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Introduction
I know a lot has been written about getting backlinks here. Despite knowing this I can't resist writing on this topic. Please note, you don't have to spend a single penny to get these back-links. So, this article is about getting easy backlinks for free. I am sure you will find this article a bit different from the ones present on the web.
Email requests to webmasters
I know you have read about this a large number of times but still there is something missing. You can not get a back-link or a link exchange from quality and related sites by simply shooting an email to the webmaster. Do it my way to gain success. First put a link to the site you want to exchange links with on a page of your site, the page should have some content on it and must have some traffic. The page you are putting a link on must also be easily accessible by search engine bots. After you have done this, wait for a few days and let the webmaster realize he is getting traffic from your site. Once he sees traffic coming to his site from a page, he will visit the page and analyze it. After a few days write to him that you want to exchange links with him and you will be happy to keep his link on your site if he is willing to link back to your site. Try this and get quality back-links from related sites. See if you can do the 3-way linking. Backlink from a site to which you haven't linked from yours has more worth.
Establish other related sites and blogs
I love doing this. Apart from giving me some good back-links it also increases the number of sites I own and sooner or later every site start fetching some traffic which means it pays helps me make more money.
I thought the title of this was self explanatory, in case it was not let me explain. Make some sites or blogs with related keywords to your site and get back-links to your site from them. No need to make huge sites. Sites or blogs with 20 to 30 pages will be enough and once it start paying you back through ad revenues or something , you might want to increase the number of pages to earn more.
Link directories
This is the easiest way to get some free backlinks. All you have to do is find some quality free directories, choose a related category for your site and submit your site to that proper related category. As choosing a proper category will increase chances of your link being accepted, it will also insure you get back-link from related keywords which is one of the best SEO practices.
TIP 1: While submitting your sites to link directories, don't forget to write a proper description of your site with some of your keywords in it.
TIP 2: Don't leave the keywords field empty as it is not mandatory.
(The above two tips will ensure you get your keyword from a page with related keywords.)
TIP 3: Keep on changing the text in title tag while submitting to directories so that Google don't take your site for spam.
This is the list of quality free link directories.
Some More Ways to Get Free Quality Backlinks
Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarks are the sites that allow you to share sites you like with others or in other words you can maintain your bookmarks and favorites in a way that others can see it. There is a large number of social bookmarking sites on the web. Visit them and get free and easy back-link to your sites from them.
Caution: Don't keep on submitting your own site(s) to them. This will look spammy and some of the social bookmarks might ban you for doing this. Submit other good sites, blogs and pages too.
Tip: Write a good description and a catchy title to get large amount of traffic as well as large number of backlink from them. This way more people will rate your site and you wil get a link-back from their profiles too.
Update:Here are two sites, where you can bookmark links to your own sites, hubs or articles and they won't mind. No need to waste time submitting other sites, submit your own pages and get quality backlinks instantly. Another great thing about these sites is that they share AdSense impressions and revenue with you. So as you generate backlinks to your own pages, at the same time you are earning some money from these sites.
1) Xomba.com(Xomba has changed its policy and now outgoing links will be NOFOLLOW)
Social Networking
If the search engine bots can crawl a social network, then the back-link is useful otherwise its of no use. Example Search engines can't crawl Orkut so a back-link from Orkut is pretty worthless, in contrast to that search engine bots can access FaceBook pages and thus a backlink from FaceBook might help improve your search engine ranking.
Comments
Commenting gives you a free backlink but don't take it for granted. Try to comment something related to the topic and your comment must add value to the topic. The owner of the article should not think that you haven't even read the article and you are commenting just to get a back-link. Please don't add comments like, "nice info", "great article" etc and get yourself blocked. In order to get more benefits from comments, try to find blogs or articles having same keywords as your site and then comment on them.
Articles
I have kept best for the last! Articles are the best way to get free high quality backlinks. In this method you write an article on an article website and insert a couple of backlinks to your pages either in the body of the article or the resource box depending upon the rules of the website.
RitePad is a handy article directory to get backlinks. You can get a backlink by writing a 100 word post. It is also a revenue sharing website, which means you will get 80% of the total adsense impressions.
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Some good advice here. I have found though that my website dropped a few pages in page rank when i linked back to some link exchanges.It is always good to test them one by one as when i removed the link back from this particular exchange, my site was back up to its original rank again.Its the only way to know which ones are of value.
You have provided a comprehensive list here but my problem is not wanting to spend any more time blogging, but I'll try to do some of these things.
Photography seems to interest people most for me but I also do computer art and write short stories in serial form and occasionally introduce some finance or related hubs.
Hi UH I certainly will have to try back-links could never work them out. Cheers!!
These are all great tips, UH. I haven't tried any of these but know that the ends definitely justifies the means. My hope is to just make enough money from HP as a residual income opportunity. I'm going to give this a shot. Maybe if I hit a speed bump, I'll give you a holler. Thanks.
I really found this post useful, it has bring me the big picture of how works seo, and will keep reading this author, thanks
Pretty clever advice, However,how many page views do you think your individual site would have to have before getting a Webmaster's attention? Hundreds? thousands? I don't think I could get a webmaster's attention with one hub!
I have been using articles, at one time I dealt with 10 different directories and the only one I have seen a backlink show up on the analytics is ezinearticles. The other thing as far as backlinks Google counts all the links from one source as one. The good thing about articles for backlinks is if your articles is published on another site, this will be a unique link.
Regards
Don't forget guest posting on other blogs!
Bookmarked. Good hub, u have really shared the info really shared the info well.
Good tips!
Great article! my only question is, when you speak of leaving comments. Are you talking about the comments like the one i am writing now? also how well do you think digg.com can help us out here?
I am always looking for backlinks to my site. It is a never ending process if you want it to do well.
Thank you for all the information. I bookmarked this page!
Thanks for the info re the link directories. Have been unsure about whether they work or not. I think I'll give them a try. I started using article marketing about a month ago and it seems to work quite well.
These are some great tips and love the article. I been reading many back link articles and yours was the best. Also great list of link directories....I'm for sure going to be using them also I'm going to become your fan.
Good hub. I find link exchanges still perform quite well if they are on and for relevant sites to your one. They seem to have less of an impact than they did but still worth investing time.
I agree, context relevant and the other sites are high quality in the eyes of the search engines too!
Seems sites need more and more mandatory keyword fields - -make for a win-win all around :)
Very informative post. Thanks.
Comments generated are also informative.
Keep it up.
I like your idea on how to approach a webmaster about adding a link. Seems like it could work. I'll have to give it a shot.
I have a great idea. Since you have so many websites you started to give yourself some backlinks, I'll give you the link to my site and you can put my link on all of your sites.
Just kidding. Good article. The article submission does work for backlinks as long as you choose a decent site that Google likes. I always make sure that they have a Google page rank before I submit there.
Nice work, i have been doing most of these but you gave me some new ideas! thanks
Interesting I continue to learn something new and have been here for two years, I will have to check out these wonderful ideas. :)
Hi, I too loved your article. I have 2 FaceBook and 1 MySpace accounts that I don't know how to use very well. But this HubPages social network seem ok for me. I see you just joined 5 weeks ago and is making a big splash... great work.
I just tried blog carnival and am waiting to see how that works out. I am thinking of hiring a part-time VA to help me with some of this free back linking stuff as it's a lot of hard work -- what do you think, or do you have a really cool system/software for actually carrying out these back linking techniques without them being time consuming?
Keep up the great work.
Good article. Hadn't thought about social networking sites and back linking for getting traffic. Thanks for the idea!
That's one of the most useful posts I've ever seen. Thank you.
Great advice :)
Hey Ultimate!
Thanks for this hub, this is really useful backlinks information and much appreciated.
i like that' you're idea, greats
Good job covering the basics of backlinks. It's a very important part of ranking well and getting traffic these days.
I needed this! Thanks for the info, I bookmarked to
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Could you list some of link directories?
I've tried some but they all required link back.
Very nice website I will study it & I carry your all suggestions hope so they all are good for my site.Thanks a lot for your tips.
Thanks for the great tips. I'm still new to HubPages and am attempting to get the hang of everything. But you explained everything quite thoroughly.
One way that i have found is that places like godaddy have .info sites on sale for 99 cents and if you get a few of these related to your webstie put some revelent content and then google ads and then a few links to your original website it does give you quality backlinks plus a revenu generatoer once you have sumbitted it back to search engines. great hub I learned some things as well.. and it was easy to read and understand :)
Articles are great for advertising your website
I learnt a very nice advice from your hubs. thanks, please write more.
Why there is so much fuss about backlinks?
Are they so important?
Good article with some great tips. Thanks for sharing
this sounds good - am going to take your advice - thanks for sharing...cheers
It's a wonderful hub on back links with a lot of information not only from the hub but also down under in comment section. I always love to read the comment section most because i can get a lot of doubts cleared and even i can get some points the author missed, that too when the author is more worried about his readers, in that way also you are so good. By the way did you finished the hub on how to check if a site is penalized. Let me know your mail i really want to get some advice from you. Thanks a lot for providing such a nice article.
ummm i am sure its Good and easy to shareing on this blog am so happy to read this
The caffeine update will be devaluing a lot of links that Google does not think are important. If you see a drop in your rankings it can be because of this.
Great tips thanks for sharing... keep good works ahead.
Thanks for letting me know about backlinks I didn't know much about them very useful to me.
Very useful hub. Now you have enough appreciations. Still I could not resist myself from expressing my thanks for this. You have helped us a lot.
A very comprehensive post packed full with great information. Thanks
A reciprocal back link is not very strong.
A link from a site like ezinearticles.com can be more powerful than 50 links from an average site.
Use a tool like market samurai to check the SEO competition and take note of the amount of backlinks in the top 10 websites.
I have reading alot about getting backlinks and have been hearing about blogs and sites having no follow tags which blocks any link juice you may get from commenting. Is this true?
thanks for info, i like this tips
Hi, Excellent info!
I want to say that I have done a lot of article marketing in the last few years and I am still seeing traffic to my blog and my website from 2-year-old articles.
Article marketing is the best, in my opinion, because it seems to grow your traffic exponentially over time.
these are really good advice
A great and really useful hub!
Dear Ultimate Hubber
I absolutely love this article. I have read dozens of seo tips and tricks and your first idea i think is great. I will definitely try this and see if it works.
Though I have a question.. my manager thinks that I should try and avoid giving links to other sites. and at the moment he thinks I should get more three way links though I think its not as effective as reciprocal linking..
any ideas on what I should do??
This might be the first time I've seen someone lay out the benefits of having multiple sites to link from. I thought that I was the only one who knew!
WHAT'S A BACKLINK?
Great hub, a way to go to your 30th hub, hehehe you love fishes eh, i'm also an aquarium fanatic i'll be back to read your wonderful articles especially the fishes...
Great content. Very informative hub. Articles are a good way to gain backlinks but what truly matters more is 'where' your links are placed. Backlinks from authority sites are the best way to gain strong links back to anyone's site. Creating a hub for instance will rank better with google than 20 links on lower PR sites.
It is rare to come across the advice that you have given. Whilst I have read MANY articles about getting backlinks, all of which contain the phrase "Just email the webmaster of similar sites", never has anyone suggested what you have, and your method makes an awful lot of sense.
So, thanks for sharing this with us, it is very much appreciated.
Excellent article and great tips to build links. Out of many ways that you suggested i like the point in which you were referring to build links through "Establish other related sites and blogs", it not only allows you to gain links but also earn out of your blog. Thanks for sharing
More great tips and another excellent hub. Your help is really appreciated!
I found this hub to be very helpful and easy to understand. I figured it is time to start trying to do more with my hubs and I am going to use your tips. Thank you so much! :)
Gee whiz, thanks a lot indeed!
I read every article that I find on this subject, and I didn't think that any more could have been added, however you actually did add something that I've never read, for instance what you wrote about comments was news to me. Thanks for this article, and I must bookmark it now. Very good hub.
One more tip for when people are commenting on other people's sites is to see if you can get your keywords into the anchor text.
For those who don't know what "anchor text" means, it means the clickable words that the reader sees on top of the link. For example see the text in my name above - that's the anchor text for the link to my site.
The search engines such as Google see links with your keywords in as being more valuable.
For those who don't know what I mean by "keywords", I recommend the 30 day challenge, which is free, and which teaches a lot about making money on the internet.
For articles, I heartily recommend ezinearticles.com - a great place to publish an article that not only gets a link back to your site but will also be seen by lots of people and republished on their sites (together with your link).
Isha
fantastic hub, i check your blog link from this hub...that is very user full for me, i got list of links directory, which can i find it very long time..thanks
Just to add to Isha of "Market Samurai Resources" comment, using anchor text is great for SEO, but in addition I would consider using semantics and varients in your anchor text links. Your site will then appear to have a more natural linking structure in the eyes of google.
Thanks for the information about link directories. This was brand new to me and much appreciated!
Thanks a lot Ultimate Hubber! Thanks for this article and the list for link directories. Your list saved a lot of time. Although you said not to comment - "great article" however your article is in fact a Great! the reason is because-
1. It saved a lot of work(for the link directory list you provided)
2. Your article is easy to understand.
3. The techniques mentioned are 'free techniques'.
4. It made my day. After reading your article I thought-"this is what I was looking for"
Thanks once again! :-)
This is the best article on this topic on HubPages that I've seen so far. I've spent hours writing quality hubs about a variety of topics in which I am either an expert or a semi-expert, and yet watched them languish from lack of google attention. The backlinks business is something I just haven't had time for, but I intend to use this efficient advice (above) very shortly. How refreshing to find it clearly stated and with so many helpful links.
"Email requests to webmasters" I like this part, and I am glad that you mentioned it...Really.
A lot of time I received emails from other webmasters that want to exchange links with me, the emails they sent are totally a waste of my time, and the words they used are not friendly. They're more like ultimatum: "PUT MY LINK OR ELSE I WILL DELETE YOURS"...
Yep, they wrote them with Capital Case.
Nobody wants to get threat! As soon I got those emails, I delete them. And the worst part, those websites don't even have a PR 1 from Google. So glad I read this, keep it up.
Regards, Ben @ http://www.plantinhamilton.com
Ok I'm using stumbleupon right now as a way to increase traffic. I've been joining groups and I have also found some great websites along the way. I will admit I started it for the sole interest in increasing traffic but I have found that these social bookmarking sites help you find great resources for you site as well as well as finding some great link exchange partners.
Wow, this is a lot of information to think about. Guess it's time to get serious! lol I'm bookmarking this page so I can come back for more. :)
Hi UH thanks for the info! I have not heard of shetoldme.com and cant wait to try some of your tips out!
Hey, an update to you hub - Xomba is nofollow now. Just FYI
Thanks for the info :)
Nice info thanks!
thank you Ultimate, I signed up with xomba and shetoldme, Is redgage ok and stumbled upon? Thank you again. Maita
Awesome hub, tons of great information!! Thank you for the help, I hope to one day be an elite hubber like you
I love the part about blog comments. I laugh when I see someone post "Good read on an important subject."
great info in this article on backlinks, this is the best one i have seen so far, you gave me a lot to think about,.
Dale
This is important information to learn. My preferred backlinks come from blogging, article writing, and so forth. Hubpages, Squidoo, Qondio, ezine articles.com, and goarticles.com are my favorites.
the best hub I ever read about backlinks, great effort explaing the whole subject, that you made it easy to understand
thanks
Thanks fr the advise. I'm going to try backing linkig.
This is a great article! ;P but no, really it is! I just create a niche blog and haven't had luck with it being indexed by google yet even though it has lots of info, no ads, and is updated daily. With my main site I didn't have a problem with it getting indexed and after reading your article I realize it was because of the article marketing I did early on. I suppose I should take one of my blog posts and turn it into an article and submit it to the directories! Thanks for the tips and ideas!
Coby Wright
excellent tutorial..very helpful for Seo.
Thanks for the tips on how to get backlinks. I really like getting backlinks from article directories to because you get free trageted traffic and a solid backlink but it is possibly the most work.
It's simply a matter of persistence! keep chugging along. One tool I use is Backlink Checker and see what my competitors are doing. You can learn a LOT from them!
Wow I bookmarked your hub months ago,so stupid of me not to be using the fantastic advice given sooner-oh well better late than never.
Thankyou !
P.S Sorry but I gotta ask,how do I back-link or to another hub(someone else's)..dumb question, I know ,but not sure if I doin it right~ thanks again.
Ok thankyou -got it!
Thanks for that comment I have a lot to try now.
let you know.
Great information. Thank you!
I have one business site for which I really like to get back links because it is my selling site. I have no ads from google or other such at this stage of the game, since I've been taught it's not smart to send people off your site. I do have a links section at the back and I use it to link to other sites I just like or that are in some way related to my site. I also have links to my affiliates and to relevant hubs and lenses and blogs. Since this site gets more traffic than anything I'm linking to, it helps send traffic to my other writing sites.
I get lots of emails from other webmeisters wanting link exchanges. Most are polite, but most I decline because I don't want to send customers to their sites, which often don't get as much traffic as mine. I get some good back-links from universities and other customers who have decided I'm a good reliable source for their readers. Those are the kind I most want. For the most part, I avoid link exchanges.
My main method of getting back-links is having a number of sites, as you suggested. I'd much rather write than look up keywords, write other webmeisters, etc. I haven't tried the article sites yet because I lack time. That's next on my list, but I don't know if I'd be good at that kind of writing.
Thanks for sharing all this information.
Golden information on Backlink creation. Very useful to me. Voted up!
Your suggestion on emailing webmaster is really nice. it's sort of a free trial for the webmaster. Good suggestion.
thanks that was exactly what i was looking for, your like the only person i have found tht has a directory of places where you can submit you links to CHEERS!
Saw your post on DP and come here to take a look, well it is very useful for me.Establish other related sites and blogs is new for me, I am going to try that
Very good advise for newbies.
Thanks a lot for your tips.
hope so they all are good for my site.
Great tips here. The social bookmark sites have always been good with me.
The blogs that I like the most is where they spam so much, then you just do a simple check and see that all the links have a nofollow in them :)
Thanks for that comment I have a lot to try now, really it's veryinteresting
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thanks it really cool to build backlink with your tips
thank you for nice and good post
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I am in the process of updating my web site, and one of things that i would like to have is back links to my site.
So the idea of putting links on my site, leaving them for some time and then sending an e-mail to the web master may be something that would prove be successful for me!
Thanks for the advice!
www.digiartimaging.ca is my old site, soon to change..
thats great post thanks and waiting for more
Nice post Thanks.
Actually, I've been thinking of a way to get this. My site www.9jamkt.com will need backlinks. If you're ready, let's exchange.
it not easy
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Very good advise for newbies.
Very interesting post though I don't think you stressed enough that the PR of the website or directory isn't as important as the content surrounding your link. After all if you have a link from a PR 10 website about pregnancy for your gaming website it's not going to do much for you in the search engines.
However a link from a PR 5 website about gaming to your gaming website will do wonders.
Pretty neat stuff.
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I am always looking for backlinks to my site. It is a never ending process if you want it to do well.
You can add more tips like Guest blogging. www.techiestuffs.com
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Hopefully my website www.musclefitguide.com will soon get higher ranks on google. Anyone have any ideas on what I can do to improve this site?
Thank you so much.
I heard that about posting messages on social networks with backlinks to your page. Is this workable?
I heard that about posting messages on social networks with backlinks to your page. Is this workable?
That is quite a list of directories that you linked to, thanks for that and also thanks for introducing me to RitePad, I don't think I have heard of them before. Though unfortunately I already knew the information contained here, I was just curious as to if you had something new for me to learn.
Thanks for that comment I have a lot to try now, really it's veryinteresting
This article contains a very useful information for SEO starters. Thanks.
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Thanks You shared a great info. But , kindly share some free links for free backlinks .Thanks
i want to exchange links. Add my blog to yours and leave a comment for your link.
Agreed on your tips. These all are valuable and the best method to harvest quality backlinks.
Great info!
This is information is handy, thank you.
Hi, I wanted to drop you a quick note to express my thanks. I've been following your blog for a month or so and have picked up a ton of good information as well as enjoyed the way you've structured your site.
I am attempting to run my own blog but I think its too general and I want to focus more on smaller topics. Being all things to all people is not all that its cracked up to be.
















































































ethel smith Level 3 Commenter 2 years ago
I keep reading all of these hubs about back links and the like and find that some make sense to me and others do not. This one has good advice. And yes I did read it.