Best ways to build backlinks?

[SEO-WATCH]

I have a website for almost a year now and it seems like I don't have enough back links. I spent some time adding my site to the link directories but it doesn't seem to work.

Which is the best way to get the back links...?

How did you guys do it?

Thanks

[Duke]

It really depends on which directories your submitting to, if you're just submitting to any old directory then chances are you're wasting your time. A lot of webmasters praise social bookmarking as a way to get good inbound links but I have little experience with this as I haven't leaped onto the bandwagon here yet.

The best way I know of to get decent inbound links is to write informative and engaging content.

[The Old Sarge]

If by inbound links you mean one way links, I tend to agree with Duke.

If, OTOH, you just want links, reciprocal (two way) linkscan be had for a bit of effort. They should be limited, however, to sites that are relevant to yours.

YOu can get links by simply requesting them from the sites you're willing to link to on your site. You can find such sites by using LinkPartners and similar services, or simply by searching your own keywords in the major SEs and contacting the other sites that come up.

[SEO-WATCH]

Thank for the advice I will try to do this and post again when I have improvements for the site.

[The Leader]

Alot of the link directories out there are either abanoned or there pr0 sites that have little chance of having your page indexed.
Best to stick to rlelated websites that change contect frequently.
Forums are also good!

[Phil Staff]

Social Networking is the new buzz word for getting links; however, so far in my research I have been unable to actually get an "indexed" back link from any networking site.

I tried FaceBook and you can add a link to your site but if you actually view the source code of your profile or business page you will see your actual url is not used but a redirected url like http://facebook.com/member/id12324/click343 etc. is being used.

I continue to work with FaceBook and other social networking sites to find the best options for getting backlinks from the sites that actually count on the SE's.

This is a good topic and is relatively new to the Internet scene so I challenge everyone to go learn something new about the social networking aspect and return here with insight for our membership.

After all we want everyone to succeed and this forum is all about sharing our white-hat knowledge with other good webmasters.

Until next time.

Phillip C.

[www.GameFriends.com]

Writing unique articles has always done well for me...then directories, then social bookmarking.

[Duke]

Blog posting is the best way in my point of view if you really want to promote your site throug back links. Another way to post back links is forum posting you could add you site's link in you signature then you have to post on various online forums.

Assuming of course they are not using "no follow" tags, then the only benefit you will see from a signature link is a few visitors who may only ever visit once.

[George Miller]

For better backlink creating project you have to place your target at first. You need to find out several websites you wish to compete with. Then you should find out their backlinks through various softwares like seopro. After that all you have to do is just to create relevant backlinks & send mail to webmasters for link exchange (if you want).

[Jenie0109]

Well you can make use of social networking websites as an effectual means in divulging your products and services to net surfers that will soon they will become possible clients of your product or services….

[Hawkeye11]

Blogging is also another good technique... builds website traffic, credibility, as well as gives you the ability to use "Anchor-Text" backlinks! Do you have a blog for you or your company?

[Jenie0109]

Blogging is also another good technique... builds website traffic, credibility, as well as gives you the ability to use "Anchor-Text" backlinks! Do you have a blog for you or your company?

yes i do have a blog :) having a new content once or better twice a week will do good :)

[Jenie0109]

yes i do:) once or better twice a week im adding new content :) which will do good:)

[danviettravel]

Do you know how good for our link to be placed on a homepage of a website (PR3) compared to being placed on a site with the same page rank, but not on the homepage? Are they giving the same value or the link on the homepage will get more?

[mduko05]

Best way to make back links are

1.Directory Submission
2.Forum Submission
3.Article Submission
4.Link Building
5.Social Bookmarking
6.Link Exchange (one way links)

[Hawkeye11]

Best way to make back links are

1.Directory Submission
2.Forum Submission
3.Article Submission
4.Link Building
5.Social Bookmarking
6.Link Exchange (one way links)

I like using all of these techniques! I find that the more of a variety of link building techniques I use, the more effective it is for my ranking in the SERP's

[Phil Staff]

Link Exchange implies two way linking though doesn't it. One way linking is more of a directory submission characteristic IMHO. I think both one way and reciprocal linking should be done avidly.

I have another thread on this subject but people should always keep in mind that you get credit from the search engines for linking in four ways.

1. Outgoing Link Text
2. Outgoing Link URL
3. Incoming Link Text
4. Incoming Link URL

This means in a possible link exchange you could get '4' points if your keywords are in all possible places on both sites. Hence why people do 'deep linking' to get that keyword into the urls. ;)

Never turn down any relevant link points. Even if you link to a relevant site and they don't link back you still can earn a possible '2' points. While not as good as 4 it will still add up.

[ceday]

i see the more affective way is the articles it's give u quality backlinks

[ceday]

articles are better for quality backlinks if u intersted in quality backlinks only to get anchor links by your keywords and also press release

[martinrex]

Directories are still going good. Directories end up with negative results if, and only if you’re submitting them in the inappropriate categories. Directories provide us with relevant quality backlinks, but on the downside, it takes longer for approval.

[The Old Sarge]

... Directories end up with negative results if, and only if you’re submitting them in the inappropriate categories. Directories provide us with relevant quality backlinks ...

Not entirely true. Some directories are set up strictly for the owners benefit and to offer a seemingly legitimate page for advertisements (AdSense and AdWords), affiliate links, etc. Some even amount to "bad neighborhoods" and, as such, are definitley penalized by the major search engines.

[LifeEMr]

In my point of view reciprocal link building has more value in respect of seo as compared to other way of link building.

[The Old Sarge]

In my point of view reciprocal link building has more value in respect of seo as compared to other way of link building.

Can you give us some specific examples of how you incorporate link building into your SEO?

[Duke]

Honestly TOS, I think half the knuckleheads that register here only do so to link drop and not share anything even remotely intelligent or insightful. I haven't logged on here for a while and tonight I did so to 19 completely spamful (and possibly harmful) PM's with links and a forum full of sh@t responses such as:
In my point of view reciprocal link building has more value in respect of seo as compared to other way of link building.
building blog,submisson directory,forum post are good way to get backlink.
i think SEO keyword is most important for link building
you should to work parallel between quality and quantity links
Sorry to be the voice of negativity but sheesh folks, please add some bl00dy value in your responses or at least do us a solid and not post at all.

[The Old Sarge]

I think you hit it right on the head, Duke. But every once in a while I hold out hope that one of them is genuine. lol

If you get anymore of those unsolicited, SPAM PMs, please let me know. The senders will be banned.

[airsavings]

That is not entirely true! Most people who register here come from the main link partners site, and obviously they would look to drop their link, as well as pick up some information from this forum. I don't see anyone spamming here. It's just your opinion, and you have a right to it.

Honestly TOS, I think half the knuckleheads that register here only do so to link drop and not share anything even remotely intelligent or insightful. I haven't logged on here for a while and tonight I did so to 19 completely spamful (and possibly harmful) PM's with links and a forum full of sh@t responses such as:




Sorry to be the voice of negativity but sheesh folks, please add some bl00dy value in your responses or at least do us a solid and not post at all.

[The Old Sarge]

That is not entirely true! Most people who register here come from the main link partners site, and obviously they would look to drop their link, as well as pick up some information from this forum. I don't see anyone spamming here. It's just your opinion, and you have a right to it.

With all due respect, you won't see many of them because SPAM is dealt with rather quickly ... in most cases.

[Phil Staff]

Thank you Duke and TOS - as I posted in another thread we are going to start tossing people who are only giving one-liner responses that are obviously being used for signature spam.

Yes most people do come to the forum for information and to use their signature and that is great. We like that. What we don't like is someone posting a one-liner to all 4 categories so they can be the last poster and get their signature seen.

We will be more vigilant in our editorial process. From now on if we have users that do not contribute some real content and seem to only repeat the same phrase even sometimes in the wrong thread we will remove their post and ban them from the forum.

If *anyone* is getting Private Message spam please let us know so we can remove that user immediately.

[John Peterr]

most of the persons neglect blogging, it is also one of the important factor to improve back links.

[jackbency]

You have said very true. Forum posting and blog posting can increase Back-links. Back links are really important in the world of Search Engine Optimization. Social Bookmarking
Article submissions,Press Releases, Link exchanges are also very good factor for increasing traffic.

[daveysmith]

most of the persons neglect blogging, it is also one of the important factor to improve back links.

if they neglect blogging what's the point in making the blog?

[ronaldtaylor]

The submission of articles is the best way of gaining links. There are so many sites article submission approving items at once.

[daivonbee]

The best way to build quality links is by writing blogs and promotion of social media sites approved. By doing this not only gives you links, but the huge traffic as well.

[ilovejdmtoy]

blog writing is the best way to build backlinks

[kevenlee]

There are many ways through that we can built many back links in SEO, some of them are here.

1. Social bookmarking
2. Directory Submission
3. Forum Posting and Blog Commenting
4. Blogging
5. Article Writing
6. Press release

[Duke]

Best way to build back links is forum posting.
Assuming the forums your link dropping in actually have do follow links. A lot of forums use rel="nofollow" (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=96569) simply because they don't know if they can trust all the sites being linked to in a users signature.

[taniasharma]

You will use
Directory Submission
Social Bookmarking
Forum Posting
Link Exchange
Blog commenting and posting
Article Marketing
Video Marketing
Press Release
Link Baiting
Link wheeling... etc
for build quality backlinks for your website.

[Tommy.10]

articles are better for quality backlinks if u interested in quality backlinks only to get anchor links by your keywords and also press release

[turkeyhomes]

One very useful method is to look at what backlinks your competitors (i.e. those are doing better than you in your keyword searches) have, and SEOspyglass has a free edition that is helpful for this.
One of the advantages of looking at their backlinks in this way is that you know that many of the links are achievable from the sources revealed because your competitors already have them.

[Miley455Cyru]

Link Exchange implies two way linking though doesn't it. One way linking is more of a directory submission characteristic IMHO. I think both one way and reciprocal linking should be done avidly.

[turkeyhomes]

Do you know how good for our link to be placed on a homepage of a website (PR3) compared to being placed on a site with the same page rank, but not on the homepage? Are they giving the same value or the link on the homepage will get more?

The ideal scenario is a link from a high ranking inner page on a site with a high ranking home page so that your link gains credit from both.
The direct answer to your question is yes, they are giving the same value as individual pages (but the inner page will also give you the added benefit of whatever PR the home page is).

[svastava]

I like it,as everything should to be fresh and more fresh with unqiue content...This is a good topic and is relatively new to the Internet scene so I challenge everyone to go learn something new about the social networking aspect and return here with insight for our membership.

[bventsongs]

most of the persons neglect blogging, it is also one of the important factor to improve back links.