A links on one site that points to yours is called a backlink. Quality backlinks are important to SEO success. High quality backlinks are needed for a site to rank high in search engine results (SERPs).
Gaining a backlink is an easy and straight forward task. You can do it in a minute or two. To achieve good ranking, hundreds or even thousands of backlinks may be needed for your site. Getting hundreds backlinks is not an easy task.
How to Build Backlink
Backlink is vital part of SEO. How do we get them?
There are several ways you can gain backlinks for your site. Among of those recommended by most SEO Expert are getting listed in directories, posting in forums, blogs and article directories.
Directory Submission: Submit your site to free directories is an easy way to get backlinks. If you submit your site’s details to free directories, you will get backlinks. However, it would take from few days to months for directories owner to approve your submission. Paid directories offer faster approval for a fee. A good place to find a list of free directories and start your directory submission is directorycritic.com.
Posting in Forum: Forum posting is another good way to get free backlinks. Once you have signed up for a forum account and create a signature link that link to your site, you can get backlink by making post in the forum.. For some forums, you need to make at least 10-15 posts before you are allowed to add a signature link. Before you make your first post, please read forum rules and regulations.
Blog Commenting: Blog commenting is another backlinking method. Pleasa make sure the blogger allows keyword in URL before you post your first comment. To prevent your comment deleted by the blogger, avoid posting spammy comments such as ‘great post’, ‘thank you for sharing’, etc. The blogger would definitely approve any useful comments that are good for the blog’s readers.
Article Submission: Generally articles are longer than posts or comments. You have to spend more time writing them. However, submitting your article to article directories is a great way to get traffic as well as backlink. Manay free article directories are available. A good place to start is Ezinearticles.com.
Sponsoring a WordPress Theme: Design a CMS theme and make it a free theme. This is a good way to gain backlink automatically. This is a common method used by many bloggers to gain backlink for their blogs. 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. There are several link market on Internet. Buying link could be risky. So you have to do it with care.
Link Building Automation
Creating hundreds of backlinks could be time consuming, tedious and boring. There are several ways you can automate the link building process:
- Automated 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.
