There are many different ways to get backlinks. This article will discuss 8 of the most common ways to get backlinks. It will also discuss which types of links are most effective.
Do not give up on reciprocal links. They still have value. The ease of obtaining these links make them less effective than other types of backlinks but they have some value and they’re not “dead” like so many people claim. These are 2-way links that happen when webmasters agree to link to each other’s sites.
Social bookmarking links are a great way to get a new post or page indexed but have low value otherwise. If you want to rank well for highly competitive terms you need more than social bookmarks. I mean how many boxes of Girl Scout cookies can you sell to your friends? If you look at Cpanel for your website and look at AWSTATS you’ll see that social bookmarking links are in a special category separate from other types of links. Hint. Do more than just be social.
One-way links are more powerful links. However,do not stop at only getting incoming links. Keep your outgoing links and incoming links in balance or it will be an unnatural flow of traffic at your site. Most of the time though this is not a problem because affiliate marketers are out-linking to affiliate programs anyways.
Blog commenting for backlinks seems to be a very popular method because it is a free method for getting backlinks from relevant sites. However, these types of links aren’t very valuable either, especially on blog with the NoFollow attribute set on those sites. There is still some value to blog commenting for backlinks but if you analyze your return on investment on the time it takes to get these links versus the value of those efforts you’ll see that this is a time-sucking effort that usually isn’t worth your time.
Three way links or 3 way links are a hybrid of reciprocal links and 1way links . These types of services are usually only good for getting links to low-competition keywords, key-phrases, and niche topics. Nonetheless, you can add about 50 sites to these networks and get backlinks to all your sites automatically with 3 way links services. This is a pretty good deal for webmasters with a portfolio of mini-sites for low competition terms. Most 3 way link building services require you link out to other sites in order to get links. These are non-reciprocal from other sites in the 3 way linkbuilding service’s network. If the network is full of quality sites, then there is decent value to this automated link building. Watch though because in most cases, you lose all your links if you cancel your membership.
You might think, who ever looks at footers? Well it does not matter so much if the reader does. What matters is what the search engine sees when spidering your site for links. In this way footer links at the bottom of sites link to other sites. They are remarkably effective at getting blogs ranked well and quickly, assuming the links in the theme are highly ranked. Footer links are at the bottom of blogs with links to the site that made the free WordPress theme if the webmaster was using a free WordPress theme. This is also true for the downloads of WordPress plugins. One marketer has his footer links in every Master Resell Rights Website he sells. Every one of those sites link back to his main site which which is page 2 for the term “make money online”. Suffice to say that footer links work well if there are a lot of people using the themes, plugins and leaving links intact. Many SEO bloggers claim that these types of links are ineffective and they are 100% wrong!
Paid links are links that you pay for in order to get some high Page Rank and relevant links back to your site for your chosen keywords. I think that this an extreme waste of money because they’re usually expensive. Not only that, they are not permanent either because you only have those backlinks as long as you’re paying the monthly fee for those links. You’re better off paying less of a monthly fee for a linkbuilding service like Unique Article Wizard that delivers quality, permanent one way links in quantity.
