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I know one of the biggest problems I faced when I first started making gambling affiliate websites was finding ways to get links. It took me a while to understand on page seo, design and getting the best out of wordpress but that all came with practice, link building is something I never found so easy. In fact it’s still the hardest thing for me personally. I have though managed to develop some strategies which are working really well for me at the moment.

Note: If you are a new webmaster and you are not willing to link to other people from your site then you may as well not bother reading the rest of this article. Period. Oh also you’re dumb.

How To Get Links

Lets talk about how to get links, there are obviously a million and one ways but I’m only going to talk about stuff that has worked for me.

1) If you are reading this article then you are probably a member of at least one poker affiliate forum. This is your first way to get links. Some allow you to set up personal blogs, you can link from there. All I’ve ever joined have a review my site section which is crying out to be used for link building. Whatever you do don’t be spamming the forum and linking to your site in the content of every post you make but over time you can certainly build up plenty of one way inbound links to your site via the forum.

Try: PAL, CAL and GPWA – All affiliate forums where you can build good links to your own site if you are a valid contributor to the acutal forums.

2) Link exchanges are my next port of call after I have launched a new site and got it some one way inbound links from the poker affiliate forums I’m a member of. As a member of these forums you meet people and network which makes getting link exchanges a whole lot easier. If you have a list of 5 or 6 webmasters on skype or msn or whatever then all you have to do is hit them up and sort out some exchanges.

I’m not just talking about resource link exchanges here. Offer to write people a piece of content they can add to their site which links back to you and then link to them from somewhere good on your site that’s relevant. Save the space on your resource page for people not willing to do the first option. This way your not saturating your resource page with crap and your getting more valuable links anyway.

3) Speaking of content one of the best ways to get links is to offer people content in exchange for links. If you are promoting poker then you can get endless one way in content links to your site by doing this. Go away right now and write 20 poker articles, offer them to people via PAL and just see how easy it is to get links using this method.

It’s a bit harder to do this if you are promoting bingo or casino’s but it still works, just slower. It’s not out of the question to link from a poker article to a bingo or casino site anyway.

4) Start a blog. Just a personal blog is fine. You can even do it for free at wordpress or blogger. It’s a great way to build one way links to any of your sites. Plus if you put time and effort into your blog then people will link to you, it will become a resource and the links you put in it will become more valuable. This is probably the easiest of all the ways to get links. If you’re to lazy to write a blog then you suck.

Use your contacts from affiliate forums to do blogroll links exchanges!

5) Want to know how to get more links and good in content homepage links? Then start a new site in the same niche that you are targeting. It doesn’t have to be a major commitment, it can even be a mini site if you want. Then use it to link to your main site, try to make your mini site a resource with good content. If it’s good it will attract natural links and the links you put on it will be more valuable. It’s simple, it doesn’t take that long and it works. Do some link exchanges with this site so it has some inbound straight away.

If anyone has anything to add then please post comments and I will edit the article at a later date to update it.