Best Practices For Getting Backlinks

This entry was posted by Wednesday, 26 January, 2011

If you are at all interested in making money online today then you’ve heard of backlinks. According to Google, organic link building is one of the most difficult of search engine optimization efforts but it isn’t impossible. Here are a few highly effective strategies to help you pick up the pace in building backlinks.

Consider the most desirable content. Nowadays people seem to love controversy but you never want to make all of your content lean in that direction. People will get bored and lose interest fast. Constantly complaining that this is bad or that is bad and hating everyone and everything will tire your followers or potential followers quickly. A little goes a long way with a controversy based articles and people will quickly lose interest in you. Consider using humor along with it or any content that somehow sets you apart.

Join communities; we are not merely talking about bombarding a lot of blogs and forums with spam. Provide something of value, answer questions or solve problems. People will be more likely to remember you and save your links simply because you answered their questions or provided useful, fun information and facts.

Your content must be original and please spend some time on it. You’re selling yourself and/or your company. Put in the effort and provide useful information.

Create comparison articles and posts. Answer questions that the public would find useful like useful reviews, this product or that product, cost versus value.

Offer newsletters for people already coming to your blog. Email them your newletters which will encourage them to come back to your blog or website.

Use social media like Facebook and Twitter to post useful and fun information which sends people to your website or blog. Getting to know people there will pay off in many ways, not just in backlinks. You can also consider appearing in a conference on one of the social sites which is also a terrific way to get backlinks.

Another great idea for articles that people seem to like on blogs are how tos and tutorials, even if it’s something you just learned about cooking the perfect lobster or how to setup a printer. If you write down the steps for yourself why not share them on your blog? It’s a great way to create more backlinks.

Run a service that people will find useful or come up with a product and release it for free and give it to the community. Examples might be a Firefox or Chrome extension or perhaps a WordPress plugin. Something that makes you look like an expert and people may be grateful because you gave them something for free.

Even if you don’t get a ton of links to your post, often times clever use of long tail keywords is enough because other people searching for the information will find you even if you only have 2 or 3 links to it.

Consider making videos. They are easy to do and if they are useful and informative people will come back for more. Once you’ve made them, they’re online for everyone one to search and watch over and over. Great way to get backlinks.

Most importantly make sure that your site has good site architecture. Can your site be crawled? Can my url’s be bookmarked? Can Google get to all the pages on my site? If you answered yes to the questions you are a step above most on the internet. These criteria are often overlooked.

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