Backlinks are a primary part of affiliate marketing, and if you are not doing everything you can to increase them, you will struggle to obtain traffic to your website. A backlink is a link pointing back to your website from another website. You need to be doing a little every day to increase your backlinks in order to boost your website rankings, so underneath I have laid out seven ways of getting free backlinks, plus two paid ways.

Free Backlinks

1. Article marketing. If you are reading this article on an article ezine, you will see a resource box at the base. This holds links to my websites. If you can write articles twice a week or more, and present them to many directories, you will increase your backlinks quickly.

2. Blogging. Setting up a blog is free and it’s fun. Every time you post, provide a link to your website and then submit it to social bookmarking websites. This will get you several important backlinks to your blog and to your website every time you post. Search engines love blogs so do this as much as probable.

3. Blog Commenting. Search other individuals’s blogs and post useful comments. This is only legitimate if you post in blogs that allow links back to your website. Also, do properly read the post and make genuine comments, or else you could be accused of spamming.

4. Forums. Use time in on the internet forums that are pertinent to your business, and make sure you have a signature containing a hyperlinked keyword phrase to your website. Nearly all forums posts stay on the internet for a extensive time so this can give you backlinks for years. Of course, it’s important that you get properly involved in forums, providing practical information and asking genuine questions. Spammers are spotted very fast and you could be banned if you just use them purely for the backlinks.

5. Link exchange. Ask other website owners if you can exchange links, by providing a link to their website on yours and vice versa. This is known as mutual linking, which is not quite as influential as one-way linking, but is still worth while, especially if your link partner has a high page rank.

6. The media releases. Drive out a press release each time you provide a new product or service, or have some appealing news. Press releases have links to your website that can create traffic immediately and in future.

7. Write Testimonials. If you enter a business that has just launched, and are asked to write a testimonial, do it. These will be used in their sales pages and stay around for a extended time, giving you valuable traffic. Whenever you get the chance, offer to write testimonials for other people in exchange for a backlink.

Paid for backlinks

1. Purchase Ezine Ads. If you purchase advertising in on the internet ezines you will get a backlink to your website. Buying multiple ads will save money and time because you will only need one acquisition to be in several ezines.

2. Purchase ads on blogs. You can offer to pay for a text link on somebody else’s blog, and if they have a frequent readership this can give you enormous exposure for your website as well as increased backlinks.

The above ideas are the most well known ways to get backlinks, but you ought to continuously use your imagination to get as many free backlinks as you can (rightfully of course). If you do this regularly you will find your website rankings just keep moving up.
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