A
backlink is simply when
your website URL is placed on another website as a clickable link.
These
backlinks are a very important element to increase the page rank as
well as the
traffic to your site.
Here
are 9 methods to
increase backlinks and obtain more traffic to your site.
1.
As you read this
article, look at the resource box located at the bottom. This resource
box will
always have one or more links pointing back to either your website or
blog. If
you write and submit large quantities of articles and submit them to
online
article directories, you will increase backlinks for each directory
that hosts
an article.
2.
Write and post short
articles to your blog and submit them to several social bookmarking
sites. When
you bookmark a post in this way, you will increase backlinks pointing
to your
blog. Social bookmarking sites love blog posts and so do the search
engines.
You can bookmark your posts for free using Onlywire.com.
3.Find
other high page rank
blogs that are in
your same market niche and post comments on them. Make sure that these
blogs
are ones that allow you to post a link pointing back to your website or
blog.
You can find this out by doing a Google search for blogs that have the
“do
follow” attribute activated.
4.Participate
in discussion
forums in your
niche and leave helpful, relevant comments and answers. Make sure you
have your
signature file active with a link pointing back to your website and
blog. Forum
posts often remain online for many years, providing you with continuous
traffic
during that time.
5.Get
involved with
reciprocal linking which
is simply trading links with other webmasters. There are many
reciprocal linking
companies as well as software that can help to facilitate this process.
6.Purchase
ads in archived
ezines online. When
your ad is published in an archived issue, you will increase backlinks
to your
site. There are many ezine advertising companies which allow you to
purchase
multiple ads that will be spread over many ezines, all with one
purchase. HBAds
is one such company.
7.
Every time you come out
with a new offer for your Internet business, write and distribute a
press
release. Each press release that gets published will increase backlinks
to your
site. These backlinks will bring you both instant and future traffic.
8.
Find high traffic blogs
in your niche and purchase text link ads on them. If your link is
placed on the
sidebar of a popular blog, this alone can bring in a large amount of
steady
traffic.
9.
If someone is doing a
new product launch and they are requesting testimonials, write one for
sure.
You will get very good backlinks as well as traffic as people enter the
sales
page and read it.
This
is 9 different methods
that you can use to increase backlinks to your blog and website. There
are, of
course, more ways than this to increase backlinks and the more of these
you
have, the better your page rank will be.
