Manual Link Building

There are different approaches to link building, but mainly they can be divided in manual and automated. Whether you’re a business owner or SEO professional, you know that ranking high in the search engines requires inbound links. Many of them. In fact, the quantity, quality and relevance of links are the key factors in a site’s rating - and the #1 reason why Google places one site above  another on its results pages. 


What we will be discussing here are manual approaches one can take to get some backlinks and better search engine rankings.

When starting out, it's very easy to get lost in the world of SEO, because if you try to swallow it all at once it can be overwhelming for anyone. For that reason, listed below are some easy approaches you can take, apply or use in order to start your learning process of how to build your website's rankings.

How to find Directories for free website submissions

This is one of the first things you shoul do, find directories that accept website submitions and in exchange you get a backlink pointing to your website in their directory database. Use the following search phrases in the Google search box to find these directories:


"add link" + your keyword
"add a link" + your keyword
"add your link" + your keyword
"add site" + your keyword
"add a site" + your keyword
"add your site" + your keyword 
"add url" + your keyword
"add your url" + your keyword
"add website" + your keyword
"add a website" + your keyword
"add your website" + your keyword
"favorite links" + your keyword
"favorite sites" + your keyword
"submit url" + your keyword
"submit your url" + your keyword
"submit website" + your keyword
"submit a website" + your keyword
"submit your website" + your keyword
"submit link" + your keyword
"submit a link" + your keyword
"submit your link" + your keyword
"submit site" + your keyword
"submit a site" + your keyword
"submit your site" + your keyword
"link exchange" + your keyword
"link trade" + your keyword
"link swap" + your keyword
"recommended sites" + your keyword
"recommended links" + your keyword
"recommended places" + your keyword
"cool links" + your keyword
"cool sites" + your keyword
"cool places" + your keyword
"cool websites" + your keyword
"suggest site"
"suggest website"+ your keyword
"suggest a website"+ your keyword
"suggest your website"+ your keyword
"suggest link"+ your keyword
"suggest a link"+ your keyword
"suggest your link"+ your keyword
"suggest a site"+ your keyword
"suggest your site"+ your keyword
"suggest url"+ your keyword
"suggest a url"+ your keyword
"resources"+ your keyword
"exchange links"+ your keyword

"Your keyword" means your website main keyword as directories accept only your index or domain page for submition.

Article Submitions

Another very popular approach is writing articles and submitting them to article directories with a link to your website at the end of the article (bio space at the bottom). If you want to do article writing and submitting, then here is a list of 100 article directories that accept submitions for free (there are also paid ones):

www.ezinearticles.com
www.webpronews.com
www.ideamarketers.com
www.certificate.net
www.goarticles.com
www.netterweb.com
www.articlecentral.com
www.articlefinders.com
www.web-source.net
www.biz-whiz.com
www.xongoo.com
www.websitefuel.com
www.zinos.com
www.addme.com
www.hamazines.com
www.warriorforum.com
www.internethomebusinessarticles.com
www.linksnoop.com
www.submityourarticle.com
www.article-directory.net
www.articlesforwomen.com
www.articlesfactory.com
www.articlez.com
www.isnare.com
www.sideroad.com
www.jorbins.com
www.mainstreetmom.com
www.family-content.com
www.articlesubmissions.com
www.fresh-articles.com
www.freezinesite.com
www.netterweb.com
www.valuablecontent.com
www.womans-netnews.com
www.marketingpitbull.com
www.searchwarp.com
www.awebhostingprovider.com
www.lilengine.com
www.storebuilder.co.uk
www.constant-content.com
www.toparticles.net
www.organic-rankings.com
www.workathomearticles.net
www.webmastertraffictools.com
www.commonconnections.com
www.internethomebusinessarticles.com
www.tigrafix.com/articles/submission.htm
www.allfreelancework.com/submitarticles.php
www.business-opportunity.biz
www.website-traffic.info
www.work-at-home-jobs-iowa.com
www.website-promotion-ranking-services.com
www.uniterra.com/submit-article.htm
www.webmomz.com
www.opportunityupdate.com
www.marketing-of-training.com
www.womans-net.com
www.MakingProfit.com
www.articlecentral.com
www.articlecity.com
www.bestparentingresources.com
www.boconline.com
www.businesstoolchest.coml
www.connectionteam.com
www.authorconnection.com
www.digital-women.com
www.globalnetone.com
www.hercommunity.com
www.howtoadvice.com
www.lrsmarketing.com
www.mega-success.com
www.mainstreetmom.com
www.midamericapublishing.com
www.obp.com
www.opportunityupdate.com
www.promoloop.com
www.promotezone.com
www.smartbiz.com
www.ezinefactory.co.za
www.upromote.com
www.freetraffictip.com
www.sales-masters-world.com
www.home-business-directory.comm
www.linksnoop.com
www.ushopi.comp
www.ezau.com
www.e-zinez.com
www.articlesubmissions.com
www.1st-in-articles.com
www.home-business-income.net
www.home-business-tips-newsletter.com
www.smartads.info
www.lilengine.com
www.biz-ewomen.com
www.home-based-business-opportunities.com
www.allthewebsites.org
www.smallbusinesshowto.com
www.jogena.com
www.williammcdermott.com
www.top-web-marketing.com

Article writing might be a bit laborous from the beginning, but if other website owners decide to use your articles for their websites, then you will get an additional backlink other then that one you will get from the article directory.

Blog commenting and Forum posting

The most popular way of obtaining backlinks manually is blog posting or forum commenting and it's how most people start their link building journies - in fact feel free to comment below and share this content with your friends via social media if you find the information useful. 

One thing to keep in mind is that not all the blogs accept comments and sometimes finding them can be a pain in the ***. When I started out, I didn't have all this info and it was a bit hard learning everything from scratch by scraping information from different websites and blogs around the web (another good thing about blog and forum posting is that you will also run into some very good information about the topics you are interested in, so from that point of view it's a double win situation).

Anyhow, to find the blogs and other websites where you can post comments or otherwise leave your link, here is a chart of keyphrases you can use to ease your work and save some time :

Build free backLinks with WordPress Blogs
• site:.com inurl:blog “post a comment” -”comments closed” -”you must be logged in” “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”
• site:.org inurl:blog “post a comment” -”comments closed” -”you must be logged in” “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”
• site:.gov inurl:blog “post a comment” -”comments closed” -”you must be logged in” “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”
• site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment” -”comments closed” -”you must be logged in” “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”

Build free backlinks with ExpressionEngine Blogs
• site:.edu “powered by expressionengine” “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”
• site:.gov “powered by expressionengine” “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”
• site:.com “powered by expressionengine” “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”
• site:.org “powered by expressionengine” “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”

Build free backlinks with BlogEngine blogs
• site:.edu “Powered by BlogEngine.NET” inurl:blog “post a comment” -”comments closed” -”you must be logged in” “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”
• site:.gov “Powered by BlogEngine.NET” inurl:blog “post a comment” -”comments closed” -”you must be logged in” “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”
• site:.com “Powered by BlogEngine.NET” inurl:blog “post a comment” -”comments closed” -”you must be logged in” “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”
• site:.org “Powered by BlogEngine.NET” inurl:blog “post a comment” -”comments closed” -”you must be logged in” “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”

Build free backlinks with Directories and Submission websites
• intitle:add+url “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”
• intitle:submit+site “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”
• intitle:submit+url “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”
• intitle:add+your+site “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”
• intitle:add+site “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”
• intitle:directory “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”
• intitle:sites “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”
• intitle:list “PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE”

Build free backlinks with Forums
• “Powered by SMF” PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE
• Phbb your keyword
• “powered by IPB” PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE
• MyBB PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE
• “powered by PunBB” PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE
• “Powered by Phbb” PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE
• “Powered by vBulletin” PLACE YOUR KEYWORD HERE

Build free Backlinks with Squidoo Lenses
• site:squidoo.com “new links plexo” “add to this list”
• site:squidoo.com “your keyword” “add to this list”

Hope you find this information useful and that it can help you achieve better rankings for your website/s.

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