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Backlinks Building Tips For Internet Marketers
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© by John
Baril
For
a website to generate a
regular flow of traffic and climb up the traffic engine rankings, it
needs to
be well linked into a network of related websites. In simple terms,
that means
that other websites will have links on them that point to your website.
Until
recently, one of the
most popular ways for Internet marketers to build website backlinks was
to
exchange links with other website owners. This is considered especially
valuable if the website where the link was to be placed was highly
ranked and
in a similar niche. However, a lot of people focused more on quantity
than
quality of links, causing Google to downgrade the importance they
associate to
reciprocal links when calculating website ranking.
Bear
in mind, however, that
Google's chief, Matt Cutts, has suggested on his blog (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/2007/05/page/2/)
that reciprocal links are not automatically bad in themselves. If you
find a
good quality website in a niche market related to your own, by all
means link
out to it from your website and contact the Webmaster to explain what
you have
done and request a reciprocal link.
One
good way of linking out
to other websites is to set up the resources page on your site with
links to a
range of sites that may be of use or interest to your visitors. Do not
worry
that this may cause you to lose traffic, because by adopting a policy
of freely
giving out information, including links to other sites, you are
promoting
yourself as an expert in your field and building a sense of goodwill
with your
website visitors. A useful resource page is something that will attract
traffic
to your website, which is exactly what you want.
Another
bonus of this type
of page is that it gives you plenty of scope for link baiting. Link
baiting is
simply a process of adding content to your website or blog that people
will be
likely to want to link to. So if you add a mini review or a few
sentences of
commentary with each link on your resource page, you will find that
some of the
people who visit your page will be more likely link to it on their own
website.
Link
baiting is a great
method for building one-way website backlinks or blog backlinks, so it
makes
sense to approach all of your content writing with Link baiting in
mind. Your
articles should be full of content that is original, useful, and also
entertaining. This building is just one way of making a link baiting
page.
Finding an unusual angle, writing with wit and humor, taking a contrary
position are other great link baiting tactics.
You
can also build one-way
website backlinks by posting comments on forums and blogs. For this to
add
anything to your website ranking, find relevant blogs and forums that
allow
"do follow" comments. You can quickly find a whole bunch of do-follow
blogs and forums by doing a search on Google.
If
you follow these tips
consistently, you will have no difficulty building website backlinks
and
improving your ranking on Google and other search engines.
I wish you the best
of success,
John Baril
Copyright © John Baril
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