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25 Ways for how to Get Links to your Blog
If you know anything about blogging, you know that you want to get other people on the Internet to link back to your blog. That's because this increases the traffic that comes to your blog. It does this through exposing your link to a greater number of people. It also does this through the fact that your blog will have more credibility with search engines if it has links to it from other sites. So you know that you're supposed to get other blogs to link to yours. But how do you do it?
Here are twenty five basic ways to get backlinks to your blog:
1. Write great content. People who like what you have to say on your blog will probably link to it eventually.
2. Ask other bloggers for link exchanges. This sometimes works although it's getting less common.
3. Comment on the blogs of others. This will encourage them to notice your blog and give links back to you.
4. Do reviews on your site. Review indie movies, folk musicians, local businesses or anything else that's interesting to you but small enough to get attention back from those folks. A favorable review will get linked to by the people you reviewed.
5. Submit your blog to social bookmarking sites such as Digg and Mixx.
6. Add your blog URL to your profiles on social networking sites such as MySpace and LinkedIn. This gets it some attention and can lead to backlinks from people on those sites.
7. Link to yourself. If you write for any other blogs or websites, include links back to your own blog whenever it's appropriate to do so. You can write articles and submit them to article submission sites to achieve the same purpose.
8. Offer an incentive. Post an announcement on your blog that you'll give some link love to anyone that links to your blog. Or run a giveaway contest for the site who links back to you the most times in a week.
9. Give some link love for free. Link love just means that you create a post that links to a bunch of other posts on the web. Many bloggers compile a "link love" list of 10-40 links on a once per week basis. These links out often lead to links in.
10. Use a service that gets you backlinks. You have to pay for these but you usually get what you pay for. Do your research to make sure that you're working with a legitimate company.
11. Use interviews on your site. Whenever you interview someone, you gain a reader (the person interviewed) who is likely to link back to that interview in order to promote themselves to others.
12. Regularly increase your own blogroll. When you link to others, they're more likely to link to you. Add new sites (related to yours by topic) to your blogroll on a regular basis.
13. Post on Craigslist or similar sites for guest bloggers. There are other bloggers out there who are happy to write for you especially if it means that they get to promote that writing and get a link back to their own blog. You benefit because they'll promote that post and link to it.
14. Write a press release. If you can write a great press release about some aspect of your work, submit it to press release sites and people will link to it.
15. Submit your blog to blog directories. If people can't find you, they can't link to you.
16. Put an RSS feed on your blog. People are more likely to come back to it again and again if they can subscribe to it. The more they come, they more likely they are to find something they want to link to.
17. Use BlogRush. This service distributes your post titles across multiple blogs.
18. Participate in forums related to your blog topic. Many let you include your URL link in your automatic signature.
19. Add a "link to me" button on your site. You don't see these often but they do exist. Sometimes people who wouldn't think about linking to you on their own will decide to go ahead and do it when they see the button.
20. Learn and use PayPerClick Advertising. You advertise yourself to people who would have a strong interest in your blog topic. The higher percentage of people who come to your site that actually have an interest in the topic, the higher percentage of links you're going to get out of it.
21. Respond to every comment that you get. People who write to you want to know that you're listening. When you do, you get loyal readers and they end up eventually linking to you because they like you.
22. Create a wiki or glossary for your topic. This is a resource that, if done well, everyone in the same industry will want to link to.
23. Become an Amazon reviewer. You don't get money but you can get links back to your blog. And you can review anything that you're already reading or listening to anyway so it's fairly easy.
24. Ask questions. Always ask a question in your posts so that people are encouraged to get involved in a conversation on your site. If the conversation gets heated, you're likely to get some attention to it in the form of links.
25. Create a "why you'd want to link to me" page for your blog. List a bunch of great reasons and you'll encourage people to go ahead and make that link.
Ultimately, getting backlinks boils down to a few basic things. You need to have something on your site that people will find worthy of linking to. And you need to be willing to get active in online networking so that you can get the attention of those people who have blogs that can link to yours. Within these basics, there are lots of little things that you can do to get backlinks. The more creative that you are, the better those links are likely to be.
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Comments
Great list, there is some really good stuff in here. Thanks for taking the time to put it together, its very helpful for new bloogers just like me .
Thanks for the very helpful tips for new bloggers like me. My blog is on children's stories.
Back linking is really essential for any blog to be successful and this hub is very useful and thanks for the informative tips
These are good tips. Just started back with my blog after taking time off. These ideas will come in handy.
In my experience, I've used stumbleupon, linkedin, twitter, digg, delicious, and youtube to backlink to my Blog. But the the sites that have been the most effective in backlinking traffic have been Facebook and Hubpages.
Once you know which sites work the best for your blog, focus on backling to them so you can manage your time more efficiently.
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Link exchanges no longer work, one way links are best, I guess thats the problem with writing a seo hub within a month or two the information you write will be out of date.
Great list with interesting ideas... there are so many of these lists but this one is informative, brief and importantly relevant.
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Very useful tips for link building. Thanks!
I never thought there are so many ways to do this. This is truly one of the most informative hubs I've read. Learned a lot. Now it's time to make use of it.
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I really appreciate all the great info. I am definitely going to try some of these suggestions for my new blog. Thanks!
Great hub! I'll be coming back to it often for tips because I've just started my own travel blog about Victoria, Australia.
A very informative hub! Amazing job, I will definitely use some of these methods soon!
wow!!just too many tips. I will read thoroughly all of them one by one as many of them are which I am already aware of but mostly not.
nice post i like it...
Great hub about links because that is what we need to increase our traffic. Thanks for writing.
Great list of link building ideas. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Kathryn - I've taken some great ideas from here to help give my blog a jumpstart!
Cheers,
Demetry
Thank you for this list. I do presently do some of them for my blogs but realize that I could be doing a lot more. I am going to spend some time going through the list of resource links you have posted here to learn even more. So this hub is definitely getting bookmarked!
Great hub, very informative as usual, nice work thanks!
Very helpful, thanks! I'm brand new to blogging and this will help me out a lot!
Thanks Jim. Wordpress is on my todo list. I'll bookmark this for future reference.
i have read all the points very interestingly and found that most of the points are new for me. I am the new comer in blogging field, these points have created more passion for me to read and write for blogs.
Great information. Thank you!
You can start with freeweblinking.com. They provide one way links to websites for free.
Great information. Thank you!
thanks for sharing this great list.
Another great article. Thank you for this information!
Wonderful list! May I copy/paste some of these tips on my blog with a link to here? :) I'm starting a new blog (about blogging!) and documenting the whole process of how to do it from a newbie's perspective. It's at http://www.andyd.org
thanks for taking the time to share what you have learned to help others, its appreciated!
I do not have experience in area of Internet marketing and straight lines it is quite good very much after all...
Thanks, useful and good advice. Certainly helpful.
Fantastic Hub!!! :)
Thanks for sharing.
Nice hub! A very straightforward guide on getting more links to our blogs. Many of these methods were new to me and will also work for our hubs, cool. I really like the format of the article, very easy to read. :)
Thanks for the help, always looking for more links!
Good top 25, even though I just started my blog I have years of experience in the Internet Marketing field... another great way is to encourage guest authors to contribute about a topic. Most of those authors have blogs and will likely send a link to their post on your blog!
absolutely new knowledge to me! i am just going to learn that! Thank you very much!
Thanks for the information. Im going to give it a shot. Great hub. Happy to follow you.
I have decided that I want to blog. I just need to learn how to. I am struggling with what the niche would be. I know a lot of stuff and can write on a wide range. I wonder how a person should go about getting started.
needed that one
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Thanks, a lot of useful information. Great hub.
Nice hub Kathryn, I learned a few things here. Thanks for the advice!
wow, this is an excellent hub! very helpful, and has loads of information that people need to know! thank you for the share.
Very nice tips! Really useful information you have here! Cheers!
Great information thanks, I have bookmarked it for reference later.
What great tips, a lot of them I haven't heard of. I'm going to try these to build traffic to my freelance writing blog. Check it out:
HI Kathyrn,
Back linking is so foreign to me is there a way to barney it up as people say so I get it. Does it mean connecting with people online and getting them to click on my link to my blog?
very interesting & informative, thanks.
Nice info
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great i guess i better get bloging!
Hi Kathryn, thank for your tuto, I don't know working link to the search engines. ex: by filling the comment that there are some external links directly to site map. I am still confused with this. thank again
Kathryn,
This was a very helpful hub...great ideas! Thanks very much. :-)
Nice tips. I have never tried a giveaway or any incentive for linking. May be I will try it out.
I would highly recommend BLOGCARNIVAL. It is one of the easiest and most effective way of getting one way links.
Thank you for the helpful information.
Great advice, Thanks for sharing. I'll give some of them a try.
Good advice - thanks Kathryn
Hi Kathryn. I enjoy reading this hub. And will apply it for building link to my blog. Thanks
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I enjoy reading this hub, Thanks.
Is it really safe to submit the sites and articles to directories? I also have read this my the eBooks that can be found in my hub
Really enjoyed this Hub - thank you. I've bookmarked it to dip into again.
great hub kathryn...thx for sharing!!!
Thanks for the great content. Will definitely look into the Amazon tip.
Great ideas! I spend plenty of time on blog posts, but not nearly enough time getting and encouraging links.
Good job on assembling a list of useful tips on backlinking. Since it's recommended to comment on other people's sites/blogs, in part to offer insight and expand one's network of linked-back sites, I have to wonder if having so many links to a site really does catapult one's page ranking. You have any thoughts on how this can be measured?
Very helpful article! Thanks for posting this one!
Hi Kathryn. What a great article. Thank you for all your suggestions. The last couple of nights I've been studying backlinking, and will be referring back to your article. In fact, I just put a link to it on my blog:(http://www.annies-im-diary.blogspot.com/ ) Thanks again for your helpful info!
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waht about this , we build hundreds of blog, powering each other, with random ,one way ,unrecropical backlinking ! submit to high pr , I don't think we'll receive high pr backlink ?
thanks for this information
Great info it has been very helpful
Thanks for your suggestions.
Thanks for the great info. Will try to utilize some of these ideas. Thanks!
You really put some effort in compiling this list . Great article . I am sure many will benefit from this . Thanks again .
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Informative...and good list too.Thanks While I am at it, will anyone be interested in linking to me? You can find my Blog on google or wordpress. I am happy to reciprocate!
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Really important info here to consider. Thanks for sharing :)
Thanks for the great article and tips. I will be utilizing these ideas for marketing my writing. Thanks!
Great advice. There were several ideas in this that I had never heard of. Great stuff.
Thanks for the great information. Some of these ideas were completely new to me! :)
Really informative article, I have some basic knowledge on many of the areas you covered but I have never heard of BlogRush. Sounds interesting I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
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