Backlink Building - Part 1 - Introduction
• Apr 3rd, 2008 • Category: Getting Traffic
What is a backlink and why does it concern me?
Straight from wikipedia, backlinks are:
….incoming links to a website or web page. The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page.
You may be thinking that this doesn’t concern you, however, creating a vast amount of backlinks can vastly improve your PageRank and position in search engine results pages, driving more visitors to your website.
This is a multi-series guide to building backlinks in many ways, from free methods to the paid ways.
Current Backlinks
It would be good to see how many backlinks you have now without any optimisation (unless you’ve already done some!). A few websites tell you how many links back to your site they have found. iwebtool have a handy tool to let you know how many backlinks a site has. Go here to check how many you have.
Different Ways of Increasing Backlink Count
We will go through the following ways of getting more backlinks:
Social Media
Classified Ads
Forum and Blog Comments