How To Get Backlinks?

This process is also known as inbound links, because backlinks are the links that simply point from other websites on the internet, to your website (or webpages that are located on your website). Backlinks are very important and essential because they allow your website to get ranked higher in the search engines. As a matter of fact, it is only those websites that have a lot of backlinks pointing to them, and "high-quality" backlinks at best, that acquire success with the link building aspect of Search Engine Optimization.





Here I have provided you with some insight and helpful tips on how to go about getting backlinks and a much better search engine ranking and more website traffic:





1. Submit your website to search engines and web directories on a consistent basis.





The majority of these type of services and platforms do require you to authenticate that the URL you are submitting belongs to you, or is of your website, which is almost always a very simple process anyways. Web directories and search engines take on average about one week to begin crawling on your website before they will index them.





2. Exchange links.





You can get other good websites to link to your website and you do the very same to them as well. It is best done when both the websites are somehow related to each other, either falling in the same category or catering to the same or a niche that compliments them.





3. Get one-way backlinks from websites that are similar.





With something like this, you get a backlink to your website from others' websites, but you don't have to link their website to your website. this can work miracles, especially if the site that is linking to your site is even considered the least bit close with content to an authority website that caters to the same type of target audience, readership, or vistor base. It does have the potential to result in an immediate boost of traffic including more unique website visitors.





You can obtain one-way backlinks either for free or by paying for them. High quality backlinks at most websites are priced in the range of $100 for each permanent backlink. An alternative that you can take is for you to write content and then submit it to their sites such as DMOZ.org, article directories, and even ezinearticles.com.





4. RSS Marketing.





This is not such a common way that is used to increase traffic and search engine rankings, but RSS marketing does have amazing potential to ensure long term success of your website. All you have to do is simply create RSS feeds for your website and then publish it to a variety of RSS aggregators.





While that is an overview of some very simple and excellent ways to begin building backlinks to your website, it is essential to note that such options should be used only if you are getting "high quality" backlinks. This is a time when you need to focus on establishing a reputable image for yourself and your website.

Until the next time,

Marybeth Angiolelli