Building Backlinks

Backlinks are one of the keys to ranking well in search engines. Without them, you almost never show up on the first, second, or third page in Google, Yahoo or any other search engine. So what are backlinks? Backlinks are links to your site from other blogs or websites. However its important you understand the difference between a backlink and a quality backlink. Quality backlinks are links that are on related niche sites and carry even more weight if they are on sites that you actually interact on. So every time you comment on someones post and add your website link you gain a backlink.
Building Quality Backlinks
There are a lot of bloggers out there that try to coax people into “free backlink” programs by promising to add a link to their page if you copy certain text from their page onto yours. I do want to point out something though. As many of you have heard before, even bad advertising is good advertising. So the more you get your name out there they better chance you will have in attracting people to your site but if the link isn’t a quality backlink then you may not receive “credit” from Google when its time to update your Page Rank (PR). Something else you should know too. If you manage to have someone with a higher page rank link to your site, those links will carry more weight than say someone with a lower rank.

Ex. If I were to have my page linked on Garry Conns main page, which carries a Page Rank of 5, that would help me out more than if I were to link to another page with a PR of 3, I would not have the same return on investment so-to-speak.

So don’t get sucked into the scams out there and try to build relationships with other bloggers in your niche. This will allow you to gain credibility in your niche and PR.

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5 Responses to “Building Backlinks”

  1. Andre Glegg Says:

    great post, I’m sure very new blogger that reads this will have a better understanding of backlinks and page ranks

  2. TheYoungGuy Says:

    Yea that is point. I hope to help everyone understand blogging a little more.

    -TheYoungGuy

  3. Garry Conn Says:

    Great post… may I add a few things?

    Backlinks indeed are important, but they are totally not required to successfully pull up in the serps. In the game of search engine marketing by targeting certain keywords or phrases, there are really two ways of going about it.

    The first way, which I tend to place much more focus on is longtail keyword targeting. David Cooley does this too. Longtail keyword targeting can be broken down into two strategies in itself. Sheer mass volume longtail keyword targeting and low volume longtail keyword targeting via analysis and predictability. Longtail keyword targeting doesn’t depend on backlinks.

    The other method is in targeting competitive keywords such as Pepsi or Coke. These more prime keywords do indeed require backlinks… some more than others and some you’ll never in your wild dreams rank for.

    One thing I should mention real quick is the fact that by default, unless the author of the blog has hacked their blog, comment links are NOFOLLOW, meaning credit for the link isn’t given. Many wordpress bloggers have figured out how to manually remove the nofollow attribute or actually have a plugin installed that does it for them.

    There isn’t many people that have DOFOLLOW blogs when you compare these people against all the other blogs online. Also too, to break things down even further, there is a large % of dofollow blogs that have turned their blogs into a bad place to have your link on for the fact that they get busted for attempting to game Google.

  4. TheYoungGuy Says:

    @Garry,
    Thanks for commenting. You just taught me something. So i suppose the question I have is why do most sites state that it is important to comment on other sites to gain credibility and PR if you don’t actually receive the backlink?

  5. marlyms Says:

    I am new to blogging..i am looking for some tips and help from experienced bloggers and you are one of them. Thanks for sharing this post. I am learning every time I read blogs.

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