This article shows you 15 legitimate ways of how to get backlinks that Google loves.
Backlinks are links that appear on another website and point to
yours. When readers from the other site click on an anchor text linked
to one of your webpages, they will come to your site.
Building backlinks is crucial for any website’s SEO (search engine
optimization) success. The more backlinks there are to your website,
the more traffic is guided there. It tells search engines how popular
your website content is across the internet, so when a query is
searched, search engines give more credits to websites with more quality
backlinks.
What are the most desired backlinks?
Backlinks are not all equal.
Low quality backlinks,
which are also called “black hat” links, are paid, or from link farms,
or from any websites that have absolutely no content relationship with
yours.
The most desired backlinks, or “white hat” links, are those from
quality websites with higher Google rankings that have relevant topics
to your niche.
How to get backlinks? – 15 ways for quality backlinks
1. Using affiliate marketing
If you have something to sell online, either physical or
digital products, you can consider using
affiliate networks
to announce your products with a great commission rate. Other websites’
owners in the same niche may be interested in promoting your products
on their websites for a potential affiliate income.
This is a win-win situation for both publishers and advertisers. Publishers can
make better use of their websites’ space
for generating income , and advertisers can gain a lot of quality
backlinks in a fast manner, most of the time for free, as affiliates are
only paid when a sale or a lead is made.
Affiliate marketing has attracted most of popular internet top 500 etailers, explained in the
Affiliate Program Management: An Hour a Day,
“now free affiliate networks, automation software, and
pay-for-performance compensation models are making it easy for small
businesses to take advantage of this marketing tool.”
2. Submit your website to ODPs (open directory projects) and other directories.
You can submit your website URL to Google
here.
Submitting your website to Bing is free, but it takes months to get listed; maybe you never will. To submit your website to
Yahoo!’s Directory, the cost is $299 to apply and $299 annually to be in the directory. Submitting your website to
Dmoz.com could be difficult nowadays, but you can always try.
3. Submitting Guest Posts.
Submit guest posts written for other blogs or websites that are
relevant to your niche is a great way to build quality backlinks. This
is a time-consuming process. But since every website you contribute to
are hand-picked by yourself, every backlink you get through
guest posting
is a quality backlink that Googlebot loves. Be ethical when you choose
to guest blogging is very important to build rapport with other
bloggers: Don’t submit one article to multiple websites as guest posts.
There are many free online tools to check if your copy is original, it
is not hard to get caught if you do so.
4. Comment on other relevant posts.
Many links that appear in comment sections are
nofollow links.
It is not something you can control. But the more you comment, the
greater your chances of building backlinks. If you comments are relevant
and make sense to readers, they could follow the link and pay a visit
to your website. Again the relevance is a necessity. For the best
quality backlinks, comment on high PageRank websites of your niche.
5. Ask questions and provide answers.
Q.A sites help people to ask questions and get answered. If you like
to help people out, these Q.A sites are great places to help build up
your backlinks and traffic to your websites. Popular services are Yahoo
Answers,
Linkedin ,
Google+ communities, Answers.dot.com, askmefast, Warrior Forum, and don’t forget
Quora.
Gain credibility and reputation in your niche by providing valuable
answers to solve others’ problems. If your answers are very relevant to
the questions, you can plant links in your answers.
6. Ping your blog:
As for how often you should ping your website, the rule of thumb is
whenever you have updates, you should ping your content. Without any
updates, frequent “ping”s won’t benefit your Google ranking. Recommended
sites are pingomatic and pingler.
7. Participate in Forums that are relevant to your niche.
Usually forums will allow you to add a bio line with your website URL
included. Some internet related forums are Warrior forum,
forum.cnet.com, forums.mozillazine.org, forums.digitalpoint.com.
8. Submit articles to article directories.
Use article directories such as
Squidoo,
hubpages, ezinarticles, goarticles, Technorati, and Pubarticles. For a list of over 1000 websites to submit your articles to, check out
Freearticlesubmission.
9. Write your own kindle books.
It is not hard to write a kindle books nowadays, as there are so many
guides to teach you how you can easily write one good kindle book that can sell.
One of the benefits of writing a good kindle book is to build
backlinks for your website. You can include many useful links in your
book, guide readers to your website without begging.
10. Reclaim lost backlinks.
Search Engine Watch has an article written by Garrett French
explaining 7 steps to finding your long lost links.
11. Build Social Media Backlinks.
Create Facebook pages and generate more likes, build up
Google+ communities and interact with like-minded people, produce beautiful
inforgraphics to share them on Twitter, Facebook, and to pin on
Pinterest. All these will help to bring in more traffic and quality backlinks to your websites.
12. Submit press releases.
Tell your story to the world through press releases. Some of the popular services are PRWeb and
prlog.org.
13. Submit your article to social bookmarking sites.
There are many social bookmarking sites, such as BlinkList, blogmarks, Connotea,
StumbleUpon, or
Diigo.
14. Sumbit your article to Blogsphere.
Using blog communities that offer shared posts. Some of these sites
have been included in the “shared button” above. There are more I found
over the web that are very useful to bloggers and website owners for
getting backlinks and traffic.
15. Using content curation tools for backlinks.
Scoop.it is one of the best content curation tools on the web. I wrote an article before with a list of
content curation tools, you can go through the list to use some of those that interest you.
