I’m going to write a long post about link building tomorrow but thought I’d share one method today. Take a look at:

• AddThis.com

• OpenCube.com

These websites both have PR9 homepages. Take a look at the Alexa rank on OpenCube.com — it doesn’t even get twice as much traffic as my blog, so how the heck did they get a PR9? As for AddThis.com, their whole website is centered around providing visitors with a free button which allows their visitors to share and bookmark content. I forgot one detail: OpenCube.com has over 1 million links pointing to it and ClearSpring, the parent company of AddThis.com, receives millions of uniques each month. Clearly in this Web 2.0 age, good content, traditional SEO, and traditional link building can only take you so far. It’s easier said then done to tell people to build something people will want to put on their site — for one thing, you have to know how to build it. For most of us who don’t have the tech saavy to build something like this, hiring someone to do it is our only option. That won’t be cheap, nor will spending enough money to get our creation popular enough that people would want to put it on their site. When you look at the tens of thousands some people spend monthly between buying paid links, advertising on Adwords, and advertising on other websites, the cost might pay for itself relatively quickly if it catches on. If it doesn’t, it’s a whole lot of money down the drain.

So that there is the best way to acquire links — it’s certainly not the cheapest way and I’ll post a long list tomorrow of some of the ways free and cheaper ways to acquire links.

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