
Backlinks or link building is the most popular and common technique
used to increase the authority of webpages. Websites with more quality
backlinks from high authority sites will lead to higher page rank and
better alexa ranking.
This will also improve the ranking of your website in Search Engine
Results. Also remember that is the quality and not the quantity of
backlinks which will boost the popularity of your website. Getting 2 or 3
back links from High Ranked websites are better than getting 100’s of
low quality backlinks from crappy websites.
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No-Follow and Do-Follow Backlinks
Backlinks can be no-follow or do-follow. The difference betweeen
these 2 is that when a rel=”nofollow” tag is inserted in the html link
tag of any URL, it will inform the crawlers not to follow the mentioned
URL means that the backlinks will not be helpful to boost the ranking of
that URL where as of rel=”dofollow” tag is placed in the link, then
the it the authority of referring page will be shared to the linked
page. This does not means that there is no importance of getting
nofollow backlinks. If you get one or 2 backlinks from
high authority websites you will surely get targeted traffic from there
and that is the topic i am going to discuss here.
Common methods of Generating Backlinks
There are different ways of getting backlinks and most common methods are mentioned below:
- Commenting On Relevant Blogs
- Guest Posting
- Social Book Marking
- Internal Linking
Today, i am going to discuss about getting backlinks from well known
websites which are accessed daily by millions of people from all over
the world. Yes, these include Facebook, Wikepidia,Youtube
Facebook,the most popular social networking website can also help you
to get a backlink which will become a source of social traffic for your
blog/website. Remember that in the coming days, Traffic from Social
media networks like Facebook,Google+,Twitter e.t.c is going to play a
big role in the SEO industry. As Google is introducing Google Authorship
feature which will be solely based on your Social Media Engagement.
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You can get also backlink from Facebook by
Creating a Page for you website/blog and putting the url of your website in the website box and also in the about box. Another way is to
create a Note and
Write a description about your blog there. Also remember that Facebook
Notes may include HTML tags. Surely, you can upload images and create a
stylish page about your website in Facebook Notes and also share a link
to it. Do not forget to set the privacy of your note to Public, so that
it will also be crawled by Search Engines and can be seen by Anyone.
As i already discussed about Google authorship in the above
paragraph, you should also keep in mind that Google Authorship is mainly
dependent on Google+ engagement link circles,+1s,shares e.t.c as
compared to other social networks. In order to have a backlink from
Google+ , just
login at Google+ with your Google account and go to the
about tab of your profile and click in edit profile button. Scroll down and you will see the heading named
Contributed To there. Click there and add a link to your website.
Also
create a brand page about your website on Google+ and the link your website to it.
The third website in my list is wikipedia. The above mentioned sites
are much known for back links but getting backlinks from Wikipedia is
not much common. Wikipedia is the best source of information about any
thing including latest technology, Trends, People e.t.c and it provide
information from all over the world. Wikipedia is also appears in
top searches results by Google Also, anyone can easily edit the content
published on Wikipedia. So, first you have to search wikipedia for
topic related to your website and if its seems good,you can insert your
website link in the
external links portion at the end of article.
YouTube,the popular video website can also be a source of traffic for
you. Its viewed by millions of people world wide. You can upload videos
there just by getting logged in to your Google account and then you can
edit your profile and place your website URL there. Also you can create
a video for your website or products and upload it at YouTube Do
comment on other YouTube videos so that your profile gets more popular
over YouTube. Try to get subscriptions there and you will surely get
bunch of visitors from YouTube.
The last website i am going to discuss with you will be much more
helpful then all those mentioned above. Technorati is one of the popular
web directory of blogs with a
Page Rank of 8. Another interesting thing about it is that they provide
dofollow backlinks. First of all you have to
signup there
at technorati. Complete your profile and add your blog to their list by
selecting the related categories. You have to verify the authorship of
your blog by embedding a code provided by them. After their bot crawls
the embedded code then you can remove the code from your blog. Finally,
Technorati team will email you about approval of your blog with in a
week or two. The newly published posts will be automatically crawled by
their bots.