How To Get Ranked And Build Backlinks In Google
Written by John Lynch Wednesday, 08 June 2011 09:48
Very beneficial to those trying to get traffic to any website is backlinking. Websites are found and moved up in ranking on popular search engines by backlinking. The importance and popularity of a website is often indicated by its ranking on search engines, backlinking raises this ranking. A couple of great ideas about how to backlink follow below.
The number one way to backlink is through articles. Write articles pertaining to the content of your website. If you're selling something, let people know every detail about your product. If you're providing a service then talk about what kinds of problems you can solve with this service. If you have a blog, talk about your product or service there too. If your blog is about space aliens, then you might want to get an account with article directories where a person can submit articles. People then read these articles and click the link to the website to learn more information.
The second way we're going to talk about to build a backlinks is with social media. When people frequent social networking sites, they often help build backlinks without even knowing it. Web pages that people like to share are often linked on their Facebooks or tweeted on their Twitter accounts. When friends and family see the linked web page, if they also like it they could potentially re-post it on their own site and with this cycle continuing it's easy to see how websites could get many hits from being listed on social networking sites.
The way of creating backlinks that was just mentioned, using social networking sites, is pretty much the modern day equivalent of word of mouth. The website was not found through a search engine. Every time a bookmark is used to visit a website, it builds traffic for the site. This is considered backlinking also. In the previously mentioned instance, the friends and family members who visit websites linked on social media bring traffic to the site, but not sales. If even a small percentage of those people signed up for a newsletter or bought something, your traffic and revenue could be greatly increased. That is the wonderful power of backlinks.
The last method of backlinking worth mentioning is through internet-accessible mobile devices. More and more phones have internet now, and most social media sites have apps for them. This means that anytime a person receives a text through the phone, the person can access the website immediately. Newsletters can also be sent to an email account that is accessible by phone. More possibilities exist every day for creating backlinks with mobile devices that can access the internet.