Five Best Ways to Build Backlinks

Building backlinks to your blog, or any other website for that matter, is a very important step that should not be ignored. At some point you will need to build more backlinks.

A backlink is simple a link from another website pointing to yours. They bring more traffic to your site. They are a very important factor in how Google will determine your PageRank. And they help improve your placing on every other search engine.

Now without further adieu, the five best ways to build backlinks.

1: Directory Submission. This should be one of the first steps you take in building backlinks to your site. Odds are you will not see hardly any traffic from these directories, the point is to simply build backlinks, so you basically have a higher PageRank, and that is what will bring you traffic. Make sure you only submit to directories that have a high pagerank, if its page rank is less than 8 I wouldn’t even think about it. Try to find ones with pagerank 1 through 5. A lot of directories require you to make a reciprocal link, which means in order for them to display you, you have to put a bit of code in your site to display them, I recommend staying away from these.

Here is a blog directory, scroll down to the very bottom. Blog Directory

And a general directory. Here

SEO friendly directories. Here

High PageRank directories without reciprocal links. Here

2: Social Bookmarking Sites

Sites like digg, del.icio.us, and reddit may be good for traffic, but they are also very good at building backlinks. I was surprised when I first started to, to me social networking sites were useless. But they do work, for this. This is a lot like article marketing, you submit articles on your social bookmarking account about your blog and niche. And go to AddThis.com to get social bookmarking buttons to add to your blog. If you are lucky enough to make it to the front page of any of these social networking sites you can expect to benefit greatly from it. You can find a list of social networking sites here, but the mains ones in my opinion are squidoo, delicious, and technorati.

3: Leave comments on other people’s blogs. Just make sure you pick high pagerank blogs and blogs that are similar to your blog’s content.

4: Mention your blog wherever you go on the internet. Forum signatures, myspace, youtube comments. Anything. It all helps.

5: Have quality content. If you can provide something legitimately useful or outclass the others in your field, it WILL get noticed and it WILL get spread across the internet like wildfire. Useful content is priceless.