Are you spending hours each day trying to build up the number of links to your site ? Try these three tips to save time and possibly gain hundreds or thousands more backlinks than you ever expected.
The success of your site on the internet will depend on many factors but there are perhaps none more important than your link building campaign. Here are 3 tips to gaining backlins that you may not have thought of.
Number One:
Write Articles.
Writing an article can be hard work, but it is a strategy that could pay off for years to come. You may not think that you have any expertise on a particular subject, but you do have a website, and you will be knowlegeable on the subject you have chosen for it. Write an article on the theme of your website and you have just become an expert in your field. Submit it to all the article directories on the internet.
Each one of these directories that hosts your article will then be displaying your work, including the link to your website that is included within it.
If you have written a clear and informative article then you should not be surprised by the huge number of downloads it receives - webmasters everywhere are constantly looking for new content but many are too busy designing their site to be able to write themselves. Many of these webmasters are creating sites with hundreds or even thousands of pages and they need masses of content quickly. They also know where the article directories are. Each time a webmaster adds your article to their site your link will be in it and you have just earned yourself another backlink.
Number Two:
Join a cooperative link exchange scheme. These schemes have the potential to give you more backlinks in a few minutes than you could possibly hope to recieve in a year of manually adding them. They take advantage of a huge database of websites that are also looking for backlinks. Don't forget : the internet is a huge network - so why not take advantage of the power of networking.
There are many link exchanges to be found on the internet. The best known of these is www.digitalpoint.com/tools/ad-network If you have a larger site with a good pagerank then you could gain 1000+
inbound links simply by adding a few lines of code to your website.
Number Three:
Automate your reciprocal linking by employing reciprocal linking software. Why spend hours emailing webmasters and manually adding reciprocal links when you could simply use a reciprocal link script, set up at your website, processing the links, adding them to your website and l monitoring to make sure each webmaster has posted your link to their website. This will save you time and allow you to to more constructive work, such as writing articles.
To find cheap reciprocal linking software I would recommend searching for it on ebay.
Are you spending hours each day trying to build up the number of links to your site ? Try these three tips to save time and possibly gain hundreds or thousands more backlinks than you ever expected.
Author: Lee Munson runs www.info-sales.co.uk, a website dedicated to supplying useful and comprehensive webmaster resources, including huge lists of free non-reciprocal directories and over a hundred article submission sites.