6 Important Strategies to Getting More for Backlinks
Also referred to IBLs or inbound links, backlinks are a necessary ingredient for high search engine page ranking. If you want your website or blog or article to rise to the top of search engine results pages, you need to have a lot of backlinks. This indicates to the search engines that your site receives a lot of traffic.
So how do you go about getting those all-important backlinks that will help you to increase your ranking?
If you have money to spare, you can submit your website /blog/article to directory submission services. Perhaps one of the oldest methods to get backlinks, these services charge a fee in exchange for backlinks. They’ll select which relevant directories to submit your site or article to (these can number in the thousands), do the submissions for you, and make sure to give you X amount of backlinks. You can also opt to do the submissions yourself to sites such as Yahoo Directory . These will get you authority backlinks, but you have to pay the price.
For those who would rather utilize free methods to get backlinks, there are many ways to go about building web traffic.
1. Write articles with quality content and submit these articles to article directories. Ezine Articles and Go Articles, Article Alley, Article Base, and Buzzle are some good websites. There are a lot of others. By submitting articles, you get backlinks from high page rank directories plus when other people publish your articles in their sites, you get additional backlinks to your site.
2. Join forums relevant to your website and post comments and blogs which link back to your site/article. Again, make your posts informative or at least relevant and encouraging.
3. Comment on blogs related to your niche. Contribute useful and relevant information when commenting on blogs. Link your comment to your article or to relevant content on your website. Do this often. It’s a outstanding way to interact with other bloggers and gain credibility for yourself as you increase backlinks to your website.
4. Bookmark your web pages, using popular bookmarking websites such as delicious.com, reddit.com, Technorati.com, Stumbleupon.com, etc. You may expect to use socialmarker.com to handle this. It’s a free tool that helps you cut the time you spend in submitting to social bookmarking sites.
5. Take advantage of the services of Free Traffic System. This is a free tool publishing the articles you submit to hundreds of relevant blogs that link back to your article or website. This will lead to increased traffic and higher page ranking.
6. Submit your site to popular web directory like Yahoo Directory and DMOZ. You can submit for free although it may take anywhere from a couple of weeks to several months before the search engines list your site. It’s worth the wait though.
