Are you bouncing around the web posting your links everywhere in hopes of gaining backlinks. Well STOP IT RIGHT THERE. Instead of planting valuable backlinks you could be dropping backlink duds.

If you’ve been drawn to check out this hub, then chances are you probably already know what backlinks are.

But just in case you don’t, it's real simple: Backlinks are simply incoming links pointing or inbound links to your website, blog, hubs etc. Simple as that. And the more quality in-pointing links you have coming to your site, the more credibility and popularity you’ll eventually gain with the search engines. An effective link building campaign can improve web site search engine rankings for you.

You see, search engines look at backlinks like Votes for your site. It’s like someone is telling them “Hey look at this website, it reaps Quality, you need to give it a raiSE!” And that’s basically the story of the Backlink Search Engine love affair in a nutshell.

There are basically 4 ways to get backlinks. The shot-in-the-dark way, the natural way, the manual way, and the new school way. Let’s take a brief look at each.

Shot-in-the-dark-Way

Posting (or spamming) your links any & everywhere around the web. You know the old saying “Throw enough S---against the wall and something is bound to stick!

Natural Way

Your content is sooo good that people naturally want to link to it. Quality attracts like no other! Remember that;-)

Manual Way

You understand the whole "No Follow Attribute" situation (details below if you don't), so you take time to view the source code on each website that you want to gain a backlink from to insure that it is infact Do Follow! This is effective but verrry time consuming.

New School Way

You have the NEW NoDoFollow Firefox Addon installed in your toolbar to scope effective link building opportunities. Now you have the Power of Backlink X-ray Vision! and can see at-a-glance which sites are Do Follow and which are not. This maximizes your backlinking effectiveness and saves you tons of time!

This new school concept combined with the creation of quality content can make link popularity build faster than ever before!!!

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Important Note: Make sure that the pages you link to are related to your page category or topic. For example: If you have a page about car repair it wouldn't make sense to link to a cooking site. And it definitely won't make much sense to search engines. It would be better to link to other car or automobile-related sites, blogs, forums, etc. This is really common sense but many people fail to do this. Targeted Effective Link Building creates added value and improved search engine rankings.

No Follow Attribute

If you are unfamiliar with the No Follow Attribute, it is a simply a block that has been enforced by search engines. Basically, if you place your link on a site that uses the 'No Follow Attribute' - that link will not be counted as a true backlink for you. It is still not a bad idea to link in these situations if you feel it's relevant. But you need to know that not all of your linkbuilding efforts will count as True backlink juice for you, as far as search engines algorithms are concerned. The video below does a fine job in explaining the whole No Follow Attribute situation.

>> Here's a Hub that goes more in detail on the topic of PageRank

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