http://bit.ly/1i0DEbM What are Backlinks?
Backlinks are web hyperlinks placed on another person’s, or organisations’, website that link back to your site. This link allows the reader of the other website to jump to your site to read additional, relevant, information. Not only does the link remove the ‘search’ process for the reader it increases your site’s scoring with search engines… resulting in a higher placed ranking. So backlinks create good Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)… but only if used correctly. Here’s how…
Quality or Quantity?
Be careful; if you create links with sites that are outside of your niche or sites that share little in common with yours, Google and all other search engines, will at best downgrade your ranking… or at worse blacklist you! You have been warned: Google is red-hot on this and determined to stop people “bad linking.”
As with all things traffic, you must always aim for QUALITY not QUANTITY! 100 highly relevant backlinks are your personal Goldmine whereas 1,000 non-relevant links will bury you!
5 Simple methods that make a successful backlinking strategy
Put your backlinks in articles, social bookmarking sites and blogs as well as putting them in your signature on threads you post in any niche related forums.
Google “social media sites” and add your website URL or your articles and blogs to the many social sites such as: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, digg.com, StumbleUpon.com, reddit.com and your YouTube channel. Everytime you post then your backlink will be seen. The most popular of these sites are classed as “authority sites” by search engines and have a very high page ranking themselves. This is good for you!
Find other blogs on a similar (relevant) topic and add a comment to it. At the end of your comment add a backlink to your own site.
If the page you are creating backlinks for is an article, put a link on any similar articles you have written on the topic.
An easy way to start building backlinks is to use a dedicated tool. I use ‘Backlink Builder’. This software allows you to enter your keyword(s) and it gives you a list of CONTENT RELATED SITES that WANT YOUR BACKLINK.
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