I had a nice FB post exchanges with a local blogger because he’s curious on what is the best way to get backlinks for his blog. He told me that his doing forum posting, blog commenting and even uses social bookmarking sites to promote his blog and yet his methods doesn’t seem bring good result.
He asked the million-dollar-question, “What is the best way to get backlinsk for my blog?”
To start with, backlinks is just one of the hundreds (200+ and growing) factors which Google is using to weight your site.
Benefits of Quality Backlink
The benefits of building up back link is to increase traffic and helps in getting page rank, and SERP ranking. It boost site traffic and improves site visibility in search engine.
Remember : Increase traffic=increase visitors = increase profits.
Don’t forget quality and not quantity is what matters in link building. Better to have a 1 backlink from a PR 6 site than to have 6 from a PR 1 sites. It would help a lot if you can get backlinks from authority sites.
Best Way To Get Backlinks For Your Site or Blog
- Article submission
- Press Release submission
- Forum Posting
- Social Bookmarking – Digg,Twitter, Google+,Facebook
- Blog Commenting – look for dofollow blogs
- Video Submission – use the power of YouTube
- Profile Building
- Link Exchange (Blogroll or Directory submission)
- Photo sharing
- RSS submission
- Business listing
Where to Start?
Before using any of the methods mentioned above, make sure your site is fully optimized before you proceed with your link building campaign. Do OnPage optimization too. Once it is optimized, list down the main keywords you will use for the campaign. Analyze your competitors to see how many backlinks they have and what kind of links they are getting. You can put together a list of sites you want to target based on what your competitors are getting their source.
Once you have determined the main keywords, write some few articles using your prepared keywords. You will use these articles for article submission and even for your Press Release campaign.
Be ready on what methods you want to use. You may want to prepare a schedule wherein you will use a particular technique for a week, then use another one the next time. In this way you can measure the outcome of your campaign.
Try to use all the methods that I’ve lined up above.By using different methods, you are less likely to get hit by a major algorithm update like Google Panda that keeps on changing every now and then. Using several approaches will make your link building campaign look natural in search engine’s eyes. Another good reason for using several techniques is because what works today may not work tomorrow.
There’s really no magic formula in building links. It is not really hard, but it takes hard work and patience. Or you could buy pr5 backlinks anytime!
Happy link building!
