Manual link building is a very good but very tedious method of finding links to your website. The advantage over buying links in bulk is that you know exactly what you are getting, where the links are from and you can ensure the links are relevant to your industry or website subject matter.

In my job link building is a major part of my day to day life, it’s something that takes up maybe an hour of my day, whether for clients’ websites or the company’s site itself. Our SEO Blog is often linked to naturally, via Twitter retweets or people linking to us through choice. It is a great way of getting exposure.

Manual link building includes directory submissions, blog comments, article submissions, paid links and forum posts. There are other ways too – press releases and social media implementation such as Twitter and Facebook, keeping a regularly updated blog can benefit your website no end. If you keep your blogs interesting, give them the right exposure on platforms like Facebook, Twitter and relevant article sites you will achieve brand exposure as well as increased traffic.

In my opinion there is no substitute for manual link building. Yes, it can be tedious, but if you get it right you are well on your way to having a succesful online presence.