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This post was requested by one of my subscribers, and although I was answering his questions on Yahoo messenger, he was still interested in learning how to build various backlinks for his site. If you requested, I will do my best to help out!
Anyways, building backlinks to your site isn’t the hardest thing in the world, though, it can take some time to do. Below are a handful of backlink strategies that I have used and every single of them have worked just fine.
1. Social Media and Bookmarking Sites – Besides getting traffic from sites like Digg, SU, etc, most of them have great backlink juice to help you rank in search engines. It doesn’t matter if they are or aren’t dofollow sites, search engines love them
Just incase you only want to submit to the dofollow sites only, here is a list of all the dofollow social bookmarking sites . Also, here’s a quick post on how to submit to 47 social bookmarking sites in 15 minutes to speed up the process.
A warning: Do not spam them because more than likely you will get blocked. Just use them as a backlink to rank for a strong keyword.
2. Let People Do It For You – No, I’m not saying to pay people to build links for you (even though you can if you want to) but rather give them some sort of incentive.
For example, if you have an eBook that requires a password, try making the password your site’s URL (http://www.datmoney.com ) so when they decide to tell everyone else what your password is (via posting on forums, other blogs, etc) you get a backlink simply from that.
Also, a simple contest will get you tons of backlinks if you make it a requirement to write blog posts. See, have people do it for you!
3. Write Great/Interesting/Useful Posts – When I first started blogging, I overlooked this so much. If you write great articles, they will come! And if they like it enough, I’m sure they will help spread the word for you by linking to it from their other blogs, posting it on forums or even submitting to social bookmarking sites for you (cross number 1 and 2 off your list!).
4. Forum Signatures and Threads – If you post on fairly popular forums regularly, I’m sure you have the ability to add links to your signature. Well, those are backlinks to your site. So, if you have 300 total posts and you have your signature enabled, then that means you’re getting 300 backlinks to your site.
Also, just like I mentioned in number 2, you can mention your URL in threads when the time is right. Don’t start dropping links like there’s no tomorrow because more than likely you will get banned from the forum for spamming.
Instead, start a thread that will be useful for people - let’s use Wordpress themes for an example. You should mention the best site’s to get WP themes and link to a few other blogs as well as yours to make it look less spammy.
Not only will this help with backlinks but it will definitely help with getting traffic to your site as well!
5. Blogroll Exchanges – Blogroll exchanges are good but I also heard you don’t get the full backlink juices you should be getting. We want to focus on one-way backlinks, though, I’m sure if people like your blog enough then they will just add you to their blogroll anyways!
If it’s a sitewide link (which it should be) and they publish a new post, that’s an additional backlink to your site. So, if that site has 200 posts, you have 200 backlinks to your site just for being on their blogroll.
I don’t write many paid reviews on here, many once or twice a month, if that. I may consider writing maybe four reviews a month, or once a week but this post isn’t to inform you that I’m considering adding an extra paid review or two, it’s more about why you should read other peoples’ paid reviews and why you should consider commenting on those.
Paid review has become such a big deal since bloggers starting blogging. It benefits the sponsors with traffic, exposure, backlinks but more importantly for you guys, the bloggers, you get some good money in your pockets. And sometimes even more!
Since I started blogging, I was never a big fan of reading reviews let alone paid ones from some of my favorite blogs. I’m sure a lot of you guys were like me and whenever you saw a paid review show up in your RSS Feeds, you ignored it, deleted it, moved on, right?
If I just described you, then you might want to reconsider taking the time to read it, check out the product/site that’s being reviewed and definitely start commenting on those specific posts.
See, reading paid reviews can help you in more ways than one, especially if you take time to leave a simple and thoughtful comment.
In my personal experience, I have taken the time out to read the entire post, comment on the review and eventually, the person who is selling the product contacts me for a paid review on my site. Sometimes it works out to be a long-term relationship. On top of that, there’s a potential of getting free products, advertisement spots purchased as well as sponsors for any contests you may have in the future.
I mean, people need to find you so they can purchase ad spots, buy reviews, etc, right? And 99 percent of the times, the person buying the review will check out the post as well as the comments to see what others think about it. Usually if they purchase one review they will purchase a whole bunch and that’s when they end up on your site to get themselves extra exposure.
For instance, I’m seeing tons of Publisher Spot reviews on a lot of blogs I go to recently (and it’s pretty ridiculous that is was on so many). I haven’t commented on every post I have seen, just a few. I haven’t heard anything yet so that just proves that this doesn’t work every single time but then again, nothing is guaranteed.
But it only takes 30 seconds to comment and simply by doing so, you could possibly have a long-term relationship with a great company!
I can’t tell you how many times I preach not to get into the Make Money Online niche because more than likely you won’t make a lot of money. Plus, we know the Make Money Online niche is oversaturated… a LOT!
But if you already a site dedicated to it, built up the stats for your site and still manage to not make any money, well, you don’t need to start a brand new site, just convert it to a generic blog. And believe me, a majority of MMO blogs should do this and I will guarantee that you make more money simply by blogging.
Yes, simply by blogging. And I know what you’re thinking, “well, everyone comes to my site because they are expecting tips on how to make money. Plus, I spent so much time on this blog!”
Now, if you have a successful MMO blog, I wouldn’t suggest switching anything. For instance, if you make at least a few hundred dollars a month, have at least a few hundred subscribers, etc then you’re probably on the right path. If you do not , I would suggest switching that blog to a generic blog where you will and can blog about anything and everything. Trust me, I know a few people who have done it and now they make $x,xxx by doing so.
Here’s what you should do (assuming your blog is indexed in search engines, you have a bunch of backlinks to your site and you’re willing to take this step in converting your MMO blog):
It seems that people are contacting me more and more to become a sponsor in their upcoming contests. Now, I don’t mind sponsoring an ad spot (on one of my many blogs), text link, and a custom made banner design or whatever, but more and more people are asking and I only have a certain amount I can give away. So, I’m going to pick and choose who I sponsor.
Below are some reasons why I won’t sponsor your contest:
1. Not asking me personally and sending me a generic spam-type message. Again, I’m getting more and more requests to sponsor people’s contests so if you’re not going to even address me then you probably won’t even get a response back.
Not to sound like an ass or anything but you came to me to get a sponsor for your contest not the other way around. And if you look at any posts, it says my name right there. So when I receive a message like:
“To whom it may concern (or hi):
My name is XYZ of this site. My site is growing very fast and receiving XXX amount of visitors daily.
I am looking for sponsors for my contest that would be willing to contribute XYZ prizes.
If you are interested, please reply to me before this particular date.
Best,
Their name”
90%-95% of the time this message is either a copy and paste method or a bot. If you were to take 2 seconds to replace “to whom it may concern (or hi)” to “Jay” then I might have fell for your trick.
Though, sometimes it’s even worse. There are people who put “Dear Webmaster or Blog Owner” and you obviously know what that answer is going to be.
If you have not entered my Market Leverage contest to win a Nintendo Wii , feel free to check out the contest post. Some say it’s hard to enter but I say it’s as easy as subscribing via e-mail or posting about it on your blog.
If you’re looking to get more RSS Feed e-mail subscribers , you may want to give some sort of incentive for people. I mean, unless you have incredible unique content then it should be easier. But sometimes even incredible unique content just isn’t enough.
Before you guys jump to conclusion, when I say “give an incentive” I don’t mean holding a contest and giving away prizes. We should all know that’s only a temporary method of getting e-mail subscribers because a bunch will just unsubscribe soon after the contest ends.
But again, if you have incredible unique content that blows readers’ minds away then I’m sure a majority of them will stay subscribed for quite sometime. Or you can give them additional incentives to stay subscribed. Keep reading…
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