Link Building: 7 Quick ideas.
Ok boys and girls… welcome to Link Building 101… today let’s walk about quick, easy and nice ideas to get backlinks
If you don’t know it by now… (helllooo!!!) building backlinks to your website is essential if you want to improve search engine rankings and get traffic. Although the actual process of getting these backlinks can be quite a task (boring), there are plenty of ways to get them. The following are seven popular ways to build backlinks to your site.
1. Forum Signatures - Most forums will allow members to leave a few lines of text in their signature. This space can also be used to add a link depending on which forum it is. If you participate on a forum, you can leave a link in the signature area that points back to your site. In most cases you can set it up to be an anchored text link meaning that you can use your keyword phrase or whatever text you want to use as your website url title. Each time you would make a post including your signature, you would have a link pointing back to your website. Now keep in mind – if your site is a PET FOOD joining a forum about Iphones… well… you get my point ~ don’t u?
2. Forum Profiles - This way of building backlinks is also becoming more and more popular. The way it works is by finding a forum that has quite a high page rank and registering and filling out the profile information. In most cases, these forums will have a place where you can insert your website url which would be publicly viewable and clickable on your public profile. Sometimes, there are also other sections where you can include your website url or even anchor text links such as in the “bio” section. Search engine spiders crawl forums all the time and this is why this is a great way to build backlinks. This is OK to do… if you understand that the proper way to do this is to be an active part of the forum. give back to the forum what you are getting from it. Don’t just register for a link… be more original than that.
3. High Page Rank Profiles – This approach to building backlinks is quite similar to forum profiles. It is basically taking advantage of the opportunity to leave a link back to your 
website on high page rank websites through profiles. Some of these authority high page rank websites allow members to include information on their profiles about themselves and other types of information including their website. Their may even be features such as having their own blog which they could use towards link building.
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4. Blog Commenting – Blog commenting has been a popular link building method for a while now and continues to be a great way to build backlinks to a website. The idea is to find blogs that you can comment on. Most of these blogs will allow you to leave your name and website url. When your comment goes live, you will have a link pointing back to your website. The search engine spiders love blogs so if you want to build some backlinks that can be found pretty quickly, blog commenting is a great way to do it.
5. Articles – Writing articles and submitting them to article directories is another great way to build backlinks. When you submit articles to these directories, you are allowed to include your url to your website in the author resource area and sometimes you can even include a link within the article itself. Once the article is published, you will have a link or multiple links pointing back to your site. The more articles you have published, the more backlinks you will have. Although this “sound” simple… proper article marketing is an art. (believe me) . Balancing the time spent writing articles and the amount of links you may obtain from each site is difficult to balanace.
6. Social Bookmarking - Social bookmarking sites are websites that allow users to save their favorite links which they can share among other members of the website. If you bookmark your website or articles using social bookmarking sites, you will also be gaining backlinks. Bookmarks from social bookmarking sites are picked up by the search engines a lot and do count as backlinks. Now… obviously Google is not stupid, so don’t push it… use social bookmarking in a smart way. Change the way you bookmark your pages… or may be original and try to bookmark the articles pointing to your site? (just an idea…)
7. Web 2.0 Websites - Web 2.0 websites represents a large portion of sites including social bookmarking sites. These types of sites are great for building backlinks. Hubpages, Squidoo, Wetpaint, Blogger, and Weebly are all web 2.0 sites that you can use to build backlinks to your website. You can share your content while also leaving a link back your site. Web 2.0 websites range from social networking sites to video sharing sites. Making the most of these sites and finding a way to leave a link back to your site can really help your link building campaigns. Personally I hate squidoo… (sorry Seth Godin!) and I love hubpages… it all depends of what you like the most… what is hot today will loose “juicy” next year, so you need to keep trying new system and web 2.0 sites.
These are some of the just some basic ways to build backlinks. Just by using a few of these methods on a regular basis, you could increase the number of backlinks pointing to your site greatly. If you use them strategically, you could also get a nice sum of traffic while at the same time gain quality backlinks.
Remember: There is no magic bullet here… so build… build and build…. until you want to stop. Then, once you stop: Start again.
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Gabriel Machuret
I'm an SEO professional living in the South Coast of NSW - Australia. SEO is what I do... I'm not a web guy, or a webmaster, or a designer... I just do SEO ;) Love it. Enjoy it and I still have fun doing it.
7 / 15 / 2010 7:03 pm
Thanks for all of the information. I’m doing my own SEO and link building and can use all the tips I can get at this point. I’ve found a couple things on the web that have been helpful, like (I removed the URL). I can find articles and save my keywords so it’s helping me stay organized. Articles like yours are also super beneficial to someone like me who doesn’t know too much about it, so thanks again.
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Gabriel Machuret Reply:
July 15th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
I think the first step “marie” is not to post comments that seem posted by a “comment spammer’ . First comment in my site and already posting your URL… mm bad idea.
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7 / 28 / 2010 6:57 am
Nice post. I am not very sure if the profiles in high PR sites are very helpful, but the comment posting is very nice and effective. I would recommend it to everyone.
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8 / 6 / 2010 11:37 am
@ Gabriel- Definitely not spamming. Thought it would be beneficial for others to know about it since it’s been helpful for me. You’re sharing information and so am I.
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8 / 12 / 2010 5:21 am
I think that using profiles in forums is a very spammy method. From the listed above this is the most spam like, so I do not use that one. I mean forums are not directories.
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2 / 13 / 2011 7:55 pm
Hi Gab. I am revisiting this post, because I wanted to know from you what the Backlink Flood product is all about? Is it your product? What do I get if I purchase it (content?)? Thanks for the info!
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4 / 15 / 2011 8:56 pm
Backlinks are very much needed. To do it on a regular basis is very important or your ranking will start to go down. Thanks for the tutorial.
Jeannie
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