Four Tried and Tested Ways to Build Backlinks

Link building is the bread and butter of online marketing. Without backlinks, you cannot rank high in the search engines for your chosen keyword. Consequently, you cannot get traffic, as a result of which, your revenue suffers.

But how can one build links? Here are a few tips and techniques that will turn you into a backlink guru:

1. Article Marketing
Article marketing is the tried and tested to build up links FAST. Popular article directories like EzineArticles and GoArticles are crawled several times a day by Google, so your article and links will get indexed pretty quickly. You can put in two links to your own website in your articles in most article directories. Make sure that the anchor text you use to build these links matches the keywords you want to rank high for.

2. Directory Submission
Website directories may sound like a primitive concept, but links from reputable web directories still carry a lot of weight in Google. There are a number web directories on the internet. Most are free. Some are paid. You can submit your website to these directories to get some link juice.

3. Social Bookmarking
In the past 3-4 years, social bookmarking sites like Digg.com, Mixx.com, Delicious.com have really mushroomed across the internet. These sites gather content from all over the internet. Social bookmarking is one of the best ways to get your webpages indexed quickly. Simply submit to your social bookmarking site of choice and wait for the link juice. Refrain from spamming these sites; it just makes for a spammier, dirtier internet.

4. Asking Others For Backlinks
This is the hardest part of building links that puts off most people, but can have some really powerful results. Do a Google search for your chosen keywords. Make a list of the sites you find in the top 100 pages. Note down their contact details. Send them an email (make sure its personalized!) asking for a backlink. In return, you could offer them an article, or a reciprocal link on your site. Many people will reject your proposal outright. A few will take it up. Follow up the ones who do and get some great link juice!


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