There are so many different types of backlinks. Don’t you wish you knew which works best? This article discusses 8 ways to get backlinks. It also discusses which types of links are most valuable.
Reciprocal links are still of some value. These are 2-way links whereby webmasters agree to link to each other. The ease of obtaining these links make them less effective than other types of backlinks but they have some value and they’re not “dead” like so many people claim.
Social bookmarking may be entertaining and a good way to connect with folks but the links are not really that valuable. It is a great way to get a new post or page indexed though. But if you want to rank well for really competitive terms, you cannot rely on only social bookmarks. Take a look in your website’s Cpanel at the AWSTATS interface you’ll see that social bookmarking links are in a special category separate from other types of links. That is a hint that they are devalued links.
One-way links are more powerful links. However,do not stop at only getting incoming links. Keep your outgoing links and incoming links in balance or it will be an unnatural flow of traffic at your site. Most of the time though this is not a problem because affiliate marketers are out-linking to affiliate programs anyways.
Your blog commenting helps build your recognition and credibility in your field but blog commenting takes more time to do than you get in return in terms of income. Just be aware of its effect on your time management. Blog commenting for backlinks is a very popular method of getting backlinks because it is free and pertinent and you get exposure. However, these types of links aren’t very valuable especially on blogs with the NoFollow attribute set.
Three way links or 3 way links are a hybrid of reciprocal links and one-way links . Most 3 way link building services will require that you link out to other sites in order to get links to, non-reciprocally, by other sites in the 3 way linkbuilding service’s network. If the network is full of quality sites, then there is some decent value to this automated link building but in most cases, you will lose all your links if you cancel your membership to those types of services. These types of services are usually only good for getting links to low-competition keywords, key-phrases, and niche topics, however, you can add about 50 sites to these networks and get backlinks to all your sites automatically with 3 way links services and this is a pretty good deal for webmasters with a portfolio of mini-sites for low competition terms.
Footer links are links at the bottom of sites that link to other sites. Many SEO bloggers claim that these types of links are ineffective and they are 100% wrong! Nowadays, footer links are most often seen at the bottom of blogs with links to the site that made the free WordPress theme, if the webmaster was using a free WordPress theme and many of those WordPress theme sites attain high Page Rank in very little time. And the same holds true for the sites where WordPress plugins are downloaded, and there is one marketer who has his footer links in all of the Master Resell Rights Websites he sells and all of those sites and sales pages that people are putting up are linking to his main site, which is page 2 for the term “make money online”. Suffice to say that footer links do work well if there are a lot of people using the themes, plugins and leaving links intact into the footer sections of the Master Resell Rights website packages.
Paid links are a waste of your money. You’re better off paying less of a monthly fee for a linkbuilding service like Unique Article Wizard that delivers quality and permanent one way links in quantity. Paid links are those that you pay a fee for in order to get a high Page Rank and relevant links back to your site for your chosen keywords. Those links are not permanent and will only last as long as you keep paying for them.
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