Strategic link building can fulfill your dreams to make it big online. Although, you might feel that even a slight tweak in your site can get you with enough traffic through search engines, there are other (more intelligent) ways to use your time and money to ensure an increase of targeted traffic. For one, you could combine your link building campaign with competitive intelligence and see the difference. Doing this will not only double, but triple your conversion rate!

Strategic Link Building: How To Use It?

We all know that link building is related to SEO. This is why many web users also fail to see that link building can have a separate strategy away from search engine optimization as well. By itself too, strategic link building can get you a lot of traffic for your website.

The first method is easy to use. Go browsing the on the Internet and zero in on those sites you like. If you like them, in all probability your visitors will like them too. Once you have a list of some great sites, set them in priority and choose the number of sites you'd like to link with. Request a reciprocal link or a one-way link from them. As all websites won't respond positively to your request for links, it's advisable to request a number of sites. With time and effort, you'll notice that websites won't refuse your requests.

There's another thing, while you send out your requests for links, be sure that you let those sites know that you've visited their site, liked what you saw, and find that a link with them would benefit both sides. This will make your e-mail sound sincere and not a spam.

The second strategic link building method involves submitting articles to free content sites. By doing this, you'll reach those sites, ezines and newsletters, where you'll get a wonderful means to market yourself by means of your resource box. In each article you write, you can do some strategic link building by placing your website name and link into the resource box. Your prospective clientele will read your articles and if they like what they see, will click over to your site.

The third strategy involves writing a press release. If it's good and gets published on many websites, you might even get to publicize your work and website on TV or in a national magazine. You could begin with writing press releases for the local media at first.

The fourth strategy entails posting to forums and news groups. It's an easy and fun way to make strategic links. While going about it, be honest. Seek to post in only those forums that you like, and those that deal with topics you believe in.

The fifth strategy is to use competitive intelligence to give a boost to your strategic links. You could use the Google toolbar to know the keywords that your competitors are using, and also to know the websites that are sending target traffic to your competitors. You'll have to use the link called "Backward Links" on the tool bar for this work. Many of such competitive intelligence tools could help you to monitor your competitor's traffic sources.

Strategic link building can make you a favorite with search engine spiders, and help your website pages rise in ranking as well. It's too good to be true, but yes, it's true.

Charles McDuffie is an author and entrepreneur for ASB Enterprises, a continuing education and business development company showing people how to build business success in mail order, network marketing and affiliate marketing. To learn how to succeed in your own Internet business, visit LegacyOfWealth.com.