Backlinks – Why they are important and how to get them
01/06/2010
The slimy SEO snake oil salesmen put to the side for a second, getting ranked by Google is about being authoritative on subject matter and one of the ways that Google measures authoritativeness is by backlinks. Backlinks are links to your site as a reference or source of information.
The first place I would suggest visiting are tons and tons of blogs. If you know what niche you’re trying to market in (design, IT, movies, business…) you can find blogs related to your niche. There are millions of blogs on the internet, so I guarantee there have to be a few related to your topic.
Once you find them, keep up with their posts. You may be a blogger yourself and think you know everything, but reading similar blogs in your niche and keeping up-to-date with their posts allows you to compare your work as a blogger, plus post comments on their posts to give your site backlinks.
Gaining backlinks from popular blogs is key, because these sites are the one’s who will usually pass of some page ranking juice to your website. For example, if you are writing about dogs and you find a great blog about dog training, you should go to their most recent post and leave a comment. Relate it to the post and what they were talking about, and leave your name as the name of your website along with the URL to your website.
If you can post 25-40 comments daily, you can have just about 1000 backlinks after one month. Imagine if you gained 50, even 100 backlinks daily and continued this for 2 months. You could have a very heft amount of links pointing to your website, which are all passing on page rank juice.
It’s really as simple as that! If you want to gain more traffic to your site and raise your PageRank through the roof, just start gaining backlinks! Start leaving comments on high-Page Ranked sites and niche-related blogs, and even join a few forums. Leaving a link to your website in your forum means every thread you post in has a backlink to your website. If you can get 100-200 posts on a forum that has a page ranking of 5 or 6, you’re doing really good right off the bat!
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