Friday, January 7, 2011
Building backlinks to your website
Backlinks are really important in the world of Search Engine Optimization. If you want your site to do well in google search results you have to have a good page rank. If you want a higher page rank you’re going to need some backlinks.
Backlinks are simply a link from somewhere else to your site.
It’s a really easy concept, in fact, it’s really easy to do. Making a backlink only takes a minute or two. That’s not too bad. However, when you are talking about having thousands of backlinks to your site, you start talking in the thousands of minutes and that IS a long time.
Creating backlinks can be time consuming and seriously tedious and boring, but you have to do it! This lens is going to discuss different ways you can get quality, high page ranked, backlinks, and more importantly, ways you can automate the process and make it go FAST!
What is a backlink?
Backlinks are a link to your website from another website. The search engines love these. When they see the link on someone else’s site it sends the spiders over to your site and they index your site getting it placed on a search engine organically instead of you going over and entering it. This way is preferred by the search engines.
Where do I put backlinks?
You can put backlinks in any number of locations. You can use them in signatures in forums, you can pay for them, but today we are talking about putting them in blogs.
You find a blog that is about a similar topic as what you will be linking to. You read the blog and then you make an insightful and meaningful comment to the post. When you are finished with your post you also put a link to the site you want the search engines to go look at. (and the other people reading the blog for that matter)
How do I make a backlink?
To make a backlink it takes a couple steps. (they’re real easy don’t worry)
1. Know your url. If you want your link to send people to the front page, or to a specific article or blog post, make sure you have the specific url for that. For example it might be the difference between www.itsawahmlife.com which is the main page of my personal blog or this: http://itsawahmlife.com/pb-j-chicken-stew.html which is a specific post.
2. Now you need a little html magic. You will need to use this html code to make a link:
3. You will need a keyword for your link. Don’t use a keyword that is in the title of your blog/article/website, because the search engines will already see it in your url. Choose something else that is relevant to where you are sending people. For example, using the above post I might use the key word Peanut Butter and Jelly Chicken Stew.
Let’s use the example from my blog and I’ll show you what it looks like, in code and then the way it appears in code.
Here’s what it will look like in my comment:
Peanut Butter and Jelly Chicken Stew
Backlinks from blogs are great and you need to think about the page rank of the blog before you leave the backlink. You should be backlinking from a blog with a higher page rank. I would choose at least a 4 or 5. It may have to be lower depending on your niche.
Backlinks are simply a link from somewhere else to your site.
It’s a really easy concept, in fact, it’s really easy to do. Making a backlink only takes a minute or two. That’s not too bad. However, when you are talking about having thousands of backlinks to your site, you start talking in the thousands of minutes and that IS a long time.
Creating backlinks can be time consuming and seriously tedious and boring, but you have to do it! This lens is going to discuss different ways you can get quality, high page ranked, backlinks, and more importantly, ways you can automate the process and make it go FAST!
What is a backlink?
Backlinks are a link to your website from another website. The search engines love these. When they see the link on someone else’s site it sends the spiders over to your site and they index your site getting it placed on a search engine organically instead of you going over and entering it. This way is preferred by the search engines.
Where do I put backlinks?
You can put backlinks in any number of locations. You can use them in signatures in forums, you can pay for them, but today we are talking about putting them in blogs.
You find a blog that is about a similar topic as what you will be linking to. You read the blog and then you make an insightful and meaningful comment to the post. When you are finished with your post you also put a link to the site you want the search engines to go look at. (and the other people reading the blog for that matter)
How do I make a backlink?
To make a backlink it takes a couple steps. (they’re real easy don’t worry)
1. Know your url. If you want your link to send people to the front page, or to a specific article or blog post, make sure you have the specific url for that. For example it might be the difference between www.itsawahmlife.com which is the main page of my personal blog or this: http://itsawahmlife.com/pb-j-chicken-stew.html which is a specific post.
2. Now you need a little html magic. You will need to use this html code to make a link:
3. You will need a keyword for your link. Don’t use a keyword that is in the title of your blog/article/website, because the search engines will already see it in your url. Choose something else that is relevant to where you are sending people. For example, using the above post I might use the key word Peanut Butter and Jelly Chicken Stew.
Let’s use the example from my blog and I’ll show you what it looks like, in code and then the way it appears in code.
Here’s what it will look like in my comment:
Peanut Butter and Jelly Chicken Stew
Backlinks from blogs are great and you need to think about the page rank of the blog before you leave the backlink. You should be backlinking from a blog with a higher page rank. I would choose at least a 4 or 5. It may have to be lower depending on your niche.
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