10 Tips For Getting Backlinks

Inbound links, usually referred to as IBLs or backlinks are essential if a Website is to become popular and rise to the top of the SERPS (Search engine results pages), and over time, a site with plenty of quality content will naturally get linked to by related sites. This is all well and good, but if you are in a hurry to build Web traffic (and who isn’t?) it is useful to know that there are some things we can do to speed things along.

Before embarking on your link building strategy be aware that some of these methods are open to abuse which could have a negative effect or even get your site banned, so please excercise some common sense and only submit your site’s link when it is relevant and reasonable to do so.
So without further ado, here are my 10 tips for obtaining search engine friendly outside links:

1 - Find online forums related to your site and become part of the community (along with a suitable signature that links to your site).

2 - Add comments to blogs with a link to related content on your Website.

3 - Submit on-topic articles to article directories and include your link in the author bio.

4 - Submit your link to the many free online directory sites.

5 - Add your comments to a guestbook and include your url.

6 - Email the webmaster of a related site and ask to trade links.

7 - Offer to provide some content for another site in return for a link back.

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Importance of Backlinks

If your trying to get free traffic in the form of organic traffic, which is being listed in Google’s organic results and not the sponsored listings, then back-links should be of high importance especially for Google. The way Google gives a site importance is by how many sites are linking to it.

The higher the page rank of the site linking to you, the higher Google will rank your site. If your looking to be listed in Google’s organic results you have to get sites of importance to link to you. Some people like to have a bunch of random sites link to them by the bulk, but Google caught on to such sites and have updated their algorithm’s to recognize it and give those sites a really low rank. If you want results you have to do it the right way.

One way you can start off is to write quality content, if you write well and provide useful information other sites will link to you “just because” and won’t even ask for a back-link. Another approach is to contact other webmasters and do link exchanges, but only to sites that are worthwhile. If your site is useful like I said before and relevant to the site of the webmaster you are contacting, then you would be surprised how many would agree.

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