Link building is easily the most groaned about aspect of SEO. It's hard, it's rarely scalable, it takes a ridiculous amount of time, and frankly, our lives would all be better without it.
Unfortunately, link building will always be a part of SEO, no matter how much we complain about it. Still, you have to change the way you think about it, and this past week at SES Chicago, I didn't speak on link building: I spoke on relationship building.
In my session, I talked about how you can use social media instead of email to start building that relationship with people. Twitter is one the easiest mediums for that, and with it comes a host of tools that you can use to help you search, qualify, and contact influencers in your niche. Here's that list of tools...
[Terrific tools ~ Jeff]