Do You Have Any Backlinks?

Go Fish!

I’m learning about backlinks and how absolutely critical they are to your site ranking high in the search engines. I even hired a specialist to help me with link building.

But it’s really just like fishing. You look for the best pond, lake or ocean (blog, article or fan page) and you toss out your line (comment on existing posts, or offer to guest blog) and then wait for the fish to bite! By commenting or guest blogging, you are leaving behind your url or link back to your website, blog, or even your Twitter or Facebook Page. It’s up to you where you want to drive traffic, but I suggest you drive them back to where they can see what products and services you have to offer them. (afterall, that’s ultimately what we want, right?)

Of course, I could do the link building myself, (and I do quite a bit) but in my opinion it’s all about leveraging your time and they are the expert, so why not let them do it in less time, while I focus on the things I do best.

So I’d like to give you an opportunity to create a backlink to your site right now! Just go to the bottom of this post and make a comment. Be sure to put in your name, email and complete url (include the http://) in the boxes below. Your email will not be visible to anyone, but a link back to your site will definitely be there. Then search for other blogs and do the same thing. If you are using WordPress a great plugin is CommentLuv. This plugin travels around with you and if the blog you comment on has this plugin installed (which I do) it will automatically pick up the title of your last blog post and place it at the bottom of your comment. Sweet!

So go ahead, give it a try!

And here are some other backlink posts you might find helpful.

7 Ways to Gain Quality One Way Backlink for your blog (shoutmeloud.com)
Backlinks Strategies for Getting High Google PageRank (shoutmeloud.com)
Article Marketing: A Way To Create URL Backlinks (ronmedlin.com)
What is Autoblogging? (brighthub.com)

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About the author

Terri Brooks helps entrepreneurs “overcome the overwhelm” of using online and social media marketing for their business. She understands their fears and feelings of confusion when it comes to marketing on Facebook, Twitter and blogs and shows them ways of Tasting The Internet…One Byte at a Time.

Comments

LJ Rey says:

April 13, 2012 at 7:27 pm

This is an extremely useful information and am glad I ran into it… One question though, when you provide backlinks, should the URL of your website be available or can it be hidden?

Thanks!
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NewFolkMusicStar says:

December 22, 2011 at 4:09 am

Good article. One question, how can you find out if a blog or forum is or isn’t a Do-Follow or not?

Thanks for the good info. It should help me get to the top of Google so everyone can hear my all new folk music, so I can rise to the top and become the next American Folk music star. Muahhahaha

-Seth Schonfeld Music
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- Terri says:
  
  December 22, 2011 at 9:49 am
  
  You can take a look at http://www.seomoz.org. They have an extention for FireFix and Chrome to help with DoFollow and NoFollow. It’s free for 30 days to test it out.
  
  Also here is a list you can use to find blogs that DoFollow http://followlist.com/
  
  Hope you get to the top of Google!! When you do come back and let me know.
  
Phoenixstar9 says:

September 15, 2011 at 12:40 pm

definitely getting a stumble from me! I think building backlinks is my biggest issue sometimes. Thanks for this post.
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- Terri says:
  
  September 15, 2011 at 4:03 pm
  
  Thanks! Glad you found it helpful.
  
  Thanks for stopping by..
  
Fabric Shower Curtain says:

January 25, 2011 at 1:21 am

~~: I am really thankful to this topic because it really gives useful information “;;

Irwin Lazaga says:

August 13, 2010 at 3:22 pm

Engineering Jobs in todays economy are hard to come by and this is made even more difficult by the fact that future employers are becoming more difficult to satisfy. Personally, I think that the global markets should see substantial improvements within the next fiveyears and this should make the situation easier to handle.

- Terri says:
  
  August 16, 2010 at 8:48 am
  
  Thanks for your comment, Irwin but could you please share with us how it has relevance to the blog post, “Do You Have any Backlinks?”
  
Becky Holland says:

June 29, 2010 at 9:29 am

I think so few people who start blogging really understand the importance of backlinks and how they can help. Nicely written article Terri! Feel free to come by and comment on my blog any time to get a few backlinks for yourself!

- Terri says:
  
  June 29, 2010 at 10:24 am
  
  Thanks Becky, I’ll be right over!!
  
Sandy Rees says:

June 29, 2010 at 9:18 am

Thanks for the great tip, Terri!

Sandy
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