Ah, those wacky backlinks. Everyone wants a whole honkin’ armload of ‘em. Trouble is, it seems so confusing at first. What are backlinks? Are there good ones and bad ones? Where can I get them? Do they actually honk? Hopefully after you read this you will have a few clues on how to build backlinks for beginners. If you don’t have a website or blog this will probably perplex, bore or lose you in short order. Sorry, next time I will try to be more entertaining.
A backlink is simply one website linking ‘back’ to another. The reason they are valuable is that your site, blog post or other online missive will be ranked higher by the search engines (such as Google). A high SERPS ranking means traffic. And traffic is good! Unless you are in road construction, and then it is just a pain in the rear…
A backlink is always good, but some are way more valuable than others. The most common links back to your site might be comments on other blogs, online friends referring to your posts, or someone sending visitors to look at a picture, etc. A lot of the time these links are to your name, or “this article” or ‘Hat Rack Blog”. A really good backlink would be one like “how to build backlinks for beginners.” Why?
Because people might actually search for that phrase or those keywords online. They won’t probably search for “this article”, so Google will never send you any traffic because someone else’ site linked to you with the anchor words “this article”.
Where can you get excellent backlinks? Well, you can ask for them. If someone links to your article about golf shirts with an anchor like “here”, you could email them and ask if they would change it to “designer golf shirts” or whatever keywords you are looking to get traffic for. You can trade links with other sites, preferably relevant ones. A relevant site such as “Grady’s Golfing Tips” can give your golf shirts a much better link than “Stupid Funny Videos”. Unless there is a post with a funny golf video, then the link could also be good from there.
Writing ezine articles, leaving dofollow comments, making link badges, and the list goes on. I’m not an expert on any of these topics so I will let you research these on your own.
The best way is still to communicate with other site owners to obtain high quality, one way relevant backlinks with your chosen keywords. Sound hard? A search engine community network such as ConnectContent can help you work toward obtaining these links with a minimum amount of work.
Is this type of thing ‘legal’? Will you get in trouble for it with the G man? The answer is no. All the ConnectContent network does is allow members to communicate their link term preferences to other members.
So if you are a blog owner or website builder in need of quality backlinks, take a look at ConnectContent.
Hopefully this brief post gives you some helpful information on how to build backlinks for beginners.
This seems like a unique service. I hope RT can make it a success.
The biggest issue seems to be identifying what back-links one would like to target and that’s the trouble most bloggers seem to be having.
Maybe RT can get a few SEO experts to offer advise as well on that issue to beginners.
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Hari: I am working on figuring out my own backlinks, slowly but surely. There is at least one link to an expert at RT’s site, in the sidebar under “make money online”
Sometimes it is really hard to create backlinks. Anyone who wants instant backlinks should pay otherwise, you’ll be stuck on working on free backlinks that entails so much effort and time. Nice article!
I really hope this guy does a bang up job and helps his affiliates make a lot of money. If he doesn’t, he’s a real loser. Hey, wait, you’re talking about me!
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hey Tim,
Very nice post on how to build backlinks, and the importance of keywords and knowing what people are searching for. I think you summed it up better than many of the so-called seo experts.
~ Steve, aka the “trade show secrets” trade show guru
PS. As one noble UV minion to another, I wish our Master much good Karma and bang up success in this new venture.
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Seems like many with no page rank write about these subjects. I always check PR after reading posts of this nature. Most have a zero!
Buying links could very well get you sent to google no man’s land. Link share sites are fine if they contain quality page rank sites. You can get 1000 pr zero links, and they will be pointless.
Commenting and meeting new blog writers is key. Most bloggers find a niche, or circle of friends and stay inside that fence.
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Webby: You hae to be careful how you get your links. Don’t find them in a bad neighbourhood…
RT: I have a pretty good feeling about it, but it might take a few months to really start cooking.
Steve: I’m good at the big picture. Sometimes I fall down in the details, though
Eric: Nice Wordless Beavers post!
If you check the PR of this post, it will be “n/a” since I just wrote it. This post hasn’t had time to get ranking.
In any case, Pagerank isn’t everything. This article is aimed at getting search engine traffic, and lots of sites with a PR 0 or 1 get a TON of traffic. PR 3 or 4 means nothing if hardly anyone visits. In fact, this PR 3 site here gets less traffic than several of my PR 0 ‘niche’ blogs.
I disagree that PR 0 links have no value. A relevant link from a PR0 site with a good anchor like “beaver t-shirts” (assuming you have a t-shirt or beaver site) is still worth having, and at least as valuable as a link from a PR 4 that anchors with “this article”. Sure, you might need a lot more low ranking backlinks to achieve the same results, but it is pretty hard to target PR 2 and up only, if you are at PR 0.
Good point about buying links. To clarify, I never suggested buying was a good idea. Watch out for ‘bad neighborhood’ links!
Good point.
I have lots of blogs, so I can see how things like PR affects them. My golf blog had 5 links, when a PR 4 and had TONS of traffic for a short while. Most were searching Natalie Gulbis.
Now it is not even indexed. I think because I “moved” posts there, Google saw it as copied material.
I great keyword campain is key too. People use terms that are too common. Finding a good subject is critical.
Truth be known, I just write a lot of crazy stuff, and do not pay much attention to the stats. I could care less about making money, so I am more of a comment whore.
(sorry) ….. ha haaaaaaaa !!!!!
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ConnectContent sounds like a fantastic way to get backlinks, and right now I am in desperate need of them (but who isn’t?) PageRank is certainly important, but it ultimately doesn’t matter. If you have PR0 but have high SERPs for your targeted keywords, that’s all that matters. However, if that’s the case, then you should naturally have a higher PR.
By the way, my favorite method of link building is article marketing. Has done wonders for me in the past and continues to. Blog commenting is good too. In fact, I’m doing that right now! That’s just cool.
Thanks for the informative post Tim. It was all very well explained. Thanks also for highlighting ConnectContent to us – it looks interesting and I will certainly have a read up on it. The closer you get to the top of the search results it become much harder to make further progress.
I know this post is more about ConnectContent, but I’d like to offer an extra tip, one of the great ways to build links, is if you are part of a forum, and you have already posted alot of posts, or you just enjoy the forum. If they allow for signatures, to have your website as a signature. But offcourse, you should make sure that the forum moderator accepts links in the signatures.
Sounds like you got a pretty good handle on backlinks. Good point about link badges. Most people don’t even know what those are though. Might want to explain.
Like-minded people linking to each for relevant link terms is what makes the internets all connected. Good stuff! Got to be relevant though, so even with a good system like you share here if you aren’t vigilant you will find some non-relevant links. Fortunately the system has a way to correct for that.
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Great post. Seems like the ConnectContent network is going really well too. I’d bet that RT has his work cut out for him running it though. Seems like a lot of work for 12 bucks. But, the backlinks are well worth it.
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Getting relevant high ranking backlinks back to your site can help improve your rank in Google quickly. Providing relevant content to others in a related field is also a good way to get a good relevant backlink to your site.
Interesting idea for a social networking concept. I have always thought that one of the best ways to get backlinks was to build a group of colleagues / friends who benefit from working in cooperation rather than opposition to each other. That seems to be what this community is attempting to do!
Backlinks is important in promoting a Blog. This post explain this subject in plain words. Thank you for sharing this information.
Connectcontent is a great site for building anchored backlinks. Very good info for people in this guide. Cheers.
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Good advises, thank you. Yes, backlinks building is a hard work, but you need to do it.
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I don’t know much about back links…this was an interesting post…but still not too sure!!
When I go to another site at the end of the post is the word “link” is this where I can make a link??? Is this an important link or not???
I do exchange links on my sidebar but I don’t think this is what you are talking about???
Cheers
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Ive used connect content and it has worked decent so far. Nothing great, but its good for $12/month.
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Hi,
In my opinion it is absolutely right that back link is simply one website linking ‘back’ to another. The reason they are valuable is that your site, blog post or other online missive will be ranked higher by the search engines (such as Google). A high SERPs ranking means traffic.
Good article on backlinks. It is very troublesome for finding backlinks for beginner’s.I want to ask which is very economical way for finding backlinks.
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Hi,
It is really good post for the beginner of SEO.
Backlinks are very valuable for achieving good position in search engine ranking.
Very well explained blog about backlinks.It is important to see whether one is getting backlinks or not. Being a consultant of SEO, I suggest a beginner should check backlinks whether it is getting from any source to have higher SERPS which means higher traffic.
Thanks.
That is great tips. I will try it though! Cheers for the share!
regards,
Tom Obrazki
It is very important to have backlinks on your website or on a blog because it shows the vote from webmaster to your site or on your blog which will leads your website or your blog to have good ranking on SERPS….
Thanks…
Hi, I am not beginner now but it is sure that your blog is very helpful to beginner. It seems good that some body helps to the people in learning thanks for sharing new things and hope to have new news in feature.
it because google ranking depend on backlinks. Now, how do i build them? any proffesional answers… SEO. Here you can get more traffic and backlinks to the website. We can also get a relevant search
I am an SEO and it’s not that hard to build back links. You just need time and patience. Sometimes money.
That is all about beginner but somewhere very useful as it is important for all to keep this thing in mind, and mainly for those who are doing SEO, as this as a very imprtant part os SEO.
Thanks dear.
this one is great. it will help me a lot.much useful for me.very well written.
Ahh!! now this is the tips that i’ve been looking for1 Thank you very much man ..
One of ther biggest things about link building is needing to use keywords that acutally give you a chance to rank for them relative to other sites also trying for the same keywords.
Thanks for the information, i haven’t heard of connect content yet but i’m sure going to take a look now. Thanks again.
Getting backlinks is one of the problems of blogging. also keeping your content fresh and up dated.Thanks for the information.
There’s a lot of ways on how to acquire it, you just have to study and master the tools of the trade in this optimization effort.
Great post, It’s very useful articles for the beginners, but when commenting on other blogs, I think you have to make sure that, you comment good & related to topic & don’t spam, commenting on other blogs can benefit owner of that blog & you. However keyword & page rank is really important factor for a website, so one should be aware of how to use keywords.
I look forward to using ConnectContent..alas, I’m getting those darn..”unable to connect” messages.
Hey buddy, the url you provided above throws an unable to connect to error message. so i googled and found the correct URL. They have changed the domain to .net and also made the membership a paid service. I am sure it would have been great when they started and when you actually mentioned it here in the post. But we are late beginners and have come only now and missed all the good part.
Backlink is very much essential and it similar life blood in SEO.The example of chain given here is best.
I want to be a succesful online Marketier someday,thats why i really do my best visiting some site that truly can help to build more idea on how to make money on blogging.Ofcourse,i would be a patient on doing step by step process so that i can win what i want in online business..tnx for this blog!gl
A backlink is always good,but some are way more valuable than others while i think there should be proper way to build it.
Nice article. I was wondering though, if you build backlinks too fast, will that get you introuble with the search engines?
There are various methods in which backlink will be made like forum,blog posting and commenting.
It’s really frustrating when you ask for a specific anchor text and they ignore you, though. have you ever had that happen?