When people think about having to build links, what they think is that it is a tremendously expensive and time consuming process. Contrary to popular belief, building links isn’t some tedious process that requires tons of directory submissions, article writing, and exchanging links with people. The truth is, if you can take thirty minutes a day and dedicate that entire time to building links to your site, what you’ll find is that after a month, you’ll have a ton of links. After two or three months, the different keywords you’d be ranking for would really start doing well.

The first thing to do when doing the thirty minutes a day link building strategy is to write down on a piece of paper the different keywords you want to rank well for. You want to try and achieve the different long tail keywords as well as spend some time ranking for those more competitive keywords. However, that’s a different topic for a different time. Write down your keywords and then determine how many links, roughly, you want to gain for each keyword. Once you figure that out, do these following steps:

• Blog commenting. Find a couple of blogs in your niche and start posting with the keyword as your name. First read the actual post, though, or get an idea on what it is about so that when you leave a comment, the admin of the site approves it. Leave a different keyword on each site so that you can keep coming back each day on each site to post a different comment with the same keyword.
• Directory submission. Start submitting your site to different directories. This is the timely part of the process because you need to find the directories. Google a list of directories, though, and you’ll find a ton. Find the ones where you can put multiple keywords and link to inner pages. Trying to get deep links is tremendously important to truly ranking in the search engines for different keywords.
• Article submission. Take the remaining ten to fifteen minutes and write a quick four hundred word article. Make sure the grammar is good. Submit it to Ezine Articles or any of the other large article directories. Put two of the keywords you want to rank for in your author box and then change it up each and every day. Do one a day.

If you were to do five blog comments and ten directory submissions plus an article a day, you’d have gained a ton of links by the end of the month. You’d have one hundred and fifty links from blogs, three hundred directory links, and sixty links from articles. That took you, in total, thirty minutes a day, yet you built a ton of links for your site. The traffic you’d gain would be great from this. You just need to do it!