This is a guest post that originally appeared on Search Engine People.

Recent Google updates like Penguin have had a significant impact on the link building landscape. Some of the quicker, easier tactics for getting links that had previously been effective in helping your content to rank have actually become detrimental to your efforts. So if you’re starting a new blog or site from scratch and have already created some high quality content, what can you do to get your first link and ensure that you’re on your way to having your first 500 links be high quality?

Read the full post at Search Engine People

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