How To Get Backlinks
Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 12:46PM What are backlinks?
Backlinks are links back to your website from other websites. If you post an article in ezinearticles.com or on Squidoo or Hubpages, and you have a link to your blog or website in that article, that's called a backlink. Pretty simple.
What's the big deal? Why do I need backlinks?
One word - Google! Google likes backlinks, especially ones that are correctly formatted and are from credible sites. The higher the Google Page Rank of the site where your backlink is, the more Google likes it. And when Google likes your site or blog, they rank it higher for the keyword you're targeting. The higher you're ranked, the more you're going to get clicked, and the more money you're going to make.
Therefore, the more backlinks you have to your site the better.
What do you mean "correctly formatted" backlinks? Can't I just put my website url out there?
Well, you can, and that does help, but the best way to do it is to have anchor text. Anchor text is simply the keyword you're trying to target made into a link. Important! That same keyword must exist on your website! What? I don't understand what that means!
Here's an example. Say you've done your keyword analysis research and have decided that a good keyword to focus on for your website or blog is "maple tree". What you want to do is use "maple tree" in the title of your page, several times on the page itself, and hopefully in the url, for instance http://yoursite.com/maple-tree. Then, in the article you post out there to create the backlink you use "maple tree" as a link, and link it to http://yoursite.com/maple-tree. That's it!
How to check backlinks
The website I use to check my backlinks is http://www.inlineseo.com/blog/2008/03/17/how-to-check-how-many-backlinks-your-site-has. This site has many different options for checking your backlinks. The one I like is the first one, but it's not always working right. It's http://seopro.com.au/free-seo-tools/link-checker. Go take a look. Put in one of my more established sites, http://www.networkmarketing4today.com and see how many backlinks I have. It should be quite a few - last time I checked it was 74. This isn't always totally accurate - I know I've got a lot more than that, but it will give you an idea. I credit that fact that my site has a Page Rank of 1 and rising with how many backlinks I have.
OK, OK, so back to "how to get backlinks"! What's the secret?
The most important tool I have found in my opinion for increasing my traffic is Unique Article Wizard, or UAW. Unique Article Wizard is an online program that takes an article you have written and helps you create thousands of unique versions of it to post around the internet. Unique is important, because you don't want the same article out there thousands of times - Google punishes duplicate content.
I'm not allowed to say how it works, but suffice it to say that it doesn't just replace words with synonyms - that creates articles that don't read naturally. It actually creates unique articles that read like a human wrote them - because one did! You have to spend approximately ½ hour extra on your article to prepare it for publication.
So what does this do for you?
Basically, what this software does is submit your unique articles to hundreds or thousands of different blogs and websites for publication, depending on your niche. You include 2 properly formatted links to your site in each article, and if the blog decides to publish your article, voila! You have 2 backlinks! Not only that, but you can easily change the anchor text on your backlinks, so that you can target different keywords with the same article.
The software also allows you to release articles all at once, or a certain number per day. Their suggestion is 50 per day, as this builds links over a period of time, which is natural. The other neat thing is that whenever you want to post a copy of the article somewhere else, for instance on Squidoo or Hubpages, all you have to do is click on the article and it gives you a totally unique version, with a resource box at the bottom with your two links. I use it all the time!
Seriously, I feel that this is the most important purchase I've made for my business, and it has totally helped me to solve the problem of how to get backlinks. Click here to learn all about Unique Article Wizard today!
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Reader Comments (7)
Very informative Matt! I'm bookmarking it for future reference!
Great article. My fiance has joined me in business, so she's new. When I read your article, I had to call for her because I wanted her to read it. You break down the concept of back links in an easy to understand way. Nice writing.
As for the software, you got my click. Now I have to do my homework. And that is what a good blog does for a responsible reader. Thanks Matt,
Eric Walker
@Eric,
Thanks Eric. I think the three products of Wordpress Goldmine, Micro-Niche Finder and Unique Article Wizard are the most important things I've bought in a long time. It gave me a new view of making income on the internet, and the tools to do it easily. I can't believe how much I'm enjoying this.
Matt
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Hey Eric,
Thanks for the great content and information. I am always browsing the internet looking for good content to get ideas for my easy home based business blogs and articles. You have some real good content here so just keep on doing what you are doing as good stuff like this is always hard to find.
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