How to Increase your Backlinks

Posted on August 12th, 2008 by Ganesh under Blogging Tips

In case you don’t know, there is a contest running on this blog. Make sure you join it.

The last time I looked at the number of backlinks to my blog, it was 119. So I was working on ways to increase the number of backlinks to my blog and wrote a post which can help you do the same.

Comments. Comments. And Comments.

I used the word thrice to emphasize its importance. This is the best way to increase backlinks. And this is what drives the much of the traffic to my blog. For traffic from comments, I’d like to recommend that you stick to a few particular blogs. Especially those ones which have the Top Commentators list and CommentLuv enabled. If you are a regular commentator at a blog, chances are that you are in the top commentators list, which gives your blog a dofollow link. And CommentLuv is a great way of deep linking to your blog posts. Deep linking means linking to a post in your blog.

Please understand that there is a thin line between commenting and spamming. Don’t make yourself look as if you’re commenting just for the sake of gaining links. Or else, you’ll be labeled as a spammer. So be careful while commenting on blogs.

Forums

Forums like Digital Point allow signatures at the end of a post. That’s your way to create a great linkback to your blog.

Link from your other Blogs

If you have another blog which is well-ranked, you should link to your new blog from there. That way, your blog gets a lot of SEO-juice.

Start a Contest

If you’re aiming for a lot of backlinks then starting a contest is the way to go. Make sure that all the participants are required to link back to your blog and the contest post. A killer way for gaining links and deep links too. If you don’t want to organise a contest of your own, you can sponsor a contest at some other blog. Some good bloggers (like me ) will reward you by writing a small review about your blog if you sponsor a prize for their contest.

Set yourself a goal

When you’re planning to increase the number of links to your blog, make sure that you are creating a goal. Like “I wanna gain 200 backlinks to this blog by the end of August”. Make your goal achievable and also set a time limit.

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