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Backlinks are a fundamental part of internet promotion, and if you are not doing all you can to add to them, you will battle to get traffic to your site. A backlink is a link pointing back to your site from another website. You need to be doing a little every day to add to your backlinks in order to increase your website rankings, so below I have laid out seven ways of getting free backlinks, plus two paid ways.

Free Backlinks

1. Article promotion. If you are reading this article on an article ezine, you will see a resource box at the base. This holds links to my websites. If you can write articles twice a week or more, and present them to many directories, you will add to your backlinks quickly.

2. Blogging. Setting up a blog is free and it’s fun. Each time you post, provide a link to your site and then submit it to social bookmarking sites. This will get you more than a few important backlinks to your blog and to your site every time you post. Search engines love blogs so do this as much as possible.

3. Blog Commenting. Search other people’s blogs and post helpful comments. This is only valid if you post in blogs that allow links back to your site. Also, do properly read the post and make genuine comments, or else you could be accused of spamming.

4. Forums. Use time in on the internet forums that are pertinent to your business, and make sure you have a signature that has a hyperlinked keyword phrase to your site. Nearly all forums posts stay on the internet for a long time so this can give you backlinks for a long time. Of course, it’s important that you get properly involved in forums, providing useful data and asking genuine questions. Spammers are marked very quickly and you could be banned if you just use them purely for the backlinks.

5. Link exchange. Ask other site owners if you can exchange links, by giving a link to their website on yours and vice versa. This is known as reciprocal linking, which is not quite as powerful as one-way linking, but is still worth while, especially if your link partner has a high page rank.

6. The media releases. Send out a press release each time you provide a new product or service, or have some appealing news. Press releases have links to your website that can create traffic immediately and in future.

7. Write Testimonials. If you join a company that has just launched, and are asked to write a testimonial, do it. These will be used in their sales pages and stay around for a long time, giving you valuable traffic. Whenever you get the chance, offer to write testimonials for other people in exchange for a backlink.

Paid for backlinks

1. Purchase Ezine Ads. If you buy advertising in on the internet ezines you will get a backlink to your site. Purchasing multiple ads will save money and time because you will only need one purchase to be in several ezines.

2. Purchase ads on blogs. You can offer to pay for a text link on somebody else’s blog, and if they have a frequent readership this can give you huge contact for your site as well as enlarged backlinks.

The above ideas are the mainly well known ways to obtain backlinks, but you should constantly use your imagination to get as many free backlinks as you can (rightfully of course). If you do this regularly you will find your site rankings just keep moving up.
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