Link Building for lower budgets that work on 2012
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Hello,
I think many of us have re-plan their SEO strategy since the latest updates from Google and we all saw that coming anyway. We already know that link building using Directories, Article sites, Link exchange, profiles, footer/side links, paid links, press releases and other have been devalued or not working at all.
For low budget websites and websites that cannot afford fresh/valued updated content or other link baiting techniques there arent much left. I my self found that Social Media and Blogging (Guest posts) are they only techniques left for websites that cannot manage to get natural links. Also i have realized that On-page optimization is getting more attention again.
We all have great ideas of acquiring links but what we do when time and budget is limited?
Google promotes natural link building but how you supposed to get natural links from a new low reputation website?
I kinda of like the new approach since it will make SEO work a lot of harder and eliminate the easy path success. It will also focus the SEO job more on On-page and on great content. But this is getting a lot of harder for new websites with lower budgets and lower time to consume on SEO.
I deeply know the answer of my question but i would like your opinion also and of course if anyone would like to share some ideas or know-how to discuss is welcome.
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Low budget just means you have to put the time in yourself. Good content takes time to create, and if you can't outsource it, then you're stuck with doing it on your lunch breaks
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What about regular PR (public relations)?
There are loads of hyper-local news portals that you can try to get featured on even if you're not a big brand.
Subscribe to Google alerts and you should be able to find amateur and local journalists who you can befriend. That's not to mention services like HARO.
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