Backlink Strategies
Backlinks are the most important part of seo, and getting traffic to your website. a backlink is often reffered to as a “vote” for your site. The higher the page rank of the site that is linking to yours the more valuable that link is.
Backlink Basics
You can create backlinks to your site several ways. The most basic ways are through article marketing, forum marketing, and by making comments on blogs.
Blog comments are not always affective, as the links may not be followed. The search status plugin for firefox highlights any no follow links. This plug in also display googles page rank, and alexa ranking.
Other Backlinking Methods
Other methods include submitting your website to search engine directories, as well as rss directories.
If you have something newsworthy to announce, issuing a press release is the number one way to get backlinks, and alot of traffic.
Viral Backlinking
Creating link bait is a viral method of getting backlinks. The idea behind linkbait is that you have something on your website that is so cool, or entertaining that people want to link to it. This could simply be great content, or it could be a helpful tool, free software, a video, or better yet a video game.
Giving away templates, widgets, and scripts are excellent ways to get backlinks. For example this blog is using a template by dosh dosh, and they have included a link to their site on the bottom of this page. Widgets are popular, and people use them on facebook, myspace, squidoo, websites, and blogs.
You may of seen Free hit counters that also have links to the creators website.
There are widget directories, and shareware directories, and script directories that can give you alot of exposure.
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