How To Find Great links

I did not CREATE this tool but I thought it would be helpful to some people.
http://soloseo.com/tools/linkSearch.html

You can also use:

Check out this tutorial Matthew woodward posted for Link assistant:
http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/category/tutorials/ General Directories

KEY FOR USE:

Your Site: www.yoursite.com(url you want links for)

Your Brand Name: Your Brand Name(your brand name)

Competitor 1: www.example.com(replace with competitor)

Competitor 2: wwww.otherexample.com(replace with brand name)

Keyword 1: Keyword (replace with keyword)

Keyword 2: Keyword 2(replace with other keyword)

Keyword 3: Keyword 3
Keyword 4: Keyword 4
Topic: Niche here

Industry: Industry here(example is weight loss)

City: City(city if it matters)



Keyword + "submit site"
Keyword + "submit url"
Keyword + "intitle:directory"
Keyword + "intitle:resources"
Keyword + "directory list"
Keyword + "inurl:list"
Keyword + "intitle:list"
Keyword + "inurl:directory"
Keyword + "inurl:resources"
Keyword + "add url"
Keyword + "submit url"
Keyword + "suggest url"
Keyword + "suggest a url"
Keyword + "submit site"
Keyword + "submit a site"
Keyword + "submit your site"
Keyword + "add a url"
Keyword + "add a site"
Keyword + "add listing"
Keyword + "add your listing"
Keyword + "submit a listing"
Keyword + "submit listing"
Keyword + "submit your website"

Keyword 2 + "submit site"
Keyword 2 + "submit url"
Keyword 2 + "intitle:directory"
Keyword 2 + "intitle:resources"
Keyword 2 + "directory list"
Keyword 2 + "inurl:list"
Keyword 2 + "intitle:list"
Keyword 2 + "inurl:directory"
Keyword 2 + "inurl:resources"
Keyword 2 + "add url"
Keyword 2 + "submit url"
Keyword 2 + "suggest url"
Keyword 2 + "suggest a url"
Keyword 2 + "submit site"
Keyword 2 + "submit a site"
Keyword 2 + "submit your site"
Keyword 2 + "add a url"
Keyword 2 + "add a site"
Keyword 2 + "add listing"
Keyword 2 + "add your listing"
Keyword 2 + "submit a listing"
Keyword 2 + "submit listing"
Keyword 2 + "submit your website"

Keyword 3 + "submit site"
Keyword 3 + "submit url"
Keyword 3 + "intitle:directory"
Keyword 3 + "intitle:resources"
Keyword 3 + "directory list"
Keyword 3 + "inurl:list"
Keyword 3 + "intitle:list"
Keyword 3 + "inurl:directory"
Keyword 3 + "inurl:resources"
Keyword 3 + "add url"
Keyword 3 + "submit url"
Keyword 3 + "suggest url"
Keyword 3 + "suggest a url"
Keyword 3 + "submit site"
Keyword 3 + "submit a site"
Keyword 3 + "submit your site"
Keyword 3 + "add a url"
Keyword 3 + "add a site"
Keyword 3 + "add listing"
Keyword 3 + "add your listing"
Keyword 3 + "submit a listing"
Keyword 3 + "submit listing"
Keyword 3 + "submit your website"

Keyword 4 + "submit site"
Keyword 4 + "submit url"
Keyword 4 + "intitle:directory"
Keyword 4 + "intitle:resources"
Keyword 4 + "directory list"
Keyword 4 + "inurl:list"
Keyword 4 + "intitle:list"
Keyword 4 + "inurl:directory"
Keyword 4 + "inurl:resources"
Keyword 4 + "add url"
Keyword 4 + "submit url"
Keyword 4 + "suggest url"
Keyword 4 + "suggest a url"
Keyword 4 + "submit site"
Keyword 4 + "submit a site"
Keyword 4 + "submit your site"
Keyword 4 + "add a url"
Keyword 4 + "add a site"
Keyword 4 + "add listing"
Keyword 4 + "add your listing"
Keyword 4 + "submit a listing"
Keyword 4 + "submit listing"
Keyword 4 + "submit your website"


Competitions Links

linkdomain:www.example.com
linkdomain:wwww.otherexample.com
linkdomain:www.example.com , linkdomain:wwww.otherexample.com, -linkdomain:www.yoursite.com
linkdomain:www.example.com submit
linkdomain:www.example.com suggest
linkdomain:www.example.com add site OR url OR website
linkdomain:www.example.com -site:www.example.com
linkdomain:wwww.otherexample.com submit
linkdomain:wwww.otherexample.com suggest
linkdomain:wwww.otherexample.com add site OR url OR website
linkdomain:wwww.otherexample.com -site:wwww.otherexample.com

News and Press Releases

Niche here "press release"
Niche here "news release"
Niche here "prweb"
Niche here "reuters"
Niche here "associated press"
Niche here "for immediate release"

Relevant Social Media

Digg (Niche here)
Delicious.com (Niche here)
Twitter Search (Niche here)
Twitter Search (Your Brand Name)

Local Directories

City Business Directory

Industry Directories

Industry here City Directory
Industry here Directory

Brand Mentions Without Links

Yahoo! Site Explorer (Your Brand Name -linkdomain:www.yoursite.com)
Blogscape (Your Brand Name -rd:www.yoursite.com)

Blog Links

Blogscape (rd:www.example.com)
Blogscape (rd:wwww.otherexample.com)

That's a neat little tool, thanks for the share!

thanks for sharing

nice find..

this is a great strategy for looking for links. Thanks!

Great tool and great share, thank you.

Thanks guys, maybe a sticky would help people who may miss this post.

Nice share

yep thanx for this

I'll have to try this.. Thanks for sharing