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.

Learn more about Article Marketing

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2. Video: 3 most important parts of article marketing
3. How to get Traffic Day 18: Article Marketing
4. 4 Tips That Make Article Writing Easier
5. Advanced Article Marketing
6. Article Marketing – How To Choose The Best Topic For Your Niche
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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.

Learn more about Onlywire

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.

Learn more about Traffic From Forums

Note: this was originally published Feb. 22, 2008

Welcome to Day 14 of 30 Days to More Traffic!

Introduction

One great way to drive quality traffic to your website, although you might find it to be a small amount on a daily basis is by forum marketing.

Remember that one hit of quality traffic is often worth as much as a few hundred hits from a non-quality source. What makes it of quality is you’re getting traffic based on what you say in forum replies (you’ve already sold yourself to a degree).

Join a forum on your site’s niche.

Login and edit your profile.

In your signature, provide a link to your site along with a tasty blurb.

Another huge benefit of forum marketing is that you’re talking with others in your niche. At the same time you’re driving traffic to your site, you’re market researching. You’re finding out the biggest problems in your niche, so that you can provide solutions in the form of an info products or website content.

Tips & Tricks

• Start by finding a forum related to your niche and make sure signatures are allowed.
• Build your reputation as an expert in your niche. Provide quality information in your posts and replies. Users of a forum will only click on the link in your signature if you’ve enlightened them. One tactic you can use is by creating a new thread with pure information in your niche, almost like a blog post.
• Never link to your own site within content of threads. Only place a link to your site within your signature.
• Be sure to read forum rules and regulations before joining any forum. Nearly all forums don’t allow affiliate links in your signature or within threads.
• Don’t spam forums!!!