43 White Hat Backlinks Hacks that work in 2022

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Link building and outreach is still the backbone of SEO – without high-quality backlinks, there won’t be organic traffic. To help you out we collected 42 techniques to generate white hat backlinks that still work in 2022.

Quality over quantity.

A futile effort or your best return on investment is what you make out of link building. It’s is not black or white.

For every tactic you tell me is good, I can show you how it could be bad. For every tactic you tell me is wrong, I can find a scenario where it could be right.
– Eric Ward, author of the “Ultimate Guide to Link Building”

With the rise of organic tactics and holistic SEO, more and more marketers will focus on creating meaningful connections. More SEOs will steer away from shameless promotion and focus on helping people be smarter, happier, and richer.

This post contains 42, no-BS evergreen link building tactics that still work in 2022, and guaranteed to get you white hat backlinks. Because why fix something that already works?

As simple as they are, you still have to make them actually work by applying some common sense:

  • Be relevant. Focus on opportunities that are more targeted, rather than using the spray and pray approach.
  • Create a connection with your prospects. Don’t drop the bomb before you even had said “hi”.
  • Don’t promote – serve. Respect is key.
  • Kill them with kindness when you get rejected. Because you will get rejected. Especially if you’re just starting out with link building.

This post should act as a quick reference for the best ways to get white hat backlinks. Brainstorm with them, jot down the tactics you like and get to work.

Let’s cut to the chase.

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The Low Hanging Fruits
These strategies will help you to get white hat backlinks faster than getting a dog out for a walk. No reason not to use them.

1. Internal Linking

Yes, that’s right. Internal linking is something most people overlook, but internal linking is big. First internal links are something you have complete control of. Not only do internal links help you transfer link juice between your pages, they also help Google crawl your site faster.

The first thing to do is look at all the relevant internal links to add to your pages right away with a tool like  LinkStorm. This will already give a boost to your ranking.

Note: Be careful with using targeted keywords in your site-wide links, as Google might treat this as a spam factor.

Resources:

2. Friendly Blogrolls

Ask your friends, employees, and colleagues to put a link in their “Friends” blogroll section.

friendly blogrolls

Note: Blogroll Etiquette
It’s an unwritten rule in the blogosphere that if a blogger puts a link to your site in his blogroll, you should add that blog’s link on your own site.

3. Ask for Credit

Whether you run an SEO agency, or you’re a freelancer, you should ask for credit from your clients or partners.

For example, at WooGuru, we ask our clients if it’s OK to put “WooCommerce support by WooGuru” in the footer of their website.

The best time to ask for this link is when a client is at his peak of happiness. Also, make it easy for them. Put the link on their site yourself or provide an embeddable HTML snippet with the link.

4. Ask Your Suppliers and Distributors

If you’re buying products or services from someone, ask them to link to your site. Since you’re already paying them (although not for the link itself) your suppliers tend to be much more likely to link back to you, as they want to see you succeed.

5. Create Message Board Signatures

Include a link to the site in your forum signature.

Although mostly “no-follow”, these links can bring decent traffic to a site, and also, help you keep up with your natural link profile.

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Directories and Resources

6. Resource Pages

Another old-school easy way to get links. Just use Google search parameters like:

  • “keyword” + list,
  • Try this – “keyword” + resources,
  • “keyword” + tips,
  • “keyword” + links,
  • This is great as well – “keyword” + inurl: links.

Depending on the vertical of your business, you should find at least a dozen solid link opportunities.

More on the topic:

7. Directories

Submit your site to niche-specific directories, blogger directories like AllTop or local business directories like GoldenPages.

Be very careful with general web directories, as some of them are ridden with low-profile links and you don’t want to associate your site with them.

An easy way to track if a directory is fine is by using the Moz Spam Score.

Read more:

8. Paid Directories

Some premium directories that will ask you to pay to list your site on their site. The problem with them is it’s hard to distinguish which ones are worth the money.

Resources:

9. Web Design Galleries

css galleries

This type of directories deserves a place on their own because you can get some pretty serious traffic from them. This tactic works best if you have a unique, innovative design.

Use a service like CSS Gallery list to get your site submitted to all web design galleries for 50 bucks.

10. Startup Directories

There’s a number of startup-related directories that let you create your company profile. To name a few: Angel List, Crunchbase, and BetaList (if your startup is still in pre-launch stage).

Resource: The Ultimate Guide to Getting Your Startup Listed Online

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Take Advantage of Existing Opportunities
There are some hacks to score white hat backlinks that are just waiting to be taken.

11. Claim your Brand Mentions

Use a service like Mention or Buzzsumo to track your brand name mentions. Make sure that your brand name links back to your site.

More on the topic:

12. Spy on Competitors and get their Backlinks

If your competition is a spot higher on the SERPs than you, they must be doing something right with their link building.

You can use Linkody to find all your competitor’s backlinks. All you need to know is their websites and Linkody will do the rest.

  1. Find your competitors on Google or with SimilarWeb.
  2. Add them to Linkody.Spy on Competitors
  3. Linkody will find all your competitors’ backlinks.
  4. Reach out to the webmaster and say your tool would be a great addition to the site’s resources.

Read the full guide on how to analyze your competitors’ backlinks and find great link building opportunities.

You can also use SemRush as a way to spy on backlinks – it allows you to get inbound link data for any website: the number of backlinks, new & lost links, their type, referring domains, and more.

13. Convert Unhappy Customers Into Avid Brand Proponents

Chances are there will be some negative comments, reviews or articles about your brand. Do your best to convert their negative voice into a positive one – offer them an exclusive discount, help them sort their problem, just give a crap.

Read more:

14. Do a Google Reverse Image Search for Your Images

Chances are someone is using your images if you have useful graphics or beautiful photography on your site. We live in the free Internet.. duh!

Make sure to take a breath before you go all mad about it and think if you could use that as to claim a link to your site.

15. The Rebranding link opportunity method

Most brands often change their names. Brian Dean has a great technique which he calls the Moving Man method to find link opportunities through this.

It’s different from the broken link building method in that the links actually exist. They just re-direct to the new URL. However, since the anchor text and the site link points to the old domain, there’s an opportunity.

Brian was able to achieve this with outdated BlueGlass links (an SEO agency) that went out of business. He reached out to all the site owners who had a link to BlueGlass with this mail.

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In order to discover such opportunities, you can search PR channels and search on Google about re brands. All such news results in your industry can get you links.

16. Incorporate Tweet this in your blogposts

Often times we can inspire people to take action by asking them to specifically tweet a portion or nuggets of your post. These tweets can drive more tweets because the words are emotionally charged or contain something very important or interesting.

They can drive social shares and mass links.

17. Make Sure Your White Hat Backlinks Point to the Proper Page

Use Linkody to track if all your white hat backlinks are properly linking to the right page. If you have a link to 404 page there are 2 ways to approach the case, depending on the situation:

  • Inform the site owner and re-purpose that link to a new page/ask them to correct the mistake in the URL.
  • Use a redirection (301) to another page on your site.

linkody finding link problems


Content-based Opportunities
These link-building tactics involve creating content to get a link.

18. Participate in Round-ups

Thought leaders, experts, and influencers roundups are an excellent way to build credibility in your field and get a link. Of course, you must know a thing or two about your niche to get featured in them.

The important thing to note is that once you participate in a few roundups, blog authors will start approaching you instead of you having to go to them. Almost every blogger wants to write a round-up post at some stage in their blog’s life, and the easiest targets are usually the people who are already participating in round-ups.

19. Create Round-ups

This tactic works the same way as the previous one, except this time you’re putting together the expert roundup.

Reach out to influencers in your field and ask them to contribute. Everybody wants to look good among other well-respected people. Once you put the round-up live, you can simply ask them to share or link to your post.

SEO Experts share their advice

More on the topic:

20. Create video tutorials and share them on forums

Most bloggers share their tutorials on forums either wholly or link to them. Linking doesn’t work that often since moderators remove those. Sharing an entire tutorial gives them little incentive to come back to your site.

The thing that I have seen working time and again is sharing video tutorials. Branded with your blog’s name, with an outro slate providing a link back to your blog, these videos work magic in bringing visitors to your site.

Video tutorials are often stuck to the relevant categories and send a nice trickle of traffic long after you’ve stopped promoting.

The additional advantage is that there is no problem sharing an internal forum thread elsewhere on the forum. You can always prop up the thread if it’s relevant to the discussion.

example of optimizing video

This technique works better and requires more effort than any other forum promotion technique that you might have heard.

For the Internet marketing niche, the best forums for this would be Warrior Forum, Black Hat Forum, etc.

21. Guest Blogging

Pitch bloggers with an idea for a blog post and ask them if they’re happy to publish it.

If you’re just starting out with guest blogging, you will find better luck using one of the guest blogging networks like BloggerLinkUp and MyBlogGuest.com

We usually use NinjaOutreach to send out emails and get contacts to sites where we could have a potential guest post opportunity.

Resources:

22. Offer Content Upgrades

These tactics involve offering content upgrades like eBooks, reports, infographics, etc. to other sites.

The reason content upgrades work so well is that:

  1. you can provide something exclusively for the site you’re pitching
  2. it’s much more scalable than guest posting

Let’s say you wrote a big article on cats health. You can re-package the whole post as an eBook and offer it as an exclusive resource to a relevant site.

Read more:

23. Write Testimonials

Nothing makes a person happier than seeing his clients using their products. Endorse the products you use and ask them to share your testimonial on their websites.

More on the topic: How to get featured to 750,000 readers (and get your first 250 subscribers)

24. Write Case Studies

This tactic is the same as the previous tip, except you go for more details and write a complete case study, describing how you use the product/service.

Resources:

  • Gleam Customer Success Stories
  • 8 Tips For Creating a Great Case Study

25. Comment on Blogs

With blog comments, you can get some no-follow links, which is perfectly fine but you can also find a decent amount of blogs that allow do-follow comments.

Read more:

26. Participate in Communities

Niche communities are a great place to bring more traffic to your site and get some links (usually no-follow). These could be everything from subreddits to smaller hubs like GrowthHackers.com for online marketing.
Check out what you need to know about Reddit and SEO.

27. Answer Questions

Answering questions on Quora and Yahoo Answers not only brings traffic to your site but also helps you build credibility as a thought leader in your business vertical.

Read more:

28. Inbound Link-building

This works in a similar way to the round-up tactic except on a much bigger scale.
Great examples are StartupStash and the Glossary of Internet Terms.

StartupStash has over 1426 white hat backlinks from 185 domains:

startup stash backlinks

29. Mention Influencers in Your Content

This is the classic ego-bait tactic. By appealing to the egos of people, they’ll help you increase the exposure of your content.

Egobait still works – just not like it used to, it’s not as effective to simply quote or link to an influencer praising their work; we’ve found that at this point if you want to see results (and leverage influencer marketing) you need to bring them into the conversation before you push publish.

– Nick Eubanks, creator SEO Auv

30. Create a Free Tool

Build a free plugin or browser extension to your main product or service.

A great example is EmailHunter’s Chrome extension:

email hunter tool

Not only this could potentially attract white hat backlinks to your site, but your customer retention will increase.

Here’s a wonderful case study how Hubspot with $6k investment in a Free Email Signature Generator made $64 million.

31. User-Generated Content

People want to be the center of attention, and in control of what they’re doing. Create a platform for user-generated content. That could be a simple message board or Spotify’s interactive “year in music” personal music habits review.

spotify user generated content

32. Surveys

Asking people for help could be very beneficial. The way surveys work is:

  1. Collect a decent amount of answers to your survey.
  2. Thank them for participating
  3. Ask them if they’d like to help your research by spreading the word with a link.

33. Funny Products and Games

Everybody loves laughing. And everybody loves making other people laugh. This is a great way to generate a white hat backlinks.

CSS Puns by Saijo George is a great example: 1288 total white hat backlinks from 259 domains.

css puns backlinks

34. Seasonable or Timed Content

Leverage the power of ego-bait on a massive level: a national celebration or event.

A great example is this infographic about the National Liberation Day, which collected over 3.5K shares in just a few days.


Give Something
If you have something to give away, this is probably one of the easiest ways to build a white hat backlinks. Although, be careful going overboard with the charity.

Note: Make sure you comply with Google’s “Best practices for bloggers reviewing free products they receive from companies

35. Promotions and Giveaways

Offer influencers in your field promotions or giveaways in exchange for a product review or feedback.

This works best with products with bigger margins.

36. Contests

Encourage engagement and linking by running contests with prizes. Use software like Gleam or KingSumo to launch your contest.

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Helping People Out
Whether you’re helping webmasters by pointing to broken links or you offer your services to someone, there’s a huge opportunity for using reciprocity to build white hat backlinks to your site.

37. Finding broken links

  1. On Google, you can find relevant sites (or posts) to yours.
  2. Then search for broken links on the site – this app will do it for free.
  3. In the end, you offer the site owner to replace the broken links with your post.

There are several free tools that would help you identify the broken links on a site. One of the most hassle-free plugins is Check my Links for Chrome.  In the example below the link in red is a broken link.

Read more:

38. Offer a Pro-bono Service

Whatever you’re doing you can exchange your services for a link:

  • web design work
  • web dev work – you could do something as small as changing their style a bit or speeding up their site with a couple of WordPress plugins
  • marketing and SEO 🙂
  • content creation (help a site upgrade or update their content)
  • grammar checking (scan a couple of articles and pinpoint the mistakes to the site owner)

39. The Poster Boy Method

The Poster Boy method involves writing a splendid success story that you had with a tool.

Companies are always looking for great testimonials about their own products. Writing about how you achieved success with their tool will immediately make your story the apple of their eye.

You can expect the company to share the article and mention it several times across the press releases and blog posts. They may even interview you for insights.


More link building techniques

40. Create your own private blog networks

If you’re serious about SEO and plan on being in the game for a long time, creating your own blog network is one of the best things you can do for long term success.

And I don’t mean one of those networks like Gawker or Envato that advertises itself on every site. Although they can work very well, too. I mean a truly private network of websites that have nothing to do with each other, aside from being owned by you.

It’s the best way to go for small websites without massive financial backing.

The benefits of a private network are immense:

  • You have multiple independent sites and income streams so you don’t suffer if one or a few of them get penalized or de-indexed (temporarily or permanently);
  • Create backlinks between the sites whenever you need to rank for any keywords or need to get a new site off the ground fast;
  • Get much more control over your SEO, since backlinks become pretty much on-site optimization for you.

I’d say that anyone who is going to be doing Internet Marketing for a long time should at least try to build their own network of small niche blogs.

For further reading check this article.

Note: This is a black hat link building technique and can get your site penalized.

41. Maintain accounts on Reddit

Social media accounts are mostly a long term strategy since they’ll rarely get results in the short term.

Well, not counting successful submissions to Reddit, Hacker News and the like. These sites are worth it most of the time.

I’d recommend you create and maintain (either yourself or through outsourcing/automation) profiles on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Instagram, Pinterest, Hacker News and most importantly, Reddit.

In fact, if you need to choose only one site, I’d recommend Reddit for a few reasons:

  • It’s easy to create several accounts there (it’s not against the terms of service);
  • You can submit stories on almost any topic and they have a real chance of getting to the front page in the appropriate subreddit (which would give you direct traffic and quite possibly white hat backlinks from other sites);
  • And a little known secret – Reddit comments are indexed by Google and Bing.
    • Most importantly any links will have the nofollow tag removed automatically if the comment gets any upvotes.

42. Building links from Wikipedia

This isn’t something that a lot of people know about.

  1. Create a free account on Wikipedia.
  2. Go to WikiGrabber. It’s a free site that shows you missing citations or dead links in Wikipedia entries. Let’s say I have a client in the eCommerce industry who’d be very happy if I get him some quality, high authority links.

I head to WikiGrabber and key in “ecommerce”. In return, I get a list of links that need citations or are dead.

See the example below:

wikigrabber

Here’s an example link where Wikipedia is requesting me to add links to the article.

citation

Could anything be better than this? Relevant links from a domain that Google loves.

43. Collaboration link-building

Joining resources and opportunities with other bloggers and marketers by building links to each other’s sites can really accelerate your link acquisition.

The network of your partners will be different from your own network. By partnering together you can benefit from their networks of connections, and them from yours.

The method involves researching partners in your industry, reaching out to them, and offering to collaborate on link building. Read the complete guide on collaboration link building.

 


White Hat Backlinks Wrapped Up
Link-building is a never-ending story of new tactics and SEOs outsmarting themselves by finding new opportunities to grab a link. This evergreen list of link building techniques should serve you well as a starting point to generating loads of white hat backlinks.

And don’t forget – it all falls on you to make these tactics work.

Share in the comments what is your favorite #1 evergreen strategy to get white hat backlinks!

 


Kalo is the co-founder of Encharge.io — a marketing automation tool built for SaaS companies. Kalo helps early and mid-stage product companies to convert more of their free trial users to paying customers with targeted behavior-driven emails. Kalo likes to write about all-thing marketing and is an avid reader in his spare time.

156 thoughts on “43 White Hat Backlinks Hacks that work in 2022

  1. Lots of takeaways from this blog. I really love your ideas of “Google reverse image search” that’s completely new to me. Another vote for content upgrade suggestion. The resources linked are quite useful. Thanks.

  2. Broken link building is a great method to help us earn quick backlinks from high-quality pages. Comment to other blogs and make sure these blogs are relevant to your own blogs.

  3. One of the best link building articles I have come across. I especially like the second on internal links…. something I have definitely overlooked. Keep up the great articles and thanks.

  4. I have gone through every possible content about link building and they still come back to this.

    Some of them are easy to do while some are complex but all in all they all work. One thing I would say is even though content is still the primary source to get links it is not the only way.

    Great post love it.

  5. Nice ways to get quality backlinks .
    Round up posts and comments on other blogs are my preferred ways to get backlinks.

  6. Nice way to get free links highly appreciate your work and these are really working tips.

  7. Very nice. Those are some powerful ways to instantly help people better rank their sites with some additional backlinks on higher PR sites.
    Thank you for this.

  8. These are all incredibly effective when you add the relevance factor into the mix. Taking the time to blog comment, guest post or even finding directories that are niche relevant to your site gives a huge boost in rankings.

  9. Great list ! One good method will be to help small non-profit orgs for a link to your website

  10. Very informative post. there are so many methods I’m not familiar with and also should have to follow. hoping these methods will help me get quality backlinks…. thank you so much 🙂

  11. thanks dear Kaloyan
    that’s great article for me and i use this hacks for best result, hope this hacks will work.

  12. Hello
    There are many tactics that can guarantee success in link building
    The videos are particularly shareable
    Lots of social sites ( Tumblr, Facebook, Reddit, etc.)
    Lots of magazines and newspapers

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  14. Wooow i have read this article it is such a great one and an eye opener on what exactly one needs to do to beat their competitors. I loved the idea of constantly spying on your competitors backlinks, for the lazy but it is the perfect way to get to know where to put your links. Good article for sure.

  15. Been struggling to try rank my site after reading this article i am now equipped with the right tactics to use to rank higher than my competitors thank to whoever did this article its very helpful

  16. Hi Kaloyan Yankulov
    Thanks for this detailed breakdown. I will use it as a method for my next content campaign for sure.

  17. I totally agree with your opening statement. To market your website online means employing as many ways as possible to expose the site to others. I am skeptical of those who say, “don’t do this and don’t do that,” because their logic oftentimes breaks down.

    Thanks very much for this resource. Very comprehensive and valuable! Social sharing incoming!!!

  18. You really mention here some great points to get High Quality Backlinks.
    Get 2 new and unique points here and hope those will effective for me.

  19. HI Kaloyan Yankulov, this is a great post. There are a lot of takeaways from this post. Nice work summarizing a lot of tactics.

    ~ Arun

  20. Backlinks are incoming links to your website. It’s simple really…you vote for a candidate that you fully support or find most interesting. Similarly, you link to websites (or anything for that matter) that you think gives great value. As an SEO specialist, backlinks are one of the things you strive for in order to outrank your competitors.
    (Nofollow links don’t give out “link juice” or “link love” which is used by Google for their PageRank system.)

  21. thanks for this valuable information on white hat backlinks. You have mentioned really great points here.Thanks and keep sharing

  22. Wow! Thanks for sharing us all these wonderful tips. I’ve been new to link-building and truth be told I still don’t know some of the processes. Keep up the great work!

  23. Nice article. Bookmarked. For some reason, many of these lists have “19 whitehat backlink methods” I suppose this article itself is another technique. Find good content and make it better.

  24. The post is very useful, these link building methods are really productive.

  25. Nice ways to get quality backlinks .
    Round up posts and comments on other blogs are my preferred ways to get backlinks.

  26. Hey Buddy,

    Great post and well detailed!

    Yes, I totally agree with you that Link building is the backbone of SEO, and without having high-quality backlinks, you won’t be getting organic traffic.

    So, if you want organic traffic with high-quality backlinks, then you have to generate white hat backlinks which are very effective and helpful to you.

    As there are so many techniques to generate white hat backlinks, but according to me, guest blogging is the most important and effective technique of white hat backlinks.

    Thanks for sharing this awesome post with us. I really appreciate your efforts. keep up the good work….

    Regards
    Anjali Desai

  27. Great list ! I totally agree with you that Link building is the backbone of SEO, and without having high-quality backlinks, you won’t be getting organic traffic.

  28. Great list bro….top quality site and genuine list I understand by your post ! Resource Pages is the best way to backlinks.

    Thank you for Informative post.

  29. Really nice article for backlinking. I think without links you can’t make SEO like some say. Content is the king but linking is the second most important thing !

  30. Very informative article and gonna use these as much as I can to get some quality links….

  31. Thank you So much for sharing these exact naruital looking SEO tips..
    very well written a post, I have experienced a boost in traffic after incorporating tweets in a blog post and Engaging wirh Reddit,
    Reddit not only drives traffic but also boost the SEO (i Guess)

  32. Thanks for sharing this information. I Don’t want any trouble for my website that’s why i need whitehat seo

  33. Great post! Very useful information on how to get quality backlinks. These all are great suggestions. It helps to bring traffic to your site and generate backlink.

  34. It was very useful for me. I started link building for my site recently. It was very complete resource. thank you.

  35. This was a really useful list of link building strategies from around the web. I liked the inclusion of Brian Dean’s Moving Man method as well as the broken link building. But I had forgotten about the reverse image search and some of the others like website galleries etc.

    Definitely bookmarked and shared. Very useful.

    Thanks

  36. These are a lot of strategies to practice but my personal favorite is guest blogging. Its beneficial for all. You get a free article as website owner so you don’t have to write and you give out dofollow links in return.

  37. Great stuff,
    Awesome SEO tips, I will apply all this SEO tricks to boost my blog ranking.
    Thanks.

  38. Thank you for the informative post! We’re starting doing back-linking in the past and we’re still learning everyday how to be more efficient and get more quality out of it.

  39. Awesome SEO tips, I will apply all this SEO tricks to boost my blog ranking.
    Thanks.

  40. Was looking for Seo Tips just read your blog post is awesome! thanks for sharing such article. Keep doing great work

    1. It’s great that you like our white hat backlinks hacks. I hope they come in handy 😉

  41. Hello,
    Very informative article for every new blogger like me. Thanks for sharing this awesome information with all of us. This information helps a lot of people to create some quality backlinks.
    Regards,
    Shubham

  42. This one of the amazing SEO articles I encounter, aside from Neil Patel’s blog. Well, so glad that you don’t hesitate to share these useful link building strategies all over the web. I keep an eye in a broken link building method, so I am so grateful that I spend time in here. Absolutely, I have no doubt about bookmarking your website.

    1. Hey Andy, thank you for your positive feedback. Yeah, I have tested different approaches to broken link building but it never delivers good results – it requires a lot of time to execute and doesn’t deliver such good results. How about you? Would love to about your progress.

  43. This is a nice way to get free links and these are really working tips.

    Thanks for sharing

  44. I love this post.. Straightforward on the topic of white hat SEO. Nowadays there is a lot of confusion among SEO professionals how to execute off-page activities but you have made so simple. Thanks.

  45. Hi,
    nice article to teach young birds to get quality backlinks and idea to comments on good websites. I really liked it, thanks for sharing it here with us. Kindly give some light on latest technology to off-page seo as well, like blogs and improved SMO.

    Thanks!

  46. I don’t think you left any method for creating white hat backlinks. I just started a blog and confused about how to make good backlinks. After reading this article. I feel so blessed that I find it. Quality Content.

  47. massive list of white hat offpage techniques. although a few more can be added like rss feeds and backlinks from video descriptions and pdf submission etc.
    But you have listed some old methods that don’t have much impact on ranking but could be great for link diversity…
    Finally i want to say that u have mentioned private blog networks….but the title says what hat backlinks…do you really think using PBN is a white hat technique?

    1. Thank you for your comment. We discussed this a lot and our argument for including this technique was the fact that there are a lot of webmasters that own more than one website – in some cases, those are 10+ sites. So, what some might classify as “blog network” is not all bad. Occasionally some “blog networks” are high-quality sites, such as neilpatel.com; neilpatel.de, etc. that all link with each other but the content on these sites are outstanding and backlinks very powerful.

  48. Broken link building is a great method to help us earn quick backlinks from high-quality pages. Comment to other blogs and make sure these blogs are relevant to your own blogs.

    1. Commenting on other blogs as a link-building technique is something I have always wanted to test but I am afraid of sounding “Spammy”. So, I am curious to know – have you ever noticed ranking improvements from commenting on other blogs?

  49. Thank you so so much for sharing this article with us man. After searching lot of about link building, I’ve got this one.
    Amazing techniques just loved it.

  50. Hey Helvis,
    I’ve been blogging for 3 years and I always recommend people to do White Hat SEO techniques for their websites and blogs.
    It’s the best way to boost up rankings in a search engine that too for a long time without getting penalized by Google.
    Thanks a lot for the brief article about White Hat SEO

  51. I started link building for my site recently. It was very complete resource. thank you.

  52. This post is so packed with great stuff, that I had to make a note to come back later. I’m going to tackle a bunch of these. Some I already have, but perhaps not in the smartest way after reading this article. Thanks.

  53. Hello,
    Mind-blowing article. backlinks are very important for any website and quality backlinks are more powerful then spam backlinks.
    Thanks.

  54. Hey Helvis,
    Amazing piece of analysis and fascinating post. This help both beginner and experienced webmaster combined. People to do White Hat SEO techniques for their websites and blogs. Thanks a lot for taking your time and putting in so much effort to write this up. Thanks for the great article like always!

  55. Great list ! I totally agree with you that Link building is the backbone of SEO, and without having high-quality backlinks, you won’t be getting organic traffic.

  56. This post is so packed with great stuff, that I had to make a note to come back later. I’m going to tackle a bunch of these. Some I already have, but perhaps not in the smartest way after reading this article. Thanks.

  57. Hey

    Great list of Backlinks thanks for sharing! now day SEO people are confuse which is blackhat and white hat technique, its list really help

    thanks

  58. I totally loved each and every link-building strategy you mentioned and the latest update you updated.

  59. Kaloyan, Its an awesome SEO white hat backlinks article. Thank you for sharing the huge list. I personally think that Paid Directors is not in White hat SEO.

  60. Reddit has rules on posting your own sites links & hates people only using it for self promotions. (some sub reddits are extra strict on what they think is spam)

  61. These are great ideas. Have already incorporated some but will definitely be working on more of these ideas. Thank you.

  62. Link building method is the backbone of SEO. Thanks for sharing the list with us.

  63. One of the best resources i’ve read on white hat tactics. Bookmarked for reference

  64. Link building still work and it must be done in smart way. I appreciate your writing. Thanks for sharing this

  65. Hello Friend! Thanks for the teachings in the article, you gave me lots of ideas!

  66. Nice article, after a long time I found this and thank you very much. i am going to try these methods for my blog.

  67. thanks for sharing such wonderful tactics for backlinks and organic traffic.

  68. This is one of the best linkbuilding tactics I have come across so far. The author has given minute details to every topic so that its pretty easy to follow and implement. A real great job done!

  69. I am really impressed with your tips on backlinks, they are really awesome. I will try to use them for my website too.

    Thanks and regards

  70. Wow! Thanks for this informative post, very impressed with your backlinks tips. I will surely use these for my website 🙂

    1. I hope you will have great success with this backlink strategy on your website as well. Good luck! 🙂

  71. Great creative list of link oppertunoties. To buy a great software and give a great recommendation is properly the most natural and cost effective method to get a A+++ Class link from one of the big software providers. At he same time a great for authority brand mension as well.

  72. That is great to hear. We are trying to do our best in sharing our knowledge with others and it is always good to hear that our insights are useful to others as well!

  73. Doing white hat SEO, especially backlinking, is hard but with very rewarding and longterm results.

  74. Thank you, Hasina! We hope that you managed to implement this information for your own use.

  75. This is an informative post. I have recently started making use of white hat backlinks and still brushing up on my illustrations skills.

  76. Indeed, branding and SEO is a hard thing to manage on your own or even with a team. Good write ups like this allow people to become more familiar and experienced in SEO, Branding ,etc

  77. wow, this is a really massive list with lots of useful ways to improve SEO. thanks for sharing this post for us I have benefited a lot

  78. I’m impressed by the level of in depth knowledge mentioned in this article. the tips are very useful and as being a web developer myself, I’ll be using these tips for my upcoming projects.

  79. this is a really massive list with lots of useful ways to improve SEO. thanks for sharing this post for us.

  80. Wow, great information!!! I´m a professional SEO service provider. So, this post is very important to me. Thank You!!!

  81. Hi, There are bad stories behind me where we spent a lot of time to get quality results on backlinks. In this article, you have explained in detail to achieve results in a smart way. Consequently, your step-by-step guide will be more helpful. Keep sharing!

  82. absolutely amazing this is really nice I have been looking for how to build links and get backlinks I haven’t been doing a really good job, but I will put these post to work.

    1. Hi Josh!

      This is exactly why we create these articles – to help all of our readers solve any questions and problems they might have. Thank you for your comment – it’s always rewarding to read that our articles are being put to use.

  83. Thanks for sharing amazing tips and ideas about SEO white hat backlinks. I think internal linking is the best method of SEO.

  84. I was wondering where to learn details on White-Hat SEO, looking a carrier in SEO this information helped me alot. Bookmarked this page specifically. Thanks for sharing this with us.

    Cheers

  85. Really helpful post. But most of the things mentioned here are practical only for well established bloggers. Please write something about building backlinks for newbie blogs also.

    Thank you

    1. Hi Toto!

      Most of these hacks are suitable for newbies as well. When you are just starting out, you just have to be more patient and persistent with the link-building tactics.

  86. You have listed some old methods that don’t have much impact on ranking but could be great for link diversity…
    I want to say that you have mentioned private blog networks….but the title says what hat back links…do you really think using PBN is a white hat technique?

    1. Hi Danny! PBN’s are not the same as blogrolls that we have mentioned in this article. We haven’t mentioned PBNs as a white hat link building option.

  87. thank you so much for providing such valuable data. I recently started a blog & i was wondering how to do the seo part. Glad I stopped by here. Thanks on ce again. 🙂

  88. There’s certainly a lot to learn about the white hat backlinks . I really like all the techniques that to generate white hat backlinks and that are still work.Thanks for sharing!

  89. Thnx for sharing this Amazing article, it’s very helpful to understand where we are going with seo. Thanks for sharing this links

  90. I am using PBN for most of my blog and it rank well in SERP. While the the most safest way for backlinks is the guest posting.

  91. All of thing you said in this topic is very complete way to boost SEO. All of this is make a natural white-hat SEO ranking. very usful

    I recommend Topic 12. Spy on Competitors and get their Backlinks is best way of other to make a quality backlink I use this method, it works well.

  92. I absolutely love that it looks so beautiful on you This is a great post it was very informative. I look forward in reading more of your work. Also I made sure to bookmark your website. I enjoyed every moment of reading it.

    1. Hi Kishor,

      Thank you. We appreciate that we can help by providing valuable information.

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