Top Tips for Getting Back Links
Posted on 09. Jun, 2009 by in SEO
There are literally, hundreds of ways to generate new back links to your website, some of them are completely legit, others not so much. I’m a strong advocate for white-hat SEO. Everything I do in the industry is based on underlying principles – use the guidelines given and don’t take any chances, if your caught using Black hat or even Grey hat SEO techniques the concequences are usually dire. I’ll explain White, Black, Grey and other Hat’s in a later post, today – Top tips for getting back links, the legitimate way:
- Submit your website to directories. There are tens of thousands of website directories out there, though most of the search engines have devalued the vast majority of web directories they still provide completely free one way back links to your website.
- Guest Blog. Submit guest posts to the blogs you subscribe to. Guest posts are a great way to wrap your links around relevant content, use your own anchor text and create relationships with Bloggers. Bloggers in genral love guest posts, its free content for their site and enables a lot more visitor interaction.
- Create “Viral” content. Spend some time creating a post that other people will love. put some time and effort into this and the rewards could be unmatchable. Having a post/picture/video show up on the front page of Digg / Stumble etc is huge exposure and usually generates thousands of completely free backlinks, not to mention the massive traffic these viral spreading sites are capable of producing.
- Ask your friends. In today’s society everyone and their mum has a website of some kind, leverage these websites and ask friends or family members for a link on their site.
- Create social profiles. There are currently hundreds of social network sites out there, create profiles with them and keep them upto date. Some social networks are very specific and carry a lot of weight when linking back to your website, one of these is Zillow.
Stay tuned for more information on back linking, the various varieties of SEO and more in the comming weeks. Enjoy!
