{"id":1152,"date":"2017-09-01T12:10:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T12:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.effectualmedia.com\/blog\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2017-09-05T07:38:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T07:38:13","slug":"10-unorthodox-links-building-methods-to-help-boost-your-sites-seo-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.effectualmedia.com\/blog\/10-unorthodox-links-building-methods-to-help-boost-your-sites-seo-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Unorthodox Links Building Methods to Help Boost Your Site\u2019s SEO Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You may have tried common link building techniques such as asking for backlinks, guest posting, submitting your site to directories, and even started blogging. But this didn\u2019t help out much.<\/p>\n

So let us discover why you are failing in getting results in search engine result pages. One of the reasons is because the competition increasing day by day in order to get top in organic search.<\/p>\n

How can you excel in site ranking?<\/strong><\/p>\n

All you need to do is think something out of the box in order to build good results of your site in search engine. However you would be wondering, I have tried everything possible and still not getting most out of it.<\/p>\n

Then you don\u2019t need to worry. You can try following 10 uncommon methods that can for sure get you a link and bring awareness about your brand, also help you boost your site\u2019s SEO ranking. I am sure you will get marvelous results from these little techniques only if you use them wisely by practicing them.<\/p>\n

#1 Recover Dead Links<\/h2>\n

We all had faced this problem named as \u201c404 page\u201d while surfing on the web. And while encountering such page, what we all do is simply exit those pages. But you can gain a backlink to your website from such pages.<\/p>\n

How to gain advantage from those links?<\/strong><\/p>\n

While finding information on the internet if you find such page, contact webmaster of that website pointing their dead link and suggest them a useful and relevant piece of content from your site.<\/p>\n

If the webmaster found your content convenient then you will not only get a backlink to your site but also will succeed in building a healthy business relationship.<\/p>\n

#2 Turn your mentions into backlinks<\/h2>\n

This method is one of the easiest methods in gaining backlink. You don\u2019t need to put much of your efforts. Most of us think if your website is mentioned somewhere then definitely we would have got a \u201cdo follow\u201d link. Unfortunately, this not the case every time your name or brand is being stated by others.<\/p>\n

In such case, you reach the editor and ask him to put a link to your website where your site is mentioned.<\/p>\n

How to find out who mentioned you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can use tools like,\u00a0If This Then That<\/a>\u00a0(IFTTT) is a great platform and it provides multiple features, or Mention<\/a>, or Google Alerts<\/a>, to discover who mentioned you in their post and then reach them through an email asking to convert mention into a link to your site.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t cool and easiest way, just like getting a free stuff?<\/p>\n

#3 Create Visuals<\/h2>\n

Lots of people prefer going for images or video for gaining information they require instead of text. In fact, some sources state that visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than text. Visual content is much more appealing than text-based content. In order to spread your message to those people, you need to have visuals too.<\/p>\n

How to get a link from visuals?<\/strong><\/p>\n