This is a guest post by David Walker, who is a successful internet marketer, teaching thousands of people to make money online with their websites. The tips he shares in this post can be equally applied whether you’re running a website builder or a completely custom website.
Getting back links to your website is an important strategy that can help you get listed higher up in search engine rankings. Unfortunately, building back links can be a time consuming task that many either don’t have time or the desire to perform on their own. If you want to build back links to your website but aren’t enthused about the time it will take in order to achieve the results you are looking for, then you may want to consider your options for getting such links with minimal work on your part.
Here are some of the most popular back linking strategies that you can implement in your everyday work routine. These are quick and easy strategies that anybody can perform to develop high-quality links quickly and effectively.
1. Article Marketing
Article marketing is perhaps one of the most popular back linking strategies used by internet marketers of today. The only problem is that it can be fairly time consuming. One thing you can do, however, is speed up the process simply by submitting content that you have already written and published on your own website.
If the content in question is already indexed on your site, you can submit it to directories in order to syndicate it out to hundreds, perhaps even thousands of sites. If you’d rather not submit your own content to article directories and don’t have time to write articles on your own, you can always hire a writer to create content for you for a few dollars per article.
You can take “traditional” article marketing a stage further and write guest posts for other blogs. This will be more time consuming in that you will need to find a relevant blog that will happily publish your work and then create an original post to suit the owner’s readership.
But, taking that extra time to write a guest blog post will help you make money online in the longer-term because having a guest post published on an authority blog in your niche will enhance your own credibility and authority.
Plus, depending on what you have agreed upon beforehand, you will usually get between one and three links using your choice of anchor text in return for supplying the blog owner with some quality, free content. You could obtain some very powerful back links from guest posting on an authority blog.
The final type of article marketing I want to mention is press release submission. Think of a newsworthy angle for your business and write a press release to announce it. You need to write a press release in the correct style rather than a traditional article but when it is finished, you can submit it to the numerous free press release websites online, each of them linking to your website!
You can of course hire a writer to produce the press release for you and can also outsource the submission side of things. There are also press release submission software titles that can distribute your release to numerous sites automatically.
2. Forum Posting
Forum posting is another quick and dirty strategy that you can utilize in order to generate back links to your website. Forums usually give you the opportunity to put your link in your signature. When you have your link in your signature and you make a post on forum, your link will show up as a back link from that forum. Each post that you make is a essentially another web page that has a link back to your website.
If, over time, you create thousands of useful and relative posts, then you can potentially have thousands of links back to your site. Your posts don’t have to be novels either. Instead, they can be quick and to the point in order to get your message across effectively and accurately.
3. Directory Submission
Another quick and easy solution for getting back links to your site is directory submissions. You can get a ton of back links if you submit your link to the thousands of directories that are available online.
To complete this task even quicker you can use submission services which can be used to submit your link to hundreds of directories in a very short period of time.
4. Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is an effective back linking strategy that doesn’t take long to complete. All you need to do is build a list of popular social bookmarking websites and submit your link each time you make a new post.
The process of bookmarking a piece on your blog or website usually can be done in a couple steps that take very little time.
If your content is very good, you will also find your readers will share it on the social book marking websites themselves and help to drive more traffic back to your blog!
5. Outsourcing
Finally, regardless of whether your online activities are part-time or you work from home, if you don’t have time to perform the above activities on your own, then, as has been mentioned a couple of times during this post, outsource them to other people who perform these tasks for a small fee.
Outsourcing is a great way to free up your time for other more important activities but still help you get the important back links that you so desperately need.
How Do You Get Your Links?
I have shared a few linking techniques in this post but am keen to find out more! If you have a great back linking strategy that is easy to do then please share it in the comments below!