How can you get other bloggers to link to you?

Well, I have been asked this question multiple times by many people over IM and via email. Syed how do you gain so many backlinks. How do you get other bloggers link to you? I never really told anyone how because I never really bothered making a list of my techniques. But since this question was coming up so often by so many people, I thought I should write about it.

Main Idea to remember when you are emailing another blogger is never sound like that you are entirely dependant on them. Don’t seem like that you are begging for link. Now having that said, I will let you figure out how you do that because everyone can come up with their own style. Use the tricks below to guide you to come up with the right style.

First thing you want to do before you email anyone is make sure that your post is good enough. It is relevant to other blogger’s blog. It is useful to their audience. How do you do that? Visit each blogger’s blog thoroughly and look at some of their popular posts. See what their user likes, and if your post is in that niche than contact the blogger otherwise you will be wasting their time as well as your own time.

Second you need to understand you can’t ask bloggers promote all of your posts. So be very very selective in your posts that you ask them to promote for yourself on their blog. Like my ebook about How to make a Magazine style theme in wordpress. Alot of bloggers wrote about this post, and I am very thankful that they found my book interesting enough. But you know what happens if I keep asking people to promote my blog on their site? They will stop caring about the blog. That will show I am completely dependant on them to get traffic.

Don’t sound like a SPAM Email. Give your email a voice. Show to them that you have atleast take some effort in writing. I mean why should I write about your blog post or product if you can’t even put some effort in writing an email to me? So think yourself in other person’s shoe. It won’t benefit me either way. Have a friendly tone. Don’t ask them outright to link to you. First Introduce yourself. Because you want them to know a little about you before they link to you. Make connections that is all what blogging is about. Don’t drag your email to 2000 words. Make it short and quick because considering that I get 300+ emails every day. I don’t want to read your 2000 word email asking me to link to you. Summarize a little what is this product that you want me to link to. Because if you don’t then I don’t really want to click on the link with an anchor Click HERE.

Be Generous in your own link roundups. Basically do some link love. Make friends. You have to give some to get some back. So if you don’t write about other people why should they write about you? So if you see something you like than write about it. This was one of the reasons why I started doing my weekly link roundups because I want to share the love in the blogosphere.

The Barter System – I don’t know how effective this technique is because most of the time, I turn this down. Barter system is you are asking someone to promote your post and you are giving them something in exchange. Usually I am not interested in this type of things, but it does work the other way around. When I offer something to others, they usually take me up on that. So really personal choice, but I see that this one works well when I offer things to people. You just need to know what to offer.

Unique and Interesting articles/work gets the best outcome. Like my ebook because that is something cool and unique. It is likely that alot of other bloggers will take the initiative to write about that or atleast add it to social media.

Don’t take offense if other bloggers don’t write back to you. Sometimes they are either too busy. They see your email and it sound like spam to them. I personally try to respond to emails in the order that I recieve them, so before it was more like within 24 hours for balkhis, but now it is getting more like 48 – 72 hours. I am getting to many people asking me for advices and more. Also Uzzz Productions is another one of my projects that I have to keep up with. If you are a blogger and you don’t like the offer and it is a legit offer, then do reply back saying sorry not interested, so others don’t wait. If I see that the offer sounds spammy than I don’t respond.

Believe it or not network connections like this in blogosphere will get you alot of backlinks and traffic to your blog. It will also get you new readers. I am not saying you will be perfect the first time, but believe it or not you will get better as you do this more. So learn from your experience.