This is a guest post by Devesh from Technshare.com.
Link Building is one of the greatest ways to increase traffic and get high ranking in search engines especially Google. It also helps your website get higher pagerank which results in more traffic to your website. Backlink plays an important role to get higher search rankings for your blog post, articles, etc. The more links you get to your site, the more quality visitors you’ll get from the search engines through the world.
It is all about building nice and quality backlinks to your blog or website. In search engine optimization (SEO), page rank is at least partially determined by the number of sites that link to yours.
Here are 20+ Ways to Build Backlinks:
1. Hubpages: It is very unpoliced and they’ll basically allow anything to stay on their site. Don’t forget to link to your website. The whole point of using HubPages to get links is to increase your site’s link juice, and ultimately its rankings. Hubpages does delete hubs and users who do not comply with the TOS.
2. Squidoo: Create a Squidoo page for your website or blog you like. Also include links to your website. It is great for creating solid links to your other Squidoo lenses or blogs because of the love that Google and other search engines shows Squidoo. When you create your content on either a Squidoo lens or blog, you need to make sure that you are targeting the people who would want to read it.
3. Social Bookmarking sites: These days social media is very popular source of backlinks. Create good content on your website, and submit to social bookmarking sites. Here is the list of 30+ Inspirational Social Bookmarking sites.
4. Give Testimonials: It is great way to get you a Backlink from a very authoritative site and has a big chance to drive you loads of traffic.
5. Article Directories: Article writing for building traffic and backlinks is a strategy that webmasters has been and still using effectively. The problem is that some website owners either ignores it or does not trust their writing skills. My favorites are eZineArticles and GoArticles.
6. Create a list post: I know list posts are old, but they still work great. Examples “10 Killer Ways to Make Money With Twitter”, “Top 5 Internet Marketing Gurus” or “99 Ways To Promote your blog”.
7. Guest Posting: This is the very popular way, especially between bloggers on the internet. Guest posting is not just about getting the backlinks but also to build your brand among the vast on-line users.
8. Blog commenting: Commenting on Do Follow Blogs is the easiest way to get backlinks. Use Follow List to find out blogs related to your niche.
9. Link exchange: It is a strategy used by webmasters where you give a website a link on your website and they give you a backlink to your website. It is not as effective as it was before.
10. Forum Posting: These days Many Forums provide Dofollow link via signatures of signed up users. If the forum is a popular one, a backlink can be extremely valuable. If you know the solution to a problem or the answer to a question and you feel your answer could benefit more users, put it on your website and direct the members to look at it at your website. In your signature, include the link to your website; with every post you get a backlink to your website.
11. Hold a contest: Run a contest on your blog like sushant is doing here. It tends to bring lots of backlinks and traffic.
12. Post at .gov and .edu forums: Submiting your links on edu links is a great way to boost backlinks, traffic and ranking on Search Engine that’s especially Google Search Engine. Edu and Gov links are still highest quality links that recommended by a lot of internet marketers.
13. Press Release: It is widely understood that SEO press releases are an excellent source of backlinks and can greatly assist in an overall SEO marketing plan. To get these links, you need to include links within your press release your site. The most popular press releases website is prweb.com. Don’t forget to link to your website.
14. Release a Free WordPress Theme or Plugin: If you can make a custom WordPess theme or plugin then release it for free to your guests. WordPress themes and plugins are probably the easiest and fastest ways to build backlinks to your blog, with little effort. Don’t forget to add link back to your website in footer.
15. Buy a Review: If your product is good and unique enough, try to ask bloggers to review and blog about your website, product or services. You can also offer to pay them directly to review about your site, or you can buy posts through services like ReviewMe.
16. Link Baiting: Make good posts which will help you create lot of discussion and backlinks. Whether by creating good content on your blog or by offering something unique, you might have already created linkbaits without knowing that you have done so.
17. Buy Backlinks: Be careful where to buy from and make sure that the website hosting your link is worth it. Text-Link-Ads are most likely your best option.
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18. Leave a comment here and get a backlink.
19. Top 7 commentators are rewarded with a backlink. The List Refreshes Every Month.
20. Three More Ways to quickly build thousands of backlinks.
Lastly, is there anything you find something to disagree with in this post or have an opinion on this topic? Please leave us a comment below :).
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Thanks, squidoo is also my favorite web 2.0 site as we can ge powerful backlink by submitting squidoo lense. In case of hubpage we do not get dofollow link until our hubpages do not get the score of 90. Linkbaiting is the best strategy to build natural link, but we have to write killer article on our blog so that we can get natural link.
After making research I come to know that .edu and .gov links are very powerful, but it is not so easy to get link from such site, yes there are some nay e.du site but they are full of spam, I have already build .edu link, but only a few link bring value for google.
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Among all the 20+ ways to build backlinks, I think both blog commenting and article submission are helpful and effective when compared with other methods. Of course, it is may be easier to gain as many as backlinks by forum posting, however, according to what I know, these days, search engines have decided to ingore the backlinks in those forums gradually.
In order to promote my sites, I choose forum marketing and blog commenting as my main marketing strategies.
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Have you tried the IMAutomator by Caroline Middlebrook? Really useful for automated social bookmarking and it’s all free… for now at least!
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Hi
Great list headline it got my attention. Since I have blogging and involved in social media, I haven’t paid enough attention to actively building back links so I will be working a bit harder on this in the future thanks for all the link building suggestions , I will be applying them to my blog. Cheers
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Guest posting on relevant niche blogs is really effective, not only for search engine luv but also for direct traffic.
I checked the edu forums but a lot of links either dead, already spammed or not in english. I think this opportunity will soon close.
This is a good list Devesh. I’ll admit some are outdated, but still effective when employed correctly. Guest posting by far has been the biggest help to me in link building. I took a look at the do follow blog list you mentioned, not bad. I’ve bookmarked it along with another directory I found recently called ‘DoFollow’ – dofollow.info. I have no ties to the site whatsoever, just find it useful. Again, thanks for the list 🙂
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Nothing about directory submissions? I know it’s a little outdated, but there are still some good ones to get into.
Like how many, 2, 3? 🙂
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Looks like you’ve finally got around to Guest posting Dev!
Thanks for the awesome list of ways to build links. You know, I tried coming up with more to add to the list, but I think you’ve pretty much got all the one’s I know of (and all of the effective ones I use) covered!
Awesome post, I also tweeted it 🙂
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Thanks for the list. I think you included a few tips that people searching for backlinks often overlook. I think it’s good you omitted directory submissions for the most part, it’s likely a part of backlinking that is soon to become extinct.
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Nice article. I believe Hubpages are a great source of Backlinks. I question the value of bookmarking backlinks. Bookmarking is great to generate quantity though. I really had not given contests a thought though. I will have to get some ideas. I recently posted a small post about Backlinks for beginners on one of my blogs. I did not go into as much detail as you, due to the fact that it is for beginners. But nice post. I will stop back by!!!
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@Leonard,
Bookmarking can help in getting content crawled which is mainly what I use it for these days. If they give an additional benefit of being a backlink with linkjuice so much the better.