Link building is the “thing” I like most in all of the strategies in SEO/SMM. Whatever you call it, the name of the game is to get popular and get people “to vote” for you through links. And hey, link building is not about link exchange requests and automated spam. That’s so old school. Here are 16 ultimate “new age” link building strategies discussed by the experts in the game. I’ve categorized them for your convenience.

NATURAL LINK BUILDING TIPS

1. 101 Link building tips for beginners – “GO HERE DO THIS” BASICS FOR YOUNG BLOGGERS
   These are excellent fairly simple tips any blogger can employ. Though I think that these are much exploited ones these days, a beginner blogger will find it very interesting.
2. 15 Link building tips for bloggers – RISING BLOGGERS
   These are a bit more advanced link building tactics, I would say “strategies”. There are no “go here – do this” kind of stuff here, but a bit more top level, strategies that can help you in the long run.
3. Advanced link building with “Types of links and strategies” -ADVANCED BLOGGERS
   Excellent and extensive list of link building strategies, where even different types of links are discussed, how to design a link building campaign and what resources to deploy. Must read for advanced bloggers with more than 100 pages of articles.
4. Link building strategies for beginners
   Brian’s popular five strategies to attract links to your blog. Well, these are not sure shot formulas that will work, but strategies that you can try and find out how effective it is. Basically compelling copy is what is being emphasized here with some vague “links by chance” tips. I’m not going to support all of them though.

   LINK BUILDING SECRETS

5. Rand Fishkin’s link building secret
   A very neat link building “secret” exposed by Rand, a very interesting one this.
6. Patrick Altoft shares his secret link building strategy
   Listen well and don’t get this wrong. This is indeed valuable information.
7. Hamlet Batista’s secret ways to determine the quality of a link
   Link building is not just about numbers and Hamlet tells us how to find the best links, and what are teh factors to consider while building links.
8. Jim Boykins Link building tips
   Jim discloses another secret that he uses while determining the value of an incoming link. Very handy, very true and never told before.
9. Peter Van De Graff’s link building secret
   He shares his technique where he managed to get “relevant” links to a website that was not able to get links. A little shady technique but yet, logically correct.
10. Link building secrets from Bob Gladstein
    Bob discloses how he manages to get links from social media and few other resources.
11. Debra Mastaler’s secret link building tip
    Debra discloses a very interesting link building secret tip that will be of interest to all bloggers.
12. Link building through web directories
    This article will give you insight on directory submission. Not up to date but quite clever tips.