Competition
among bloggers is at an all-time high, and with the number of blogs
rapidly increasing in almost every niche, the demand for SEO has reached
the zenith as well. Newbie bloggers, who don’t have much knowledge and
know-how about Search Engine Optimization usually end up working long
hours only to get disappointed in the months to come due to the low
traffic volumes on their blogs. While SEO comprises a long list of
interlinked factors which help to boost a site’s ranking in search
engines, in this article we are going to talk about the most essential
component of SEO, link building.
Building backlinks to your blog
means leaving the URL of your blog on various websites across the globe,
by employing various methods which we are going to extensively go
through in the list below. Here are some of the most useful &
rewarding ways to build backlinks to your site/blog:-
1. Guest Posting
Though
often neglected by most bloggers, this one is the best of them all.
Guest posting means you write an article on favorite or most desired
topic, including a link back to your blog and submitting it to any blog
related to your content that accepts guest posts. For example, if you
give blogging tips on your blog, you could submit guest posts to the
authority sites on blogging, which include copyblogger,
problogger.net and so on. Relevancy is the key here.
2. Article Directories
Submitting
content to article directories is one of the best ways to ensure your
blog gets traffic as well as high PR backlinks. The ones you should
specifically submit your content are the top ones such as Ezine
Articles, Goarticles, ArticleDashboard and so on. These are all high PR
directories which means every article you submit to them leads to a
quality backlink to your blog which can genuinely help boost your blog’s
ranking in SERPS.
3. Forum Posting
Another highly
successful way of building links, forum posting requires you to register
on a few forums related to your blog and post or start new threads on
them. Most forums allow users to use signatures which include links to
your blog. The more often you post and reply on the forum, the more
backlinks and traffic it leads to. Posting on a few forums a day is a
good way to ensure your link building efforts stay on the right track.
4. Commenting
The
easiest method of building backlinks and used by almost all bloggers
who are acquainted with the basics of link building. The rule to follow
while commenting is to give genuine insights on a post and not submit
spam comments, since they decrease your credibility and most likely the
comment won’t get approved as well, which means your effort goes to
waste. Look for blogs that have commentluv enabled since they allow
dofollow backlinks in comments and try to comment on a few of them
everyday. Don’t go all out and start commenting on a high number of
blogs each day. Commenting on 3-5 posts everyday might be a good way to
start.