How To Get More Backlinks

by Sean Rasmussen on September 23, 2009

in SEO

Get More BacklinksLinks to your site can do a lot for your search engine marketing efforts. They provide a stream of traffic both from people and from search engines.

A linking strategy is vital for being found online and there are many ways to get plenty of links pointing to your site. They count as a vote for your site from a popularity and relevancy perspective and they can direct people who want to buy whatever it is that you’re selling.

The list below will show you how to effectively Get More Backlinks to your website, which will give you some great SEO benefits.

How Do You Get More Backlinks

Social bookmarking – For everything you do online, you should bookmark it. You may have your favourite bookmarking sites like Stumbleupon or Delicious, or you may have a strategy whereby you use different sites for different purposes. Bookmarks bring you people and they bring you search engine rankings for your desired keywords. Use keywords and use tags when you bookmark to improve the results!

Microblogging – Adding your links as part of your Twittering, Plurking, Facebook status updates, etc will point links to your site that bring you people and search engine bots.

Article marketing – Creating articles pre-sells people on your product and points search engines to your site regarding your topic.

Linking to authority sites could get you backlinks. Add links to authority sites on your articles and blogs and not only may those other sites link back to you, but if you’re linking to a site with authority it elevates your site’s relevancy to your niche in the eyes of search engines.

Make Web 2.0 pages like Squidoo lenses and HubPages. Make useful documents that pre-sell readers and send traffic to your site for more information. Use your desired keywords as the anchor.

Comment on blogs related to your niche. The blog’s readers might visit you and subscribe to you and the search engines will notice the connection, blog commenting is a great way to Get More Backlinks quite easily.

RSS feeds are great. Submit your feeds to feed directories for extra traffic.

Press releases – Write press releases related to your product launches and submit them for publications.

Make videos for YouTube and other video sites and link back to your site.

Answer questions related to your niche on answer sites and use your link in the resource section.

Blogroll exchanges – Blogroll sites relevant to your niche and ask those sites to do the same.

Start a meme – A blog meme is like a chain letter. If you get people to participate, ask them to link back to you. Participate in existing memes as well and others will link to you.

Post on forums and put your link in your signature. Every post you put on the forum will give you a backlink.

Buy links – Not everyone does this and seach engines don’t look on it favourably but you may find a perfect blog with a high ranking for a keyword that you would like to be listed on. The blog owner may be willing to give or sell you a permalink on their site.

Guest posting – Offer to write a high quality and relevant guest post on popular blogs or sites in your niche for a link back to your site. Most site owners are hungry for content and because they can derive revenue from your post, they may be more than happy to let you post on their site for free.

The more links you get from high quality sites, the better it is for your SEO and the more chances of driving targeted human traffic to your site. Hopefully this article has given you plenty of ideas to create your own strategies to Get More Backlinks to your website.

Have a most outstanding day.

Sean Rasmussen
Aussie Internet Marketing
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008 - 2010

 

{ 11 comments… read them below or add one }

sophy September 23, 2009 at 1:31 pm

Wow what a great post thanks for this…. super – so simple to understand… ta.

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Sean Rasmussen September 24, 2009 at 11:12 am

You are most welcome Sophy, glad you enjoyed it!

Regards – Sean

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G. Amorsolo September 24, 2009 at 12:28 pm

Very informative and interesting article. I would like to emphasize blog commenting, even if most blogs presently are “nofollow” leaving comments behind is highly recommended. Not only does it provide exposure to your website it also drives traffic from readers and webmasters.

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Sean Rasmussen September 25, 2009 at 1:06 pm

Hi G. Amorsolo,
Great comments. Whether you comment on a dofollow or nofollow blog, there are still great benefits of both (providing it is not a suspicious or adult content type of site). Dofollow is in my opinion the best, however there is plenty of traffic and exposure available from nofollow blog comments.

Regards – Sean

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Judah Swagerty September 24, 2009 at 6:54 pm

Sean, great information! You really broke it down in simple terms. Very well written. Thanks for sharing!

Judah Swagerty
Internet Marketer / Entrepreneur Success & Life Strategies Coach

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Sean Rasmussen September 25, 2009 at 1:08 pm

Hi Judah,

Great to hear you enjoyed the post. All the best with your marketing.

Regards – Sean

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Bill Tsouvalas September 24, 2009 at 11:11 pm

Thanks Sean – Super post. Cheers

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Sean Rasmussen September 25, 2009 at 1:21 pm

Cheers Bill, glad you enjoyed it. You should now have plenty of avenues for building all important backlinks.

Regards – Sean

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Cemil September 25, 2009 at 1:51 pm

Hi Sean,

Do you have like a “Top 10″ list of Web 2.0 or social bookmarking where its worth spending your time?

As I have learn’t from you; your time is important and you must get the highest possible ROI. So I am looking for ways to get the best backlinks for the time I invest.

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Dr. Laraine September 28, 2009 at 3:31 pm

Thanks for the most useful post, Sean. Those are all great ideas which should become frequent habits! I might offer commenter Cemil the Alexa resource for top ranked sites. There is a page on the Alexa site called /topsites, where you can see the current top-500-ranked websites. Just scan the list for social media names and those are the biggies. Here’s to everyone’s Apt Success!

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John D | Business Review November 14, 2009 at 5:00 pm

I’d say guest posting is one of the best – as long as the guest authors submit unique articles. Together with article marketing it can generate quite a bit of traffic.

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