Get TONS More Traffic – Create Profitable Backlinks
By Sheila on Feb 5, 2009 in backlinks
Back links are really important in the world of Search Engine Optimization. If you want your site to do well in search engine listing results you have to have a good page ranking. If you want a higher page ranking you’re going to need to create lots and lots of back links.It takes time and talent to do this but it will be worth it. Google receives 3,000 search inquiries a second. That’s 180,000 per minute. If you want your share of this avalanche of free business, you will need to work hard and work smart. Back links are simply a link from somewhere else to your site. It sounds easy to create them and it is easy, but you will need thousands of these links and you will need new ones every month. They may only take a minute to create but to create hundreds or thousands take lots of time and talent.
How Many Links Do You Need?
Lots and lots. You need more than the competitor that is ranked number one with Google. If you do that, you will be number one. Let’s take a look at a few areas and see how many we would need to dominate that field. – Top company in “search engine optimization” had 52,100 links – Top company in “web site design” had 54,200 links – Top Company in “custom T-shirts” had 72,000 links – Top Company in “Tiffany Lamps” had 825
As you can see, the more competitive the area, the more links it takes to be number one. Plan to add as many links as you can every month for as long as you stay in business. Remember that your competitors are adding new links every month too, so the number of links you need keeps growing.
Beware Of Short Cuts To Success
As you surf the web, you will see sites that advertise short cuts to link creation. They offer to sell you hundreds of links. As you evaluate these services, realize that the quality of your links is important to your success. The sites you link to must concern themselves with similar topics to your site or they may be disregarded by the search engines. Also, the quality of the linking site is important. If the site is known for spam or porn, you may be seriously penalized search engine rankings just for being associated with it. Buying back links is fraught with danger. Choosing the site you link and actually creating the link to is a much better alternative.
Using Articles To Create Links
Writing informative articles is a great way to create back links. You can use the articles on your site and publish them to article directory sites. Every site that publishes your article will create a back link to your site. Other sites may pick up your article and publish it creating “viral” publishing and more links. You should assign someone to write one or two articles every month without fail or hire an outside source to do this for you.
Using Video To Create Links
Another great way to create links and sell as well is to create video clips that tell your story or sell your product in an interesting way. You can use these clips to sell on your site and you can publish them to video sites like youtube.com, metacafe.com, viddler.com and many others. These get great rankings in the search engines. You should assign someone to write one or two articles every month without fail or hire an outside source to do this for you.
Using Social Networks To Create Links
Social networks like myspace.com are great ways to create quality links. Myspace is one of the most visited sites on the web, so links from it make your site rank as very popular. To create links from social sites, open an account , link to others with similar interests, and make comments that include a link to your site.
Using Blogs To Create Links Blogs want comments from readers. Visit blogs on similar topics to yours and on any popular blogs, leave a comment on a posting. Your comment can contain a link to your site. This should not be just self serving but should continue the dialog. For example, if your site deals with web marketing and you see a blog article on meta tags, you might make a comment like, “excellent article with good points. I also found good meta tag tools at www.yoursite.com” One great way to find good blogs is to set up a Google alert for all keywords you use and you will be notified anytime a post is made with those key words. Then, you simply visit the blog and make a comment.
That Sounds Like A Lot Of Work
It is a huge amount of work but just keep remembering those 180,000 inquiries per second. If you do not have the time to do this kind of work, there are micro ad agencies on the web who can do it for you. Outsourcing this work is very cost effective as it allows you to keep selling and managing while someone else creates the links that drive your site to the top of the inquiry list.
57 Comment(s)
By Jay on Feb 5, 2009 | Reply
Thank you for the advice. I started to put some good search terms in “THE” search engines and went to visit the tops. If there was a forum or blog, I dropped comments and made sure that my blog addy is part of my signature. Now I see that I am on the right track. Thank You Thank You Thank You. Also thank you for allowing my blog site to be a part of this comment.
By Chaunna Brooke on Feb 6, 2009 | Reply
If a person wants to be successful in SEO, then one important attribute that should be there is patience. You should have patience because SEO takes time.
By Doug on Feb 6, 2009 | Reply
I’m glad that I took the time to read this post as I learned something new: setting up Google Alerts for the key words in my blog so I can identify other blogs to visit. Thanks.
By Bill on Feb 6, 2009 | Reply
Great advice! I think as Search evolves, relevancy will play a predominant role in backlinking strategies.
I agree with Doug about the Google alerts. What a great (and simple!) idea that I hadn’t thought of!
Thanks very much.
By Eddie Garcia on Feb 6, 2009 | Reply
Hey Sheila,
This was a very informative post that I enjoyed very much. I have thought about backlinks & have read about them but never initiated any. You make it sound simple even though it is time consuming. Anything worth having is going to take time and patience. Thanks for this info!
By Shinade on Feb 6, 2009 | Reply
Thank you so very much for this article. I have plans to go commercial with my photography in early fall. So I am trying to learn as much as possible before I get started.
You have a terrific amount of information and I really appreciate the fact that your writing is clear and easy to understand.
Now I too just need to learn how to make my signature a link when I leave a comment.
Thank you again very much!
By Ron Russell on Feb 6, 2009 | Reply
I just beginning to build some backlinks, my site is only 4 months old and I didn’t know anything about them up to about 2 months ago. Your article was worth reading. Picked up some go tips. Thanks
By Helen Harris on Feb 8, 2009 | Reply
I ‘m glad you mentuoned the disadvantages of those “link generators”. Interested in trying one I went to a site. After sampling the operaration of jumping from one link to another I realized they weren’t hitting on my interest areas. I’d rather use my “surf” time to learn & discover iformation not just generate hits. quality over quantity was far more valuable in generating a following.Entrecard did allow me to find interesting sites and many new readers,but I do personally click & read each blog. I return to the the interesting ones often.
By Rick Vaughn on Feb 8, 2009 | Reply
Haha, I have to laugh because you would think that a blog would be pretty easy to run but to be successful it is a ton of work. Thank you for the info.
By Make My Blog Successful on Feb 8, 2009 | Reply
Backlinks are an important part of SEO and no where is the saying more true than, “If it were easy – then EVERYONE would be doing it.”
By Don Andrews on Feb 9, 2009 | Reply
Those Google stats are amazing, I remember when Lycos, Webcrawler, Hotbot, Alta Vista, oh and Yahoo were the Gods of the search world.
Now it seems like only Google & Yahoo matter but I’ve really only concerned myself with Google on my website http://opticaliillusions.com or my blog http://road-safety.blogspot.com/.
Great info on link-building, There’s always just a little bit more to learn, then something else comes along and you learn that too.
Thanks,
donssite.com
By Justin Brooke on Feb 9, 2009 | Reply
Links will definitely help in order to make sure that the site will be in a good position to get some of the searches.
By randy bragg on Feb 9, 2009 | Reply
Hello fellow blogger, I stopped by your site and thought maybe you would like to swap links with me, after adding http://voiceofbragg.com with the title “Blog Till Death” to your site, message me and I will add yours…have a great day
By Ann Marie on Feb 9, 2009 | Reply
I’ve taken your advice of writing articles and dropping my blog’s addy http://www.heartsdesirejewelry.com/blog and my website’s addy http://www.heartsdesirejewelry.com everywhere that I can … I have also set up a business page on facebook. In just a week’s time my site has moved up to the front page for hearts desire on google. It should have been there all along, but it started out on page 5! Thanks
By Ranjith on Feb 9, 2009 | Reply
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By KiwiPulse on Feb 9, 2009 | Reply
That seem a lot of work, but if I focus in long term. It can only help me!
By Free Back Link King on Feb 9, 2009 | Reply
You definitely have a well written article but the part in the beginning about not taking short cuts I would have to disagree with. If you are going to collect thousands of back links all by yourself, then you might as well start to wait forever.
By Tomas on Feb 10, 2009 | Reply
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Thus I’m addressing you as my dear co-author now:
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By Lozil on Feb 10, 2009 | Reply
Thanks For the Nice tips…..
By C K on Feb 11, 2009 | Reply
Thanks for the tips. Just find it ironic that many of the comments above include links to their sites (some even listed two).
I’ve tried submitted my site to various directories but came to realised that most linkback carry no weight at all. Well, at least that’s what the Link Diagnosis tells me.
Will check back again for future posts. Cheers!
By David on Feb 11, 2009 | Reply
I’ve had people leaving comments on my blog linked to various Russian (.ru) websites, which looked awful suspicious to me. Is there any danger in accepting comments on a blog? It looks like splogs know these back-link traffic tricks as well.
By self defense Rob on Feb 12, 2009 | Reply
No doubt it is a ton of work, but you get back what you put into your website, ten-fold. You can not go wrong utilizing a sound link building strategy.
By Stuart Reid on Feb 12, 2009 | Reply
Good advice. Links are very important – but it’s important not to make it 100% of your efforts since other promotion / seo methods can offer more results for your time. Then again, you can always outsource.
You can also create your own backlinks by making new sites at services such as squidoo and hub pages, wordpress, blogger etc. You can try link exchanges, though the quality can vary and you may get penalised, and you can do the old “trick” of posting to blogs, forums, social networks as you mention.
But by far the best strategy is to simply create good content, and let other people link you because they genuinely like it. That is not a quick solution, but if you’re in it for the long haul it’s the way to go.
By denise on Feb 12, 2009 | Reply
very informative post. thanks.
added ur site to my list of fave blogs/site.
By VanillaSeven on Feb 12, 2009 | Reply
Thanks for the article, my web http://vanillaseven.com started to get more backlink too
By On the Money on Feb 14, 2009 | Reply
Great post. Particularly identify with the advice about social mareting and on writing articles. Thanks for this.
By Sandi on Feb 18, 2009 | Reply
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By Make a pound on Feb 21, 2009 | Reply
hey great post and yeah takes lots of work most of us never seem to find the time to do all this but i guess it needs to be done.
By Rick Vaughn on Mar 2, 2009 | Reply
Haha, it is totally time consuming. I need to outsource this crap. It’s getting ridiculous.
By Gregorio on Mar 2, 2009 | Reply
I am always on the look out for useful info about building traffic.I like the way you have explained it.Keep the articles coming.Thanks for sharing.
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By Joy Rodulfo on Mar 2, 2009 | Reply
Thank you for sharing those important details about backlinks. I really need it to boost my page rank. The article is very informative.
By Flo on Mar 19, 2009 | Reply
Your site is awesome. Thanks for all the advice!
By Prem Godara on Mar 22, 2009 | Reply
Thanks for sharing very useful information. My site is just around 4 months old and i have been looking for ways to build backlinks so that my page rank can be increased.
By Barb on Mar 25, 2009 | Reply
Keep working ,great job!
By High Quality Link Directory on Apr 20, 2009 | Reply
Great stuff. Nice to read some well written posts that have some relevancy !
By blogosphere face on Apr 26, 2009 | Reply
Thanks for the tips. Its not very easy to find blogs like yours. Really enjoyed reading and will certainly bookmark this post. Will also subscribe to feeds.
By Darmawan on May 4, 2009 | Reply
Hi, really nice tips there
Will definitely use it
Thanks
By Knight mayor on May 5, 2009 | Reply
As a Newbie, I am always searching online for articles that can help me. Thank you
By Halim Suky on May 11, 2009 | Reply
Hey very nice blog!!
By Lori Dell on May 14, 2009 | Reply
When checking for backlinks..
Is it possible to go from several hundred link down to 50 over night??
Also thanks for the info..
By WebSight on May 24, 2009 | Reply
Thank you for the good, sound advice.
By Tim on May 29, 2009 | Reply
One thing I noticed about backlinks is that it’s great to prime the pump by doing some manual link building work in the beginning. But if your content is great, after you get ranked other people will start linking you on their pages because your page is at the top. I’ve noticed this on several blogs. If you’re having to constantly do link building to keep up with the competition, you probably need to work on your content quality to make your life easier.
By Link Building Services on Jun 30, 2009 | Reply
I just beginning to build some backlinks, my site is only 4 months old and I didn’t know anything about them up to about 2 months ago.
By KEanu Reaver on Jul 2, 2009 | Reply
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By Mikes Sumondong on Jul 3, 2009 | Reply
Thanks for all the tips. I know that and only that is the way to increase Page rank and nothing else. Thanks for sharing once again.
by the way Trackbacks are considered backlinks as well?
By Rob on Jul 6, 2009 | Reply
Some great tips. Backlinks are very valuable to building website traffic.
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By SEO Services on Jul 10, 2009 | Reply
I just beginning to build some backlinks
By marshall on Aug 16, 2009 | Reply
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By GladysKock on Aug 22, 2009 | Reply
I was ecstatic to stumble upon this post, as I am looking for traffic igniter for my 2-month-old blog http://gladyskockhomeculinary.blogspot.com/. Is it same weight carried for 2-ways backlinks compared to one-way backlinks?
By Bill on Sep 11, 2009 | Reply
Backlinks are easy to get but they can be expensive in terms of time and/or money. There are linking services out there, but the good ones are really pricey. I’ve found a link building service that gives over 2 dozen easily-gotten backlinks each month (you still have to do the legwork, but I know how to semi-automate it) for only $5.
But you can certainly do it all for free (in terms of $$$) — comments, article submissions, directory submissions, social networks, etc.
By cute t shirts on Dec 29, 2009 | Reply
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By affordable seo services on Jan 9, 2010 | Reply
Video is a great way to get link baits. Many people will link to you if you have a great video so you can get more SEO benefits.
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By Ohot on Jan 28, 2010 | Reply
Great idea on create backlink thru social network. Thanks
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