Where Do I Get Backlinks?
Friday, August 24th, 2007Categories: Search Engine Optimization SEO
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Someone recently sent me an email asking me how I got so many Backlinks in such a short period of time (the domain name is only two and a half months old). I thought it was a great question, so I’ll elaborate in this article.
If you’re newer to Search Engine Optimization, I wrote my interpretation of the definition for Backlink in a previous article describing the differences between an OK Backlink and a Great Backlink. Let’s start off with some basics.
How Do I Check My Backlinks?
The resource I found easiest to use to check your Backlinks is Yahoo! Site Explorer. Once you type in your domain name into the search field, select Inlinks. To slightly filter your results, click the dropdown and select Except From This Domain. This should give you a pretty good idea what your backlinks are. Scroll through them, have a look at them, learn from them. This is a great resource and if PageRank is a major concern for you, even more so. And now for the million dollar question:
Where Did I Get My Backlinks?
I sat down and analyzed where my Backlinks were coming from:
- Forum Signatures - These aren’t the best in terms of quality, but boy do they inflate your number of Backlinks. This is my biggest source of low-value Backlinks. I was very active at some forums and when you have thousands of posts, each with a link to your website, they start to add up. Tips:
- Dig up old forum accounts and change your signature
- Participate in forums that deal with your website’s niche - Create a signature, and participate in the community. Remember: don’t spam, genuinely participate.
- Site-Wide Links From Friends - Better then links from Forum Signatures, links from Blogrolls or other side-wide links also inflate your Backlink number. They might not have the highest quality (as internal pages typically have lower Pagerank), they are still valuable none-the-less. Tips:
- Build your network of friends - Even if it doesn’t net you Backlinks, you still end up with friends.
- Commenting On Other People’s Blogs - As more of an act of building a network then building Backlinks, I managed to get a lot of Backlinks from other people’s blogs through commenting. Often, when commenting, you’re asked for your name, website and email. You shouldn’t feel guilty promoting your site. Fill in the website field, often your link will be rel=”nofollow”, sometimes, it won’t. This can net you Backlinks from internal pages. Tips:
- Genuinely participate in like-minded blogs - If you’re doing it for backlinks, bloggers will see transparency, and who knows what will happen after that.
So if you’re desperate for Backlinks, have a look at my sources and maybe that’ll give you some ideas. That’s all. Hope that helps. 
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August 27th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Nice article Patrick. The signature thing is a good idea.
August 27th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Thanks Stefan.
August 30th, 2007 at 3:49 am
Well you seem to be pursuing backlinks quite actively
I suppose I should start doing the same. Nice tips 
September 6th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
I see you ended up creating an article. Nicely done! This information was useful to me. Do you find yourself getting alot of traffic from all the linkbacks you have?
September 7th, 2007 at 10:43 am
Not substantial amounts, but of course, the ones I do get, were worth every little bit of “trouble”
January 3rd, 2008 at 3:07 am
Nice Knowledge you shared here friend !
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:13 am
No problem, schoolsonweb. It was my pleasure.
January 20th, 2008 at 1:22 am
I’m digging up my old forum accounts and changing my signatures as we speak.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Good luck Gamer.
July 11th, 2008 at 10:49 am
simple and creative info.. thanks dude
July 11th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Just glad to help, zegran. Thank you.
August 13th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Very good common sense approach - no ‘black hat’ techniques.
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 am
Thanks for the advice, its really helpful. Im going to give this a try and will give you some feedback. thanks
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:37 am
Thanks for your valuable advice
December 10th, 2009 at 2:27 am
yes thanks I never really added signatures to my forums posts, big help!!!
December 13th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Well after all these years I missed this now I’m on it, backlinks here I come but how may back links make a PR page?
December 23rd, 2009 at 12:56 am
One of the most important factors in Search Engine Optimization is the number of incoming links to your website, the relevance of the website linking to you, the anchor text used for the link, and the page ranking of the webpage linking to you. We have tried it and have found it very useful to increase our page rank on google. We are a tender information portal, www.tradereader.com. We used tenders as our anchor text. We suggest any site to try and increase the backlinks.
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Yes, yes I know but how do I increase my backlinks when I have about 9000 but google only says I have 8. I scratch my head on that one.
January 17th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Sometimes I can see some vendors on ebay like abcmarketing or aladygma-marketing that sell a lot of backlinks packages…don’t know which techs they use but maybe can be useful or at least confortable…Lee
February 12th, 2010 at 10:10 am
One of the most important factors in Search Engine Optimization is the number of incoming links to your website, the relevance of the website linking to you, the anchor text used for the link, and the page ranking of the webpage linking to you. We have tried it and have found it very useful to increase our page rank on google. We are a tender information portal, www.tendertiger.com We used tenders as our anchor text. We suggest any site to try and increase the backlinks.