There are many different ways to get backlinks. This article will discuss 8 of the most common ways to get backlinks. It will also discuss which types of links are most effective.
Reciprocal links are still of some value. These are 2-way links whereby webmasters agree to link to each other. The ease of obtaining these links make them less effective than other types of backlinks but they have some value and they’re not “dead” like so many people claim.
Social bookmarking may be entertaining and a good way to connect with folks but the links are not really that valuable. It is a great way to get a new post or page indexed though. But if you want to rank well for really competitive terms, you cannot rely on only social bookmarks. Take a look in your website’s Cpanel at the AWSTATS interface you’ll see that social bookmarking links are in a special category separate from other types of links. That is a hint that they are devalued links.
One-way links are the more powerful links these days and probably always have been. However, if you only focus on getting one way links to your site and do not have any outbound links, then that’s a seemingly unnatural or abnormal linking strategy and it could hurt you. On the other hand, most webmasters are affiliate marketers so they’re out-linking to the affiliate programs anyways so in most cases, there’s really no need to spend time on looking for sites to link to when it will just come naturally if you’re outbound linking to those product or program sites.
Blog commenting for backlinks is a popular method and free and you choose the relevant sites. However, these links aren’t as valuable either. This is particularly true if the blog has been set with the NoFollow attribute. While you will find some value to blog commenting for backlinks you also need to pay attention to your return on investment on the time it takes to get these links. Often this is a time drain rather than a valuable backlink process. Your blog commenting does help build your recognition and credibilty in your field, though.
Three way links or 3 way links are a hybrid of reciprocal links and 1 way links . Most 3 way link building services will require that you link out to other sites in order to get links to, non-reciprocally, by other sites in the 3 way linkbuilding service’s network. If the network is full of quality sites, then there is some decent value to this automated link building but in most cases, you will lose all your links if you cancel your membership to those types of services. These types of services are usually only good for getting links to low-competition keywords, key-phrases, and niche topics, however, you can add about 50 sites to these networks and get backlinks to all your sites automatically with 3 way links services and this is a pretty good deal for webmasters with a portfolio of mini-sites for low competition terms.
You might think, who ever looks at footers? Well it does not matter so much if the reader does. What matters is what the search engine sees when spidering your site for links. In this way footer links at the bottom of sites link to other sites. They are remarkably effective at getting blogs ranked well and quickly, assuming the links in the theme are highly ranked. Footer links are at the bottom of blogs with links to the site that made the free WordPress theme if the webmaster was using a free WordPress theme. This is also true for the downloads of WordPress plugins. One marketer has his footer links in every Master Resell Rights Website he sells. Every one of those sites link back to his main site which which is page 2 for the term “make money online”. Suffice to say that footer links work well if there are a lot of people using the themes, plugins and leaving links intact. Many SEO bloggers claim that these types of links are ineffective and they are 100% wrong!
Paid links are links that you pay for in order to get some high Page Rank and relevant links back to your site for your chosen keywords. I think that this an extreme waste of money because they’re usually expensive. Not only that, they are not permanent either because you only have those backlinks as long as you’re paying the monthly fee for those links. You’re better off paying less of a monthly fee for a linkbuilding service like Unique Article Wizard that delivers quality, permanent one way links in quantity.
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