If you’ve found this page, you must want to know how to get backlinks. I’m gonna go over with you quite a few ways to get backlinks but, first I want to let you know that spam sucks. Please don’t use these techniques to spam. You won’t like the results. Google won’t like the content and Google’s users won’t like the content. The conversion rate you get with spam is extremely low and the bounce rate is extremely high. Remember, your website needs to be informative, useful, and relevant to it’s targeted keywords. All the backlinks in the world aren’t going to make you successful if your content isn’t good. With that said, let’s get started.

RSS Feeds

The first technique I want to cover is building RSS feeds. If your website is a static site, I highly recommend you add a blog to it and submit that blog’s RSS feed to any feed aggregator you can find. There are also services that allow you to create RSS feeds with any links from any combination of sites. I don’t recommended to add more than 20 links per feed. Your main feed should have all your content though.

Social Bookmarking

There are many sites that allow users to submit webpages, and then the other users on the site will cast a vote as to whether they like it or not. These are usually called social bookmark sites. Pages that get enough positive votes end up on the front page of these site and then get a burst of traffic. You can gain some followers this way but, usually the bulk of the users of these sites are hardcore content junkies with very eclectic interests who don’t stick around long. However, you do get a backlink to your site and there are a lot of these sites.

Social Sites

Social sites like Facebook and Twitter are another great way to gain exposure and backlinks to your site. For example, every time you “Like” a page on Facebook, the link to that page is displayed to all you friends on Facebook. They can also help your rankings because Google watches for social signals to help determine the importance of a site. I’m NOT saying that if you’re not on Facebook you can’t get rankings. All I’m saying is that they help. So remember, Facebook and Twitter are just 2 out of maybe hundreds of social sites on the net. So don’t limit your self to only those 2.

Forums

Most forums allow you to have what they call signature links after you have a certain number of posts. Basically this means you get 2 or 3 links under each post once you’ve shown you’re there to contribute. Look, this isn’t just good for backlinks. This is also an excellent way to establish yourself as an authority in your niche. When I’m on forums and blogs, I get a lot more interested in what someone is saying if they’ve given me solid info before. Also, most forums have a lot of trust and some of it passes to the sites they link out to. Forum signatures can also be a great way to attract referral traffic.

Blog Comments

Leaving comments on dofollow blogs are another way to gain backlinks. However, these are not permanent backlinks in the slightest. Most everybody that tries to run a dofollow blog ends up changing back to nofollow because, they either get tired of all the extra moderating or, they get paranoid about all the page rank they’re giving away.

Frequently leaving useful comments on smaller NOFOLLOW blogs in your niche is a good way to gain links, referral traffic, and followers. The best blogs to do this with are blogs where the blog owner frequently replies to comments. Leaving good useful comments will likely entice the owner to check out your site and possibly link to one of your authority posts. You can also leave comments on authority blogs to gain referral traffic.

Also, when you link out to authority pages on smaller blogs it increases the chances that they’ll link to you. Remember, people who own small blogs are constantly checking to see if they got any links, and they get all kinds of happy every time they get a legitimate link. Even if you don’t get a link back, Google gives you trust when you link out to good sites. But, you lose trust when you link to bad sites. So, finding good blog posts to link to is never a waste of time and, IS a great way to get noticed.

Press Releases

Press releases are one way of getting backlinks but, I really don’t have a lot to say about it. Just whenever there’s news about your site or your company you can submit press releases.

Recommended Tools

A couple of very good tools that really automate most of the techniques above as well as submitting to Web2.0s and article directories are SE Nuke X and Magic Submitter. They’re both great tools but, SE Nuke X is faster and more organized. Magic Submitter costs about half as much as SE Nuke though. Just remember to make proper use of proxies, and don’t blast yourself 1000s of links a day if you’re gonna use those kinds of programs.

Content That Attracts Links

So what kind of content will attract links from site owners once you have followers and rankings?
For starters, how about something funny. Goofy pictures and witty humor tend to go viral pretty well and can gain you tons of links. Another thing that tends to go viral pretty quick is breaking news. In the blogging world it’s usually considered proper etiquette to cite your sources. So when you write about the big news people are sure to link to you, especially if they’re your followers. Another type of post that tends to attract a lot of links are tutorials. If you write something that helps people in your niche do something new or better, people are sure to link to it.

Article Marketing

Article marketing is probably the oldest and most reliable way to get good permanent backlinks, as well as being a great way to get direct traffic. The bulk of your direct traffic will come from the larger article directories. This method is tried and true and STILL WORKS to this day. Basically what you do is write articles and submit them to article directories, Web2.0s, and blog networks. There are a lot of different styles of link building with article marketing and I definitely have my own style. Just try some things out and figure out which combination of techniques and tools you enjoy the most. Variety is the key.

Article Directories

Some people might try to tell you that submitting to article directories doesn’t work anymore. That’s just plain wrong. There has been no indication at all that the Google changes over the past year have affected the flow of Pagerank in any way. What has changed is that the articles in these directories are less likely to show up high in search results but, I can tell you for a fact that these pages can still rank. As always, make sure your content is thick, useful, and has links pointing at it. A great tool to use to get LOTS of backlinks from the smaller article directories is Unique Article Wizard.

Blog Networks

Blog networks are a more recent form of article marketing that is very effective for getting backlinks. One thing that sets blog networks apart from article directories is that you can have your links higher up on the page inside the body content(with blog networks), instead of at the bottom of the page in a resource box(like in article directories). Links high up within the body content pass a higher percentage of the link juice than the links in the sidebar, footer and resource box. Two of the very best blog networks you can submit to are Build My Rank and Linkvana.

Conclusion

Well, that’s all I got for you right now but, I want to leave you with this. You DO need backlinks. But without proper SEO and good content that people want to read or products people want to use, all the links in the world won’t make you successful and, Google is getting better at identifying lousy content every day. Cheers.