How Can You Get More Backlinks To A Website?9225757

Here's what usually happens: a businessman gets a site designed. It's uploaded to a webhost. Then he realises he's going to have to promote it. It won't get traffic by itself, unless it offers something highly desirable. Something that click this link now can sell by word of mouth alone.

For other sites, there's SEO: Search Engine Optimisation.

SEO can also cover Search Engine Marketing. An SEO expert can be required to offer help with Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Social Media promotion. It all comes down to attracting more clients to the site.

You begin with a site that focuses on a niche. Then you optimise that site with articles focussing on an array of search terms. So far, so good. Then you need to climb up to the first page of search engine results pages.

One possibility you read about is backlinks. You get the idea that such links should contain keywords. Keywords are search terms surfers enter into search engine boxes. The plan is that you will be seen by search engines as an authority for the item you're marketing.

Now, lots of folks, for the past ten years or more, have come to the same conclusion: they want links. Buckets of them. From authority sites. Problem is, everybody who has a high PageRank website knows this. They know links have a financial value. They know that linking to on-topic, high quality sites is a clever idea. They know that linking to cr--py sites is a poor one.

So how can you get them to link to you?

Well, for starters, if you do it yourself, it's extremely time consuming. I recently did that at the request of a customer. It was awful. You see, not every site you try to get a backlink from will do as you ask. They will ignore your requests. They will reject your submissions. They will even ban you if you get cheeky.

So, for every 100 sites you submit to, you'll be doing OK if you get 10 links. Eventually. Did I mention it can take 1 day to 6 months for links to be approved? Cripes!

With that in mind, here are some low cost methods to get a bundle of half-decent links and increase your site 'visibility'. Now, you will find some also-rans prating that you shouldn't get too many backlinks too quickly. These are people who 1. Haven't actually tested that proposition themselves or 2. Have done some other thing to their site, besides getting backlinks too fast, and incurred a penalty, for that other trick.

There is one way, I think, that getting backlinks too quickly can harm your site and you know what, I'm not going to tell you it.

Why?

Because it pleases me that my competitors hurt themselves by crediting rumour or doing that one thing that will ignite Google's ire. I get very annoyed reading blather from dunderheads who are passing on rumour, as fact, in forums.

There are too many nincompoops learning the newest wheeze in SEO and spamming the heck out of it. I mean doing really _stupid_ things. Then the admins of the targetted sites wake up to the trick and it becomes useless. Or they just delete their CMS' database.

Anyhow, the following are some basic methods of getting 'filler' links to your site:

1. Web directories; 2. Article directories; 3. Social bookmarking sites; 4. Blog commenting; 5. Your one nifty source hardly anyone else knows.

Items 1 - 4 you can get somneone else to do for you. It's no. 5 that puts the butter on your bread and the sugar in your tea. For that you need to hire an SEO specialist or do a ton of reading of blogs and forums.