What's the weirdest way you've gotten a link?
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I'm looking for some left-field and interesting ways you guys have attacked link building
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I remember when I first started link building, I tried a ton of techniques. Then one day I just went to one of the top 10 websites on Google for a similar term to what I was trying to rank for. But not so similar that we would be considered "competition". I literally just asked him for a link back to my site, and he added it that day. I thought it was the weirdest thing ever, I guess some people are just extremely nice, or don't know how valuable the link they gave was.
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I wouldn't say it was necessarily weird - but I had quite a bit of my concept livery artwork shared by the likes of Lewis Hamilton, N Nico Rosberg, Ken Block, Mclaren and a few others (from my social profiles @timholmesdesign)... Off the back of sharing via social I had quite a few established sites - BBC Top Gear, Motorsport.com and other request to feature my artwork. As a plus I got a series of great links.
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