A very important aspect to promoting a business is getting sufficient backlinks. Below are some tips as to how obtain backlinks your sites.
Forums- Joining and participating in forums related to your niche is a perfect way to build backlinks and get free traffic to your sites. The majority of forums allow you to place links in your signature file which is displayed at the bottom of all your posts.
Blog commenting - While not as lucrative as it once was, you can still get plenty of backlinks from blog commenting. You will want to make sure that the links are do follow however and be sure to provide valuable comments or risk having them be flagged as spam.
Article Writing: Article marketing is one of the top ways to build backlinks. Write articles and distribute them to as many article directories as possible (include ezine articles). You will not only build backlinks but also receive free traffic for years to come.
Social media sites: Build profiles in web 2.0 sites with links to your sites. Social media sites generally carry high PR with them. This is an added bonus for you and your sites.
Write Valuable Content: While a bit slower than the above methods, writing valuable content will get your site noticed. Viewers will naturally link to information they find useful and as a result get you a backlink. As the saying goes “content is king”
Backlinks are the backbone of online businesses. It is what Google uses to determine the authority of a site on a certain topic (amongst other variables)
Once all your on page seo is in place, your main task should be to get ranked in the search engines through building backlinks.
