Building Backlinks
Sunday, August 10th, 2008Backlinks 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.
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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