Getting Quality One Way Links For Free

Get quality one way links for free with this rare, but effective SEO strategy.

The days of getting a link from a high domain authority site by exchanging an email address are long gone. Google penalizes sites that link out just to get people back to their own site and they’ve been doing so since 2010. 

But wait, there’s hope! Link building can still be done without asking for anything in return and for nothing in cash if you know how to find websites that will trade an external link on their site for just an email! It’s the ultimate underrated (but easy) way to get quality one-way links and it's 100% free.

First, here are some key points to keep in mind when considering this strategy:

- It's extremely rare.

- You get a link on a site that is likely to be in your sector, niche and is doing something similar to you.

- There are people out there who want to sell their email list (downloading software or email marketing code) for a one-way link.

Okay, let’s go over how this strategy works.

1. Find one way links websites that are in your niche.

2. Find websites that have recently been penalized by Google for buying links and have a free email list to offer you instead.

3. Contact the owners of these websites and say that you want a link on their site, but they have to link back to your website first (no link equity). You can get these sites for free or for a nominal fee (I paid $200 USD per site).

4. Use the website to send traffic to your own site (link equity investment).

As you can see, this strategy is pretty simple. The process is this:

1. Find one way links websites in your niche

2. Find websites that have recently been penalized by Google for buying links and have a free email list of  potential new subscribers to offer you instead.

3. Contact the owners of these websites and say that you want a link on their site, but they have to link back to your website first (no link equity). You can get these sites for free or for a nominal fee (I paid $200 USD per site).

4. Use the website to send traffic to your own site (link equity investment).

Keep in mind that you can do this strategy with banners too. I’ve seen people do it with banners all the time. However, you have to find sites that will link your banner rather than just directing traffic to your site (i.e. ad networks). As an example, I recently reached out to a few investment companies that had lost their paid links due to a Google penalty and they linked back to my site instead. I had them send me a list of subscribers (free), then I directed traffic from their site back to my own using SEO tools like Screaming Frog and Majestic SEO (both are free).

But what about the return on investment for this strategy?

Thanks to the huge list of subscribers I received from these websites, my traffic went up by 10X. For a small investment (the cost of a few thousand dollars worth of backlinks), I was able to get one million potential new visitors to my site. Let's face it, you can't buy 1 million targeted visitors easily or cheaply online today.

For example:

- You may have heard that getting a link on Huffington Post can give you thousands or even millions of new visitors.

Well, let's assume for a second that Huffington Post links out to your site (link equity). Assuming you get 100,000 visitors from a link on HuffPo:

* Your site would have to get 1,000 new visitors per day to reach 1 million in just 2.5 months (assuming no other additional traffic sources and no changes to your site). That's BAD!

Now let's look at what happens if you get the same 100,000 in 2 weeks with this strategy:

- You may have heard that getting a link on Huffington Post gives you thousands or even millions of new visitors.

Well, let's assume for a second that Huffington Post links out to your site in just 2 weeks (no link equity). Assuming you get 100,000 visitors from a link on HuffPo:

* Your site would have to get 5 new visitors per day to reach 1 million in just 2.5 months (assuming no other additional traffic sources and no changes to your site). That's GOOD!

I will admit that I wasn't an early adopter of this strategy. In fact, I was introduced to it by my friend Frank Rieger of the blog at http://www.aronscode.com/ when he wrote about why "Link Building is Dead". 

I later found that Frank was running an affiliate marketing/referral site called the Dollarninja where he would buy backlinks from websites like Huffington Post for ten cents per link and then make money by selling the links.

If you're interested in buying your own lists of subscribers, I recently published this post on how to do it and would be happy to give you some of my lists. These are all unused lists that have been sitting around my house for years: http://www.aronscode.com/get-free-subscriber-lists/.

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Jesse Krieger is the owner of TimeVault Media, a full service blogging and social media marketing agency that has been featured in many publications and websites including BusinessWeek, The Huffington Post , Entrepreneurand Inc Magazine. You can find Jesse at: http://www.timevaultmedia.com/ Blog | Twitter | LinkedIn (JK) .................................................................................................

Conclusion: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Backlinks

So that’s it. When you buy backlinks, you are buying something that you should be getting for free. If someone were to offer me a link (free) to my site, I would pay them to link to my site.

If you’re interested in buying your own lists of subscribers, I recently published this post on how to do it and would be happy to give you some of my lists. These are all unused lists that have been sitting around my house for years: http://www.aronscode.com/get-free-subscriber-lists/.

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