Link Building tactics that webmasters use, some White Hat, some Gray and some Black. Find out how to tell the difference. Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz.orgtalks with Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting.  

You can get some good ideas for link building form this video and then also find out things you might not want to do to keep your website White Hat.

SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday-Link Building Tactics from White to Black from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.

If you are not sure what this “White Hat”, “Black Hat” is all about, read this:

White Hat – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat
Grey Hat – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_hat
Black Hat – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hat

BlogCatalog is one of my favorite ”tools” to kick start the traffic to a new blog website. When you register and submit your blog people will start visiting or reading your blog. If your blog is interesting, the readers can become your friend. Lots and lots of people do on my account. When I signed up last year and submitted my Web Design Ideas Blog, people started reading and becoming my friends.

Well now if I have a new blog, I can submit it there to my account and tell my existing friends to check it out. This will give the blog an initial kick start of traffic, will get the word out.

BlogCatalog also has a paid option. You can sponsor a category or a subcategory in the blog directory. This will cost from $8 to $25 per month, depending on the category. A well worth investment. Here, you would be paying not for PR but for the actual visitors.