As discussed in the previous Creating Backlinks article, learning how to create backlinks is very important for the ranking of your website or blog. You want to get backlinks that are diverse, high quality and yet get a lot of them over time. But how exactly do you get these backlinks. Here are 6 ways of creating backlinks:
Publish/Distribute Your Content to Other Sites
There’s no point creating content if no one is going to see it. So distribute your content to other sites, preferably with high PR. The most common way of doing this is by submitting articles to Article Directories with a link or 2 back to your site.
Some of these sites get a ton of traffic and by submitting your content you can harness some of that traffic. Good places to submit your content to include Ezine Articles, Hub Pages, Squidoo, Go Articles as well as Better Networker.
Article Submitters
This is like the previous one but on steroids and is how you get a large quantity of backlinks. Basically you submit content to the article submitter and it will automatically submit it to hundreds or sometimes thousands of article directories and other sites. Not only can you submit to tons of sites, but you can usually have 2 backlinks in your resource box (double the backlinks!).
You have to be a bit careful with this one though. If you have a new site and it suddenly gets hundreds or thousands of backlinks from article sites in a short space of time, google might get suspicious. Fortunately many of these article submitters are able to limit the submissions to a certain amount per day.
To maximise this strategy you can also “spin” the articles which increases uniqueness, getting more of your articles accepted and indexed and therefore getting more backlinks to your site.
Distributing Videos
Do you upload videos to your site? Just like with your articles, you should distribute the videos to other sites such as Youtube & Viddler. Include a link in the description and you’ve got yourself another backlink (+ the extra traffic from people clicking on the link). Like with articles, there are submission services that will submit your videos to a number of different video sites.
To get even more value from this, you could turn your video into a podcast (or create unique podcasts) and then submit these podcasts to different podcast directories.
Blog Commenting
Yes you can get backlinks by commenting on blogs but you need to find the right blogs. Why? Most blogs are “nofollow” which basically tells the search engines to disreguard the link making it not count as a backlink. The type of blogs we are after are “dofollow” blogs because it will count as a backlink. You can search for these blogs on google.
Once you have found a suitable “dofollow” blog, leave a good, relevant comment (NO SPAM!). You will be asked to fill in your name (which will count as anchor text), your email address and a website (your actual backlink).
Forum Signatures
Are you part of a forum? Did you know you can have a link in your signature? Yup this also counts as a backlink. Join forums in your niche and like above only post good, relevant posts and comments or the administrators will catch onto you and ban your account.
Purchasing Packets or Backlinks
Another thing you can do is purchase “packets” of backlinks from certain websites. I’m talking like 20 – 50 high PR backlinks per packet not these shady deals where you get thousands of backlinks for $10. These are usually linkfarms which are bad and make google angry >:( .
If you decide to buy one of these packets of 20 – 50 backlinks, make sure you do some research on google to make sure they’re legit. One i’ve used recently is http://angelasdiscountmarket.com which appears to be pretty good. Once you get the packet there is some manual work involved but will be worth it, or you can just outsource the work.
Anchor Text
Just a quick point on anchor text for newbies. Anchor text is the text that you see and can click on in a hyperlink. For example, at the very start of this article I’ve got a link. The anchor text for that link is “Creating Backlinks”
Whenever you are creating backlinks make sure to include the keyword you want your website or particular webpage to rank for in the anchor text like I have done.
There are of course more ways of creating backlinks, but these 6 are some of the best and most popular ways of creating backlinks and are more than enough for you to start getting your site. So pick some or all of these strategies and get cracking and create backlinks for your site!
Joseph…
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