note: Just do it if you have enough resources.
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- Sponsoring and hosting some contest; Recommendation level: * Note: I will talk about it when I have a chance. Of course, the effect goes without saying.
- Creating a wordpress or blogger template and give it for free; Recommendation: * Note: It seems that this method is outdated.
- Create a wordpress plugin; Recommendation: * Description: Try it if you have the ability.