Backlinks to your website are very important because they often determine how well you rank in the search engines.However, the backlinks need to be relevant meaning they have to come from websites and content that is the same kind as yours.For instance, I get links from blogs talking about marketing and work from home topics and not from totally unrelated things like landscaping and baking for instance.
How can you tell if your current backlinks are relevant? The easiest way is to visit Yahoo! Site Explorer and see who is linking to you.
Go to Yahoo! Site Explorer and put your website URL in the box highest on the page and click “Explore URL”.Then click on the “inlinks” buttons.You will get all the back links pointing to your website as a result. (Yahoo! Site Explorer: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/)
How to make sure your future backlinks will be relevant? Here are a few useful tips.
#1.Only leave comments at blogs that are relevant to yours
Depending on your niche, you need to find blogs and other websites that are in the same niche as you and are “do follow” to get a link back.Internet marketing is a big niche meaning it is very easy to find suitable sites.For instance, WinningTheWeb.com Internet Marketing Top 100 Blogs List.
#2.Buy links
I have never purchased links because I know how to get them for free.If you are looking to buy relevant backlinks the easiest way is to use Angela´s backlinks. (Google for Angela´s backlinks)
#3.Use a tool
There is a tool called Utilityposter that I use to link out to other bloggers and write useful content.With Utilityposter I can get valuable trackbacks to my own blog that are far more valuable than normal blog comments because I get backlinks with my keywords in them.
#4.Use article marketing
Write articles closely related to your topic, submit them to article directories and get a keyword rich links pointing back to your website.
#5.Use Forums
Participate in related forums and use the sig-file to get a link back to your website each time you leave a response or ask a question.
#6.Edu-links
Sites with the .edu ending are used by educational institutes and these sites often have a high page rank.Finding relevant .edu sites and getting a link back from these sites is difficult but worth the trouble.Here is more information about getting high PR .edu links.
What do you think? Leave a comment.
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This is cool, I have no idea about this Yahoo Site Explorer. Those 6 tips you said are very true, we use it too for our blogs. But unfortunately we aren’t lucky with .edu sites.
Hi Tom,
Thanks for the link love. I agree with you for backlink building, relevant backlinks are the cream of the crop as they have more value than non relevant links. However if these non relevant links are high PR like PR6 to PR9, even with lower value, there’s still hell of a lot of link juice passing through. Just like people are finding much success using Angela’s high PR backlinks, which are all not relevant.
All great resources, but I will add web 2.0 sites as well as a good way to get backlinks.
I have seen several link services like Angela’s backlinks but it seems that as soon as they publish link sources they get spammed fairly quickly and webmasters just shut them down. So my advice is not to waste your money on that kind of services.
Thanks, great post.
I’ve had some great success with .edu and .org back links. However, you have to be careful to make sure they are relevant sites.However, I would agree with Peter’s comment about non relevant links are high PR.
Hi Joe, thanks for commenting.You are right, edu-links are really powerful but getting your comment approved on those sites is not so simple.
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