How to Create Backlinks

What is a backlink?

Backlinks are a link to your website from another website. The search engines love these. When they see the link on someone else's site it sends the spiders over to your site and they index your site getting it placed on a search engine organically instead of you going over and entering it. This way is preferred by the search engines.

Where do I put backlinks?

You can put backlinks in any number of locations. You can use them in signatures in forums, you can pay for them, but today we are talking about putting them in blogs.

You find a blog that is about a similar topic as what you will be linking to. You read the blog and then you make an insightful and meaningful comment to the post. When you are finished with your post you also put a link to the site you want the search engines to go look at. (and the other people reading the blog for that matter) :)

How do I make a backlink?

To make a backlink it takes a couple steps. (they're real easy don't worry)

1. Know your url. If you want your link to send people to the front page, or to a specific article or blog post, make sure you have the specific url for that. For example it might be the difference between www.itsawahmlife.com which is the main page of my personal blog or this: http://itsawahmlife.com/pb-j-chicken-stew.html which is a specific post.

2. Now you need a little html magic. You will need to use this html code to make a link:



3. You will need a keyword for your link. Don't use a keyword that is in the title of your blog/article/website, because the search engines will already see it in your url. Choose something else that is relevant to where you are sending people. For example, using the above post I might use the key word Peanut Butter and Jelly Chicken Stew.

Let's use the example from my blog and I'll show you what it looks like, in code and then the way it appears in code.



Here's what it will look like in my comment:

Peanut Butter and Jelly Chicken Stew

Backlinks from blogs are great and you need to think about the page rank of the blog before you leave the backlink. You should be backlinking from a blog with a higher page rank. I would choose at least a 4 or 5. It may have to be lower depending on your niche.

Searching out blogs and figuring out what their page rank is could take forever. That's not even including going and making your comment.

You guessed it. I found you some great software to use to help get this done fast.

Comment Hut

Let's see what Comment Hut is and what it will do for you.

Comment Hut is NOT a blog spamming software. It does not leave your comments and backlinks.

Comment Hut DOES search out blogs by keyword and then tell you what the page rank is of the blog.

You then go and read the post, and post your comment with your backlink.

It is a huge time saver. You no longer have to spend all your time looking for appropriate blogs which can take forever. You also now know what the page rank is for the blog and you can choose to post a comment or not depending on the page rank.

It's a great piece of software, and it will save you time and you will see more traffic and you will find yourself on the search engines faster and easier. The other plus, my favorite one, it's free! Well again, there is a "lite" version for free. You can get all the blogs from wordpress listed in the lite version. If you want more choices from other places you can upgrade and get blogs from just about every other blogging source you can think of. The wordpress blogs will do you for a while though.

Go get yourself some blog backlinks with Comment Hut

Article Marketing ~ add your link with keyword anchor text in your resource box. I also use Unique Article Wizard to distribute my articles to tons of directories ~ for tons of backlinks.

Forum Posts ~ add your link with keyword anchor text in your sig file

Blog Comments ~ keyword in the "name" area, and then your url. (will create a hot link with anchor text)

Comments at Ezine Articles ~ this one just occurred to me recently. I checked the source code and they do not appear to use the "no follow" attribute, so google should count these links. You may even get traffic from these too. I just enter my main keyword, and add a relevant comment to the article. I use this like I would a blog comment with my keyword in the name area and then my url. You have to wait for EZA to approve your comment, but it's worth it.

Set up Google Alert for keywords ~ each time I set up a new site I also set up a google alert for the keyword. I only choose to get alerts from blogs. Now each time someone posts a blog on my keyword I know about it and can get over there and add a comment.

Build free Blogs ~ Build a blog at wordpress.com, blogger, tumblr or wherever. You can do this blog on a related topic and add your site in the blogroll. This will give you a link for each page you publish on this blog. I use PLR for these blogs, and just change up the articles a little bit so they are more original. You can also add links within the articles to your blog for added links.

I didn't build these blogs expecting to get traffic from them, but I quickly started receiving traffic via the wordpress search function. So make sure your content is at least decent and you may find yourself getting more traffic as well as backlinks.

Hubpages and Squidoo ~ build pages at both of these free sites. Make sure to add a link to your site using keywords as your anchor text. At squidoo you can also add a link to your product or service you are promoting. Depending on how you want to use Hubpages I would be careful adding links to affiliate products over there. I just use hubpages as a way to get one more link from a quality source to my new niche site.

Zimbio ~ this site is new to me. I have used it for my squidoo lenses, by adding my lensmaster RSS feed url from Squid Utils it will post each new lens I write on Zimbio. You can do this with the RSS feeds for each of your sites, including your main niche site, as well as any free blogs you set up. Make sure to do this first so it will catch all your articles as you put them up.

Directory Submission~ there are tons of directories you can add your site url to. Here's a great list of directories you can get started with. (this site also has a huge list of social bookmarking sites and article directories) I set the timer for 30 minutes and just go as fast as I can submitting. I do this at least once a day for 30 minutes.

Wis.dm ~ A fun little site where you can ask a question. There is space for you to submit a url where people can find the answer. Just think of a question that relates to your niche and then add your site url in the space provided.

Twitter ~ not sure how good this is for backlinks, but if you have some people following you, it might be worth sending a quick tweet about your new site. You might just mention you found a cool site etc, so as not to give away all your niches. You can now add retweet buttons to your lenses (like the one right here in this module) The button makes it super easy for anyone who likes your lens to help you get the word out on twitter. If you like this lens ~ please give it a retweet, all you have to do is click the button in the corner!! :)

If you want to take things to the next level there are also services and membership sites you can join to build links. I have not joined any of the link building membership sites as of yet. If I decide to do it, I'll let you know how it goes. If you are currently using a link building site, leave a comment and let me know about it.

I keep remembering this comment from Court's Internet Marketing School Blog. He talked about how you should be spending 90% of your time building links. When I thought about how much time I was spending in this area it was probably about .5%. Stay focused, and set up a system for yourself and you too can build tons of great backlinks.

If you planning to use article marketing as part of your Internet Marketing Strategy you will soon realize you have to write a LOT of articles to get the job done, no matter what you are trying to do. If you are trying to build backlinks or drive traffic to your affiliate sales page, it takes a lot of effort and a lot of articles.


I hear from people all the time, "I'm not a writer" or "I can't write". Some of these people turn to PLR articles, and use articles that a million other people have used, some try to use article spinners with little success (although some will do it right and have great luck creating new articles), and some just give up all together.

Today I got my hands on a tool that will help ALL of you writing articles, even if it's not for article marketing. This is a handy piece of software that will help you write articles in 8 minutes, it's called 8 Minute Article Writer.

This is not spinning software, you have to do the writing, but it breaks it down so it doesn't really seem like writing an article.

Here's the super cool thing ~ I'm giving this software away for FREE! Woo Hoo!

It's my gift to you. From one crazed article writer to another. Enjoy.

This software will work not only for writing articles, but for writing content anywhere. Need content for a squidoo lens, use the article writing software and then use each section as a text module in your lens. Because you've written it in article format it will tell a story and make total sense as your lens goes on. This goes for hubpages and anywhere else you need good content.

Don't forget while you are submitting to article directories to hit Affsphere, the affiliate friendly article directory. It's not in all the main article submitter services yet, but it's worth adding to your list of article directories to submit to. (You get paid for submitting articles)

To get started using the 8 Minute Article Writer all you have to do is download the free article writing software and start using it. I have also included an html Cheat Sheet to help you write killer resource boxes. :) You now have everything you need to get started cranking out killer articles and making article marketing work for you!.

Directories can be a great way to get quality backlinks. There are so many directories out there where you can backlink from.

Again this can be seriously time consuming, not only hunting down all the directories, but then adding your link. Although many times all you have to do is fill in your information and hit submit. It may only take a minute or two to do one, but it can take forever when you are talking about thousands of directories.

In sweeps Directory Submitter.

This software is brilliant. It is easy to use, no learning curve at all. It provides a list of directories and gives your the PAGE RANK for each directory. You can choose which to sumbit your link to based on the page rank. You can also get it for FREE. Which will give you more directories than you can possibly submit to.

Directory Submitter gives you a long list of directories and fills in all your information. All you have to do is pick a category and hit submit. It seriously makes getting quality backlinks easy and quick.

I highly recommend getting this software and getting some great backlinks to your site.

Social Bookmarking is a perfect way to create quality backlinks from high page rank sites.

Like most backlinking strategies this can be time consuming and tedious.

I have created a quick and easy bookmarking system.

I put my system together in a free report. You are welcome to grab a copy for yourself.

Bookmarking really is a great way to create backlinks.

This can be the most time consuming way to get backlinks, and it can produce some amazing results for you depending a what niche you are writing for, and how well you write your articles.

Here's the thing. You write an article about a topic. It can be a short and sweet, Top 5 things about such and such kind of article. In fact, those are some of the best articles.

At the bottom of your article you include a resource box, which includes some information about you and you guessed it, a link back to your website.

You submit it to an article directory. These article directories, usually have a pretty high page rank, just because of the nature of what they are.

Here's where the magic can happen. Because of a high page rank, many of these article sites will come up number 1 or 2 in google for the keywords of your articles. This means lots of traffic to your website. Another aspect of article directories is that webmasters and newsletter publishers can use the articles in the directories for content. They must leave the resource box in place though. If your article gets picked up that is an entire NEW market you never would have had. If it gets picked up by a website that's another backlink for you too.

There are a million article directories out there. Of course there are a few big ones, however, if you are just looking for backlinks you can submit your article to all the available directories.

This could be time consuming and seriously boring. You guessed it. More software. Article Submitter

This software is really helpful, and I didn't find it as easy to use or as intuitive as the directory software. It's made by the same guy by the way.

You have to first open an account with each of the directories which can be confusing with the software. There are directories you don't need an account for, and once you have an account it goes pretty quickly.

The software will fill in all your information, including keywords, title, your name, your resource box an the article itself. All you have to do is hit submit.

Once you get past the initial set up the software works like a charm and makes quick work of getting your articles posted.

I would say this is my least favorite way to get backlinks but since others can also publish your content it also has the potential to get your website out to so many people you never would have had access to otherwise.

The Article Submitter software's free so give it a try and see what you think!!

If you'd rather just have someone else do the submitting for you there are a number of services who will do just that. I use Unique Article Wizard. It submits your article to article directories which builds tons of backlinks. In addition it also submits your articles to blogs where people have asked to receive unique content. This is a great way to get links ~ in text on a blog.

So if you have some extra money in your marketing budget I suggest you put it toward article distribution and put your time to better, more profitable, use.

Good luck in your backlinking efforts.

You probably have some good ideas on how to build backlnks now. Do you have good keywords to include in your anchor text links for your backlinks?

Do you know how to do good keyword research and put it all together to get plenty of free site promotion and free web traffic?

If not you are going to find internet marketing very frustrating!

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