How To Increase Backlinks

Read this article to learn how to increase backlinks to your site. Increasing backlinks helps toward improving your Google SEO which increases your Google PageRank which in return helps towards improving your online marketing. Overall successful blogging requires backlinks, and after reading this short article you will know how to increase backlinks to your site.

What are backlinks? Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. Backlinks enable you to keep track of other pages on the web that link to your posts. The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page. In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another web node (Björneborn and Ingwersen, 2004). Backlinks are also called incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.

What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? Search engine optimization (SEO) as a subset of search engine marketing seeks to improve the number and quality of visitors to a web site from “natural” (”organic” or “algorithmic”) search results. The quality of visitor traffic can be measured by how often a visitor using a specific keyword leads to a desired conversion action, such as making a purchase or requesting further information. In effect, SEO is marketing by appealing first to machine algorithms to increase search engine relevance and secondly to human visitors. The term SEO can also refer to “search engine optimizers”, an industry of consultants who carry out optimization projects on behalf of clients.

How To Increase Backlinks?

Luckily, increasing backlinks to your site is very easy, but something that typically is totally overlooked. So many bloggers worry about why their posts/articles don’t receive any comments… where in reality you should be only worried about commenting on other blog sites. Commenting is the key to increasing backlinks. For every comment you leave on another blog site, eventually this will count as a backlink. It does take time for Google to account for the link and attribute the backlink back to your site. It seems like once every four months is when Google updates their PageRank. But again, its just a matter of time before Google does find the pages you comment on. Additionally, as these pages that you comment on increase in their own PageRank, so will your page that links from these pages. Commenting on other sites is very important towards increasing backlinks to your site. Also it is important that you do not spam people on other sites. If you comment on another site, make sure the content reflects that high quality and unique content already found on your site. Google bots as well as people are less interested in comments that say, “Hey, nice site… I liked your article”. It is better to add your opinion, view, or suggestion in comments. The more content you add, the more keyword groups Google will eventually tag up with your content.

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eches Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 1-8-2007 01:10:07 Comment #59

well versed posts in your blog. I just add your blog into my feed. I like it very much.Keep posting! :)

 
Garry Conn Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 1-8-2007 03:33:07 Comment #60

Thanks for the compliment eches. I like your site too and did the same.

 
Ramanathan Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 1-11-2007 04:17:44 Comment #61

Useful info mate. Well written. I think Google updates PR more often than 4 months. I will make it sure by writing to them and let you know.

 
Garry Conn Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 1-11-2007 17:34:30 Comment #62

Ramanathan,

Thanks for the compliment and the comment! Wow, if you are willing to contact Google and find out that is awesome. Would you come back here to this article and comment back when they reply back? Nice meeting with you and I have received your email and will be responding shortly.

Talk to you soon,
Garry

 
Frank Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 4-13-2007 14:58:19 Comment #65

I have read your articles and you do supply a lot of good information.Through my own research I came across several ways that are very effective in building backlinks how-ever no one talks about them even though people are using them.
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Garry Conn Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 4-14-2007 13:18:09 Comment #66

Site looks pretty good. You have an issue though and need to find out some where you have forgot a closing </a> tag because both your left and right sidebar are linking back to your homepage.

 
Edward Chung Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 5-14-2007 22:14:09 Comment #67

Great tips. I am trying to increase traffic to my design blog. Test out your suggestion of increasing backlink by putting a comment here. Wait to see if that works…

 
Etienne Teo Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-8-2007 22:25:54 Comment #2886

I am currently accepting baclinking through blog reviews exchange with other who have the common relevant information like me and commenting is another way to get you with lots of backlinks!

 
Sazkul Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 9-9-2007 09:20:51 Comment #4850

Yeah i will try this suggestion to increase my traffic…

 
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Date/Time: 9-28-2007 06:54:56 Comment #5365

I did’n know commenting on other blogs or website is also counted as backlinks. Thanks.

 
Michele Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 3-10-2008 11:26:33 Comment #12277

The web is full of people selling links, and other practices which in the end will only damage your page rank.
The funny thing is that they ask you money to hurt you, or provide absolutely uneffective/zero value services, all in the name of SEO.

 
vadi Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 7-22-2008 21:11:49 Comment #17266

Very nice post dude !! So long i have suffering on how to increase my backlinks but just now realized how easy it is…. Am gonna follow your steps from now onwards and so is my fist comment to you!!! :)

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Mang Wrote a Comment: Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 4-15-2009 13:49:20 Comment #33152

I like your idea, but how do the search engines link this comment back to my site. I see that you asked for my URL, but just wondering how it actually works.

 
 
Raju Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 8-21-2008 22:04:51 Comment #19048

I got this article when i was googling how to improve the backlinks. Almost all articles say the same thing as yours. But its true though :)
thanks for the tips :)

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Raju Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 8-21-2008 22:06:19 Comment #19049

My previous comment didnt turn up, needs moderation? if so, sorry for double posting

 
uzoma Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 10-15-2008 00:08:58 Comment #24153

really appreciate thes tips of yours they help quite alot and I look forward to getting the best from my blogs and web sites

 
Samar Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 10-20-2008 22:05:40 Comment #24550

I liked the way you have clearly specified that how to increase the backlinks and in further the page rank of the website.
I have gone through many similiar links and posts and most of them finally comes to ask for some sort of money or like that to exchange the link.
I tried to post the URL of my friend’s website at many places but whenever I search thru link:http://chotanarad.com .. I have just seen only 4-5 backlink but whenever I searched http://www.chotanarad.com on google I got more than 10 page results. I am not able to understand that why is this happening.

Thanks anyways!!!

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http://www.chotanarad.com

 
vinit Wrote a Comment: Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 11-5-2008 01:37:59 Comment #25858

yeah, nice post…..but i guess it takes some time to get actually backlink

-VInit

Check out vinit’s last blog post..Removed navbar from blog and some more updates.

 
lec Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 11-20-2008 01:28:17 Comment #26968

Thanks a lot of for the valauble tips. It certainly help to improve our blog by leaving comments and exchanging ideas with others bloggers.

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Adam Wrote a Comment: Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 12-17-2008 12:28:47 Comment #28154

This is really interesting post. I also think that commenting is one of the best and the most easiest way to make backlinks. I had been working on this for a long time and i expect that soon i’ll see some good results for it.

 
slym Wrote a Comment: Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 1-29-2009 05:59:38 Comment #29822

This is really great, I understood the power of commenting sometime back and regularly comment on other sites, it have resulted as well in a months time my Google PR have increased from 0 to 2. Anyways your post is really great and I am looking further suggestions which i can implement and improve further.

 
Amit Parikh Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 4-29-2009 02:47:06 Comment #33316

I tried a lot but ast the same time no result will be reflected in back link list.Google not found more back link for http://www.tradereader.com. What is the Reason for that

 
Matthew Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 5-30-2009 23:29:46 Comment #33938

Thank you for the very informative article. I also want to mention that submitting articles to directories is a great way to increase backlinks. Just make sure that it is original content and on a topic that you have some knowledge of.

–Matthew

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Vishala Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-5-2009 08:02:25 Comment #34067

Just 1 or 2 backlinks per day will help a grt deal with time…
Back links are the simple n yet effective means of promoting ones site.
I have observed many ppl making great consistent income wid this simple tactic.
Now i shall try it out..for me…

 
Utsav Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-28-2009 21:07:19 Comment #34901

Do not hurry, just make your comments some a day, it will make a huge in a year, so, you can make back links 2 – 5 per day, that mean you will make 1500 backlink a year. so make back links regularly

 
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