A curated list of backlink, social signal opportunities, social media marketing, and referral traffic generation ideas.
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- Are Link Exchanges a Legitimate SEO Strategy in 2021?
- Google Search Central -> Link schemes note "[e]xcessive link exchanges"
- An easy way to build links (no fluff)
- Further research required, mentioned but not endorsed: Engage a link-building service (RhinoRank, Authority Builders, Crowdo).
- Create an infographic (a dated strategy) -- from What Type of Backlinks Does Your Business Really Need Right Now? : "[a]t the old KISSMetrics site, 47 infographics generated 2,512,596 visitors and 41,142 backlinks from 3,741 unique domains" and "...at Quicksprout, every infographic I published generated 41,487 visitors and 469 backlinks from 38 unique domains" -- when we're talking ROI creating an infographic, at least insofar as these numbers go, probably has the highest potential return. See also 12 Infographic Tips That You Wish You Knew Years Ago. See also Canva: Free infographic maker.
- Create an image and release it on a site such as Flickr under creative commons distribute with attribution as a backlink to your website (source: Creative Commons Image Link Building Strategy — Free Template). See also Using Flickr To Help Generate Backlinks.
- Add a link on a page from your company website to the project
- Add a link on a page from your blog to the project
- Twitter (social signal)
- LinkedIn Company Updates - Add a URL to the project will be available for indexing (shortened links are considered redirects by Google).
- LinkedIn Group Posts - Do NOT count as backlinks but may help to bring awareness to a project.
- LinkedIn Personal Posts - Do NOT count as backlinks but may help to bring awareness to a project.
- Write an article on _____ and backlink to the project.
- Medium.com
Medium publications may publish an your article if it meets their criteria. This would expand the audience size considerably, for example:
- HackerNoon.com has ~484k subscribers (FYI no longer on medium.com)
- PM Insider has ~18k members
- Startup Grind has ~414k members
- Better Programming has ~ 168k followers.
- [WANTED: Other publications here]
- DZone.com has ~1mm+ subscribers (TBC)
- dev.to
- reddit.com
- theserverside.com
- DevToolsDigest
- StackOverflow -- Note that (from StackOverflow), "A link to a solution is welcome, but please ensure your answer is useful without it: add context around the link so your fellow users will have some idea what it is and why it’s there, then quote the most relevant part of the page you're linking to in case the target page is unavailable"
- Tumblr, see also Do Tumblr links still work for SEO in 2019?
- InformIT (TBC)
- [WANTED: Other sites here]
- Medium.com
Medium publications may publish an your article if it meets their criteria. This would expand the audience size considerably, for example:
- Answer questions on Quora and link to the project.
- Answer questions
- For content generation opportunities look for questions with a large number of views and/or upvotes and develop content around that subject.
- Send email to group mailing lists (project awareness, may be indexed if the mailing list is is archived and publicly available).
- Create a video and release it on YouTube and link to the project in the description.
- Find appropriate awesome-[x] lists and add a link to your project there.
- Find complimentary projects and add the backlink to the README in a "See Also" section or where appropriate. Note that reciprocity is likely welcomed.
- Talk about the project in a podcast and request that the project backlink be added in the details.
- [Podcasts WANTED]
- Talk at a meetup.com event and request that the project backlink be added in the details.
- Post on Facebook (for referral traffic, see also https://monitorbacklinks.com/blog/seo/facebook-backlinks )
- Showcase the project including the backlink on Google My Business
- To be confirmed: Link from a document which was released for Amazon Kindle back to your website.
- Create a document with a backlink and upload it to Scribd.
- Convert your content into a YouTube educational video and submit it to the FreeCodeCamp.org channel, which has ~2.4mm subscribers.
- Present your content via EventBright (TBC if this idea has merit)
- AWS IQ members can add links to other sites in their biography -- you can see an example in my AWS IQ profile.
- In the "About" section of a project on GitHub you can add a link to your website or to the project website if it's hosted elsewhere.
- BuiltIn -- "Built In is a national community united around a shared passion for tech, offering content and career opportunities, whether you want to work at home or in office." -- see, for example, companies built in Washington, DC.
- WebPagetest.org -- see also WPO Foundation on GitHub
- Google PageSpeed Insights
- Chrome Developer Tools Lighthouse
- Google Rich Results Test
- Facebook for Developers : Sharing Debugger
- Twitter Card Validator
- LinkedIn Post Inspector
- KeyCDN http2-test
- KeyCDN brotli-test
- KeyCDN Performance Tools
- Neustar UltraTools DNS Speed Test
- GZIP and Brotli Compression Test
- CDN77 TLS Checker
- dunp lab PWA tester online -- Note that the Chrome browser Lighthouse testing tool also has PWA auditing.
- Small SEO Tools : Keyword Rank Checker
- Google AMP Test
- AMP Project Validator
- Google Webmaster Tools Robots.txt testing tool
- Crawler Test -- Used to test how custom crawlers handle edge cases such as JavaScript or Cyrilic URLs.
- SEO Learning Center / On-Site SEO / Title Tag
- Ahrefs Website "Authority" Checker
- TechnicalSEO.com
- LinkWhisper: Building Smart Internal Links Just Got Easier
- Moz Local -- Moz Local helps you easily create and manage your local business listings on Google, Facebook, and other sites to help consumers find and choose your business; see also: What is Local SEO?.
- Surfer Local -- Surfer Local is a tool for analyzing competitors and generating strategies for growing business.
- Local SEO: A Simple (But Complete) Guide See quote re Bing Places "there will be an option to import data from Google My Business."
- How To Dominate The Google Snack Pack & Local SEO
- Moz Local has a publish button -- TBD regarding how effective this is at event announcements.
- Meetup.com
- Google My Business -> Posts -> Add Event
- Dev.to
- Slack Communities
- 13 Ways to Use Facebook Events for Your Brand
- tiny jpg -- Don't assume that images are compressed prior to uploading them. Uncompressed images can place a significant drag on a web server so it will behoove you to compress the image before uploading it.
- BuiltWith -- Find out what websites are built with.
- 15 Awesome SEO Competitor Analysis Tools
- 28 Social Media Backlinks To Increase Your Rankings In 2020
- How to Find 50 Backlink Opportunities in Just 20 Minutes
- What are Backlinks? And How to Build Them in 2020
- 20 SEO Link Building Methods for 2020
- How to Find Who Links to Your Website (and What to Do Next)
- 9 EASY Link Building Strategies (That ANYONE Can Use)
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Other articles pertaining to SEO can be found at ThosPFuller.com
- How to Create SEO Friendly URLs
- 15 Smart Ways to Find Guest Posting Opportunities
- How to Build High-Quality Backlinks When Nobody Knows Your Name
- SEO Hidden Gem: How do you find out which questions your site ranks for?
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