Link Building Guides

These guides explain specific, working ways to get backlinks. Each covers one channel, the tools you need, and what to expect.

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Mentionry's link building guides provide practical, step-by-step instructions for specific channels where you can earn backlinks, such as resource pages, press mentions, and podcast appearances, focusing on actionable methods that avoid common pitfalls like paid placements and unverified directories, ensuring you pursue genuine opportunities that align with ethical SEO practices and can realistically benefit your site's visibility.

On this page4 sections
  1. 01What these guides contain
  2. 02How to choose a guide
  3. 03What you will not find here
  4. 04The role of tools and automation

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How to be a podcast guest

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How to get cited in AI Overviews

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Why we do not sell links

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What backlinks are

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How to get backlinks

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What these guides contain

Each guide isolates one way to get a link. It describes the channel, like a journalist asking for sources or a website listing useful tools. The guide then walks through the steps to find those opportunities yourself.

You will see what tools are required, which are free, and where a paid tool saves time. Every guide states the limitations of the method upfront. Some channels yield a few high quality links per year. Others can be worked consistently.

How to choose a guide

Start with the method that matches your available resources. If you have deep expertise but little time, look at guides for contributing articles or speaking at conferences. These require significant work per opportunity but can result in authoritative links.

If you need to build a foundation of links steadily, look at guides for resource pages or unlinked mentions. These often involve smaller, quicker outreach tasks. Choose based on what you can honestly offer and sustain.

What you will not find here

These guides do not cover buying links, broken link building, or mass directory submissions. Buying links that pass ranking signals violates Google's policy and risks a penalty. Broken link building requires a different set of tools for finding and checking pages.

You will also not find generic advice about creating 'linkable assets' without a target. Each guide starts with finding a specific place that could link to you, then works backward to what to send.

The role of tools and automation

Manual work is the core of any link building. Tools handle the repetitive searching and filtering. A guide might show how to use a search operator, a feed reader, or a specialized platform like Mentionry.

Mentionry is an AI marketing platform that records what answer engines say about your brand and finds where it could be cited next. It surfaces specific opportunities and drafts the pitch; you send it from your own mailbox after approval. The guides explain the principles behind this, so you know what the platform automates and what judgment you must still apply.

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No guide can guarantee a link. These guides explain honest methods for finding real opportunities, like a podcast booking guests or a publication accepting contributed articles. Your success depends on the relevance of your site and the quality of your pitch. Nothing here is promised.

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