A few Simple ways to help you build more backlinks

I haven’t been posting much lately. What I have been doing on my spare time is getting backlinks and lots of them. I have been literally working hard in getting as many backlinks as I can; backlinks for the home page of this blog as well as for individual posts, deep links. Backlinks are very important in achieving higher rankings in search engine result pages. For the ones interested in pursuing a similar strategy of building backlinks read on and perhaps this post will help you see things under a different light. In the past few weeks, I have managed to increase the backlinks to this blog tenfold. Here is a recent screenshot from my Webmaster Tools link report.

As you can see most of these links are for the home page… I am trying to change that.

I have been building backlinks in two different ways, by submitting articles in article databases as well as by getting many newer and older posts bookmarked in social bookmarking sites.

Let’s start with the articles.

Writing Articles

Most article databases accept articles in a standardized format. Make sure your articles are about 500 words in length, keyword rich; they have the keywords, in the title, in the beginning and in the end paragraph. Also make sure you incorporate two html links in the resource box. Even though some databases accept links in the article body, try to avoid doing so. Just so you won’t deter other webmasters from republishing them. Try to keep your links to only two, because some databases will reject articles with more links. If you are submitting one or two articles to a few databases being consistent with these parameters doesn’t really matter. Nevertheless, if you are going to do some bulk submitting this will save you loads of time.

Publishing Articles

Publishing Articles is one of the most recommended and easy ways to get links. All you need to do is to write a few articles and submit them to as many article databases possible. If you have a relatively new site or blog, the best way of going about doing it is by starting with a few established and relatively high page rank databases; databases that are crawled regularly by Google and other major search engines. At least initially, you want to avoid posting any duplicate content. So pick the 5 or 6 most popular ones and submit a different article to all of them. Sometimes articles are accepted with a bit of a delay, but you will start getting some links published within a few weeks. Don’t start submitting in bulk and in many databases in the beginning. Allow the links you have published in the established ones to get crawled by Google first. This will allow your blog-site to get indexed by Google. These are the ones I use regularly:

http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.articlecity.com
http://www.amazines.com
http://www.articledashboard.com
http://www.article-directory.net
http://www.articlealley.com

Once you achieve indexing you can start submitting in bulk. You can submit the same or similar article to hundreds of databases in a matter of a few hours.

Automated Software

There is a wide selection of automatic article submission software out there; they are easy to use and very effective. I use one as well. After I get a site indexed, I start submitting to hundreds of article directories, even if it is the same article, a link is a link. Even if Google might take away value form that link, it is still a link. I am not an SEO expert and I am not sure what the implications with duplicate content might be; I haven’t seen any negative aspects of publishing the same article over and over. If you are weary of such an approach avoid it and submit a different article in every database. If you are on the prow for automatic submission software, Google the term ‘Article Submitter’ along with the keyword free and you will be able to find one in the first page of results. If you are new to all this and kind broke, don’t pay, get a free one and take the time to calibrate it to your specific needs. If you need any additional help, just post a comment here and I will be more than happy to assist you in any way I can.

Ok, back to the linking…

Social Bookmarking Sites

Get free backlinks for all of your posts. It is as easy as 123, but it can take as much time as counting to 1,000; just because there are so many of them on the net. I use a series of bookmarking sites most of them main stream except a few that I enjoy using for their simplicity. Here are the

Bloggingzoom
del.icio.us
Digg
SEOtree Social
Reddit
StumbleUpon

All of the above are great for building links, there are tons more and if you know of better ones please write a comment. I really enjoy using Bloggingzoom since the links rank pretty well in the SERPS. If you would like to read more about blogging zoom you can by checking out an older post about backlinks.

A few weeks ago, I came across a post on blogtomic.com about this mega social bookmarking site that was referred to as the Holy Grail of Social Bookmarking. I just remembered about it now and thought it might be a good idea to mention it.

I will definitely try it out and let you know how it works.

That’s it for now. Here are some more related posts you might find helpful

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