I’ve been finding, particularly with having a rather painful RSI, that trying to do everything with my websites is increasingly becoming an impossibility. I have way too much to do in the time that I have available to do computer work (i.e. a limitation created by pain). One of the more time consuming aspects of website creation is link building. Choosing a link building service is a nightmare too, as there are many link building companies offering many similar services!

In doing my research on link building companies, I’ve come across Submit Edge who offer an SEO service as well as many link building packages. What’s particularly interesting is their Link Baiting Service and their Blog Review Service. It’s quickly becoming the case that web directories are becoming obselete as a way of gaining backlinks, so my new focus is using related content-based links. i.e. having links from related articles on relevant websites.

I’ve been playing around with getting content-links by doing guest posts for a few sites in order to gain back links for my eco-sites. Blog reviews are a way of gaining content links, but they can easily be a mismatch with the topic of your own blog. The link baiting service attempts to write an article that generates a lot of interest and traffic to an article written by the SEO team, coupled with plenty of social bookmarks to publicise the article. Certainly a nice package that should help get a blog or website started.

It’s nice to see a link building company offer a range of packages beyond bog-standard article submissions or directory submissions. If you’re clear with your requirements, you can ensure that the work done matches your site as closely as possible. This leaves you to work on other aspects of your site, such as design, coding and content.