subject: How to Build Links Whilst Engaging in Your Hobby [print this page] How to Build Links Whilst Engaging in Your Hobby
However, if you need to do it for your company or your own personal website then it can be difficult to know where to start. The thought of blogging every day or submitting your articles to a ton of sites each day may fill you with fear and dread but anyone with knowledge of these things will tell you it's a great way to build important links.
So, we grudgingly get on with it each day in the knowledge it may well help us, but is there a way we can build links without all the hard work? Is there a quick-win that will build some links in a way that we may actually enjoy it?
It happens that there is a way to build links doing something we enjoy - if that something is a hobby that we like to talk about, anyway.
Let's face it, most of us do something outside work that isn't related to our day to day job. In order to keep us sane we generally do something extra that takes us away from accounts or the purchasing department and allows us to unwind. Wouldn't it be great if we could use this hobby as a way to build links to our website?
Well there is a way and it's through the use of forums. Simply find a forum where people are talking about your hobby of choice and take part in the discussion. You'll notice eventually that many of the people on there have a 'signature' or a place underneath each of their postings where they sometimes say something witty and often place a link. And that should be the clue - the link.
On many forums they will allow you to post a link to a site and many people will use this to publicise their own fan website. For example, someone on a caravanning forum may have their very own caravan site where they sell things like very small chairs - pots and pans made out of extra light material or other things of interest to other caravan owners. Well, he may well therefore pop a link to it in his signature.
This is a link like any other and the more you have the more link juice you get. You may have also noticed that each time there's a post from this person - there's another link. So, in essence, the more time you spend on the forum and the more time you engage with people - the more links you can get.
