If you’re a new blogger or webmaster, you know how crucial backlinks are to your site. They are like a small footprint that is left on the Internet to drive traffic to your site. They also help in search engine rankings, which in turn also increases your traffic.
There are many different methods to get backlinks. The best method is featured content on your blog. If it’s worth it, other bloggers may stumble upon it and appreciate it, note it on their blog, and create a backlink for you. There are also less natural ways to get backlinks, such as including your link in your signature on forums you frequent, using social bookmarking/networking sites, and directory submissions.
Although this “backlink training” method doesn’t create backlinks on sites necessarily related to yours, they are still backlinks, and like I said, all backlinks help!
It’s a simple idea. There is a list of links to different websites. To get your site on this list, you must first publish the list on your own site/blog, direct the list maintainer to this post, and they will then add your site to the bottom of the list. This is good for you, and inevitably, someone similar to you will see the list and, like you, will want your site to be on that list. By doing so, they will have to post the list on their site, creating a backlink for you (and everyone else on the list).
The sooner you join this list the better as you will be closer to the top and get more and more backlinks. Unfortunately, if you’re last on the list, you’ve given all your predecessors a backlink, but you won’t get anything in return.
Word of mouth and cyberspreading (digging, etc.) will help the backlink train gain momentum, and if you get on one early on, you’ll have hundreds of backlinks with very little work.
