Backlinks are one of the most important elements of building traffic to your site. The more backlinks you have pointing to your site, the higher you will rank in search engines. The higher you rank in search engines, the more traffic you will see to your site. The more traffic you have coming to your site through backlinks, the more money you’ll make. While there are many different methods you can use to get more backlinks (some good and some not so good), I’ve highlighted the top 5 safe and most effective methods that have worked wonders for many including myself.
- One of the most best things you can do to build backlinks is to submit your site and blog posts to social networking websites such as digg, stumbleupon, delicious, and reddit on a regular basis. High traffic and high indexed sites like these means good results for you!
- Make sure you are active in 2-3 forums, which relate to the content of your site. Put a link to your website in your signature and make frequent weekly posts at these forums. Links back to your site will be indexed with the forums by the search engines and people reading may stop by your site to check it out if your posts appear interesting!
- Find quality blogs to match your interests and the content you write about on your site. Make an effort to post weekly comments on these blogs regularly with a link back to your site. Make sure the comments are meaningful or people will quickly lose interests in your comments.
- Search the main topic of your website in Google and look at the first several results that come back. Email the owner of each of those websites asking if they would be interested in doing a link exchange with you (you post their link on your site and they post your link on their site) or if they would be interested in having you as a guest poster from time to time where you could write a special article for their website on a topic with credit and a link back to your website.
- Finally, you should also publish your postings to sites like ezinearticles.com and goarticles.com in order to get more backlinks. These sites will also help build traffic, but they will allow for plenty of link-backs to your site in the process.
People often get so hung up on site page-rank (where you rank in Google’s search index) that they forget where the heart of their efforts should really be focused – backlinks! While quality original content is also important, backlinks currently rule the seas of search engines. Invest the time the suggestions above and you’ll be well on your way to getting more backlinks, building traffic, and making money online! Please leave a comment and let me know what you think!
I agree.