How To Get Backlinks To Increase Search Engine Ranking?

September 8th, 2009 by Chandan Dutta

Getting Backlinks to Increase Search Engine Ranking is not an easy task. It involves lots of efforts. In this post you will learn all about how to get backlinks for Offpage Search Engine Optimization. To rank well in search engine we should have enough backlinks pointing to our site. For beginners it may be little bit difficult to understand what I am saying. So, I am explaining here about baklinks.

Whenever you type any word in Google, Google check two main thing. First it find out all the pages that matches with your search term. Secondly it see which page is referred more by other site. The page which is referred more, wins in search result. Referring means which other websites are linking to that page or website.

In order to get good search engine rank you have to create links pointing back to your site. This links are called backlinks. Backlinks are also know as inbound links or incoming links and they are the core of Offpage Search Engine Optimization. I have already included all factors about Offpage search engine optimization in my one post Search Engine Optimization For Dummies

There are so many ways to create backlinks. It’s a never ending process. If you want to defeat your competitor you have to keep building backlinks.

There are many backlink checker tools available. For Example you can try Backlink Watch. Yahoo Explorer is also a great way to check backlinks. To check backlinks in yahoo do as:       link:http://www.WebsiteName.com

It will show a list of all sites that points back to http://www.websitename.com.  See the image below:

Yahoo Explorer View

However you can find all backlinks using Google Webmaster. Using yahoo explorer you will be able to find out few of actual backlinks.

How To Get Backlinks?

Below I am explaining few steps to get backlinks. Mind that backlinks and reprocial links are not same. Backlinks are one way incoming links to your site. You don’t have to link back those backlink sources from your website or blog. You should also focus on creating quality backlinks, not quantity. Means one backlink from a PR8 website is far better than 10 backlinks from a PR0 website.

Article Submission: I feel this is powerful step of creating one way incoming links to your site. Always use good Anchor text while creating link and use your keyword.  For example my blog main keyword is earn money online. So I will use earn money online to link to my blog instead of Click Here. Click the below link to get top list of articles directories

Directory Submission: It is a time consuming process but try to submit as much as you can. You will find a good list of directory here ==> Robin Good’s list of RSS directories

Blog Commenting: Find out some dofollow blog with CommentLuv plugin installed and post comments. After publishing a post in your blog make at least 10 comments. It will create 20 backlinks to your blog. Use http://blogsearch.google.com/ to find out blog on your niche.

Forum Post: Join some forums in your niche and contribute to forums. Put your url in signature. Click below to get a list of dofollow forums:

Social Networking and Bookmarking: Using these site you not only get traffic but also you will get one way backlinks to your site. So, use it very wisely. You can see my previous post to Increase Traffic To Blog for more details.

Creating WEB2.0 Properties: Create different WEB2.0 properties such as Squidoo lens, Hubpage, Blogger blogs etc to support your main blog. Use keyword in anchor link to point back to your blog. It is better if you can create all WEB2.0 properties on your sub keyword, not main keyword. once you done that you can bookmark all those WEB2.0 properties.

You can create more WEB2.0 properties such as:

  • Wordpress.com
  • Weebly.com
  • Xanga.com (Nofollow Now)
  • Zimbio.com
  • Wikispaces.com
  • Wetpaint.com
  • Quizilla.com
  • Webs.com
  • Vox.com

Now grab RSS URL of each WEB2.0 properties and go to http://pingomatic.com or http://pingler.com to ping it.

Shareware/Freeware Distribution: If you can create any Shareware/Freeware program for your niche then you can use this as a nice link building strategy. use PromoSoft to submit it to over 700 shareware directories. You will get strong backlinks from all those high page rank websites. One example of Freeware is toolbar. Create one toolbar and submit to software directory. I did not created any still, but I have seen people getting results out of it.

Photo Submission: If you have any photo to upload you can upload to all these websites:

Ebook Submission: Write one small ebook on your niche or if you have any then upload to various ebook uploading sites. You can use these below sites:

I hope you got enough idea about getting backlinks. Read my another post to learn How To Increase Blog Traffic. You will get even more idea on getting strong backlinks to your site as well as traffic. In next post I will post even some more secret information about backlinks

Till now I am getting good result from my blog but I have to do a lot yet. Share your experience about getting backlinks by posting a suggestion below. If you liked my article please bookmark it and help me to get some more backlinks.Thanks

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How To Make Your Blog Search Engine Optimized?

June 28th, 2009 by Chandan Dutta

Thinking how to make your blog Search Engine Optimized? It is very easy as there are plugins you can use for blog optimization. All Onpage optimization will be handled by this plugin for your blog. However for Offpage optimization you have to approach different strategies. Here I am saying about Onpage blog optimization for your blog.

Plugins to make your blog search engine optimized

Below are the plugins that you must use to make your blog search engine optimized. Install the plugins and activate it.

  • All In One SEO
  • Google XML Sitemap Generator
  • SEO Friendly Image
  • SEO Smart Link
  • Chunk URL
  • NoFollow FREE

I am showing you how to use All In One SEO Plugin for maximum benefit.

You can get the All in One SEO plugin here. Install the plugin and activate it. After activating some settings are needed.

Step1: Click on All in One SEO. If you are using Wordpress 2.7.1 or upgrade version it will appear in Settings. After clicking you will get as:

All in One SEO for Blog Optimization

Step2.1: Enter your title for your blog. Remember to put your keyword. This title is very important. This is title of your blog that appears on the browser. This title won’t appear on your blog header. Title is shown by the search engine in result.

Step2.2: Enter your home description. This is the meta description of your blog. This description is shown by search engine in result below title.

Step2.3: By default post title format is %post_title% | %blog_title%. Change it to %post_title%. The reason why I am saying to change is it is not necessary to display your blog title with each post. For example if I hadn’t changed, for this post title would have displayed as “How To Make Your Blog Search Engine Optimized? | Earn Money Online”. Defiantly this is not a good title as it is not related and it is more than 60 character.

Step2.4: Click on Update Option

OK, you have configured All In One SEO plugin. Now time is to use it for proper use. Use it for every a new post. Here I am showing how I used this plugin for this post.

Using All in One SEO for Blog Optimization

Enter Title, Description and Keywords. Next publish your post. Now search engine will take this contents and display in result.

Setting the Permalink for blog optimization:

Permalink is the link of your each blog post. For each post there will be different different link. For Permalink setting click on Permalinks in Settings.

Default setting of Permlink is as:

http://YourDomain.com/?p=123 -> This is not a search engine friendly link as search engine can’t recognize this link.

It is better if your link contain blog title including the keywords. For this go to Common Settings and choose Custom Structure.

Write Custom Structure as /%category%/%postname%

This will change each link to SEO friendly link as:

http://yourdomain.com/category/post-title.

However you can change the post title in the link before publishing if you want to do so.

GOOGLE XML Sitemap Generator: This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.

SEO Friendly Image: This plugin will automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well.

SEO Smart Link: SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.

Chunk URL: This plugin shorten urls in comments so that they won’t break your site.

NoFollow FREE: According to Google’s new policy if your blog contain more nofollow links it may reduce your pagerank. Why not to give your blog commentor a bonus buy giving them a link to their blog? If you want to do so make your blog’s comment link dofollow. This plugin remove the nofollow tag from your blog’s comments with a lot of options customizable, per user type removal, per comments count removal etc.

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