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Although one of the more time consuming internet marketing strategies link building is one of the unavoidable tasks you have as an online marketer. To increase the rating of your blog or site you have to work on building links.

Creating a list is one of the key ways to building links. The online visitor loves lists. They are easy to read, often very informative and are great resources to make a note of. Social bookmarking sites such as Digg add to their popularity.

Some serious lists even manage to acquire authority status. It’s worth your while to compile a list in your niche. Post your list as an article first to benefit from the links and then compile it into an eBook for easy download to encourage subscribers. A good list will generate a serious number of links.

Here are some ideas on what kind of list to build.

Create a top 50 or top 101 list of useful tips on something. This can be on saving money, writing articles, losing weight, collecting stamps or setting goals as just a few examples. It can be on any topic that will fit in with your blog or site. It can also be tips on an area that you are particularly interested in and have good knowledge of.

You can compile a shorter list such as 10 easy tips to bath your dog without destroying the house or 11 ways to boil an egg. How about 7 ways to treat hayfever or 12 simple steps towards financial freedom?

A list can be about unusual topics. Include an element of secrecy to pique the reader’s interest. For instance 8 myths about fitness regimes, or 10 secret diet tricks nobody tells you about. 9 hidden costs to internet marketing or 5 tricks nobody ever mentions when rock climbing.

Create a substantial resources list. These are always of interest to readers. This list can be about top Universities with the best business schools or the best free software available for image manipulation. It could be a resource list on best books on your niche so as to relate it back to your field of interest.

Create a list of experts in your particular niche. You might be an enthusiastic golfer and your blog or site is about an area of golfing such as famous golf courses you have played, or the most unusual golf courses. A list of top golfers would fit in well with this.

You might even get some of these golfers to link back to you. If you are into tennis consider a list of the top tennis players of all ages. Roger Federer is very active in social media, he might just link back to you.

Take the list of famous people one step further and invite the people on your list to be interviewed on a podcast or video. You could send through a few questions and see whether they will respond.

The above are just some ideas for list building. Lists are a very effective way of building links back to a blog or site and are relatively easy to create.