Tips for Quick and Easy Backlinks

Most of the links that you can create by following the tips below are links which would develop naturally as your web site grows in popularity. This can be by other webmasters checking out a new competitor or just from people curious to know more about you and your web site.

However this should not stop you from following the tips and creating the backlinks for yourself. Each of the web sites below will help your web site in one of many ways, some by a big amount and some by a small amount.

Some will link directly to your web site, some will link to each other using your domain as a reference. This will build up a small network of web sites all linking to each other and you. They are all equally valuable in building up your link profile.

At the end of the day, this lens will probably take you about 10 minutes to read through. To actually go through and create the links will take you 5 minutes, give or take. So for 15 minutes, what have you got to lose.

Cubestat is a free tool which provides web site valuation / estimations and various other information such as traffic, search engine, meta data, etc.

By submitting your web site here you will gain a dofollow link and a nofollow link. Your listing will automatically be included on various tag pages based on the keywords in your web sites meta tag. It will also create nofollow links into your Alexa, Quantcast, Compete and Internet Archive profiles.

Enter the following URL into your web browser, replacing "domain.com" with your domain name:

http://www.cubestat.com/www.domain.com

Site Dossier is a service which is still in beta development. It provides basic information about your web site, anchor texts and referers. You will gain two dofollow links from the site, these will not be very valuable until the service comes out of beta.

Enter the following URL into your web browser, replacing "domain.com" with your domain name:

http://www.sitedossier.com/site/www.domain.com

Domain Tools provides a whois service for looking up the ownership details of a domain name. They also provide various information about your web site, server.

You will receive two dofollow links to your web site, one which will contain the title of your homepage which should be your primary keywords if you have carried out your on page SEO. In addition you will get links into your AboutUs, Compete and Quantcast profiles.

Enter the following URL into your web browser, replacing "domain.com" with your domain name:

http://whois.domaintools.com/www.domain.com

The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library of web sites. Typically a web site will be included in the library after it has been online for at least six months. However an entry can be created even if your web site is brand new, it will just have an empty archive. A listing here will provide you with a dofollow link.

Enter the following URL into your web browser, replacing "domain.com" with your domain name:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.domain.com

AboutUs is a wiki based system which aims to create a guide to all of the web sites on the Internet. A listing here will provide you with one dofollow link and two nofollow links. Your listing will also be categorized based on your web sites meta tags and you will gain links into your Domain Tools, Compete and BuiltWith profiles.

If your web site is brand new the system will auto generate your listing by retrieving data from your web site. I highly recommend registering and completing the profile yourself with more detailed and accurate information.

Enter the following URL into your web browser, replacing "domain.com" with your domain name:

http://www.aboutus.org/www.domain.com

Alexa is one of the best known services for collecting statistical data about web sites. An entry on Alexa will supply you with one dofollow link and two nofollow links. You will also gain a link to your Internet Archive profile.

Enter the following URL into your web browser, replacing "domain.com" with your domain name:

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/domain.com

Compete is another analytics service which allows you to compare your rivals data with your own to see how you can improve your web site. A listing here will not generate any direct links to your web site, but you will gain a dofollow link to your Domain Tools and AboutUs profiles.

Enter the following URL into your web browser, replacing "domain.com" with your domain name:

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/www.domain.com

Quantcast is a traffic measurement service which enables advertisers to view various reports about a web site prior to purchasing advertising with them. A listing with Quantcast will provide you with a dofollow link and a nofollow link. Overtime your listing will also be placed into various categories based on traffic flow from popular search terms.

Trick: If you register and "Quantify" your web site by inserting their tracking code, the nofollow link will convert to a dofollow link.

Enter the following URL into your web browser, replacing "domain.com" with your domain name:

http://www.quantcast.com/domain.com

BuiltWith is a website analysis tool which provides you with various information about your web site, server and technology. You will gain a single nofollow link from a listing on BuiltWith as well as dofollow links to your AboutUs and Alexa profiles. In addition you will obtain nofollow links to your Compete, Quantcast and Domain Tools profiles.

The system will attempt to link up any social web sites which are related to your web site, such as your Twitter profile, etc.

Enter the following URL into your web browser, replacing "domain.com" with your domain name:

http://builtwith.com/?www.domain.com

Where ever you go on the web you will hear differing opinions on the value of nofollow links and their importance in building up your web site's link profile.

The simple fact is that a link is a link, it doesn't matter if the link is dofollow or nofollow. There are a couple of reasons why:

1) Google, MSN and Yahoo are the only ones which actively support the nofollow attribute. It is not currently supported by the W3C and there are literally hundreds of smaller search engines which don't recognize the attribute.

2) In the eyes of the big three search engines they are looking for natural links. That is links that are not specifically placed to manipulate the search engine results. Just as you would expect a web site to naturally accrue links with unusual anchor text the search engines are likely to expect you to have links which have the nofollow tag. A web site without any nofollow links would be highly unusual in this day and age.

3) By not including a link on a web site just because it is nofollow means that the potential for people to click on the link is lost. And when it comes down to it, traffic is what is most important.