10 Effective Ways to Build Backlinks

Backlinks can increase your traffic, sales and search engine ranking. You’ll discover many different types of backlinks you could get and tactics you could use to acquire those those backlinks from other high PR web sites. Here I shall discuss the 10 most effective ways to build backlinks in 2013, not in order of importance.

1.  Article submission/ Press Release and syndication

Write an article and submit it to selected article directories like EzineArticles, GoArticles, iSnare etc. Do remember to include anchor text linking to your website to build backlinks to your website. After submission, syndicate your article. This option should be available in good article directories as mentioned above. The great thing about good article sites is that their article pages actually rank highly and send highly qualified traffic.

Write a good, compelling and newsworthy press release about your website and syndicate it. If you have the contacts, email it to some handpicked journalists and bloggers by personalizing the email message.

2.  Guest blogging

Guest blogging involves you writing a guest post on another blogger’s website. You can use this service, http://myblogguest.com/, to reach new audience, build your brand, network, build links to your site etc through guest blogging.

3.  Using videos

Creating videos is another easy way to get a backlink. For the camera-shy, you can always make use of camtasia or powerpoint to create professional videos. Here are some video submission sites you can use:

•  Dailymotion – Upload your own video and get a link in the profile page.
•  Videojug – Upload how to videos.
•  Viddler – You get a link on EACH video you submit!
•  YouTube – The top Web 2.0 properties that you should not ignored.

4.  Forum postings

Most forums allow members to leave signature links or personal profile links. If you make quality contributions some people will follow these links and potentially read your site, link at your site, and/or buy your products.

5.  Blog commenting

Commenting on other blogs may not provide much direct search engine value. However, if your comments are useful, insightful, and relevant, they can drive direct traffic to your site. They also help make other bloggers become aware of you, and they may start reading your blog and/or linking to it.

6.  Internal Links

Internal links from one blog post to another blog post on your site also count as backlinks.
Each time you write a blog post, try and backlink to a previous post. That way you are also adding another backlink. Plus you are enticing your visitors to see some of your other previous posts.

7.  Social bookmarking using Delicious

Delicious is a bookmarking service site that is trusted, respected and of high “trust and authority”. The real power to using Delicious isn’t with bookmarking sites and URLs of interest to you. The real and widely untapped power for using Delicious for link building comes from tagging URLS of interest to you, not bookmarking.

8.  Online directory submissions
Submit your site to DMOZ and other directories that allow free submissions. There are also paid directories for you to submit your website. Some paid directories give more link juice to your website. Remember, quality matters.

9.  Contribute content on Squidoo / Hubpages

Contribute valuable content on midget blogs such as Squidoo. Squidoo has a user-friendly interface where content providers can just drag and drop modules. You can get some really solid backlinks and a chance to get some quality traffic too.

Another place to build backlinks is to write a good quality article and post it on Hubpages. However, do note that you might need to have a very solid article for the moderators at Hubpages to do-follow your links because they’ll look at your article first and they’ll decide if it’s worth do-following your links.

10.  Google Profiles

Creating your profile on Google and add custom links with anchor text that helps Google determine what other sites think your site is about . On Google Profiles, you can add additional information along with the link including videos and photos.