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The Link-Building Cookbook

By Sheila on May 11, 2008 in Link-building

What is Link Building?
Link building is the process of getting websites to link to your homepage, or one of your website’s internal pages. An example link would be me telling you that this blog is written by Collin LaHay. The link to my blog’s homepage with the text “collin lahay” tells Google that this site is about Collin LaHay, and that this blog deserves to rank for a Google search of “collin lahay.” The more websites that you can get to link to yours, the higher you will rank in the search engine for that term, and the higher your Google Pagerank will be. Not only will you increase your websites rank for the term that the other sites link to yours with, but you will rank for a lot of other keywords once your pagerank increases.

In simple terms, the more websites that link to yours the more search engine visitors you will receive.

What is the Link Building Cookbook?
The Link Building Cookbook is a guide for webmasters to quickly find websites that they can get to link to their websites. In a nutshell, this guide provides hundreds of places to get to link to you so that you can get more search engine traffic in a lot less time than building links the standard way.

The Link Building Cookbook is updated very frequently, and features thousands of places where normal webmasters would not have thought they could build links to their website. This guide helps you find “the diamonds in the rough,” or in other terms, the best places to build links without paying heavy amounts of money.

Disclaimer
Before you begin your link building campaign, I want everyone to know that some of these techniques may be considered blackhat, greyhat, or some even border line unethical. Due to the nature of this frequently updated guide and the fact that these sites are normally used for purposes other than link building, I make no guarantee that these links will be permanent or that any of the sites mentioned in this guide are still online. For example, if you are reading a 4-6 month old post about a site that you can build links off of, the site may have shutdown since then but for the sake of this guide, I will leave all the previous posts mentioned.

I personally believe that since many people are using these secret underground techniques for maximizing their profits, I will show the rest of the world them freely on my blog. Feel free to copy any segment of the Link Building Cookbook onto your own blog, so long as proper credit is given.

April 6th Update
I have sorted the list by which links provide “nofollow” links, and which links are “dofollow” links. The dofollow links are to be used for raising your ranks in the search engines, as well as bringing your website new visitors. The “nofollow” link section is to be used only for getting new visitors to your websites and for branding purposes.

Part 1 – CBox – 400,000 free backlinks using Google [NOFOLLOW]

Part 2 – Two easy free links for all of your sites [DOFOLLOW]

Part 3 – Unlimited free .edu and .gov links [SOME OF EACH]

Part 4 – Free PR2 .edu blog posts [DOFOLLOW]

Part 5 – Free .edu backlinks using guestbooks [SOME OF EACH]

Part 6 – RSS Feed Directory List [DOFOLLOW]

Part 7 – Tagbox – Free PR6 sitewide links and hundreds more [NOFOLLOW]

Part 8 – Blog Contests Increase Website Traffic and Build Links [DOFOLLOW]

Part 9 – Build links from .edu forums [DOFOLLOW]

Part 10 – Dominate Digg to Double you traffic Dude [DOFOLLOW]

Part 11 – Mashable is your #1 Big Bad Boost for Beginner Bloggers [New system is NOFOLLOW]

Part 12 – Commenthunt Search Engine for Building Links [DOFOLLOW]