How to get backlinks is a question that comes up a lot and as a part of this blog I want to give the people what they want!This is my own little formula on how to get backlinks, and it may not work for everyone. There may be easier backlink methods but doing it manually and at a normal pace can be very gratifying, takes little time and is free.
So how do I get backlinks? The simple answer is this:
How to Get Others to Link to You
1. Ask.
The worst you will hear is no. The second best thing is a reciprocal or link exchange. LE's are okay as long as they are relevant and you don't go overboard. Other bloggers are usually okay with backlinks. Just ask.
2. Have a compelling website.
Is your content useful? Helpful? Solve an ongoing issue? Make sure it does and readers will bookmark you for future reference, write about you, share with others and make your stuff go viral. The more people that see your post and can use them the more possibilities for backlinks to your site.
3. Know what you're talking about.
It will be evident if you have done your homework or not and this goes hand in hand with having a compelling website. Know what your talking about and spare nothing for others to build off of. Be the authority. Explain in detail what you did and how you did it. Some bloggers hoard information. Don't be a hoarder. Share.
How to Build Backlinks on Your Own
1. Social bookmarking.
Every time you post document it. Add your links to social bookmarking sites that offer you backlinks. Make it automatic. Find 5 or 10 of your favorite dofollow bookmarking sites and submit to them every time you post.
Depending on the social bookmarking site, if enough readers add your bookmark it's possible to get backlinks from the page and get a flood of traffic. Del.icio.us, Mister Wong and Reddit are good for a traffic avalanche. Mister Wong and Reddit front page are both good for getting backlinks.
2. Comment marketing.
Two ways: Google alerts and RSS subscriptions.
Google Alerts - Subscribe for the keywords you want to get backlinked for. When you find sites and blogs that allow comments (without signing in) that are dofollow subscribe to them.
RSS Subscriptions - Find dofollow or no 'nofollow' blogs and subscribe. If you can find newspapers from across the country that is even better for getting backlinks. Some will allow a link without having to sign in. When you are at a loss as to what you could be doing go to your RSS or email and build backlinks.
3. Posting in Forums.
There are a fair amount of forums that are dofollow because they want you to contribute to their site. Offering a backlink is an incentive to keep you around. Master the art of link baiting in the signature and add useful backlinks from your site.
If you have a post or site that is relevant to the discussion, add an anchor text back to your site.
Other helpful tips:
o Don't go nuts - Honestly I don't know how many backlinks in a short amount of time is allowed, tolerated, whatever. To me is seems 'beyond humanly possible' is backlink overload. Be consistent building backlinks, not quick.
o Don't spam the comments area - if you find a blog that gives you backlinks for comments one link in the website field will do. If you are *adding* to the discussion then drop a link with anchor text or however you want to do it. Unless the link is relevant or contributes to the discussion trying to stretch for a backlink is usually not a good idea.
o There is nothing wrong with 'nofollow' - Obviously you want one way backlinks that give off some PR power. Having a mix of dofollow and nofollow links is a good guideline. Sometimes the 'nofollow' links from high traffic sites have a trickle down effect. Don't ignore 'nofollow' entirely. Don't just go to a Web site or blog to get drop links. Consider a backlink a bonus.
o Spread yourself thin/don't put all your eggs in one basket - Sorry for the cliches but you need to use several methods of link building. If you only build backlinks in comments, or forums what happens if you get kicked out, or a blog or site simply disappears. When you start checking your backlinks on a regular basis you will see an influx and once in a while you'll lose links. Pardon me, another cliche, don't choose one method to be your 'ace in the hole' or a 'done deal'. Some of your hard earned links can go bye bye.
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38 comments:
Interesting method, thanks for sharing it with us!
Some very good tips and blog-building suggestions. Stumbled and reviewed so others can take advantage of these useful ideas.
3 way link exchange may be the best method.
I personally like cliches in posts. Anyway, its good to know that some link building tasks do work.
I believe article marketing is still a decent way of link building..if done the right way
Links from article and web directories too help. It is always a good strategy to get links from all the above methods and sources.
I agree that authority article is the easiest way to get backlinks, perhaps thousands of them. Writing an authority article is tedious and requires a lot of research, but once the post becomes popular, the result will be amazing. People are linking to you without you asking them to do so.
Great tips.. I love it and I will practice it to my site.
Thanks a lot
Great tips. What about sites like EntreCard (free link sharing sites)?
Really a true guide.But one question that comes into my mind is that how much time a person should spend on making backlinks as i mean what is the real benefit from it??
A note on article marketing:
Think of the backlinks like you would compound interest. You build your credibility and the bonus is you get traffic and others use your articles producing more backlinks.
Social bookmarking seems to be working well for me.
Very nice, very informative. I have tried out all your secrets unfortuantely not in forum, coz its a bit time consuming. I think i should start making links in forums too, it can get you a good some of visitors too.
I always use guest blogging and article submission for link building.It makes feel more secure .
Thanks for mentioning the nofollows as well. How important is the niche your linking to? I've read arguments from sides of the coin.
Great info here!
Tony
very interesting i truly did learn a lot from your article as you simply did have various ways of building backlinks
Practical!!
That is pretty much what u have to do. U could also write a blog yourself, and place links to your websites.
Good tips for newbies like me. I will practice this. Thank you.
i liked your blog because it provided decent ways to buildling backlinks
Thanks!
Your list is decent and complete.
Glad I found it. Althoug I'm not familiar with social bookmarking, I will certainly give it a try.
Amazing content. I like the fact that you point out not to go crazy and do 5,000 posts or submit to one of the automated builders. Really good post.
I think it's not complicated to ask for a link exchange with other blogs with your blog has a decent traffic and certain population. But if you're asking for 1 way link, or triangle link exchange, then it's kinda difficult to get backlinks with these ways. :)
I found that commenting is a great way in getting backlinks, but there is really less blog who has "Dofollow" tag on the comment section, sigh..=.="
Good tips!
Regards,
Lee
Yessss, it work.
Your blog post was contain nice information...Thanks!!!
That was quite information about backlink.
Thanks!
John
I have nothing to say, unless very good tips.
Good info..definitely more for me to look into:)
Nicely done what to do list! Very detailed and a good advise too. Thank you for reminding me of what i should be doing most after i am done building websites ;-)
Hmm, some good points, but please also mention the intricate problems faced in each method too. Thanx
their are so many ways to get backlinks but the one thing that really bothers me is when you get a backlink but its not permanent or it gets deleted because its really a daunting task which than become an even more of a tedious process
Just to expand on your point about 'spreading yourself thinly', I think it's also wise to spread your links across many different sites rather than trying to get many links from one site. I'm not sure how much the search engines would credit you for more than a couple of links anyway.
I personally never seek to get more than two at most links from any one site as I would think that it looks more natural to the search engines.
Thanks for the great tips. I have just subscribed to your newletter as well and look forward to learning more.
social bookmarking is really helpful,
thank you for the nice information
Getting Backlinks from Social bookmarking sites is a real hard work, you need feed in datas regularly but the result pays it all. Can you suggest any software which can do it all easily.
excellent article, thank you
Thanks for the great post and making me realise that its not easy to get dofollow backlinks, what you said are really realsitic incentives... In posts from other blogs it makes it sound all easy when in fact finding sources is actually hard. Thanks for the great post!
I agree that social bookmarking can give a lot of backlink, but make sure to check the PageRank to make maximum result of backlink.
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