Getting Backlinks to boost Page Rank
In the coming weeks, I will be boosting the backlinks to this site. I am in no real hurry but for those that are, here are a few true and tried ways to build backlinks quickly and effectively.
Requesting Links (old-fashioned)
Requesting links from other websites and blogs that have similar material as yours is a bit slow, but a good way to start out. This will focus on building quality backlinks to your new website or blog and you can assure it is on sites that have relevant material as yours. By maintaining links from relevant sites, your pagerank will actually grow quicker, as well as your overall SEO score.
One thing that you have to be careful about when building your backlinks would include having too many counter-requests as this can take away from your valuable page space really quickly. Many people will want a link from you in order to give on to you. In this respect, it is very important that you weigh each request closely and give links to the highest quality (generally PR4 or higher links if possible).
Another thing to be careful about is those who want money, advertising revenue per se. It is very easy to create a huge bill doing this. Typically, you can find good deals on backlinks on ebay or other classified type sites but most of the time it is not a good idea to go through these since the sites are typically just glorified link farms which offer very little return ranking because of the huge amount of links on them. Not only this, but you also have to be careful that you don’t get stuck in a link farm and get banned from search engines. google is famous for banning any site linked to from a link farm once they identify one.
Commenting on Blogs with a Link back to you
Commenting on blogs in order to get a link back to you can generally be counter-productive. Typically, the post you are commenting on has very little pagerank, thus not really helping you, and the majority of the time, the links in the comment section are “nofollow” links which mean most search engines won’t follow them anyways.
On the occasion you find a high quality blog with links that are “follow” links, using a keyword as your name can often give you better link juice since the blogs generally link your actual name. Using a keyword will help boost your relevance for that keyword in the link. Be careful about this though because some blog owners view this as a spammy practice and unless your comment has some serious weight to it, may be deleted.
When commenting on blogs for link juice, always remember to ONLY comment if your comment adds value to the post or other comments – no comments like “nice blog” should ever be displayed – this is almost a sure spam comment and with as much spam as blog owners face – you do not want to be known as the guy that keeps coming back.
Article Submission
Many people have been using articles to create link juice to their site and this worked GREAT for a couple of years but as the duplicate content filters became commonplace with Google, it made most article submitting obsolete. The reason being is that you could write one article, submit it to a few higher profile directories, and then over time it would create numerous backlinks as people picked up the article for their blogs, other article directories, website articles, and much more.
The biggest problem with article submission always was that once it hit a few dozen pages, it would start losing juice because of the duplicate content issues. Of course, it would never fail that the lower PR sites would pick it up first, thus canceling out your articles on the higher PR sites. This also became counter productive. Then the trick was to use different articles for different sites, many times using automated software, or article “spinners” to help create more articles quicker. This was still a problem because the articles would still end up being duplicate content as they spread. While it definitely worked better than before, you were only delaying the inevitable.
Probably the best thing that has happened to article submission, is a web-based delivery system and spinner called Unique Article Wizard. With UAW, you create an article, set up a few settings, and it can automatically create thousands of articles and can create them on the fly which allows users to pick an article with links back to you and always have fairly unique content in each one.