Get Backlinks – Here are the 11 methods and backlink tools I use

Written by Andrew Rondeau in blogging guide | 291 Awesome Comments - Add Yours?

backlinksMy blog has 7670 backlinks as stated in my blog post Blogging Guide Blog Is One Year Old and since then I’ve had a number of personal emails asking me how I get backlinks.

By the way, today the number of backlinks is 7790.

In this post I share 11 methods I use but first…what is a backlink:

Simply put, a backlink is a link on a website (including blogs) that leads back to your website / blog.

In search engine optimization (SEO), page rank is at least partially determined by the number of sites that link to yours. It’s important to gain backlinks honestly, and if a lot of other sites link back to you, you will naturally get more traffic to your page.

There is a lot of argument around the quality of backlinks.

We are to believe that a backlink from a website that is in the same niche as yours carries more weight. That would make sense.

Also, we are to believe the higher the Page Rank of the website you are getting backlinks also carries more weight.

So, ideally we want backlinks from websites in our niche and with a Page Rank of 10!

There are not many of those around unfortunately.

My approach is to mix it up and not get too hung up about whether the backlinks are in my niche or coming from very high Page Rank websites. Personally, I have too many other aspects of my on-line business that I want to keep running.

One more thing to mention…

When back-linking try and use the anchor text of your targeted keyword phrase. Read my post on anchor text here: How to use anchor text to your advantage

1. Blog Commenting

An easy way to get backlinks is to target Blogs that ‘Do-Follow’.  If you want to follow do-follow blogs (i.e. the ones that provide you with a backlink), here’s a great list: http://followlist.com/

When you comment try and include your name AND your anchor text. Something like: Terry @ Tips for horse lovers

In this example the anchor text is “Tips for horse lovers”.

Aim to make 10 valuable comments per day.

2. Article Directories

Submitting your articles is a straightforward process.

You simply copy your blog post, add a bio with a link or two back to your site in the resource box. Then you submit these articles to article directories.

Some popular Article Directories for you to try out are:

http://www.ezinearticles.com

http://thewhir.com

http://www.goarticles.com

http://www.buzzle.com

http://articlealley.com

http://www.searchwarp.com

http://www.ehow.com

You can just copy and paste your blog articles – you will still get a backlink but if you want to improve your overall SEO and traffic you may wish to use a tool I recently came across and now use: The Best Spinner

The Best Spinner creates unique articles for you to publish on the article directories.

And ArticleBot automatically submits your articles (spun or not) to over 400 different Article Directories.

3. RSS Directories

I mention this technique over and over again but there are so many people who just don’t use it and it is one of the easiest ways to get automatic backlinks.

Check out this post and submit your blog feed (and others) to the RSS Directories:

How you make your blog index quicker, build back-links and increase your traffic with a task that takes 2 minutes and you only have to do it once

4. Web Directories

Only a couple of years ago, submitting your blog to the web directories was a must. Nowadays, Google, it is believed, doesn’t put so much importance on the free Web Directory listings.

However, I still do submit the sites to the Free Web Directories. As far as I am concerned, the effort it takes is quite minimal, it only has to be completed once and you still get more backlinks and some of them are high Page Ranking.

So I recommend you submit your domain to various Web Directories.

Please note: there can be a waiting period involved, sometimes as much as a few months.

Again, I use tools and services rather than manually carry out myself.

I can recommend DirectoryBot and Directory Maximizer.

5. Social Bookmarking

Most of the very popular social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit do not give you a backlink when you social bookmark your blog post.

However there are some that do! Sites like:

http://www.mister-wong.com/

http://www.spurl.net/

http://www.diigo.com/

I use the tool Bookmarking Demon to submit my blog posts to several of the social bookmarking sites automatically.

6. Web 2.0 Sites

Write a unique blog post and create a hub page using Squidoo or HubPages. These sites provide excellent backlinks.

Read my guest post What is a Hub-Page and Why Should You Make One? to find out more.

7. Video Sites

These days having some video blog posts is a must and once created you can submit them to numerous video sites automatically by using TubeMogul.

8. Angela’s Backlinks

Angela’s Backlinks provides you with a monthly report of 30 High Page Rank sites, using screenshots so that you can copy and have backlinks in place linking back to your site within minutes.

And the price for such a report?

$5 a month!

Here’s the link for more information: Angela’s Backlinks

9. Forums

By joining a forum and adding a signature – each time you add a forum post, you can get a backlink (depending upon the forum).

Forums are regularly indexed by search engines, and by joining and adding a signature in your profile, it is another way to get some good backlinks with your desired anchor text. If the forum is a popular one, a backlink can be extremely valuable.

In a lot of cases however, administrators don’t allow links in forums posts.  Some administrators even prohibit the search engines from indexing their content.

10. Guest Posting

Guest posting is not just about getting the backlink. It is much more than that. Read my post on Guest Blogging.

11. Internal Links

Internal links from one blog post to another blog post on your site also count as backlinks.

Each time you write a blog post, try and backlink to a previous post. That way you are also adding another backlink. Plus you are enticing your visitors to see some of your other previous posts.

Powerful tip:

What is an automatic way of linking to other blog posts?

Use the MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate Plugin.

Not only does it link to affiliate products, you can set up certain keywords to link to your previous posts…and when you first install it…it adds links to all your previous blog posts as well. Instantly you could get a few hundred backlinks. The number depends upon how many published blog posts you have and how many ‘backlinks’ you ask the plugin to add per blog post. I have a maximum of only 2, otherwise it can become spammy looking.

I know I have mentioned numerous ways to build backlinks but by carrying out these tasks you will also gain loads more traffic.

The Tools

One more thing to mention before I finish…within this post I list many of the tools I use each day to help me build backlinks and traffic. If you were to do several of the tasks mentioned by hand (i.e. manually), you would be spending all day just doing the tasks and have no time for anything else…like writing great content and building relationships.

So for me, the tools below are worth investing in and most are one-off payments:

The Best Spinner: simply creates unique articles for you to publish on the article directories

ArticleBot: automatically submits your articles (spun or not) to over 400 different Article Directories.

RSSBot: Submits your blog feeds (and Twitter, article directories, Facebook…) to over 30 RSS directories – meaning publish a blog post and get 30 backlinks instantly!)

DirectoryBot and Directory Maximizer: Submit your blog domain to hundreds of Article directories.

Bookmarking Demon: Submit your blog posts to Do-Follow social bookmarking sites automatically.

Angela’s Back-links provides you with a monthly report of 30 High Page Rank sites, using screenshots so that you can copy and have backlinks in place linking back to your site within minutes.

MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate Plugin:  Automatically set-up internal backlinks to your previous posts in an instant.

The links to the tools I use and recommend in this post are affiliate links so if you decide to go ahead and purchase, I will earn some commission.

How do you get backlinks? What tools or methods do you use? Share your views in the comments below.

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291 Responses to Get Backlinks – Here are the 11 methods and backlink tools I use
  1. Corinne Edwards

    I have a “Hot File” and many of the articles in it are yours.

    I did not know this -

    “Most of the very popular social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit do not give you a backlink when you social bookmark your blog post.”

    Thanks for being so generous with your knowledge.
    .-= Corinne Edwards´s last blog ..HAPPINESS – and the good ol’ days =-.

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  2. Rich Hill from linkmoney.org

    Ah my favorite subject.

    Nice post and thanks for sharing all these ideas. Still waiting to see even one of my Angela’s links in a link checker. Not too sure the profile links have much clout. Maybe though, time will tell.
    Rich
    .-= Rich Hill @linkmoney.org´s last blog ..Become a Warrior Join their Forum =-.

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    • Andrew Rondeau
      Twitter:

      Rich,

      Sometimes Angelas links do tack a little while to kick in.

      How long you been waiting and how are you checking?

      Andrew

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  3. Lois Wyant

    Do you know if articlebot works with MAC?

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  4. CJ from Page Landing

    Andrew — thanks for the list. I use a few that you have mentioned above and I have tried Best Spinner as well. It certainly does speed things up when creating unique articles for the directories.

    Not sure I’ll be checking into Angela’s links. I looked into that a couple years ago and just wasn’t impressed with the information being provided. With SEO Book toolbar it’s easy enough for me to see the PR of a page, but I’m not too picky about the PR or niches. I just rather read what I like and leave comments on the blogs I follow. I just need to weed out the blogs I follow to a managable amount.
    .-= CJ@Page Landing´s last blog ..KeywordLuv CommentLuv – Luv is All Around =-.

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    • Andrew Rondeau
      Twitter:

      CJ,

      Best Spinner certainly speeds things up.

      Re: Angela’s Backlinks – I just like the fact that the sites are found for you and your get screen shots of what to do. And for $5 that’s good value. I then get my admin person for follow the steps and build the backlinks.

      Re: Comments. I know I have the same problem – which ones to comment on and which ones not to – my ‘best blogs’ list is growing!

      Did you ever write that time management post?

      Andrew

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      • CJ from Page Landing

        Andrew — LOL. An admin person. I’m not at that stage yet, hopefully before the year’s out.

        Yes that must read blog list is definitely growing.

        And, I still have that draft done, but…wait for it…I haven’t had time to finish it. Hopefully, I can manage my time better this week than last. :-)
        .-= CJ @ Page Landing´s last blog ..KeywordLuv CommentLuv – Luv is All Around =-.

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  5. Cheryl from thatgirlisfunny
    Twitter:

    Once again, I’m having to rearrange my schedule to make time to review your valuable tips. Last time it was 111 plug-ins for wordpress. I’m sure this list will be even more fruitful! In fact, I can’t wait to get started. Thanks for sharing your best tips with us!
    .-= Cheryl from thatgirlisfunny´s last blog ..How boxing and martial arts landed me on the cover of “50 Athletes Over 50 Teach Us to Live a Strong, Healthy Life” =-.

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  6. Rob Wagner

    Hi Andrew,
    I found you through a guest post over at smallbizbee, You give a lot of good information here. Most people would not share how they get backlinks. I like the RSS Directories idea the best.

    Having a program that automates the process is a no brainier. One of the challenges is sometimes you just can’t get all of the backlinking done that you would like because of time and the effort that it takes.Auto software can help.

    One question, I know that article directories like Ezine will allow you to submit your blog post as an article, however, will Google not count the link because of duplicate content? The other issue is that the site you submit your article to can out rank you on Google.I tested this out one time. I submitted an article to a high PR site and Goggle gave the site position over my page.

    Thanks again Andrew,I will be following your blog and it was all because of a guest post, more testimony that what you have to say works.

    Thanks Rob

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    • Andrew Rondeau
      Twitter:

      Rob,

      The RSS tactic is a good one because you only have to do it once and from then on, backlinks grow every time you add a blog post.

      Adding the same content to other ezines is a Google duplicate content myth!

      You are not penalized by adding the same content to the ezines – I have been doing that for a long time and you still get the backlink. It is better, however, if you were to add a unique or ‘spun’ version of the content to the ezines – by doing this it would overcome the second issue you raise: “I submitted an article to a high PR site and Goggle gave the site position over my page.”

      Andrew

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      • Rob Wagner

        Thanks Andrew. You are correct, if you change the title it will not affect your target keyword that you want to rank for on your site. Spinning article have worked for me, Although spinning just the title would be a lot easier than the whole article. Thanks for the tips.

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        • Andrew Rondeau
          Twitter:

          Rob,

          The best spinner software is pretty neat. It takes about 30 minutes to get loads of ‘alternative’ versions. If you are lokking for a spinner – try it out for seven days for $7. Then if you don’t like it…cancel.

          Andrew

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          • CJ from Online Technical Writing

            I don’t like to push the buttons of those algorithms. I never post duplicate content, though most of my articles are linking to other people, advertising what I do, or recommending someone/something else. So in the end, I’m always “spinning” the post prior to submission.

            I think this is a cleaner way to go and puts out more quality articles for your backlinks. Unique Article Writing is another good product to try. They don’t have a trial version (though if you cancel within the first 30 days you get a full refund) and it costs $67 a month. However, not only does it create unique articles for you, but it will place them in article directories too. And I was told (no I haven’t had time to try this yet) that it will drip them into the directories over a period of time.
            .-= CJ@Online Technical Writing´s last blog ..KeywordLuv CommentLuv – Luv is All Around =-.

          • Andrew Rondeau
            Twitter:

            CJ,

            I have also heard good feedback on Unique Article Writing – never used myself, though.

            Andrew

  7. Dana from Blogging Update

    My blog have almost 20.000 back link which i get from my commenting activities.
    .-= Dana @ Blogging Update´s last blog ..How To Give Back The Vote Favor In Blog Engage =-.

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    • Andrew Rondeau
      Twitter:

      Dana,

      You must spend a lot of time commenting! How do you find time for all the other things needed in running an on-line business?

      Andrew

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  8. Jack from Online Marketing Blog

    Also Andrew, blogs like mine and yours using the CommentLuv and KeywordLuv plugins are great for readers to get backlinks!

    Reply
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  10. Tom from Best Affiliate Products To Sell

    I do quite a lot of commenting, but the majority of it is to start the relationship process off with bloggers. I am really interested in the idea of these Angela links, so I am off to check out the link you provided.
    .-= Tom@Best Affiliate Products To Sell´s last blog ..How To Get People To Promote Your Product =-.

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    • Andrew Rondeau
      Twitter:

      Tom,

      Commenting is a great way to start…then send them an email asking for some advice…people are flattered when they are asked to share their advice…then a guest blog…then a jv…then…all from a few comments!

      Andrew

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  12. Julius

    It is also important to remember to do these 11 methods moderately. Search engines may not look favorably upon your site if you overdo some or most of these techniques.
    .-= Julius´s last blog ..A Day Through The Eyes of a Blind Woman: Part 3 =-.

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    • Andrew Rondeau
      Twitter:

      Julius

      A good point…do go mad from day one. Steadily introduce them over time. I now use then all the time.

      Andrew

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  13. josh

    You listed some good techniques here and I use some of them too. But one thing I’m confused about is the Ninja Affiliate plugin. You said that it creates backlinks, but really doesn’t it just create links to other sites? That doesn’t have any benefit for your blog – yes it creates backlinks but they’re for other sites. Am I missing something?

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    • Andrew Rondeau
      Twitter:

      Josh,

      What you can do with the Ninja Affiliate plugin is automatically link to other blog posts on your site for certain keywords – and that creates internal back links.

      Foe instance, if I write blog post A about ‘time management’ and then in blog post B I use the phrase ‘time management’ – I can automatically set-up in the Ninja Affiliate plugin that the phrase ‘time management’ becomes a link and links to blog post A.

      I hope that makes sense!

      Andrew

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  14. Atul

    “Most of the very popular social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit do not give you a backlink when you social bookmark your blog post.”
    This is just new and so strange to me .

    Atul

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    • Andrew Rondeau
      Twitter:

      Atul,

      Strange? That’s a strange word to use!

      Not all these social sites give link-luv back. Hardly any do, in fact.

      Andrew

      Reply
  15. aaron

    I love it… When I first started my blog I concentrated a lot on this. Then I kinda slacked of… it was a good thing I think because I got some really good content and community built during that time. Now I feel like I need to push a little harder to encourage more growth and I was stuck…enough with my infomercial.
    I’ll just say your article was perfectly timed for me…now I just need to be patient and do a few every few days. Thanks
    .-= aaron@BeAwesomeInstead´s last blog ..the Suit Up Motivational Poster =-.

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    • Andrew Rondeau
      Twitter:

      Aaron,

      I’m glad the article is of help.

      I agree – don’t go mad with all these ideas. Start one today and another in a few days time and so on.

      Andrew

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  16. jan geronimo

    Great list to earn backlinks. Sounds like dreadful chore. How do you keep the excitement going? Just thinking about going through this list makes me tired already. LOL.
    .-= jan geronimo´s last blog ..Here’s Why I Unfriended Darren Rowse in Facebook =-.

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  17. Adam from Investment Management Marketing EverydayTenacity.com

    Andrew –

    Can you give a sense of how much you paid out for these tools? I would like to a a “cost/benefit” analysis and knowing the cost of these tools would be helpful when determining if it is money well spent for a blogger who is just starting out.

    Thanks
    .-= Adam @ Investment Management Marketing EverydayTenacity.com´s last blog ..EverydayTenacity is CommentLuv friendly! =-.

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  19. Sushie

    Thanks for all these userful tips but about automatic backlink building, i read in some ebooks about SEO that Google don’t really like this type of way to create backlink…
    .-= Sushie´s last blog ..Soup diet =-.

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  20. Robert Bravery

    Nice article here. I believe that possible the best way is to comment on other blogs. The only downside, if you can call it that is that a lot of blogs have the nofollow tag in place. Which means that although you get the back link, no PR juice is passed by Google.
    I am a bit weary of auto-bots, they can get out of hand, you have no idea as to where they’re posting. They might post your artile on a site which can actually do more harm than good.
    Back links is hard work, no easy way out.
    .-= Robert Bravery@Blog help´s last blog ..Pay it forward =-.

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  21. James Baker

    Good article which I bookmarked right away. One thing I don’t think anyone has mentioned is Press Releases. I use them a lot and they seem to be very powerful in search engine terms. I try to make the content interesting in its own right, current and non commercial with a good photo if poss. I only put one or two links on to my own site or articles and then one or two to high rank sites like the BBC for credibility. My favourite sites for this purpose are PRLog.org and pressreleasepoint.com.
    .-= James Baker´s last blog ..Spanish law, tax and more: advice and practical assistance for English-speakers in Spain =-.

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    • Andrew Rondeau
      Twitter:

      James

      Thanks for the tips – I’ve never really got into press releases. Something I should investigate.

      Andrew

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    • Biodun from Web Hosting UK

      Press releases is usually overlooked, its a way of promoting your business and a way getting backlinks. press release is not done primarily for getting links, but it is possible that other webmasters, copy and use the contents provided and in return, provide a link back to the source, so they might help with getting new backlinks.

      Reply
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  23. Kok Siong from Cancer Research

    I prefer to use blog commenting to build up the backlinks. I love to read in others blog as i can learn from there. So, blog commenting is an easy job for me. I will the other methods that you have mentioned above especially the article submission. Thanks for sharing Andrew! :)
    .-= Kok Siong @ Cancer Research´s last blog ..Anti-angiogenic Therapy to Treat Cancer =-.

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    • Andrew Rondeau
      Twitter:

      Kok,

      Your comments are getting better and better – I can see you are putting in the effort. It is worth experimenting with some of the other ideas as well.

      Andrew

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  24. Keith from Blog Tips

    Personally, I don’t think forum links or blog comment links carry much weight anymore with Google, I have run some individual tests on this myself.

    For some reason, I didn’t see the part in your article explaining that writing content people will want to link to “naturally” will get you a much better link than any of these methods other than maybe guest posting.

    I am still a believer in content generated links, and spending too much time trying to “game” the system by spinning articles and submitting a bunch of directory and forum posts could be spent much better building a community on your own site.

    I am a huge fan of blog commenting, but as I stated earlier, the links are not very helpful for SEO, but are great for promotion/marketing, especially if you are a consistent and great commentor.
    .-= Keith@ Blog Tips´s last blog ..Are You Setting Yourself Up For Failure? =-.

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    • andrew from Blogging Guide
      Twitter:

      Keith,

      Thanks for sharing your opinion. I’d be interested in your tests – can you share what you did?

      Thanks.

      Andrew
      .-= andrew @ Blogging Guide´s last blog ..Blogging Guide: Blogger tips 1 – 4 (video) =-.

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      • Keith from Blog Tips

        I have performed tests on several sites where I only got links from blog comments and forums, thousands of them. While they certainly helped to get my site indexed more if the links came from higher PR pages, they didn’t appear to do anything for SEO. Then after only a few “natural links” (in content, anchor texted links) there was a HUGE burst in SERP’s for my keywords.

        I have also heard Matt Cutts describe comment links as something other people can do to actually harm your site by getting links pointing to you from bad neighborhoods. He specifically said that comment links have less weight because of that fact.

        Plus the fact that if you look at why links are counted as “votes”, how could a forum sig link or a comment be considered a “vote”. That is why I think Google tries to put more weight on links within content, it actually is a “vote”.

        Of course, I am no expert, just my thoughts….
        .-= Keith@ Blog Tips´s last blog ..Are You Setting Yourself Up For Failure? =-.

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        • andrew from Blogging Guide
          Twitter:

          Keith,

          What you say does make sense and I can understand Google adding such weighting.

          Did you see Matt’s latest video on backlinks?

          http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/good-seo-tips/

          Thanks for sharing.

          Andrew
          .-= andrew @ Blogging Guide´s last blog ..Blogging Guide: Blogger tips 1 – 4 (video) =-.

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          • Keith from Blog Tips

            I did see it the other day, just watched again. Everything he talks about points to getting noticed so people will link to you. Even when he talks about participating in blogs and forums, he says answering questions will get people to notice you and then they might link to you. This is exactly what I was talking about. Blog commenting and forum posts are more promotion than linkbuilding, but can lead to links later (links that are natural).
            .-= Keith@ Blog Tips´s last blog ..Are You Setting Yourself Up For Failure? =-.

          • andrew from Blogging Guide
            Twitter:

            Keith,

            Great content, helping others, providing great advice and relationships…spring to mind.

            Andrew
            .-= andrew @ Blogging Guide´s last blog ..Blogging Guide: Google analytics tutorial =-.

  25. chandan

    Very nice article Andrew. Backlink building strategy is really nice part of SEO, I also build almost 15000 backlink for my blog and I work much on link building for my blog, I like to analyze the backlinks of the competitors of my blog and try to see the powerful link of my competitors, then I try to get backlink from those sites.

    All of the point you mentioned on this post really some powerful source of get one way backlinks, RSS directory is one of the good platform to get backlinks, each time we make post on our blog, we get backlinks from the RSS directory. I almost work on each offpage activities and try to get new strategy to build link. Well I have shared on my blog different link building strategy, that I think some people unaware about those strategy
    .-= chandan´s last blog ..10 Work from Home Money Makers =-.

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  26. Josh from Ball Valves

    Very awesome post! These are great ideas I would have never though about. I’m going to check out Angelas Backlinks now!

    Reply
  27. voiture thermique

    hey, i just wanted to take this time to let you know that this is a nice blog and very easy to understand info bookmarking and video marketing of my favorite SEO technique on generating backlinks. Thanks again for this useful info.

    Reply
  28. Leonardo Endo from seo specialist

    I’ve got a question about RSS submission. Everytime you create a new post how will it look like on the feed?

    Will it use the title of the post as the anchor link? If this is the case then won’t that be a bad idea as you will get random achor links pointing back at your site?

    Or am I assuming it all totally wrong?

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  29. Sean

    Great share, I use most of those methods, through my experience I find article submission and social bookmarking to be the most effective. Angela links are also worth using, though it is easy to find your own so I wouldn’t recommend paying for her service. Infact if you know what you are doing you can find all of her recommended sites before she releases them. Google is a powerful tool :)

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  30. Terry

    Thank you so much for this information on the tools you recommend.
    A very helpful resource for people building websites for themselves and their clients.
    I will recommend this website to all my friends who are looking at different ways to promote their websites.

    Many thanks, for sharing.

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  31. Yanduan from Online Dating Friends

    A great post! I gain backlinks mostly by commenting. But it seems I need to diversify a bit. Thanks to your 11 methods, I’ll try them all :)

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  32. tracteur tondeuse

    Hey Andrew, Based on my own experience, one of the best ways i build my back links is through forums, for example i would go to Google and search for ”forums” and from there i try to find as many High PR forums where i can leave my link as my signature. Another great technique i use is a website call link building diagnosis what this site do is show you all the back links that a particular website has
    so with that said i would search for a bunch of high pr sites and Analyze their back links, this website even shows you how strong the link is visit http://www.linkdiagnosis.com/ i really hoped this post was useful to you Andrew, Thank you.
    .-= tracteur tondeuse´s last blog ..Tracteur Tondeuse =-.

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  33. Julius Kuhn-Regnier

    Hey Andrew interesting article. Do you really use all the tools mentioned here? Btw. when I visited The Best Spinner my anti virus software told me that I had downloaded some malware ;)

    Thanks man.

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  34. Latief from AnotherBlogger

    Amazing Info here, but I’ll keep using free services Andrew :D
    Link building make me crazy there always new information about it, lol! Thanks bro.
    .-= Latief@AnotherBlogger´s last blog ..Interview With Aswani Srivastava From Future Perfect Blog =-.

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  36. Alex from InsideHacks

    Good effort again! I think if any blogger just work honestly on any two mentioned strategies like Commenting on blog and Article directories, then hopefully he will get high PR backlinks soon. Personally I find blog commenting as the best method because it not only gives you backlinks but socialize you in the blogging world aswell :) .
    .-= Alex @ InsideHacks´s last blog ..FIFA World Cup-An Interesting Fact =-.

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  37. jennifer duncan

    well its great to have lot of blog commenting its builds your network if you do regular and quality comments in tons of blog. Whereas I don’t have much idea about automated submission but are they reliable. will the admistrator or sites will not ban you if find as bot. Also angela’s backlinks are really worth to go for but not sure which type of backlinks we will get. either they are related to my industry and quality or just general for all.
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  38. Pauline

    Current use of blogs for ideas to build backlinks is widespread in the Internet world of information, my hobbies are reading other people’s blogs helps me learn, additional knowledge from the article. So I think blog comments are a easy job for people like my hobby. but I think that search engines can not look favorable to your site if you misuse some or most of the techniques, so that must be used appropriately. I hope that the methods that you actually share it will be useful to readers, thank you very much for everything.

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  39. Chad From: Weight Lifting Basics

    That is one heck of a list! Thank You so much for writing that out.

    I’ve just started submitting to article directories, and web directories… We’ll see what happens.
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  40. Nathalie

    I am quite a new blogger and I didn’t know what RSS feed was actually. I have submitted my blog to one directory. I will do the same with my French blog. Hopefully I will see more people visit my sites. Thanks Andrew.
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  41. Aaron

    Great guide Andrew. Followed here from your recent post on link building. Keep up the good work.
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  42. Tony

    Hi Andrew

    First time that I’ve come across your blog, certainly a lot of valuable information on there, thanks for sharing it

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  43. Nim

    Hi Andrew, on the number 3 which is the Rss directories. I wonder if that really works because I’ve been submitting my Rss feeds to directories using Rssbot but seems until now I haven’y got any backlinks from any rss so far. Is that normal?
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  44. Camden

    I’m having the same issue as Nim…RSSBot says my feeds are submitted, but I don’t see any backlinks.

    Another good source of backlinks is Yahoo Answers. You have to answer a certain number of questions in order to be able to add a link to your answer, but it’s a pretty quick process to get to that level.
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  45. Roses Mark

    I want some information on Angela black link but you put link is not working,Please put another link.
    I am waiting your answer

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  46. Jasmine

    You have put down a lot of resources here. My favorite one would be Angela’s backlinks, it could really get you high quality backlinks steadily!

    My website has too little backlinks at the moment. Really need to put in more hard work! Any tips to help me? :)
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  47. Mark

    Keep in mind that no tool will show all your backlink’s, but you can monitor the growth curve.
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  48. Ryan Squires

    Hi Andrew, great blog.

    I am quite new to SEO and i am currently trying to learn about link building as much as possible. Would you agree that Link Building is still the most effective way to get traffic to a website?

    Keep up the great work.

    Ryan, go-visual.co.uk

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    • Andrew
      Twitter:

      Ryan,

      If done right, link building will help you move up the search engine rankings. How much traffic it will give you will depend upon the keyword phrase you are targeting.

      Get the right keyword phrase and yes it is the best way to get organic targeted traffic.

      Andrew
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  49. James

    Thanks Andrew. I’ve picked up a couple of great ideas and now that I’ve discovered Ninja Affiliate Plugin I’m very excited. Got a lot of sites to install this on, so can’t stay yapping all day. Can’t wait to see what the effect is.
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  50. Steve

    Andrew, this is great stuff. I’d been considering Angela’s backlink packages for a few days. I saw your post and decided to go for it. It’s a cheap investment that sounds pretty solid. Thanks for the other ideas. I’ve bookmarked this page and will reference it often. Cheers!

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  51. Mike From removing skin tags

    This blog post is absolutely brilliant, one that I’ve just added to my bookmarks.
    I’ve just started using the best spinner myself for gaining back links and the quality of articles it produces are top notch. The secret is to spend a few hours on each article, changing lots of words and adding more sentence changes.
    By doing that you should be able to create 100 plus articles that you can blast out to the top article directories. That are all unique and look brilliant to a human reader.

    Absolutely fantastic article, thanks for sharing!

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  52. Tom

    Method I use to get more relevant backlink is something like this: I type in google “related:mysitedomain.com” and google spit out sites that are related to my niche. Then I just go over the list of sites looking where I can leave some links.
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  53. Online Associate Degree

    I think for SEO purpose follow only those do follow blogs which offered you quality link back.
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  54. MateMerge Networks

    Very informative post. You made some good points. I personally found it usefully as i’m using the techniques stated to achieve my target.

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  55. Josh Ray

    This is an awesome post. Very helpful, I just added like 7 bookmarks to my browser that I’m going to have to check out tomorrow. Thanks for sharing.
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  56. Rebecca

    Great post. I have found all of your advice really helpful. I especially like your Best Spinner recommendation and will be checking it out.
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  57. Nim from Part time jobs

    Seems like Rss and Web2.0 don’t work yet for me as I don’t see any backlinks to my site from there. I guess I gotta change my strategy for that.

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  58. ADHONYS

    Increidbles tips, I have a new blog and this will help me.
    If i comment more than 10 time in blogs what can google do me?
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  59. Ana
    Twitter:

    Great resources, Andrew – I hope your readers will actually use them.

    Here’s one more to add to your arsenal; I just recently posted it to my blog: DoFollow Blog Finder Tool

    Let me know what you think of it.

    Ana
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  60. Lisa

    Andrew:

    Really useful tips you posted here. I have not been using the RSS to gain backlinks and I want to thank you for pointing this out to all of us! Great post
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  61. Kai

    Hello Andrew, thanks for the complete list. A friend of mine has submitted hundreds of articles in one year to a selection of article directories, and he claims that none of them showed up in Yahoo Site Explorer. I noticed that ezinearticles links how up, and a few from articlesbase. Also links from blog comments and forums. What is your take on the directory issue?
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  62. Joe from Rainbow Vacuums

    I’m pretty impressed with the amount of backlinks you got. I use one of Jon Leger’s services, mywaylinks to get some good PR to my sites.
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  63. shashank

    really a cool post with ultimate resources andrew.You and your ulti blog is surely helping me a lot for Building my blog!
    Worth a RT :)

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  64. ebook reader

    I use the backlink checker tool from validrank because i find it the easiest. From here you can choose the case to search the backlinks to your site and you can see the pr of the pages that links to you.

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  65. Rob McCance

    Looks like Angie’s easybacklinkbuilder site is gone, down, or temporarily removed.

    This is day two. Know anything about that?

    Maybe she shuts it down when she gets too many customers, then brings it back up.
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  66. chris

    Excellent write up – I have just started a new .CO blog and have been following most of the items you mentioned above and have about 2,000 backlinks so far – all done by me! It does take some time but it does pay off tremendously! I have learned some new methods and will start pursiung those shortly
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  67. Andy

    Thanks for your great tips on blogging backlinks. I forgot about the automated sites. Had it hidden in my bookmarks. I have a girl in Sri Lanka that I could really use for another project and this would be perfect for freeing her up. Thanks for the great tips!

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  68. subzero525

    there are lots of tools for getting fast indexing some are blackhat seo and the others are whitehat seo but the certain results comes from the manual work for writing good contetn submitting to social networks and building high quality backlinks
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  69. Dennis O'Brien

    Great content Andrew….It’s been nearly 12 months so if you update this post it might have a few interesting changes, additions and/or recommendations. One other method I find a lot of people may not be aware of is the ability to add a Ping List to WordPress.

    In the Writing Settings of the Dashboard there is an entry for Update Services. You can add a list of directories you are registered with and every time you put out a new post it pings the message to the list.

    Some great resources in the comments as well so a valuable post you put up here…thank you

    Dennis
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    • Rob McCance

      Dennis,

      I just read this somewhere else, maybe elsewhere on this site. But I added a pretty huge list. I noticed now that right after I create a new post, I now get much more spam commentalia attempting to get through.

      Not interested in that of course, but it seems that something somewhere is now getting notified of the new post and that’s a GOOD thing, I would suspect.

      One strange thing though, now sometimes the PR on my Google toolbar will stop working and say there’s too many requests being made from my IP, etc. Not sure if these are related.

      I suspect quite possibly maybe…lol.
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      • Andrew
        Twitter:

        Rob,

        I’ve not experienced “the PR on my Google toolbar will stop working and say there’s too many requests being made from my IP”.

        Is that via IE or FF or…?

        Andrew
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        • Rob

          Andrew,

          It was on FF and I didn’t fire up IE to see if it was happening there as well.

          This one needs a lot more testing and observation on my end. I’ll let you know if I see it again and what the circumstances were.

          Thanks!
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    • Andrew
      Twitter:

      Hi Dennis,

      I am aware of the ping list and I also have added the list to my ‘Writing Settings’. But I don’t think the ping list provide backlinks.

      It just informs them that you have added a post.

      Andrew
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      • Dennis O'Brien

        The moral to this story is – Pings Are Not Backlinks!

        You are right and I was off topic with that comment Andrew. I had been reading a post that recommended pinging blog comments and somehow flowed over. That’s what I get for leaving all my commenting to the last minute and rushing it. :)
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  70. Missy

    Hi, Andrew:

    Two good methods you didn’t mention include Press Releases and the old standby Blog Carnivals. These two methods yield good high quality back links if done right.

    Cheers,
    Missy

    p.s. Never heard of Angela’s backlinks. Will give it a visit.
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  72. sharingsmoke

    Hi Andrew,
    I found you through a guest post over at smallbizbee, You give a lot of good information here. Most people would not share how they get backlinks. I like the RSS Directories idea the best.

    Having a program that automates the process is a no brainier. One of the challenges is sometimes you just can’t get all of the backlinking done that you would like because of time and the effort that it takes.Auto software can help.

    One question, I know that article directories like Ezine will allow you to submit your blog post as an article, however, will Google not count the link because of duplicate content? The other issue is that the site you submit your article to can out rank you on Google.I tested this out one time. I submitted an article to a high PR site and Goggle gave the site position over my page.

    Thanks again Andrew,I will be following your blog and it was all because of a guest post, more testimony that what you have to say works.
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    • Andrew
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      Thanks for coming across from smallbizbee.

      If you submit your blog post on Ezines then Google does see it as duplicate content BUT…

      Duplicate content is a whole debate and as far as we know Google says try not to have duplicate content on your own blog.

      Yoast has just issued a great article on duplicate content that I am going through.

      http://yoast.com/articles/duplicate-content/

      However I agree than re-wording your blog post BEFORE submitting to the Ezines is better.

      Re: positions in the serps.

      I add the blog post to my site first and then only submit to the Ezines a few weeks later. That way in most cases my blog post gets the higher position.

      Andrew
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  73. TJ McDowell

    I have the same problem as you mentioned with not being able to find great blogs in your niche (for me it’s photography) to comment on. I have also started caring less about the exact content matching. I’ve resorted to just commenting on posts that I’m interested in – photography related or not. It seems to still be working. I sometimes feel like I’m blazing a path for photographers. The next guy who does what I’m doing should have a lot easier time because he can comment on a bunch of posts on my blog and get high quality backlinks. Oh well, somebody had to blaze the trail, right?
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  74. Steve Roy

    Andrew,
    This is an extremely helpful article. I didn’t realize I could use a number of these things on your list. It will help me big time!
    Thanks
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  75. Trevor

    First, just want to say that I love your blog and we are also friends on Facebook. lol

    I have several articles that I have on ezine, plus on my blogs.

    Was just wondering if it is good to submit the same post to different directories, or should they all be re-written?

    I have article spinner but the spins I get just never make sense when you read them for some reason.
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  77. satrap from Make Money Online
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    I have done all of the above, but I think for me article submission has worked the best.
    I kind of agree that blog commenting may not carry much weight, but one the less, it wont hurt you either, plus, if you lave useful comments, you will enjoy some added traffic as well.

    All that said, I think writing content that makes other people want to link to it is one of the best ways to get backlinks. However, its not that easy to create such content.
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  78. GDH Web Design

    Every link is important including nofollow, these links still have benefits, remember, volume, authority, velocity, anchor text, just because link juice isnt passed on there are still plenty of benefits. Great thought provoking post!

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  79. Claire

    Hi Andrew! Nice list of resources! I have tried directory submission but its seems I have waited forever to be approved. Blog commenting also works, although slow in getting pr I am learning many insights & techniques from other webmasters. Many thanks for the advice!
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  80. joy parks

    Nice list! You have such a complete list of backlinks resources. This is the first I have read of RSS directories. I will be studying it more. Thanks!
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  81. Jon

    This is an excellent article. I’ve been struggling to create backlinks and have recently started learning to do SEO. I’m currently working on article writing and submitting to a few article directories myself. I use Article Submitter Helper (ASH) which is free and comes with it’s own manual spinner (you use curly brackets and pipes to enter synonyms). Anyways, I’ll go check out the tools you mentioned, and again thanks very much for the great tips!
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  82. Rose

    Thanks for providing this 11 great tips to building backlinks for a my blog and the list of sites. This tips from you will surely help my month old blog. Thanks for the efforts.
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  83. johns online

    ok looks good my friend
    My blog is slowly taking shape and now i can start linking things in
    I also have some sales blogs where i can link things to also

    cheers

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  84. web marketing

    I found this post very useful because your methods and ways are very effective to get quality backlinks to website.Thanks for sharing your ideas with us.

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  85. Rakesh Kumar

    As a office guy this is tough task for me to make back-links regularly but this is essential to promote blog. Thanks Andrew your resources will definitely reduce some my headache.
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  86. chibuzor

    Andrew, you are doing a great job. I landed on the site via one of your emails, and I ended up reading up a lot. The time spent was worth wile. I will be applying your techniques; cos I have zero backlinks at the moment. Keep the flag flying.
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  87. Clark Hetherington

    I would like to commend you for such a very informative post!! Thank you for the tips. Currently, I am more on blog commenting to gather backlinks to my site. Artcle submission is also included. By the way, the hints and tips on the lists of websites where I can get high PR backlinks for only $5 is great. I shall try this at once. Thanks again. Cheers!
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  88. Mark Shaw

    Thanks for the ideas. Been using a few of these. Got into Mr Wong lately and that is working nicely. But the Angela’s Backlinks thing is pretty awesome. Especially for $5. I will sign up.
    Mark
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  89. Ryan Sammut

    Thanks a lot Andrew for this post! I want to go into the SEO Market and you have given plenty of tricks here.

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  91. Tho Huynh

    Brilliant post about this topic. I have bookmarked this post and it will be my reference for my next link building campaign
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  92. John

    Increidbles tips, I have a new blog and this will help me.
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  93. Ceejay

    Nice share, and i have learned a lot today, for just reading your blog post, i know which tools to buy to promote my blog and also how to start a successful blog. Thanks.

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  94. Ana Wellbeing

    Well done!
    Knowing the worth of backlinks I started to built for my site. I found it as hard way and really hope that for few $ I will make it easier.
    Thanks!
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  95. Cheolsu

    I have bookmarked this blog post. This is one comprehensive guide to get backlinks. Well written, Andrew.
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  96. Andrew

    Wow, thanks a lot for these awesome backlink resources, I hope they will make my blog better in the eyes of search engines, thanks again.
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  97. Mike

    You’re right about a lot of people not using rss directories, I found this post for a Google search of “backlinks from rss directories” or something like that. So you must be doing something right.

    Thanks again
    Mike
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  98. Diane from Title Loans

    Sweet! You always provide what I need. Thanks for the do follow link! I’ll check it out now. Thanks!

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  99. Karen Comer

    Thanks for the incredibly useful tips here and all over your blog – Karen

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  100. Larry Lewis

    An awesome number of links you have, and that’s not surprising having read this fabulous article. It certainly shows me a good few methods i will have to adopt to increase my links, which like every blogger I’m keen to do
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  101. Jun Harefa

    Blog commenting, web directories and Article directory is essential role on back links
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  102. vanaja

    I was looking for back link tips and tricks and this article gave them all. All I have to do now is try to implement them and watch results. I believe in implementing and seeing the results for myself. Thanks for this valuable post

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  103. Satrap
    Twitter:

    Andrew, Great list! I use a combination of all the mentioned methods. And I believe these are the best and most effective methods.

    If I had to chose one method to go by, I would chose article submission. I just had so much success with article directories that I now actually enjoy submitting my articles, lol!
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  104. vipin

    Bookmarking daemon seems to work like a charm to develop backling, although blog commenting is one of the best method to get backlinks

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  105. Dr. Robert Doebler from pittsburgh prostate cancer treatment

    In my link building strategy, i didn’t include social bookmarking sites but knowing this from Andrew, i will definitely give this a try or better yet purchase bookmarking daemon.

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  106. NIKKI

    Building backlinks is such a vital part of your of SEO or blogging. Without them, all your work could go unnoticed. Thanks for this info. It helped.
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  107. Albus

    Andrew,

    Excellent post, thanks for helping me understand the process of backlinks and how to incorporate them into comments!

    -Albus

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  108. Dave

    Thanks for the great post and reminder of the best ways to get backlinks.

    I have found that article marketing is the best method for backlinks.

    However, in light of that statement, I still use the other methods also.
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  109. teach

    yes.. most of the social bookmarking website dont give you backlink when you submit your article.. waste of time and effort.. nice tips by the way
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  110. Jimmy/Life Architect

    Hi Andrew,

    Another great post. You make getting backlinks so easy. For me I am concentrating on commenting and guest posting at present. I am however fascinated by RSS. Since you say its so easy, I am going to try now.

    1 question: how can we check our page rank?

    Cheers
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  111. Jimmy/Life Architect

    Hi Andrew,

    The RSS directory does not seem to allow me to save my information. I am stuck.
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  112. Exabytes

    there are lot lot way to get backlink , no matter dofollow or nofollow, quality or not quality.
    All just depend on your hardwork while backlink can be easily build.

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  113. amit sharma

    You can also consider yahoo answers too, is such a great way to get a backlink and a quality traffic too. And my best way to get backlinks is guest posting and blog commenting which are the surest way to get backlinks and traffic too. What`s say?
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  114. Johnny Optimo

    Hmmm.. this Angela’s backlinks service you mention sounds really awesome. $5 a month is nothing even if you’re going to comment on only a few of them. My only question is how many other people get these links and how quickly the comments fill up.. still interested though!
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  115. Harry

    Nice Sharing. I think Blog Commenting and Guest Posting is the best way to earn some Backlinks for the Blog.

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  116. Larry Lourcey

    Great resource list – sure wish I had that back when I first started!
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  117. POB

    I still confuse with ‘panda’ algorithm, but your steps is good for web or blog healthy, These are the best and most effective methods.

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  118. Tim

    A great post – a pretty definitive guide to link building. There are so many guides getting sold, and I’ve bought my share of them, that actually don’t tell you anything more valuable than what you have here.
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  119. Ferdinand

    A way to exploade, but, really it consumes times to build link anywhere it’s a must do if one actually needs to get traffic and search engine ranking, it’s a great post you have here.
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  120. Paul
    Twitter:

    A great list of backlinks. However, Angela’s backlinks site is no more, gone, or they have not paid their hosting fees. Check it out.

    Paul

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  121. kurukshetran
    Twitter:

    comments are great ways to build backlinks…and also google images…..i got some traffic through google image…..nice post…
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  122. Sara from Tours of the Vatican

    I have heard about social bookmarking before it seems easy but there are so many social book marketing sites. What are the best ones? I have never heard of the ones that you use.

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  123. klaus

    Thanks for a great post. good tips.

    I myself have a few Danish niche sites where I can make use of your methods to get more backlink.

    good job. To read further on your blog and learn more.

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  124. Frank

    Hey Andrew,

    It’s been a while since I visited your site. These are some great tips for getting backlinks. I need to build mine up so I’ll need to use a combination of these.
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  125. Timo
    Twitter:

    Great info. I was about to pay for a SEO program but now I think I will wait and try some of this. Thanks

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  126. Cheolsu

    Thank you for sharing all the methods. I have personally found Blog Commenting most effective of all. I have not had much of a luck with Article Directories. Social Bookmarking like dig is great for quickly indexing a page. I used to use Angela’s Back-links service last year. I am not quite sure if it is still useful with the new google algorithm.

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  127. Daniel

    Some nice tips for gaining back links, Andrew.

    Commenting on other sites seems to work, to a point. Though I have noticed my own links through doing this, not increasing for quite some time(They increased nicely, then stopped(No idea why).

    I think I will be joining one or two forums, as I have heard this is a good method of building back links.

    Guest posting would have to rank up near the top, of overall site benefits, if done on a high quality website with a top quality guest post.
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  128. Steve

    Great detail in this post. Getting to it all requires a plan – RSS directories is one I tend to overlook and it’s easy to get side-tracked by what ‘works’. The key to what you 7000+ links is balance in my opinion. Now that I am going it alone, I’m trying to build a balanced link profile from the outset.
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  129. dan

    great post.
    if you can Outsource everything its perfect but if you are doing it by yourself its a time consuming

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  130. Larry Lourcey

    All good ideas. Do you still do a lot of article marketing? Seems to have gone out of fashion lately. Just curious if it still works for you.

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  131. Extreme John
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    Cool blog post Andrew! Thanks for sharing your knowledge about building backlinks. Backlinking will really help you in innovating and developing your own site.

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  132. Yordan Dimitrov

    Spot on with this write-up, I really think this website wants far more consideration. I’ll probably be again to learn way more, thanks for that info.

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  133. Deewave

    All these tips can be sources of reaching towards the uplifting and success of blog/website.Back Links are best way to have success and PR also.
    Valuable and informative methods with an amazing style of explaining .Wonderful Ideas !

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  134. TriNi

    Up until now, I’ve been doing them manually, however now that I’m back in college and more pressed for time, I’m considering investing in some automated software. Which would you say is the BEST out of the ones you mentioned, and also could it hurt your blog in any way? I’ve read other people say that submitting in an automated way can trigger something with Google that can actually harm your blog. Is this true?

    Thanks..
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  135. Andrew from Creation Blog
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    TriNi

    For automation is has to be submitting your feeds to the RSS directories and for internal links, the Ninja Affiliate plugin.

    I use them all and I don’t feel my blog has been hurt in anyway…even after the Panda update.

    I’m still number one in the rankings for many of my targeted keywords.

    Andrew
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  136. Kuldeep

    Well, I was looking for such a post from such a long time!! I will use all these methods to gain more backlinks!! It helps newbies like me!!
    I also learnt some new methods to gain backlinks!!!

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  137. Milley

    Hi Andrew,
    I’ve heard a lot of people saying that article submission is no longer worth the effort.(after google panda update)Is this true?
    And also one other thing(please be kind enough to answer my stupid questions since I’m a complete beginner).Most of the forums don’t allow us to include a link to our signature.Can you please suggest some forums in a future post?
    BTW I stumbled upon your blog today and found many helpful tips.Great job Andrew.
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  138. Jonathon
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    Excellent list. Couple there I need to implement. Had heard recently that article directories (something I’ve never used) are not as useful as they once were. On page SEO (internal linking) is a simple task that’s easy to incorporate into every post you publish.
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  139. Melissa

    Backlink is important to my blog and other blog in the net.Thank you for another essential article. Where else could anyone get that kind of information in such a complete way of writing? I have a presentation incoming week, and I am on the lookout for such information.
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  140. Raymond Chua
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    Hi Andrew,

    How do you check the number of backlinks that point to your blog?
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  141. Ashish

    I give lots of emphasis to blog commenting this gives me backlinks and also updates my knowledge about various subjects.. Now I am going to follow the do-follow list given by you..
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  142. John J Callanan

    Hi Andrew, I check your site on Alexa and it says you have 769 sites linking into yours. Now is that different than the number of actual backlinks you have going to your site? I was wondering where we could find the number of total backlinks to our blogs. I am also going to read the RSS directories post, want to see how that works as well. Thanks for the great info! John
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  143. aufa
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    I usually use “Blog Commenting” and Web Directories Methods. As a new user on WordPress, I am still trying to increase traffic with free ways. If I’ve experienced, I would consider trying the paying way :)
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  144. DanTheMan from Woman Watches
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    I mainly use article directories for my backlinks. There is a new one out there called Streetarticles. They are pretty good and fast at accepting new articles as long as you follow their basic guidelines and that’s ok in order to maintain higher standards. My issue is that my articles do not generate a lot of click back to my blog (i.e. CTR < 1%). I really try hard to create quality articles related to the items I want to promote (i.e. ladies watches) but it just doesn't create the traffic I was hoping for.

    Any advise?

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  145. cashinghub

    Though i am new new to this blog, but i can see the quality of your posting, so true and easy to understand. I have just created my blog and i was looking to build some backlinks, which you makes so easy for me to understand. I am going to use all of your tools given above. Thanks for the great share.
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  146. Ana from Free SEO Report
    Twitter:

    I’ve been outsourcing a lot of my link building recently – just don’t have the time, but whether you outsource or do it yourself, these are still the ways to do it.

    Thanks, Andrew!
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  147. abhiz
    Twitter:

    Hello,
    First of all thanks for this backlink methods. Please tell me Andrew i that Angela, Paul links really useful for us? i think the indexing time is very high these type links. So how its useful?

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    If you have built high quality internal backlinks for your site? Compared with the external backlinks, internal backlinks are quite simple but very powerful, sometimes even lead to more obvious results than building millions of external backlinks.

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    There’re also many other SEO tips besides building high quality internal backlinks within your site such as to optimizing image searches such as properly adding titles, descriptions. Sometimes, images would bring more traffic than building internal backlinks. But the problem is the conversion rate. Think about it, users who searched for images landed on your site and they saw many ads, they would neglect those ads because their target was pictures, while internal backlinks would bring more targeted visitors to your site and you can add more affiliate products within the pages and it would convert very well, trust me.

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  150. Prakash
    Twitter:

    Hi Andrew,
    This is what i need this time for my new blog. I was totally depressed when i got my comment marked as spam. But now after reading your post i found it nice to create backlinks with such a great tools and plugins. Thanks for this article.
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  151. Erik Emanuelli

    Hi Andrew,

    thanks for sharing, nice tips !

    Focusing on point n. 5 :

    I have just written a post where I list

    n. 77 Blog Directories where you can submit your URL for FREE.

    I have checked them one by one, so you can be sure that you do not have to pay for them…

    Very nice blog, first time for me !!!

    My best wishes .
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  152. Sagar from Android Apps
    Twitter:

    Enjoyed reading the post, very informative and helpful. I’m building backlinks for my new blog and these tips will help me a lot. Thanks :)
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  153. Addie

    WOW! you actually laid out your linking strategies here huh! Very informative! I must bookmark and share this!

    - Addie
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