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Top 10 Ways to Build Quality Backlinks to your Website

by Bijo Stephen Business Man - Information Technology

Designing a website for your business is not the end of all but building traffic through quality backlinks can scale your business.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) plays a vital role in driving traffic to your website. SEO is divided into two - one is On-Site SEO and the other is Off-site SEO.

On-Site and Off-Site SEO

On-site SEO refers to the elements on a website such as content and HTML source code. While, Off-Site SEO refers to the actions taken outside your website such as building backlinks through blogs, Social media marketing, Guest blogging, quality directories, classifieds, press releases etc. Both the SEO's are important in boosting your search engine rankings.

Building Backlinks through Off-Site SEO

While you have some limitations about On-site SEO, you can improve your website's authority by building quality backlinks through Off-Site SEO. To boost your ranking in Search Engine Results Pages (SERP’s) you need to get quality links from other authority sites. Before you move ahead, here few things to keep in mind:

  • In 2012, Google launched the Penguin update, which is targeted to get rid of sites using spammy or paid ways to build backlinks.
  • Keep the quality of links and anchor text variations.
  • Instead of creating lots of backlinks to your homepage, work on building links to internal pages as well.

While keeping these things in mind, here let's find out the Top 10 ways to build quality backlinks to your website.

  1. Broken link building:

Broken link building technique can earn you quick backlinks from high-quality pages. You need to find broken links on a website related to your industry and email them to notify about the broken link. While giving them a similar link from your website with similar content (create one if you don't have) and ask them to update their post.

  1. Submit Guest Post to Other Blogs

Contribute a post to another blogger's website. Some of the high-quality websites where you can submit guest posts are:

  • HubSpot
  • Outbrain
  • Copyblogger.com
  • Smashing Magazine
  • Content Marketing Institute
  • ShoutMeLoud
  • Inc42
  • YourStory
  • InBound.org
  • Kissmetrics
  • The Huffington Post
  • Daily Blog Tips
  1. Forum Threads:

Start relevant threads in Forums and link to your blog posts

  1. Comment on do follow blogs:

Post comments in blogs that are relevant to your own blogs. They might not carry too much of link value, but it will still be beneficial for overall link-profile of your blog.

  1. Do Social bookmarking:

You can get quality backlinks from social networking sites. Target following network: Google +, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest to name a few.

  1. Join Online Discussion Boards:

Make use of high-quality discussion boards by Linking your site or blog in threads. Quora is one such high-quality discussion board.

  1. Answer Questions in Yahoo:

Answer questions in Yahoo Answers and give your website or blog as the source.

  1. Do Blog Interlinking:

 Interlink other posts into your blog.

  1. Submit into Blog Directories

Submit your Blog into top-quality blogging directories.

  1. Social Sharing:

Submit your blog to your top social networking sites. Work on making your blog go viral, this can bring you tons of quality backlinks from authority sites.

While you build backlinks, avoid these common SEO Mistakes.


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About Bijo Stephen Freshman   Business Man - Information Technology

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