Backlinks and how to get them
Back links are one of the most important parts of any search engine optimization plan. Google considers 
links a vote from one site to the next - which ever site has the most votes wins the race. Their are many methods for building links which include:
- Reciprocal
- Three way
- Forum
- Directory submission
- Blog Posting
- Social Book Marking
All the different types of links above should have a role in any link building strategy.
Reciprocal link
A reciprocal link is a mutual link between two websites. Example:If web site A links to web site B, and website B links to website A, the websites are now reciprocal linked. Reciprocal linking between websites is important part of any link strategy because Google uses its link popularity algorithms(A link from page one to page b is a vote - Google with page be is now a little more important.).Reciprocal Links are the best when they are from highly reputable and highly relevant sites.
The best Way to obtain Relevant Reciprocal links is to join forums and become friends with other webmasters and ask for links once you have built up a relationship. This method takes a little bit more time and effort but it is much more effective than emailing random webmasters and asking. Although Both May work the ladder is most effective.
Three way linking
Three way linking is a variation of reciprocal linking, where site A links to site B links to site C links to site A. The goal in the method of link building is to create links that appear more natural to the search engines. These links can be better than normal reciprocal links. You will most likely need to own more than one web site to implement this type of linking strategy.
Forum Links
Forums are an easy way to gain respect in the online community. The back links from forums are not used for page rank, but they are used for promoting your expertise on a subject. If you give good advice and feed back in forums - users will be more inclined to visit your sites. Add your web site link to your signature so that interested forums users can find your site easily.
Directory submission
Directory submission is an easy way to get lots of back links to your web site. Relative directories will give your site a better return, but any directory will give some results. There are thousands of directories sites on the Internet. Make sure to switch up your anchor text, descriptions and titles when submitting your site. Do not check the directories stats before submitting, it takes the same amount of time to check the directories stats as it does to submit - so don’t waste your time.
Blog Posting
Post on blogs related to your websites niche/theme. Do not spam blogs because they will delete your comment. Post relevant and interesting comments that ad to the conversation - do not post things like i really like your blog. Build up a report on the blog and the blogger might and your site to their blog roll.
Social Book Marking
Social Book Marking is a great way to spread the word about your site. Before submitting your own sites build up a report on the site and get interested in other peoples book marks. Once you have a good solid base on the site start adding your own sites and people will be much more likely to take interest in your stories/pages.
It has been getting harder to build links through reciprocal and three way link exchanges I have found. The search engines are getting smarter and are discounting many of the links created by reciprocal and three way link exchanges. Of course the best links are the natural links from creating good content.
Yes but you cant get natural links when no one can find you. You need to build your website traffic up and promote it through links so users will eventually take over your link building for you.
True, I guess what I was trying to say was you will do better building links by getting out there and taking part in the communities of other websites and commenting than by doing link exchanges. Social bookmarking can help, but being an active user that does not just push their own stuff can go a long way. Twitter, for example, can be great to help get the word out about your own content. But if all you do is push your own stuff and never give to the community you will not get very far. Reciprocal and three way links tend to not actually generate a lot of real traffic. They can help get you indexed but they will not bring quality traffic to a site.
Hmm, I’ve been asking for links from many people that run blogs about vb.net. The same nich that I’m in. I get about 1 link in 50 requests. Do people decline because I have a lower page rank? Can I acctually pull them down?
Try posting and getting involved on their blog before you ask for a link you will have a better chance at getting a reciprocal link when you ask for it. Explain to the other webmaster why a link partnership would be beneficial. The more links a webmaster gives out the lower his own page rank will become. Webmasters shouldn’t look at page rank they should look at content. You should create a few more articles your blog only has 5. People will decline your site because of the low amount of articles and your low page rank.
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Point taken. I will have my next article out in a day or two. I have written yet another vb.net program to unleash on the world and will have the blog done soon. This one is a free windows dot net application that will allow end users to mointor any web sites for changes.
It will also contain a little advertivement link to my site. I’ll see how that goes.
A little advertivement in a free program should’nt hurt. I’ve read that is also a good way to start getting the hits.
what kind o changes will your program monitor?
My blog page is done. Obviously we can simply visit the link “hughesdo” above. I’ve named the program in question RadPop.
In short RadPop can only monitor any change to the contents of the page.
The windows application creates a MD5 hash of the entire downloaded web page that it will be monitoring. A hash is a kind of finger print unique to the data. A hash is also just a 32 digit hexadecimal number. It uses this calculated number for compare the next time it re- vists the web site. If the two numbers don’t match then the program knows something has changed. It does not know what “changed” only that a change has occured.
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Directory submission takes loooong time to submit. I received response after a year of something. Google doesn’t like links from weak directories so I don’t think we should waste our time for directory submission. For these who don’t believe me there’s a good link with directories - http://www.addurl.nu/
You are defiantly right about link directories they are the lowest form of link building. Some times it does take a long time to get approved as well. Each type of link building has its place in every link building campaign .
How do you find forums that fit your demographic?
Thanks for the ‘blog’ idea!
Nyree just do a search for the keywords you are targeting and the word forum. IF that does not come up with any tangible results search for a forum that has related interests to yours.
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Talking with a blogger is one of the best ways to get links. If you become their hero, responding intelligently on their blog to other commenters, you will probably get a link.
Talking with bloggers and get involved in the blogging community will allow you to gain links and exposure.
Whoa… this site is pretty awesome
your layout is really well designed, and your blogs are (judging from what i’ve read) very interesting. heehee… consider yourself favorited. 
Thanks, good article! Maybe someone needs backlinkchecker? Try http://www.BackLinkStat.com.
What are backlinks in regards to websites and their search engine ranks?
There are no mentions of article writing here. I’ve seen that you can submit articles to some sites that have dofollow links. What do you think about these sites? Is it worth a mention?
another way you should consider is link baiting.
a short explanation would be when you start posting articles that hurt someone’s reputation, and leave your signature arround, so they can do that back, thus you get some backlinks.
Others would be Press Releases and SOcial Bookmarking, wich both gets somenice results.
Regards,
Johny
Link baiting is one good advice, But you dont need to provoke. you might come out with a topic that can make your relation with other blogger better.
article writing is not a very effective way of building links - you would be better off writing a guest post for a blog.
A better way is to create content that is sticky and that gets a discussion going. Pick a side and go to the extreme with your opinion and you will get a backlash. IN order to do that tho you will need to have some traffic. It is a more advanced link building technique.
When doing link baiting you don’t want to hurt your own reputation at the expense of some one else - you will just be burning bridges.
True, I guess what I was trying to say was you will do better building links by getting out there and taking part in the communities of other websites and commenting than by doing link exchanges. Social bookmarking can help, but being an active user that does not just push their own stuff can go a long way.
can we just ask somebody to link for us for free?
Very to the point and informative. I look forward to more strategies on getting backlinks.
all the best,
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