Tyler Dewitt’s ideas of link building and Eric Ward
I just got done reading an article over at search engine land called “A Portrait Of The Perfect Link Builder“, which I think Eric Ward has a good point on link building, but if you ask me personally I have other ideas on link building, and how it should be done which granted I’m not saying Eric Ward has the wrong ideas, I think hes totally right, but I just wanted to express my thoughts about what I think a good link builder is and how to create good links rather through linking communications, viral content, people skills, and etc.
First and most important off all for a link builder to be successful they must know where to find links, they must know the trades rather its self taught or through training. If you ask me I think self taught is the best way to learn, but how do people identify and grab links.
I look at the characteristics of a good link builder is having great people skills, and interacting with people rather its through e-mail, social web, or even viral content. In my career with linking I have found its best to achieve links through good viral content or educational resources, and I think one way or another the individual must offer this in some way.
When I say people skills a person must be able to work a person into giving them a link and most of the time it does take more then just good people skills it can take trades, when I say trades I mean offering the person something in trade like for example a new graphics design, website (depending no how much the link is worth), or just something that will get the user to link to you by wheeling and dealing.
Now everything I just went over in the last few paragraphs would be so called linking communications with people skills, but what about hard driven viral content 
- by far the best. When you have viral content you is actually possible to achieve 5 links every day from good enough viral content, rather its writing a post up on how to be a millionaire in 3 days (speaking you are a millionaire), or just something so funny or mind boggling that people want to tell others about it and create conversations about it.
Viral Marketing is the best form of marketing if you ask me, so viral link baits would be just another form of viral marketing in a different perception and reality which would be considered web based. Thats the thing I love about the internet! So much money to be made, and viral marketing can be done very at ease if done successful.
So if you ask me getting links is about skills, viral content, people skills, friends, and more. Check out some of the articles I posted below. A few are on marketing, link building, and other numerous things, and ohh yea don’t forget to subscribe to our rss feed for daily marketing tips, search engine optimization tips, and videos ;).
Six principles of Viral Marketing
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