Everyone who has a website or blog wants to know the best ways to build backlinks.  Why is this?  One reason.  Traffic!  The more quality one-way backlinks you have pointing to your site, the more “magnetic” you are to Google.

And don’t we all want our websites to rank #1 for those precious keywords?  Well there are many factors to get your website to climb the search engine ladders of success, but one of the most crucial factors is the topic of this post… backlinks.

First, what kind of backlinks do you want to stay away from?

• Links from link farms
• Link exchange communities
• Buying links- most of them are complete rip-offs anyway
• Using article submission services that submit to PR0 junk websites
• Interlinking- that is using all your sites to link to each other.  It might seem like a good idea, but Google frowns upon this activity.

Some people swear by the methods above, but in my experience I have even minor successes short lived and not worth it in the long run of building links to your site.  Some of these methods will not necessarily hurt your site, but they won’t give it a boost either, and since time IS money you don’t want to waste any time or money on methods that simply don’t work.

Link exchanges are not a great way to build links because Google is smart enough to know what’s going on and the link will not be very valuable.

There is a system of building links, however, that has been out a while but has proven to be very effective.  It basically makes a triangle out of your links.  Linking from site A (your site) to site B, to site C, and site C links back to your site A.  This is a sort of link exchange without appearing like it.  3WayLinks is a program that uses this method.  It has been out for a year or so and some have claimed it does not work while others claim huge success.  I am currently trying 3WayLinks myself to test it out on some of my sites and I will keep the readers of this blog updated.  The key is to stay patient in the climbing up the SERPs process and you will see good results.  Google swing your site up and down, but keep building backlinks and here is how.

Here are some good ways to get backlinks to your website the smart way

• Submitting to GOOD PR article directories like Ezinearticles and Go articles
• Leave INFORMATIVE comments on dofollow blogs (like this one=)
• Use Social Networks to build backlinks i.e. like Squidoo, Zimbio, Hubpages etc.
• Social Bookmark sites.  Some are dofollow like furl.net, mister-wong, spurl, backflip etc.
• Submit more articles… Yup, you can’t do it enough. You may need to hire a writer.
• Forum posting. You need a lot of these posts to make it count, but it’s worth it. Just make your posts worthy of actually being read.
• Offer to write some guest posts for bloggers and leave links to your site as well.
• Get listed in directories like DMOZ and Yahoo.  This should be done early on if possible.
• Write a press release.  But make sure you actually have some news first and don’t do this too often.
• Start an affiliate program.  If you have an affiliate program for your site than you are going to have marketers linking to your site for you, and all you need to do is give them a commission on any sales.

The Absolute Best Way to Build Backlinks…

Yes, this is the smart way, but be warned, this is not a fast and easy way.

Ready for this?  Here is the best advise I could give on building backlinks…..

Create amazing content that solves problems and is interesting to read!

Yup, there it is… free of charge too.  You see, the more you write about things that solve people’s problems the more people will link to you from their own websites.  A “how to” article is great because it solves a problem.  People search the internet for answers.  They want to know the “hows” and if you provide them, you will generate more and more backlinks over time.

I know it sounds too simple and maybe you think the coach has gone crazy now.  But if you are not creating original and unique content that is interesting you will spend years building backlinks the “not so smart way”.   It takes work to write good stuff, but if you can’t do it, just hire some one who can.

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