3 Ways To Get Easy Free Backlinks
Day 38 of The 100 Days To Building A Great Website Guide
Sure, everyone would like to slowly build up their site with content and climb the search engine rankings. That may be good in the long term, but occasionally you just want some quick and easy links. They may not have the best anchor text, they may not be as valuable as a review from an A list blogger, but a link is a link
Here are some places you can satisfy your urging for quick and dirty links
Comments
With the Advent of the Dofollow plugin, more and more blogs are shifting from using rel=nofollow tags to handing out the link love. You can find a list of all the blogs employing Dofollow here. If you are going to comment for the links, aim for the older pages. Go back a couple of months to before the last Page Rank update. Find the pages which have some page rank and focus your time on them. After all, that is the point, so use your time well.
Note : Do not Spam! There is a difference between commenting on some one’s blog, and getting a link out of it, and spamming their site. A good comment might be “I enjoyed the article article, but I think you overlooked this…… It might be valuable to your readers if they try using this Firefox extension instead of that one, which is a little outdated” A bad comment would be “Nice post” In fact, so many people just try to use the “Nice Post” gambit that some bloggers I know have added “Nice” to their list of banned words
Forums
Forums are always good for a couple links. Tossing them in your signature and writing posts or replies can drive traffic and may add links. (Many forums use no follow) When doing this I aim for “Sticky” posts at the top of the forum, as these are the posts that people will most likely see. Once again I stress the difference between a good forum post and spam.
But say you are just about the backlinks, and don’t want to waste your time on a forum with rel=nofollow. How can you tell if they give out Google SEO juice or not?
Chris at Blog-Op has recently pointed out a great firefox extension that lets you do exactly that. Search Status will highlight all the links in on a page that have the rel=nofollow extension. So turn that on and browse your forums. See a page with a bunch of pink? Keep looking
Blog Carnival
Good old reliable Blog Carnival. They are quite great for getting some one way links. Since many blogs that host blog carnivals are high quality the backlinks that you get can have some value. To save yourself some time, use the carnival’s Multi Submit page. You can quickly scroll through the list and find all the carnivals which interest you.
on June 26th, 2009 at 4:50 am
I enjoyed reading the article, but I think you missed this point about getting relevant social bookmarking sites.
More information on the importance of social bookmarking SEO can be found here:
http://seomarketingandmakingmoneyblog.com/blog/_archives/2009/5/28/4201945.html
see what i did there? eh eh clever aren’t I?
on November 23rd, 2009 at 12:41 am
the article has some good points, but do we really need 100 days to complete a website?
on February 28th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
I use a number of forums that I like and follow a couple of blogs that I like that way I am commenting on things that I like.
on March 30th, 2010 at 5:39 am
Goodbye social sites. Its easy value for google now. But u can create some blogs at micro blogs services, as twitter, thumblr, livejournal, etc. and u can posts brief news with link to your blog.
then. the great way to linkbuilding is blogreviews, paidly. but some services.
on May 26th, 2010 at 1:14 am
guildford:yes we have to in order to have this. just think this is one of your success. sacrifice and patience is important.
on December 25th, 2010 at 3:42 am
Forums are a great place to get the links for sure, I always like to be an active member of a few forums, and as a result I get rewarded for that!
-Jean
on June 19th, 2011 at 9:03 am
Here is some more good ways; guest blogging, Use Dofollow Article Directories, Create Free Blogs and place a link to your homepage, free press releases with a link to you homepage,
on August 19th, 2011 at 2:42 am
What is a free, easy way to get more backlinks for my site?
on August 19th, 2011 at 2:43 am
You can do a general search for free back links for your site. Since I would imagine your goal is to raise the status for your online site some things to keep in mind would be;
on October 7th, 2011 at 10:45 am
I have been using the first 2 ways effectively, thinking of trying the 3rd way as well.
on November 21st, 2011 at 1:42 am
Not spamming is a very important thing to remember. In the temptation to get fast backlinks, people often forget that but it can be detrimental in the long run.
-Jean
on January 11th, 2012 at 6:25 am
Yes back link is important to a site,it helps in good ranking.