Little trick I use to snag decent backlinks

[Inhibition]

Really basic stuff:
- Head over to flippa
- Look for sites in your niche that are being bid on
- If they look clean (not a crappy spam site) msg the owner
- Ask to buy a backlink on the site before he sells

Usually they will sell a back link and just place it on a resource page or an existing article so it has a really low chance of being removed under a new owner.

They usually sell for dirt cheap too and it's a one time fee. EZPZ

 

[Darth]

Great tip. Just had a look though and man, I had forgotten how much trash there is a on Flippa!

 

[Samwise89]

That's a great idea, truly. Pitch them when they no longer care and are only looking at money.

The only downside is that I bet you'd find there's a lot of link loss if you did this on a huge scale. Not because anybody removed the link but because the buyers seem to destroy a site more often than not. They start trying to redesign, break everything, kill the rankings and earnings, and then let the domains expire.

Another idea might be to collect relevant domains that are sold in a file and once a week crawl it to see which ones go down. When they do you could offer to buy the entire domain outright (for cheaper than the site). If you get some winners you can then recreate the site, recover earnings, and give your actual project a link that way.