To get free, natural traffic from search engines, you must generate backlinks to your website. Backlinks, or inbound links, create your PageRank and make search engines put your website in front of search engines more often. That is why link building has become an important part of internet marketing.
Creating backlinks is not difficult, but it can be time consuming and tedious. To get inbound links, you can do the same as big and popular sites like YouTube, eBay, Amazon, etc., create a valuable resource for people, a website with great information on a certain topic that they will want to return to over and over time. They will then link back to your site.
However, for the snowball to start rolling and get some initial traffic, you’ll need to build inbound links in advance. Please note that both the quality and quantity of your inbound links are important as well as the relevance of the links (your backlinks should be placed on sites that are topically related to your own site).
There are many ways to create inbound links, and these are some of the most common:
Articles
Article marketing is one of the oldest SEO strategies out there. Write articles and publish them in article directories. In addition to incorporating links to your site from those articles, you can also get traffic directly from the articles, from people who read an article and click on your links. Your articles can also be republished on other sites, which can lead to a lot of backlinks from various websites, along with direct traffic from them.
Blog comment
By leaving a comment on a blog in your niche, you can receive a link to your site from a site related to yours. Many blogs will allow visitors to leave your site’s web address along with your comment, which links to your site. To make sure your post is approved by the blog owner, please provide a useful and interesting comment.
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Many forums are an excellent source of information that you can hardly find anywhere else. By posting on forums, you can get inbound links by adding a link to your website in your signature, and you can also receive traffic directly from your forum posts. Forum traffic is often very specific.
Web directories
Web directories are compilations of websites categorized by topic, and you will generally have the option to choose a category in which you want to appear. A web directory is a great place to add your URL and receive a fast backlink. There are plr paid and free directories.
Social sites
Social bookmarking and networking have become a big deal in recent years when it comes to attracting inbound links and driving website traffic. Sites like StumbleUpon and Delicious, Facebook and Twitter, can help create backlinks immensely, as well as generate a reasonable amount of direct traffic.
Link Baiting
Link bait means that you offer something valuable and useful on your website that people want or need. Once they have found your site, they will link to it so they can come back for more when they want. By offering useful and unique content that is naturally ‘link worthy’, you can have many other sites linked to yours. ‘How-to guides’ can be an excellent tactic for people to link to your site.
There are many more methods of creating inbound links, both free and paid. Creating backlinks can be a tedious and time consuming task, but generating traffic to your website is absolutely critical. Buying backlinks can be an alternative if you don’t want to do all the work yourself.
