Backlink is a link on another site that points to your website. The success of a SEO campaign will depend on the quality of backlinks. High quality backlinks will help your site to rank top search engine results (SERPs).
Gaining is easy. You can gain a backlink in less than a minute. To achieve good ranking, you may need to gain hundreds or even thousands of backlinks for your site. Getting hundreds backlinks is not an easy task.
How to Build Backlink
Backlink is crucial component of SEO. How do we get them?
There are several ways you can gain backlinks for your site. Most SEO Experts recommend directory submission, forum posting, blog commenting and article marketing.
Directory Submission: It is easy to gain backlinks from free directories. You can get a free link simply by submitting your site’s details to these directories. However, it would take from few days to months for directories owner to approve your submission. Paid directories offer faster approval but you need to pay review fee to get your site listed in these directories. A good place to find a list of free directories and start your directory submission is directorycritic.com.
Posting in Forum: Another good way to gain backlinks is forum posting. Sign up a forum account, create a signature that links to your site and you are ready to get some free backlinks.. Some forums have disabled signature feature for users who have made less than 10-15 posts. To be able to add a signature link, you need to make at least 10-15 posts. Please read forum rules and regulations before you start your forum posting campaign.
Posting a Comment: You can gain backlink by posting comments on blogs. Pleasa make sure the blogger allows keyword in URL before you post your first comment. Please do not post comment such as ‘great post’, ‘thank you for sharing’, etc. This type of comment will be deleted. A useful comment that contributes something to the blog and its reader will be approved by blogger.
Article Submission: Generally articles are longer than posts or comments. You need to spend more time writing them. However, submitting your article to article directories is a great way to get traffic as well as backlink. Manay free article directories are available. Ezinearticles.com is a good place to start your submission.
Free Theme Sponsorship: Design a CMS theme and make it a free theme. This is a good way to gain backlink automatically. Many bloggers use this method to gain backlinks. Here is an example of a sponsored theme: wordpress magazine themes
Apart from building backlinks using the above link building methods, you can also buy backlinks for your site. There are several link market on Internet. Buying link could be risky. So you have to do it with care.
Link Building Automation
Creating hundreds of backlinks could be time consuming, tedious and boring. You can automate link building process using these methods:
- SEO Tools: There are many submission tools available in the market for directories submission, article submission and social bookmarking. You can try Brad Callen’s Free Directory Submitter for directories submission.
- Submission Outsource: There are a lot of companies which will be happy to do all your submission jobs for a small fee. One of such service providers is phpldtemplates.com. You can also find many service providers in SEO or webmaster forums.
