Simple Ways To Build High Quality Backlinks For Your Webpages
SEO is broken down into two main categories, there are the on-page aspects and the off page aspects. This article is going to focus on the off-page factors, which is based on backlinks.
Get backlinks, and lots of them, should be an ongoing part of your SEO. The more backlinks the better, but you want to grow your backlinks naturally. To make your links look more natural you want to build them slowly over time. Building a few every week looks better than if you suddenly had 10,000 links overnight because you bought them from a link farm. Your website can be penalized by the search engines if they notice it acquired a lot of backlinks in an unnatural way.
There are a lot of ways to get links to your website. You can develop relationships with other webmasters to get traditional reciprocal links from other related sites. Be an active member in forums related to your topic and be sure to have a link to your site as part of your ’signature’. Write articles for article directories which include a link back to your site in the ‘bio box’. Create Squidoo lenses or HubPages with, you guessed it, a link back to your site. If you have a blog submit your RSS feed to RSS Aggregator sites, and add it to your Squidoo lens or HubPage. Bookmark your webpages using Social Bookmarking services and encourage visitors or your site to do the same. Use Twitter to send out a ‘tweet’ when you post a new article. This is just to get you started, it’s not an exhaustive list by any means.
Now that you know where to get backlinks, the other important aspect is that, when possible, you use good anchor text for the backlnks you create. The anchor text is the text that turns into the hyperlink (it’s often blue, sometimes underlined). This text helps the search engines determine what your website, or webpage is about. So if possible, specify what you want the anchor text to be.. You want to use your main keywords, and variations on your main keywords. Variations are important because it will appear more natural, but make sure you also still keeping it relevant.. Keep in mind that the keywords you use when you are linking to a specific page are not necessarily going to be the same as when you are linking to your homepage.
In some cases you don’t have the option of specifying the anchor text. But don’t miss the opportunity to specify it where you can. If you trade reciprocal links with another site, specify what you want your anchor text to be. The other webmaster will probably appreciate it because it saves them time having to decide what it should be. You will have total control over the anchor text when you create Squidoo lenses, HubPages, in article bio sections, and your forum signatures. Use it wisely.
In this article we’ve discussed the basics of getting external links back to you site. Keep applying these techniques until it becomes second nature and you should see an improvement in both your search engine rankings and an boost in the traffic to your site.