Effective Ways To Build Blog Backlinks

Do you want to boost your blog in Google?! You can give your blog a huge kick by backlinking with other websites. I know this isn't new news, but so many people forget to build strong and relevant backlinks to their websites. I'd like to give you some important tips, and helpful ideas to give your blog that kick it needs!

Here's 10 tips to build backlinks to your blog:

1. Search Out A BackLink Tool

In order to build backlinks for your blog, you'll need a backlink tool or service that will help you find backlinks. There's lots of great tools out there to cut down the workload of finding backlinks. BackLink Agent is easy to use, you just enter your keywords and select the type of links you want to find - and BackLink Agent does all the work for you!

2. Relevant & Related Websites

Now that you're finding backlinks for your bog, there's two types of backlinks for your blog - and I call them the two R's:

Relevant & Related.

It's very important to only link to relevant or related websites. If your blog is about Water Skiing and you're backlinking with websites that are about Body Building - there isn't a relevant or related connection. Visitors will be turned off because they don't find any relationship between your blog and the website they just came from.

3. Reputable Websites

Reputable - the 3rd 'R' that often gets forgotten. Building backinks to your blog can be all for nothing, if you link to websites that aren't reputable. Let's use a neighbourhood analogy - you have a nice house, you maintain it, paint it, keep you yard clean - it should be worth some nice money. But the neighbours have burned out cars in their front yard... Now the neighbourhood doesn't look so hot. Your website can do the same by linking to websites that aren't reputable.

How do you tell a website is reputable? Ask yourself these questions:

- What's your initial impression of the website? Is it eye catching, or ugly?

- Is the information relevant, well written?

- Would I buy from this website?

- Check the website's Alexa rating (www.alexa.com), under 1 million is alright

4. Directory Sites

If you want to build buy backlinks then getting your blog backlinked in a directory is a hot idea. Directories like www.DMOZ.org for example have a really deep category & subcategory system - so you can get really specific about where you want to build your blog backlink.

5. Add/Submit Url Sites

As mentioned before, BackLink Agent has a tool to help you find websites that accept url submissions. So what you would do is search with one of your keyword phrases, like 'jet boat water skiing' and see what websites are available. Now you can submit your url to them and create a backlink for your blog.

6. Related Forums

Forums can be an amazing means for building blog backlinks. What you do is use BackLink Agent to search out related forums. I recommend adding your blog url as a backlink in your forum signature. Then every post you make has a backlink to your blog. A good forum post can send 100s of visitors to your blog in a week, or even a day!

7. Competition Spy

A little bit of competition can be a good thing - but the Internet can provide 1000s of competitive websites with a few keystrokes. What if you were able to see the backlinks that your competition have for their websites?

BackLink Agent has a way cool tool to sniff out competition backlinks. All you do is enter your competition's url (with http://) in the search field and pick 'Competition Spy' and see all the links that the website is linked to. The Internet is one big backlink, so it's a great way to find more backlinks for your blog.

8. Give Your Article Or Lens An Added Boost

If you've written a article and want to get it indexed faster by Google or ranked higher - backlinking your blog to your new article will help it out! Just write a teaser article, under 300 words and add a few links to the new article in your blog post.

9. Page Rank 7 Or Higher

I go by the Rule of 7 - Google page rank of 7 or higher is a great site to backlink your blog to. Less than 7, it's alright but still do 3 on it.

10. Ping Your Backlinks

Once you've sniffed out backlinks for your blog with BackLink Agent, ping your articles or blog posts (or blog RSS feed). Just do a Google search for 'blog ping service' there's lots out there.

So there you have it! Now you're educated and you can go find backlinks for your blog, website or landing pages. Backlinks are the lifeblood of promoting your website. Building backlinks can be so easy, and benefit your blog!

An Ultimate Guide For Buying Backlinks

After reading this article you'll discover the good and bad places to buy links.

Let's get the bad stuff out of the way first. Link brokerage is generally bad. There are several reasons. First of all Google can easily detect those back links using reverse engineering and penalize your rankings. Second of all, they often link out to spammers and do not produce good results in terms of rankings.

Now let's examine the good places to buy links.

1) Paid directories: Spammers prefer quantity over quality. Payment often serves as an effective barrier to entry. This means that a spammer will try to put links on 1000 ineffective directories and avoid paying for the high-quality directories. Almost all paid directories have staff that reviews submissions. Search engines like sites reviewed by humans and give them more trust. Most expensive directories are dir.Yahoo.com and business.com.

Here is a list of secondary directories that it's worth submitting to:

WoW Directory

BOTW

Gimpsy

JoeAnt

GoGuides

Jayde

STPT

You should review them manually, because unfortunately some of them change for the worst. At the time of this writing they are still good. Also Check your local directories (especially effective for local brick-and-mortar businesses)

This is what you should check: Do they accept all listings automatically once you pay them? If so it's not a good sign because spammers may buy links also. How many backlinks does the directory have? How often does it get crawled by Google (check info.directorydomain.com to see last cached date)? What is their Alexa rankings (how much traffic do they get)?

You can exchange links with directories, but only if they're vertical directories relevant to your industry. A good approach is to create a directory yourself and populate it with listings. Use it to link to directories which require a link back in exchange for a free listing. Never link back to low quality directories.

Carefully examine the "directory submission services", often times they own all the directories to which they're submitting. This will create low quality buy backlinks for often astronomical prices.

2) Donations: Many non-profit organizations have a listing of people who made a donation. You can often make a small donation and get a link back to your site. Many of these places have common keywords on site such as "nfp", "npo" etc. Try searching for these keywords to find these organizations.

You'll be doing something good while getting links in the process.