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All the information in Internet is available in the form of files or otherwise called websites. Links are the pathways by which all these files are connected.

Hence links have become the life of the Internet. Search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN evaluate links to position your website in search engine results.

However, links are not only considered as a ranking factor, but a quality link can drive a steady stream of buyers to your site.

In this article, I am going to reveal a procedure I follow to find such link building opportunities which can generate buzz.

But finding quality, PR5+ links is always tricky.

Every month I collect 100 PR4+ links. I try different ways to find these links.

I explained few of the strategies I use.

We all know that Social media sites like Stumbleupon, Twitter, Digg has millions of users. Stumbleupon alone has around 8 million users.

I explore these sites to find high profile “do follow” sites that allow to place a link to your site.

The most common way of finding links is by finding the links of your competitor using Yahoo site explorer. I think all of you know this. So I am not going to explain about it in depth.

Delicious: Find articles, related to your market that has atleast 100 bookmarks. You can find articles related to your market by searching with different tags.

For example, if you belong to web designing niche, just type in “web design” in the search bar.

Now copy the urls of the article titles that has atleast 100 diggs.

Open google.com and type in the title with quotations.

Like this.

“7 Tools You Should Be Using For Better Web Designs”

Now you find hundreds of sites that published this article. Most of the sites you find in the first 5 pages will be high profile sites. Go through these websites, choose the “dofollow” links. You have a high chance of promoting your website either by submitting an article or doing a guest post or even leaving a blog comment etc…

Now open Yahoo site explorer and find the backlinks of high profile site you found. This way you identify the sites where the the authority site is being promoted. You can visit these websites too and find out other high profile sites.

This way you can explore hundreds of websites where you can leave your link, promote your website and drive good amount of traffic at the same time.

You can follow the same procedure with Stumbleupon, Digg, Mixx and other web2.0 sites you know.

Note: You can either go for “Nofollow” or “dofollow” links. These days I don’t see a difference much. I see that even a  “nofollow” link from an authority site is contributing to search engine rankings.

Wikis: I never heard anyone talking about this. Wikis are some of the best sources for link building. Many wikis rank well in search results.

With a bit of digging, you can find plenty of wiki where you can go and leave a link back to your site.

However don’t just add content to pages that present linking opportunities. You should also be contributing good content to the wiki. Using this strategy, it is more likely that you will be able to benefit from the many wikis available online.

Remember that you shouldn’t spam wikis with hundreds of links.

To find wikis, go to Google.com and type in  “your keywords” inurl:wiki

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