How To Get Backlinks

Let's take a look at some of the different ways to get backlinks:

• Submit to directories


• Automatically build links, hands free


• Add your URL to all the social bookmarking sites

These are all good methods of boosting your backlinks.

Directories have been around on the web for years and years. Whilst you won't get much traffic from them directly, they still count towards your backlink quota and will help your site to move upwards in the search engine results. Many directories are free to add your link, although there will almost certainly be an upsell for quicker review of your site.

Programs like this directory submitter help you by finding thousands of directories and completing all your details for you for a small fee.

Automatically building backlinks works but is frowned on by some people as it's not the same as asking people for links. Instead, the software program goes off and finds places that you can get linked back from. If you want to be squeaky clean in your link building, you may want to skip this technique.

Social bookmarking is one of the latest fashions. The social bookmark sites were set up to help you keep your bookmarks in one place, even if you moved from computer to computer. Some of them morphed into sites where you could rate stories - positively or negatively - and this in turn meant you could surf sites that you'd probably like, based on other people's opinions.

Adding your site to social bookmarking sites is painstaking unless you automate it. With automation, you can build up a big quantity of bookmarks - and therefore backlinks - easily.

If you're an Amazon associate, it's easy (and free) to add contextual ads.

Sign in to your account, choose Product Links and then choose Product Previews. You'll get a small piece of code to add to the end of your pages. Amazon will then crawl your site and work out the best words to use for contextual ads.