The hottest topic you will come across when searching for ways to make your website popular is back links. While back links are crucial to having a good rank for your website and for making search engines respect your site still they will never provide you with the traffic you want if you didn’t follow the tips presented in this article.
In this article I won’t only explain how to get back links for free but I will also tell you about backlinks that can help your site get a higher search engine ranking and backlinks that are useless.
Submitting your website to directories
Submitting your website to directories will never bring you any traffic nor will it give your page rank a strong push. Unless you manage to get your website listed in Dmoz.org or yahoo directory then you should not bother yourself with directory submitions. If your website is relatively new or if its still not popular then most probably it won’t become accepted by such major directories. It makes no sense to give it a try right now If you are beginner especially that some major directories only review a website once then never review it again.
Generally there are two problems with directories:
- People stopped visiting them: When wanting to locate something on the internet do you search for directories or do you use search engines directly ? that’s why submitting your website to 1000 directories wont bring you any visitors.
- Little effect on page rank: Each directory has hundreds of outbound links which results in the distribution of page rank on all outgoing links. This makes directory links a very weak method for pushing your page rank higher.
Submitting your website to Forums
Forums are among the great methods for bringing traffic yet lots of forum admins will consider you a spammer and will delete your post if you weren’t an old member.
In order to overcome this problem, make sure you join forums that are relative to your website, make lots of posts without mentioning your website then every few weeks you can answer one of the questions asked by providing a link to your site (of course if the question is relevant to your site).
The other great thing you can do is to put a link to your website In your signature, this will result in having your website displayed in every post you make.
Writing articles
This is the best thing you can do in order to bring one way free links. There are hundreds of article directories out there which accept new articles easily. Write articles and submit them to article directories, by doing so you won’t only get one way backlinks but you will also get good traffic.
Blog comments
Most blogs allows you to leave a link to your website when posting a comment. Blog owners usually delete spam posts but if you thanked the Blog owner for his great post his Ego will prevent him from removing that post.
Some blogs but not all have the nofollow parameter automatically turned on which prevents search engines from counting the link you just added so make sure you don’t only depend on blog posts for getting backlinks.
Social networking websites
Social networking websites can bring you lots of traffic and in addition links coming from them are respected by search engines. Post your website in a group on facebook, in your profile page in my space or in any other social networking website you can find.
Yahoo answers
One of the Good places to get back links is yahoo answers, just as forum posts can be a good source of traffic yahoo answers can allow you to post a link to any website provided that its related to the answer you gave. Don’t overuse yahoo answers else you will be considered a spammer.
Social bookmarking websites
Lots of social bookmarking websites doesn’t delete your links even if they didn't become popular on their site. The more pages you submit to such websites the more backlinks you will be getting for free. Reddit, Digg, stumble upon are among the most popular social bookmaking websites, make sure you submit pages from your website there.
Never become a spammer
Spammers are hated by the internet community and by all search engines. If you search engines labeled as a spammer then your online business is gone. Make sure you get backlinks in ways that doesn’t make you appear as a spammer or someone who just wants to show his website to others
