How to get backlinks

Ways to get high quality inbound links

• Putting a 125 x 125 widget on your blog telling others to put in on theirs.
• Giving away an E-Book with links to your site in it. (Tip by: Robert J F Kennedy)
• Building Blog Templates (Tip by: Robert J F Kennedy)
• Ezines.
• Squidoo and Hubpages
• Commenting on DoFollow Blogs
• Link Exchanges
• Collaborating
• Guest Posts
• Link Baiting

How to get those high quality backlinks.

Widgets on your Blog - For example, if you like this post about how to get backlinks, you should take the code from the box below to put the image to the left onto your website and share it with others. :) Writing Ebooks - Ebooks are great ways to build backlinks. Simply write an Ebook, link to your site from it, and tell other bloggers that they can give it away on their site for free. (image source: flickr) Building Blog Templates - Creating blog templates is another great way to get tons of links. Simply

1. Build a lot of templates.
2. Put links to your site in the bottom of those templates.
3. Then promote your templates like crazy.

Writing and Submitting Ezines - This right here is powerful. It's probably one of the most, if not the most powerful way to build backlinks. Ezines are great because

• They usually receive page rank.
• They can be copied and distributed by others.
• They will also usually bring your blog some great traffic.

So far, I have written 6 Ezines and have received 93 visitors to my website. For those who waste all of their time with Entrecard; STOP! Instead of doing drops, do Ezines. Ezines benefit you in many more ways than Entrecard and I could go on and on about that. However, I have to get to the next tip. Squidoo and Hubpages - I will admit, I don't know everything in the world about Hubpages. However, I do know a lot about Squidoo. Squidoo is

• Something you can't write in one night.
• More of a resource than it is one article.
• A great way to get high quality inbound links.
• A great way to get loads of traffic.

Squidoos are awesome and they usually also have a page rank by the first Google Page Rank update. They're an easy way for high quality backlinks and definitely a great way for some major traffic. Commenting on DoFollow Blogs (4 Noobs) - Just so Noobs realize this, there is a difference between commenting on regular old blogs and commenting on a blog that will actually help you.

• Commenting on NoFollow blogs will be ignored by the Search Engines.
• Commenting on DoFollow blogs will be loved by the Search Engines.

Commenting on DoFollow Blogs (Everyone) - There are two efficient ways that you can go about finding DoFollow blogs. (Google Custom Searching is not one of them in my opinion.)

1. You can use Fast Blog Finder (Greatly Recommended)
2. Or you can do the little trick below.

This is an awesome way to check out where your competition is getting their links from. By doing this, you have a chance at receiving some links also.

1. Go to Yahoo Site Explorer
2. Type in a URL of a semi-popular website in your niche.
3. When the list appears, look for deep pages. (Not the index page)
4. Once you find a deep page, check it out.

Deep pages usually have the chance at being a comment link, and better yet, a DoFollow comment link. This is less efficient than Fast Blog Finder, but it definitely still works. Link Exchanges - This isn't one of my favorite ways to build links, but it still works. Basically, ask a fellow blogger if they'd like to add your blog url to their blog roll and vis versa. It is still an ok way to build links, but I believe that collaborating is way more fun and effective. Collaborating - This is one of my favorite ways to not only get high quality backlinks, but this is a great way to gain respect and make friends with fellow bloggers in your niche.

Collaborating is The exchange of

• Blog Roll links
• 125 x 125 ads
• Promoting each others' sites through posts.
• The general friendship of one blogger to the next.

Instead of just asking for a link exchange, I love collaborating because it allows you to really get to know and help out the other blogger. Collaborating is really the forming of a business relationship and it's always a great way to build links.

Guest Posting - Guest postings are really fun, but usually require some sort of collaboration or business relationship first. (image credit: flickr)

Guest Posts are a great way to get

• Traffic
• Backlinks
• Somebody's readers to turn into your readers.

Link Baiting - Finally, we have link baiting. Oh link baiting. How I love link baiting. Link baiting usually involves the rebellion against main stream. It's something that's meant to cause an uproar.

For instance, if I said, Darren Rowse Sucks, and then provided some supporting information, people would probably link to me.

This is a great video about link baiting. Source: Swap W

Final backlink building note:

Link building is not easy. It's not something that you can do overnight and it's definitely something that you have to work on over time. As you become more popular, your links will pour in more naturally.