Build Quality Backlinks to Sky-Rocket Your SEO
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When you first build your website it can be so exciting to get it going but that’s just one part one of the two processes that you need to take action on. When your website is built you need to start driving traffic which is part two of the process.
Traffic can be tough to get but when you know how and where to get the traffic from then you will be really successful in driving targeted visitors to your website that will love your content! There are a few ways that you can drive traffic to your website.
You can either buy ads to your website or you can use SEO to rank your website in the search engines to drive traffic. Buying ads can get pretty expensive but there are free traffic methods that you can take advantage of.
Below are five ways that you can start building back links today to start driving free traffic with SEO methods that will help your website rank higher in the search engines for targeted keyword phrases!
1) Guest Posting
Guest posting can be a quick way to generate some highly targeted traffic to your website to promote your blog and build up subscribers but what a lot of people don’t realize is when the guest post on somebody’s website they are also getting a back link for their website. The back link will increase your authority in the search engines and help you rank higher which in return will bring more people to your website.
2) Blog Commenting
Blog commenting is another method that you can use to drive traffic and build back links to your website. This is a method that can build relevant back links to your website. This is another powerful way to help increase the authority of your website and drive more targeted traffic and subscribers!
This is also a great thing to do when you consider guest posting on a blog owners website. If you post comments to establish yourself before asking to guest post, the blog owner will know more about you and that will give you a higher success rate when submitting your guest posts for approval!
3) Forums Posting
It is always great to join relevant forums that are within your niche. For example if you’re in the health and fitness niche you could join a bodybuilding forum and communicate in the community and produce high quality content to the members and answer questions for people and link back to your website.
You can even find a question somebody is asking and answer it in a blog post and answer the thread saying here’s a blog post that I wrote for you addressing your issue.
4) Squidoo Back Linking
This is a unique technique that not many people talk about but you can build really good relevant back links for your website to help you increase your authority and presence. On Squidoo lenses there is an area called “add to list”. Once you click the add to list button then you can add your website and build a really high quality back link to your website and drive more traffic!
These back links are great to have because you are diversifying your link profile and it looks more natural to the search engines to have back links coming from different sources!
5) Spying On Competitors
This is another method that not many people are talking about but it is so powerful if you use it. Have you ever thought about looking at your competitors and seeing how they are ranking in the search engines and driving traffic to their website? Well, you can reverse engineer your competitor’s website and find out all the places that they are guest posting on or linking on and use them for yourself!
You can then leverage your competitor’s success for yourself and achieve the same success that they are achieving. How powerful is that!
How To Start Taking Action!
Taking action on these techniques can be pretty time-consuming so I recommend you hire someone to do some of these tasks for you or you can buy tools like Power SEO Ranker to find some these links for you so you don’t have to do all the legwork.
Once you act upon these techniques you will be able to steadily start growing the number of subscribers you have and drive more traffic to your website!
ayesha said:
Commenting and guest posting are main points for interaction, for gaining more backlinks and increases traffic. In this post I have found a new topic spying on competitors. Good points are discussed here.
Matt Green said:
Hi Ayesha,
Yes these are great techniques to driving targeted traffic. Glad you enjoyed the post.
Matt
ayesha said:
Honour is mine!! .. totally agree with you!
sanjay said:
I started doing guest post on several design blogs, hopefully my traffic will increase and backlinks too
Matt Green said:
Hi Sanjay,
It takes some time but once you get into a rhythm you will generate lots of back links and visitors!
Lawrence said:
You are right, Matt.
To get better ranking in the search engine, building quality backlinks is an effective method. You can post on forum, blog, social bookmarking, and you can submit your website to directory, and many more.
Matt Green said:
Yes Lawrence!
This is very powerful marketing!
Fran said:
Thanks for this article, I have Power SEO Ranker and is very good tool for find good backlinks, from today I start searching this backlinks and I have a lot of this.
Thanks for share.
Fran – SEO para WordPress
http://totseo.com
Matt Green said:
Hey Fran,
Glad you have Power SEO Ranker. It is a huge time saver and traffic generator.
Keep up building great back links!
Matt Alhaarth said:
I have used Squidoo and other web 2.0 properties before but have never really considered it to be a technique in itself. However, Squidoo Lenses do tend to rank well in search themselves, so I agree that it is an opportunity worthy of consideration.
Matt Green said:
Hi Matt,
Not creating the lenses, no.
You want to post on the lenses that have authority so you do not have to wait months to gain authority.
Look for a feature on a Squidoo lens called add to list. It is not on all of them but when you find that button you will see what i mean.
Michael Cipi said:
Really good start to building links. It really, really is about starting the conversation and developing relationships. Not this “Web 2.0″ rubbish. It’s just being social and reaching out instead of begging (or demanding) links.
If more people started off this way, we would all have an easier time of it.
Matt Green said:
Very true.
So many people complicate the process when it can be so simple.
It is good that Google came out with the Panda and Penguin updates. Now people only have 1 way to go.
Alex Thompson said:
These are the best link building techniques where we can build huge amount of backlinks to our website..
Jane said:
Blog commenting helps in building backlinks really quickly and helps in getting our pages indexed fast as well.
Guest posting, on the other, is a very elegant way to gain authority high quality backlinks
Thanks for the wonderful ideas Matt. Love the Squidoo mention. Many miss it.
Matt Green said:
Many over look Squidoo but it can be a quick place to link up too!
Joseph Eleyinte said:
Well stated points here Mathew, but I have my reservations concerning Squidoo backlinks. I thought Squidoo backlinks are dead according to Google’s overview and a waste of time trying to build links through them or Are they still relevant?
Matt Green said:
Hi Joseph,
Were did you read Squidoo is dead? Have always used it as a technique to posting links on high authority pages.
Using the “add to list” feature.
Cat said:
I’m new at this. Thanks for the ideas. Spying on your best competitors is a time honored way of increasing business. I also liked the idea of using Squidoo. Thanks for a very informative post! As I like to say “Short & Sweet & Full of Meat!
ah hong said:
Hi Matt, I would like to add on the view by Matt Cutts from Google Webspam team. Here’s the video where he explain Google’s view on guest blogging for links – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMxC3wQZOyc