Study: How to Build Quality Backlinks

Backlinks are incoming links to your website; they are used in search engine optimization techniques and on a personal level, show how popular your website is in the wider world.  Backlinks are also used by the Google page ranking system in order to help decide where your website should sit in the search engine results.  There are countless ways of building backlinks back to your website, but there is one EASY way to build backlinks to your site in order to let you make more easy money with your online venture.

The easiest way to build backlinks is….

VISIBILITY.

Being visible means doing everything you can to throw your website out there; it’s free to do, you can use tools to automate much of your work, and you will see results fairly quickly.  There are a couple of ways to make yourself visible to the search engines and other customers in a few short clicks: social bookmarking and commenting.

Social Networking

You can update social networks like Facebook and Twitter with your new blogs, products, and reviews at a click of the button through bookmarking.  Bookmarking your site means reposting a link to your website along with a quick blurb of your latest work to everyone in your contact list and to everyone in the wider internet world.  Social bookmarking is a fantastic way to maintain your visibility because it can be done with a few clicks of the button and costs nothing to do.  Another aspect of this is Pinging.  Pinging is when you tell the search engines that you’ve updated by Pinging your site; usually through something like Ping.fm.  Again, pinging is free and it updates everything at the click of a button.

Commenting and Forums

The other easy way to get visible is by getting out there and commenting on other peoples’ blogs and participating in forums related to your products or services.  Again, it only takes a few moments to write a comment, answer/ask a question or make other comments, but by putting your link at the end of your comment (make it a useful comment in order to avoid being tarred as a spammer), you add countless backlinking possibilities and far more visibility for absolutely free.  In order to make this work, you have to both give, in terms of giving a useful comment or answering a question or contributing in some way to the community, and take by leaving your URL behind.  If you make enough of a positive presence of yourself, you may even be thought of as an expert or someone worth promoting/trading links with; more free backlinking and advertising!

Visibility is the key to successful backlinking and between nearly automatic social booking marking and quick comments and forum posts, you can improve your page ranking and your backlinks by just taking a few minutes out a day to push yourself forward in the internet world.  In what other job can a few minutes of work lead to many sales?  It’s just that easy to get backlinks!