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#1 Widget marketing. Widgets are mini internet applications promote a link to some other site. They are easily be integrated into web pages by adding a few lines of HTML, and they can spread like wild fire, adding your link to thousands of other website’s in a few months.

Widget marketing is the newest and best form of viral marketing. If you don’t know how to program, don’t worry, there are easy DIY widget create. You can instantly turn your blog into a widget at WidgetBox.com.

#2 Use contests to arouse interest. Give away ebooks that you have distribution rights to as part of your prize. Perhaps two or three ebooks at a value of about $100 will arouse a lot of interest. All entrants have to do is go to your website and sign up. 3 lucky signup’s per month will receive the prize. You can promote your contest through the following sites…

#3 Submit your site to sites that deliver to interest groups.
There are heaps of these and they will successfully deliver 5-500 visitors per day if your site is good enough to be recommended. Eg: digg.com, yahoo picks, bored.com and many more.

#4 Turn your blog posts into podcasts you can instantly turn your blog into an ipod ready audio file in minutes. Then to leverage this further you can submit your podcast to the podcast directories, generating many backlinks to your site.

#5 Submit your ebook to directories. If you’re distributing a free ebook to use for viral marketing, then you should submit it to all of the most popular ebook directories. Ensure you have links to your website or blog and make sure you have a call to action to visit your site for more or a free offer.

#6 Utilize Social Bookmarking Sites. Social media campaigns are a phenomenal way to build links. In 2009, viral marketing will easily be one of the top 2-3 ways to generate many many inbound links, increase rankings, increase subscribers, and build a lot of hype for your website.

#7 Use You Tube
Add your own video promotions is best but if you are not up to that level yet then use other videos on your site that enhance your content.

If you embed a You tube video on your site, they link to You tube and if you are in the top 5 sites to drive traffic to You tube video, You Tube will link back to you. This is particularly effective in small niches where you are easily in the top 5 link backs.

#8 Submit your site for a website review will get you hundreds of links, especially if you have a good site. There are a number of website’s that will review your website for free. Get involved in the community forum before you ask for a review or you will be shunned. Here the best forums for getting your website reviewed…

If you had been out on the web with a website or blog for quite some time you would have either asked someone else to link to you, or someone would have asked you to link to them. In my earlier days I have asked many to link to me hoping to see the peaks in traffic or a Google Pagerank.

Asking someone is not a bad idea, only a crying baby gets milk. Even God, who knows all our needs doesn’t deliver any of them until we ask. “Ask and thou shall receive”. But the bitter side is that a link in the form of a link exchange won’t bring you any traffic. Oh, if you can call the one click you get in a month as traffic, well then I am wrong

On the flip side, a link from a top performing blog could bring you traffic, but they wouldn’t give you links if you ask them. Bloggers usually monetize such links as sponsored links and earn money by sharing a bit of their traffic. But if you can’t afford to buy a link there, don’t waste your time nagging for a backlink. I will tell you why…
This is why I hate Link Exchanges a LOT…

• Google hates link exchanges meant for improving Page Rank. It’s clearly explained here.
• Usually sites that agree to give you a backlink are those sites with zero or close to zero traffic and similar page ranks. A link from them will not bring you any traffic and Google might consider it as a link from a bad neighborhood which could end up in a zero Page Rank for your blog.
• Your link will be added to a list of many other links. People don’t usually follow such lists which could be 20 or 30 links or even more. So the chance of getting traffic from them is further reduced.
• Even normal web surfers these days know about SEO and SERP. They can immediately say the quality of the links on a link farm. You don’t want to show yourself in a nasty place, do you? Who knows you might be the next A-list topper, you will regret for the backlinks then.
• A quality backlink is much better than a useless backlink.

That doesn’t mean I hate linking out, instead, I love linking out and spreading the word. There is even a category and tag entitled Link Love. Here are some ways to get a quality backlink from me and other bloggers.
Getting that Quality Backlink

Write a Guest post
This is the best way to get a high quality Dofollow backlink. Most blogs entertain guest posts which are relevant to their niche. They would even allow you to link to specific posts too. If you like to write one here, you are most welcome. Read the Guest Blogging guidelines before you send me one. The biggest advantage of a guest post is that the backlink stays for ever.

Be a Top Commentator
Many blogs have the top commentator list which honors the top commentators with Dofollow links. I have one too. Get active on those sites and take away the backlink. Some blogs even have Dofollow comments links too; leaving a comment there can get you a backlink.

Participate
Bloggers are constantly in search of new and latest information. If you have some information that he can use, send it right away. If the information makes into an article, you will get a Thank you link. Again the link is a lifetime backlink!

Write awesome articles
If you have unique, mind-blowing content, others will definitely link to you. Many bloggers including A-list toppers often link to articles even from newbie bloggers, that too via dedicated posts. A link to a specific post is gonna get more traffic that a link to your homepage.

Show Link Love
You love it when someone links to you. Right? Everyone loves that. Link to fellow bloggers when you stumble over cool articles and you might end up in a link to one of your best posts too. No guarantees though.

A backlink is not a big thing, if you have good content, people will definitely link to your posts. Once again, the Golden rule “Content is the King” holds well. Go ahead and start writing awesome content, the rest will follow!