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Out of Link Building Ideas? Get Creative.

I don’t normally visit Jill Whalen’s High Rankings Forum, but there’s a fantastic thread up there called Out of Link Building Ideas.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far, can any one offer some suggestions? The ones below have worked out somewhat ok (Marketleap 758, PR4) but obviosly I’d like more. Yes I am keyword optimizing all these links and will continue to use the techniques below but they’re getting less efficient every day.

If you’re a serious white hat link builder, and I am, you know what it feels like when you’ve given it everything you’ve got. You’re in all the directories, you’ve gotten 12 articles syndicated, you’ve traded links with everyone possible ranking top 500 for your term (and a ton of people who aren’t), etc. etc. But you’re still ranked #7! How will you get to #1?

At this point, I usually do two things:
1) Rent a couple very powerful, on-topic links (prepay for six months — it won’t help unless it stays up for a while!)
2) Put my content creation in overdrive (e.g., pay an author to write 3 articles per day, instead of 1). The content will drive traffic and links (very slowly, but remember, we’ve already gotten all the “easy” links)

And if I was a different type of person I might even try
3) Think of a very creative way to make your site better or say something crazy. Aaron Wall is always tooting his horn on how creative / excellent / terrible ideas attract a lot of links.