What’s A Backlink And How To Get It
Written by Mr. Javo
Everybody in the blogsphere talk about backlinks, and may be you can’t understand what are they talking about, but really the meaning of backlink is very simple. A backlink is an incoming link to a website, is any link received by a web page, directory, website, blogs etc etc… from another website. The Backlinks are also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.
How are they useful to my website?
The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of your blog or website. While more backlinks you have, more higher will be your popularity and ranking on search engines. A backlink represent like your signature, getting backlinks for everywhere means like if you were in all those sites, imagine what would you think if you visit 30 sites and you see my banner or link for example, you probably will think “this guy is everywhere, he’s popular!”
Search engines often use the number of backlinks that a website has as one of the factors for determining that website’s search engine ranking. For example, Google’s PageRank algorithm uses backlinks to help determine a site’s rank. Therefore, websites often employ various techniques called search engine optimization to increase the number of backlinks pointing to their website.
Due to the abuse of using paid links to improve Google partially updated their Page Rank Tool to pin against paid links providers and the forward link of sites. This action resulted in a significant decrease in Page Rank of many websites worldwide. However although many believe that Google penalizes people for having unrelated backlinks to their blogs/websites, this has never been confirmed.
Some techniques to gain Backlinks
There are many paths to consider when building links to your site or blog such as link baiting or blogroll link swapping. There are many techniques to get backlinks but I will provide you only the most commons.
- Submitting your blog in web directories and social networks: This is a good way to get some backlinks, submitting your blog in social networks, also in directories like BlogCatalog or Blogarama. You should search for directory sites that are indexed deep (with too many backlinks), directories that are specific to your niche/category and directories where your category is not too crowded (almost impossible). There is a list of 20 essential blog directories to submit your blog.
- Commenting on Dofollow blogs: Dofollow blogs are blogs that give you a backlink just for commenting at them, doing this you will start to generate backlinks to your site as you have no idea, but don’t be a spammer!. If you don’t know what’s Dofollow, please check my guest post on JoeTech.
- Exchanging links with other blogger: this is very common, you can see in the most of blogs a blogroll section. Try to visit and comment frequently in a blog and after some weeks, you could contact the blogger and ask for a link exchange.
- Buying Text Links or Banners: plus text links, the banners also provide you a backlink. Before to buy, try to do an exchange…
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! if you find another way to generate backlinks please comment it in this post!!
Backlink Tools
- BackLinkWatch: this website is able to track every backlink to your site.
- BackLinkSpot: this website can provide you blogs and websites with dofollow attributes, letting you to find where you can drop your link to drink some of the juice of search engines backlinks.
- Technorati: with technorati you can track your backlinks!, they call them “reactions“. Following them, you will find the blogs which drop a backlink to you.
As you could notice, is very important for every website or blog to get backlinks. This way you will improve your rank on search engines and attract more traffic to your web, attracting the people attention 
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I’m learning about backlinks! I just created my own just now!
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Thats truth James, using dofollow you will give backlinks for who commented on your blog
Social Networks are also good source of backlinks like Squido.. and it will give you traffic as well…
Certainly, social networks provides you a lot of backlinks, in addition of all the people who check your blog daily…
Very Good Post MrJavo, backlinks can be a mystery to new bloggers for sure! Keep it up and they will follow:)
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[...] The backlinks or links which point back to your blog are a good indicative of how popular is your blog. While more backlinks you have more traffic you will get, and traffic on the blogosphere is synonymous of success . You can get backlinks by commenting on blogs with dofollow, discussing in communities or forums, exchanging links with other bloggers for blogrolling etc etc… You can learn more about how to get backlinks in this post. [...]
Another great strategy for building links to a site is article marketing. When you submit an article remember to put a link in the bio box pointing back to your site. For added effectiveness remember to vary up each bio box slightly with each article submission.
What i was wondering is if a “nofollow” backlink still count as a backlink? I mean i know that it wont pass any juice for my pagerank but will the link still help me ranking higher for that keyword in the serps?
Certainly John, a link with nofollow still being a backlink.
Thank you for a nice article about backlinks and their importance for the website. However, I would add directory and article submission to the list of backlinks building tools. These methods are also quite effective and easy especially with the use of automated submission tools.
Pretty good article. I like it, keep it up.
I think that was a pretty good post. I couldn’t do it
. Keep up the good work.
Great post
Some blogs do follow links in comments
This can be a useful source of backlinks if used ethically ie adding really useful, relevant and informative comments
Bumpzee has a list of such blogs
Also a new site http://niche.qassia.com is a social bookmarking site/ article directory. Really useful, just get your own profile and start building your links
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