Participate in the Community

One easy way to boost your link-building efforts is to actively and genuinely participate in the blogosphere. Follow blogs that are relevant to your field and actively engage in commenting the stories they feature. Book fifteen to thirty minutes a day for this activity if doing so doesn’t come naturally to you.

Commenting will foster your diplomatic relationships with other bloggers and provide you with plenty of backlinks. Albeit some of the backlinks will be nofollow, you’ll still receive many new visitors because of them.

As you probably know, most blog engines allow your name to be linked to a URL of your choice when leaving comments. The key point here is to add value with your comments, though. Don’t leave ...

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