9 Ways to Create Worthwhile Backlinks To Your Blog
This is a guest post written by Ryan Mclean of Smarter Wealth .NET
Backlinks are a key ingredient to any successful blog. Having a link back to your blog is like having a ‘vote’ towards you blog in the search engines. Backlinks have become even more important now with the mysterious “Google Pagerank”. Backlinks are awesome also because they not only help your search engine ranks but they also provide links all over the web for people to find your site, and you want people to find your site because this equals more money.
So if you need backlinks in order to have a successful blog then you better be 100% sure that you get as many backlinks to your site as is humanly possible. The more backlinks the more likely people are going to come to your site and the more ‘votes’ you get in search engines meaning the higher ranked you will be in the search engines.
Firstly how do you find out how many backlinks you have?
This is a good question and there are many free tools out there that can show you how many backlinks you have. I recommend the SEOPro free link checker (Click here to check it out) as it is one I use and I find works quite well.
Now I know that I currently have 1,247 backlinks to my blog which I have gained in the last 1 and 1/2 months of blogging (because previously my blog was foolswealth.com so I lost all the backlinks from the first 4-5 months).
So I have set the goal of getting 3,000 backlinks. I have set myself the goal of doing this before the end of October
So how can you get backlinks to your blog?
1. Comment Other Blogs
Commenting on “Do Follow” Blogs (blogs that allow your links in comments to be tracked by search engines) is one of the best ways to build up links. Doing this alone I would need to ad 1,750 comments which is 29 comments per day (which I could probably do), but I will comment a lot plus use other methods. This is by far the easiest way to get backlinks to your site. It helps to insert key words into your “name” when you comment because that is the text that will be linked back to your site. But don’t spam it and write something crazy. Personally I often write “Ryan @ Smarter Wealth” when commenting.
2. Do Link Exchange
Using forums such as Digital Point forum is a great place to find people to exchange links with. You place a link to their site on your blog and in return they will link to your blog. One for one, win-win situation. I will definately be doing some of this to gain some extra links.
3. Link to Other Blogs and Much as You Can
You know how when you give people presents often they will want to give you something back? Well linking for a blog is like giving that blog and present and it is likely (if they are a blog around the same size or smaller than yours) they will link back. So pass out as many links as possible (without flooding your blog with them) and then hopefully you will get some link love back.
4. Write Guest Posts
Writing guest posts guarantees you a link back to your blog with quality content to back it up. Write guests posts and submit them to blog owners. You might get lucky with a few. This is great because it now only drives traffic to your site through that blogs readers but it also gives you a link of two with relevant content relating to your blog.
5. Write Articles for Free Article Websites
Writing articles for free ezine articles is a great way to build backlinks because every time someone uses your article on their website they have to put in a footer which you have created linking back to your site. Just a tip though, avoid posting the articles you have written for your blog in these free articles databases because duplicate content can decrease your SEO rankings. I will write unique articles JUST for free ezine articles and so should you A great site to submit them is www.ezinearticles.com
6. Top Commentors List
Many sites have a ‘top commentors’ list (I have one of Smarter Wealth) by being active on blogs you can easily make it onto this list which will give a link back to your site. This is a great way to get a high pagerank link to your website because it is often just the homepage that will have a high pagerank. They higher the pagerank of the page your link in on then the better it is for you. It is like if the pope said you were awesome (pagerank 10/10) it would be worth more than if some average punk said you were awesome (pagerank 0/10).
7. Forum Posting
Many forums allow you to have a signature (which you can include a link back to your site). Write good content in forums with a catchy signature and people will visit your site. You can even pay people about $0.10 per post to post in forums. So you can get 100 links back to your site for just $10 (or less with a little bargaining).
8. Linking Between Your Own Sites
If you have more than one site then you have the perfect opportunity to link to each of your sites through each other. Put a link in the sidebar, write a post about your other blog, include links to relevant articles where appropriate. Use your multiple sites to your advantage by linking them up.
9. Write Quality Content
I left this one till last because it is probably the easiest way you can create links to your site. Because if you write quality content then people will naturally link to you and that means you don’t have to do any of the linking work. Continually write good quality content and submit them to social media sites such as Digg and StumbleUpon and if people like them they will link to them. A-List bloggers such as Darren from Problogger must get hundreds (if not thousands) of organic links everyday.
So using these techniques you should be able to build hundreds of links back to your site and help give it ‘votes’ to increase your rankings in the search engines, increase your google pagerank and also to provide links so people can find your site.
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I think adding press releases sounds like a valuable idea, that is, once you nave something news worthy to actually say.
thats gonna be my next big learning project.
thanks and take care
bryan
I have a great idea to both get backlinks AND follow up on one of your previous posts about what to do with internet thieves.
I found some blogger running a big contest who stole MY ” Net Effect” banner right off your page here .
I will be going around to everyones blog who has entered his contest, (that you can also rig his system by just BUYING entries he is asking for paypal donations as 50 entries)
and leaving comments .
He is also begging for twitter followers and twitter links to his posts so there is another market to tell his readers about him.
karma counts
controversy calls clicks
theft is theft
That just sounds messed up all together.
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Its true,i do not have many backlinks maybe because my real life takes lots of me ,but im always trying to do more.
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I really find comments to be the best way to build backlinks, as long as they are genuine and for blogs that worth commenting on. However, backlinks are useless if your own content is crap.
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“However, backlinks are useless if your own content is crap.”
TRUE THAT!
Commenting on other blogs is what I teach everyday.
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While going through this page i learned a lot. but i didn’t got the 6th point which is “Top Commentors List” Please can any one explain me this point. Thanks in advance
Great post Ryan. I’m seeing you everywhere now, and you’re tip of guest posting seems to be working in terms of getting traffic and backlinks.
Great post! I never thought about the impact of being on the Commentors list.
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Hey Flora,
Top Commentators if a blogger have it is a great way to get backlink. specially because those links are usually DO FOLLOW
. So just by quality commenting and interacting with the blogger he will reward you with some link love as his top poster 
.
Hope it’s more clear now.
Hrvoje
Thanks to JohnCow for the opportunity to post. It seems like the readers enjoyed it. I enjoyed writing it and I will be using all these techniques in my blog to build backlinks.
So if you want to link to me
Thanks so much for this post…I just started a new blog about 1 month ago (the 29th of this month will be 2) and already, I have 558 backlinks to my site…I think it’s pretty good concidering:)
Thanks so much!!!!
I appreciate this topic Jason- very nice tips.
Now about article submissions…
When I submit an article to ezinearticles.com and 500 websites pick it up…do *all* of those links count as lagit backlinks for me…
or does Google count them differently cause they all have exact same content…???
I would really really LOVE to hear your opinion on this cause I think it’s just a waste of time if only one of the links from an article really gives you backlink love!
And does changing content alittle bit get seen as different content to count those links better…?
thanks as always jason and crew- I appreciate you all!
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You will only receive site PR and that is currently 6 if you are targeting ezineartciles.com for one.
No PR on the actual link. But still it’s a link love
, well trade for your content.
Hope this helps.
Hrvoje
Hrvoje
yo thanks for the input here
appreciate it!
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I’d say nice post…but haven’t we all seen this list about 10,000 times?
Come on Cow, let your guest posts be worthwhile to us!
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There are people here of all different experience levels, for some of them this is new and worthwhile information. If you read some of the other comments, you can see that many people found it helpful, even if it is basic to you.
Excellent ideas.. some I knew, some were new. Heh… knew and new! Thanks for the tips… I already started with my name!
Nick Cifonie
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So simple yet I never thought of it. Having seveal sites that are on different servers, duh, Link to them.
As for The post above me; Maby we have seen this list but how many of them do you use?
Some may be new and haven’t learned all of the ways to get back links or you may have gotten caught up in doing other things and needed reminding of all the different ways there are to get backlinks.
Personally, I say thank you for an informative article.
I pretty much use everything on this list except top commentator, linking to blogs and guest post. I will do these soon enough though because its nothing but a benefit.
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Nice post Ryan
Keyword Luv is especially awesome if you are blog commenting for links, especially if you are already leaving your name as “name@my keywords…I have it up on 3 of my sites 
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i already try that do-follow idea and top commentator plugin. Its really help me to get many backlinks today. Its good and i will try others idea too.
Nice tips for power back linking
Thanks for sharing this info with us.I guess you don’t do much web 2.0 digg,stumble…
i’ve got a decent number of backlinks (3000 or so) and i’m sure i write good content, but i never seem to get the traffic to match!
These are good suggestions. Bloggers are the best as far as community and wanting to help others within their community. So commenting and link love definitely gets some appreciation back.
Great post… I don’t devote enough time to creating backlinks due to other commitments but definitely think I’ll make that my morning task while I have my coffee… I’ve also been trying to learn more about effective press releases for both myself and my clients… that can generate some nice traffic and backlinks also. Great info… Thanx!
Good job Ryan. All very good methods, though, I’m not wild about the keyword in the name unless a site has keyword luv installed.
I don’t really like seeing “lowest price on viagra” commenting on my blog lol, but if they are genuinely commenting I usually leave it lol.
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I have just created my first blog, Petra’s Place in CyberSpace, and I desperately need backlinks to get things happening, so, here I go! Cheers!
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You mean I have to do all those things? No wonder after a month of blogging I have 3 minion subscribed readers and they’re all my relatives bwaha.
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Its good to see all the methods of gaining backlinks in one place. I’ve previously done a post about gaining backlinks too.
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nice post.i usually do this methods.specially number 1.my name is showing the name of my site and on the last part of my comment i put my real name.its effective. Im sure ur gonna click this:)
Ronald
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Good ideas. Thanks John Cow.
Great tips. I like 3 way links as well with Jon Leger.
I enjoyed the article. The list is very simple but there were at least two things on it that I am not doing consistently. The key is to stick to the basics and do them regularly. Thanks
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Great resource. I agree with Brian Bliss. I think press releases are very helpful.
I have to agree with the comment strategy. I look for blogs that have the CommentLuv plugin and are either just plain “do follow” comments or are using Lucia’s Linky Love to allow comment links to become dofollow after a preset number of comments.
Any blog using both of those plugins will be much more likely to get regular comments because there’s the carrot of a do follow link with consistent activity.
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I’ve just bought a blog type website and am looking for ways to increase its value through backlinking. Hence your tips are excellent! Notice how I’ve already taken one on?!
I will look forward to setting myself some targets and seeing how far I get.
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Thanks John and Ryan for sharing this resourceful info. I aspire to Problogging in the niche of Spirituality - not the most popular perhaps but it’s what I know! You included a lot of useful tips to help me do just that.
Thanks for the blog and I am glad I found it! Just so you know, I found you through Google and were within the first five search results so you definately know what you’re talking about!
I really struggle with getting backlinks and wish I could find an easy way that was effective also without the worry of trashing all my previous efforts by having my links on spammy sites…
I do like writing articles and that seems to work well but it can be time consuming. I know I could outsource this but I am a bit of a perfectionist and think I might spend as much time reviewing an article that I had written for me as I do writing them myself LOL!
Thanks again though and I will be back!
Eli
I do like using Keyword Luv. It’s the best plugin for blogger and I don’t understand why every blogger has yet caught on to it.
I have a question. When I’m writing a blog post in blogger is what I put in the address link under the title of the post,my website address but after the / I put a keyword? I’m not sure if that’s what I do. thanks
good information,thanks
Really it is very useful post and thanks for sharing nice tips.