--- title: Skyscraper Technique for SEO description: The skyscraper technique for SEO is another technique for getting websites to link to your blog. 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It usually starts with an email from some anonymous person and goes something like this: "Hey I recently read a post your wrote about (*something*).  I really found it fascinating and it is similar to an article I wrote about the same subject.  Would you be willing to reference my article and I would do (*something in return*)?" The idea behind it is people only look up at the tallest buildings around.  So if you write something much more in depth you can find other smaller posts and get them to link to you.  Their article is much higher in these terms and constitutes the highest building around. ## Skyscraper Link Building Strategy 1. Find something worth writing about that people will want to read 2. Look at other posts that appear high on search engines 3. Create something better 4. Contact the other post owners and get them to link to you Some of the problems with this approach is that it may not be as beneficial as some say.  You may indeed get other sites to link to you but there are a lot of other factors to consider for search engine rankings.  The domain authority of others sites may be much better than yours and in this case you probably won't out rank them.  Here's a good article which explains and [debunks the skyscraper technique](https://ahrefs.com/blog/skyscraper-technique/). Another problem I've seen is if someone offers to link back to your article in exchange for linking to theirs.  Techically this a link exchange which is against Google's terms of service.  You may not get caught until Google sees too many links that are symbiotic or unnatural.  That could trigger a penalty. 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