Backlinks
The last couple of days, I’ve been pretty busy trying to get backlinks to my site. But that isn’t as easy as it sounds.
There are many different ways to get backlinks to your site. Natural & reciprocal links are what I find the most important.
Natural links are acquired without asking for it. People will start linking to your content becasue you either have great stuff (articles for example), or you’re a well know platform (take Techcrunch or Slashdot for example), or you offer free applications… The list can go on, but you get the idea.
An other way of getting links is maybe one of the oldest ways, namely reciprocal links. You simply ask another webmaster to link back to your website. This sounds easy enough, but it also has it’s limitations. For starters, you have to provide decent content for the other webmaster to link to; Asking for a link from a site that talks about refrigerators when your site is about the closest living relatives of Home Sapiens won’t do you any good.
Remember to ask decent!
Some other posibilities to acquire backlinks are submitting your site to free directories (dmoz, yahoo, ask), creating a nice signature on your favorite forum, having a signature in your emails.
Some golden tips to remember when Google Pagerank is what you care about:
- Incoming links = Ok
- Incoming links from related sites = Super
- Incoming links from authority sites = Awesome