Google is the biggest search engine on the planet. It probably has been dominating the search engine industry right from when it was born. However, it has evolved tremendously over the past few years, in a constant effort to make sure the quality of the results it provides to its users never suffers due to shady SEO practices. This has left many people in the SEO industry in a worried state.

But if you managed to stumble upon this infographic and article, you would probably have something better to look forward to now instead of always being at loggerheads with Google’s web spam team. With that said, let us teach you how to go about finding great white hat link building opportunities using advanced search operators.

Guest Posts

You can easily search for sites that accept guest posts in your niche by using the following search operators.

• Keyword/YourCompetitorName “guest blog”
• Keyword/YourCompetitorName “write for us”
• Keyword/YourCompetitorName “submit a guest post”

These three search operators are probably going to help you find most of the opportunities, but the other ones can turn out to be fairly useful as well.

Resource Pages

There are resource pages in many major niches – especially the ones that have a bit of a technical side to them – that you can get links from. These sites are usually very well-established and authoritative, so even a few of these links may help you get a great SEO boost.

You can find these sites using the following search operators.

• Keyword “top 10 resources/top resources”
• Keyword “favorite resources”
• Keyword “round up”

And many others as you can see in the infographic. However, as an important note, do let us tell you that you will need very useful content in order to successfully get links using this strategy.

List Sites

There are many list sites that include links to a variety of sites in many different niches. Of course, these aren’t the most powerful options as far as SEO is concerned, but they are good for diversity and the occasional SEO juice.

Finding these sites is as easy as performing the following searches.

• Keyword “add a site“/“suggest site“/“recommend site“/“submit site”
• Keyword “add a URL”/”submit a URL”/”recommend URL”
• Keyword directory add/submit/suggest/post

Of course, there are a bunch of other that you can use to cover as many sites as you possibly can. Similarly, the other advanced SEO strategies as explained in the infographic may deserve your attention as well, especially if you’re looking to build links to a large site that would need a decent bit of link diversity.