5 Old But Still Effective Ways to Build Quality and Relevant BackLinks

Today everyone understands that quality and relevant Backlinks are crucial to SEO success. Search Engines especially Google does take account into Backlinks for a website’s ranking in SERPS for targeted keywords. The more number of quality and relevant inbound links a site have the more higher it going to rank. Building Backlinks for your site is however much difficult than the On-page SEO. In On-page SEO you have complete control and you can do whatever you want but in off-page SEO or in other world Link Building Word it looks like you have to rely on others to work for your success.

Well, this is partially true because while Backlinks are links that start on another site and point to yours, you can discuss with the Web master of the other site details like the anchor text, for example. Yes, it is not the same as administering your own sites – i.e. you do not have total control over Backlinks – but still there are many aspects that can be negotiated.

1.    Web Directory

The oldest and well known one way linking way is Web Directory Submission. In the Beginning of SEO, links from web directories were considered very valuable but now they are not that much. But still it is effective and easy way to get one way backlink only if you submit your site to high quality and reputable web directory like DmoZ and most importantly in the correct Category. There are both Free and Paid Web directories over the internet. Select and submit to only those which are highly reputable.

2.    Blog Directory

Another way to get backlink by submitting your blog to the “Blog Directory”. So if you have a blog or blog with site don’t forget to submit it to blog directories. But, again, only to the high quality and reputable blog directories like “Blogcatalog” etc.

3.   Article Directory

Provide People valuable information by writing articles and then submit to the Article directories. Don’t forget to include a cute backlink of your site in the bottom of article in Author or Bio Box or you will be going to Miss Backlinks. Remember that by submitting same article to ten article directories won’t give you ten Backlinks as Google will going to consider these ten articles as duplicate content and will only going to give credit any of these. But Still you can get Backlink and can promote your services or product through Article marketing in the same time. “Ezine Articles” is one of the most famous and reputable article directories which give decent traffic plus Backlink too.

4.    Blog Commenting

Yeap, Blog commenting is also a great way build quality and relevant Backlinks. Search for the blogs that are relevant to your website’s theme and topic. Then visit each of them read the posts and comment on. Remember that only “Do Follow Blogs” will going to provide you Backlinks but not “No Follow Blogs”. So do check the blogs that whether they allow do follow backlink or not. When you comment on any blog post try to avoid one sentence comment like very good article or nice post. Try to add more information regarding to that topic so the blogger should approve your comment.

5.    Forum Posting

Forums are also called discussion or message board as people discuss and share much information with each other. Forums allow links that appear in the bottom of every post you create called “Signatures” But we will be going to call them Backlinks. Oh Yes, Backlinks. Register there and add links in signature and get into discussion with the satisfaction that you are getting Backlinks.

Yes, they are old gold methods of building links but still are effective and in use. If you have been missing these in your Link Building than better add them from now on and start to earn number of Backlinks thus increasing your link popularity so as your search engine ranking :)