One of the biggest concerns of Internet marketers is how to get quality one-way backlinks to their websites or blogs.
While there are many ways you can go about this, there are 3 particularly very powerful ways of doing it.
Article Marketing
When you write an article and submit it to an article directory or an online interest group that you are a member of, like Yahoo and Google Groups, two things happen.
One, you get very targeted traffic from the place you submitted your article to. Remember, that you are submitting to a forum in your niche, an interest group that you are a member of or the right category and subcategory of your favorite article directory. Your visitors will therefore, be very targeted.
The other thing that happens to your site is that you get very high quality one-way backlinks to the website or blog that you are promoting. And a lot of time the Page Rank of the site you submitted to will be passed back to your site, putting your webpage in the VIP seats of the search engines.
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Social Bookmarking
These are sites where web surfers go to and submit lists of their favorite web pages. It is like the regular bookmarking function on your browser tool bar.
The only difference here is that you are adding them to a site online instead on your computer, and it is viewable by other surfers. Normally when bookmarking your web pages, you categorize them under particular “tags” or keywords, so that the pages could be viewed by others searching that site or from the search engines.
Once you add your pages to these sites, links to your site are bound to stay there forever. Plus, you get to receive a lot of traffic from these sites, which include StumbleUpon and OnlyWire, among others.
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Forums
There are literally tens of thousands of targeted forums online catering to people of all backgrounds and interests. One good thing about these forums is that they are also a good (read that ‘reliable’) source of targeted traffic and quality one-way backlinks to your sites.
There are two ways that you can take advantage of the forums that you are a member of.
One, you can post a link to the site or web page of your choice in your signature files (basically a bio box). This way, whenever anyone reads your posts and find them interesting, they can click over to your site. The link also stays there for as long as you want, if you don’t abuse the terms of the forum and risk getting banned.
The second way to link back to your site(s) from these forums is to include your website address in your profile. Every forum worth its salt provides its members with a way of posting basic information about themselves on their profiles. If the forum happens to be a high PR one, you just got yourself high quality search engines-favored backlinks to your website.
Whatever niche you are in, you can take advantage of these three ways of getting quality one-way backlinks to your site.
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Note: this was originally published Feb. 22, 2008
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Very informative,but i have a question yahoo gives more backlinks and google gives less whats the reason
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first of all, google takes a while to count your backlinks, they know they are there, but they have a very complex system.
forums are great for getting backlinks, there are some very high pr forums out there that will help you get backlinks, but don’t forget about the not so high forums that are based on your niche.
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>>… there are some very high pr forums out there that will help you get backlinks<<
When putting some energy into creating user accounts on high pr forums and also posting on them, pls keep in mind that the inner pages usually have a very low pr.
also pofile pages usually don't have much pr.
What i like mroe about forum posting is getting some targeted traffic and build a reputation as Nick described in his post.
Thanks, three things that really proved to bring free traffic.
Despite of all three, writing articles is that spending my time.
> writing articles is that spending my time.
Sorry but I’m not sure what you meant here.
When forum commenting, do your reputation a favor and make it a sensible and helpful comment. Or even a real question can help.
There is no point to “nice post Mrs. Guru”, or “I agree Sir”
It’s spam commenting Scott. Just like the one from Anes above I suspect. I usually delete these when I get them but I’ve seen people allow them through – perhaps any comment is a good comment when building optimisation? Not sure but I’ll stick to not including them for now.
These are all great ways to build links to your site. Forums are a great way to get links and learn valuable info while doing it. Its a great way to get traffic also.
Nick,
hasn’t blog commenting overtaken forum signatures now for linking value?
Even so, I think forum links can still be valuable depending on the forum policies as regards linking.
Now I am starting to implement branding more where many sites are clamping down on marketing links. So my domain name is the same as my user name in the other niches that I operate in.
I didn’t understand the branding thing much for several years but now I am seeing the need to focus on branding.
- Andy
I have had better success getting traffic from forums than leaving blog comments.