All About Backlinks
Backlink is a link on another site that points to your website. Backlinks are important to SEO success. If you want your site to rank high in search engine results (SERPs), you definitely need to get some quality backlinks for your site.
Creating is easy. You can do it in a minute or two. However, you may need to create hundreds or even thousands of backlinks for your site before you can achieve good ranking. Getting hundreds backlinks is not an easy task.
How to Build Backlink
Backlink is important part of SEO. So how do you get them?
There are several linkbuilding methods that will help you create for your site. Among of those recommended by most SEO Expert are getting listed in directories, posting in forums, blogs and article directories.
Getting Listed in Directories: It is easy to gain backlinks from free directories. You can get a free link simply by submitting your site’s details to these directories. However, it would take from few days to months for directories owner to approve your submission. Paid directories offer faster approval but you need to pay review fee to get your site listed in these directories. You can find a list of free and paid directories at directorycritic.com.
Forum Posting: Another good way to create backlinks is forum posting. Sign up a forum account, create a signature that links to your site and you are ready to get some free backlinks.. For some forums, you need to make at least 10-15 posts before you are allowed to add a signature link. Please read forum rules and regulations before you start your forum posting campaign.
Posting a Comment: You can gain backlink by posting comments on blogs. Before you put link in your first comment, you need to find out that if the blogger allows keyword in the link. Please do not post comment such as ‘great post’, ‘thank you for sharing’, etc. This type of comment will be deleted. A useful comment that contributes something to the blog and its reader will be approved by blogger.
Article Submission: Generally articles are longer than posts or comments. You need to spend more time writing them. However, submitting your article to article directories is a great way to get traffic as well as backlink. There are many free article directories. Ezinearticles.com is a good place to start your submission.
Free Theme Sponsorship: Design a CMS theme and make it a free theme. This is a good way to gain backlink automatically. Many bloggers use this method to gain backlinks. Here is an example of a sponsored theme: wordpress magazine themes
Apart from building backlinks using the above link building methods, you can also buy backlinks for your site. You can buy backlinks from several link market on the Internet. However link buying could be risky. You have to do it with care.
Link Building Automation
Creating hundreds of backlinks is time consuming, tedious and boring. You can automate link building process using these methods:
- SEO Tools: There are many submission tools available in the market for directories submission, article submission and social bookmarking. You can try Brad Callen’s Free Directory Submitter for directories submission.
- Submission Outsource: There are a lot of companies which will be happy to do all your submission jobs for a small fee. One of such service providers is phpldtemplates.com. You can also find many service providers in SEO or webmaster forums.
