Top 7 Ways to Create Backlinks - With Ease!

Let's take a look at some different ways that you can create backlinks to your site. While some of these may not be entirely new, many get often overlooked.

Indexing Sites: Although these are not your ideal "in content" backlinks, they can be extremely powerful. You can find thousands of these (generally indexing or site-statistics type websites) and manually generate backlinks on them.

OR... if you would rather occupy yourself with something more productive, do what I did and get the Samson Elite WordPress plugin. It not only comes with hundreds of extremely powerful sites built in - it automatically creates these links - for each post - on complete autopilot.

It is a super powerful plugin. I highly recommend it if you have the money!

Manually Built Links: As awesome and as powerful as automated link building is, there is something to be said about manually built links. Although a lot more work on your part, they tend to not only last longer, but have a bigger link-juice boost in the long run as well.

Again, if you're like me and prefer doing something more exciting with your time, there is a really good outsourcing service I use called RankCrew. I've done a bit more in-depth review here.

Aside from the Samson link building automation software and the Manual Link Building service I recommended above, here are 7 more cool ways I get quality backlinks to my clients' websites!

Buy Aged Domains: In SEO terms, an aged domain is one that has been registered for a while and then didn't get renewed. As a result, some of them will have tons of powerful backlinks - making a backlink from that domain (once the site has been rebuilt on it and quality content has been added) extremely effective.

If you hate the idea of building and managing your own network of such sites, consider getting Private Blog Network (PBN) backlinks from someone else's network.

While many such services are expensive, Konrad talks about one he uses that is - in my honest opinion - very reasonably priced.

Get Audio Links: If you do any kind of audio work - such as podcasts - you can easily get dozens of valuable backlinks for free. You then simply submit your podcast or audio recording (could even be music you produced) to audio sharing sites. These sites generally have strong page ranks and will often allow you to place a powerful link on them.

Just do a quick internet search for Audio Sharing sites and you will find ones such as yourlisten.com amongst others. Or turn that audio into a simple video and start sharing it. There are a ton of free video sharing platforms online today. As my friends over at Cardiff Web Marketing would say: "If your business does not have online videos, you are missing out on a huge slice of web traffic!"

Leave Testimonials: If you use a particular product all the time, then offer to write a testimonial for the company you bought it from. Allow them to use it on their main page and provide them with your URL.

Many big companies like to prove that their testimonials are real and so will happily allow you a link next to it. This is a great way to not only get a home-page backlink but also generate some targeted traffic as well.

Submit to Directories: While many people think that using directories is a waste of time and effort, getting listed in large ones can provide your site with a powerful backlink.

Join HARO: This stands for Help a Reporter Out and is another extremely powerful way of creating a backlink to your website. You need to join the site first - do that here: http://www.helpareporter.com/sources

You will receive a couple of emails each day and you simply respond by giving helpful advice, hints, tips and information along with your website. If they use your material you will get business exposure along with a backlink.

Write Guest Post: It is hard to find worthwhile blogs that accept guest posts - but is still a very powerful strategy to getting free WordPress backlinks. Having a guest post on a high ranking WP blog will not only give your business an exposure boost, but give it a solid backlink or two as well.

Twitter is a great way to find guest posts. Make use of the Twitter search function by using a string such as: “your niche” + guest post.

Create & Share Infographics: This is a fairly newer concept but it is one that not many people are taking advantage of when it comes to backlinks. There are plenty of free infographic sites that allow you to make an infographic for free. Spend a few minutes and try this out for yourself.

In Conclusion: You now have a few different ways that you can create backlinks to your site. Now that you have them built, it is time to push them through a link indexing service. After all, what good are all these links if search engines never find out about them?

Here is a quick look at the service I use.

Enjoy!

DeConfusing Search Engine Optimization

One of the most common complaints I hear about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is that it is overwhelming and confusing. But is it really?

It isn't. SEO is incredibly simple!

What is overwhelming though is the things being taught about SEO. Gurus try to make it sounds super complicated to help them sell more of their "fix all" products but here's the thing: You don't need their products!

SEO is incredibly simple once you get it, and to truly "get it", you should not look at the gurus, but rather at what has ALWAYS worked to improve search engine rankings.

My good friend and SEO specialist Konrad Braun always reminds me: Susan, you are complicating SEO. Keep it simple! 

And he is right. There is no reason to complicate it!

For starters, you will want good quality content. Content is and always has been the #1 factor for good rankings. Is your content worthwhile? Would someone get what they are looking for if they read it? Are you targeting the proper keywords in it?

Secondly, are sites in your niche linking to you? If not, find a way to get them to link to you. Maybe contact the site owner and ask to do a guest post or ask them how much it would cost you to have them link to you. 

Backlinks are seen as "recommendations". The more recommendations from quality niche related websites your site gets, the better it will rank. Guaranteed!

Simple right? I know. It's basic stuff, but it works.

So as you go into a new year, don't forget to SIMPLIFY your SEO. Complicating it won't make it easier for you to rank!

Are You Looking for More Website Traffic?

This is a question that all marketers never get tired of, who doesn't want to have more traffic to their website? The biggest question of all remains just how to do this. Well, you do have several options which we will talk about below.

The first thing you should be concentrating on is to be adding valuable content to your website. By this we mean adding content so that your visitors can learn something from you. This could be in the form of a resource guide, or by adding tutorial posts to your site. The more value you add to your content, the higher your chances are that your visitors will return.

This leads us to giving your readers an incentive to return. As we mentioned above this could be in the form of content, but it could also be by giving them a free gift of some sort.

Of course in exchange for the free gift the visitor must part with their email address. This allows them to receive the gift and it provides you with a way to follow up with them.

Building a list is important for any marketer and allows you to communicate with them in an additional manner. You can create a follow up sequence of emails which can be based on your website content, or you could add some type of ecourse information for them. You want to teach your list to open and read your emails. Then when you do have a new product to promote you have buyers waiting for you.

You can also generate more traffic by adding videos to your website. If you don't like making videos then try podcasts instead. There is nothing wrong with creating a video out of your blog post. This way you are offering your reader choices when it comes to content. They can listen to you read it or they can read the text version.

By adding videos and sharing them on sites like YouTube you are also generating important links to your site. Having lots of different links to your site allows your site to be visited by more people. This equals more traffic and with more traffic comes more sales.

While many marketers focus solely on creating back links to generate more traffic. If you shift your focus to creating different content, this will do the same thing, just with a more natural look to Google.

Try some of these tactics over the next few weeks and see if your website traffic doesn't increase. 

Top Manual Backlink Building Services that Work Today!

NOTE: This is a quick RankCrew.com review (see link here) of the facts behind Jon Leger's manual backlink building service and proof of how it still works today!

If you have been dabbling with search engine optimization for a number of years, you will be familiar with automated spam bots that would cost a few hundred dollars to buy, but would then allow you to create thousands upon thousands of low quality backlinks almost instantaneously.

They worked great. People were getting top search engine ranking right, left, and center and their sites would generate so much traffic that they became millionaires almost over night!

Then it happened... Google, Yahoo, and Bing (MSN Search back then) caught on and started to heavily penalize sites involved in these kinds of spammy backlinking behavior.

Site's with these kinds of low quality backlinks got penalized so hard that many Search Engine Optimization specialists (SEOs) started preaching "the end" of backlinks - claiming they did not work anymore.

Nothing could have been further from the truth though!

Backlinks still work, and they work really really well. Not those cheap (low quality) mass-blasted ones that used to work, no. They are done. In fact, the more of those your sites get today, the lower your rankings will go.

If you get high quality backlinks to your websites though, your rankings will improve - not just on Google, but on Bing and Yahoo as well!

Want to know my favorite part though? When you build high quality backlinks, you don't need hundreds of thousands of them (like you used to) to get top rankings.

Depending on the keywords you are going after, you might still need a bunch of links to get to the top of Google, but if the backlinks are top quality - you can keep on building them without ever having to fear getting penalized.

I know what you're asking...

"Ok Susan, I get it. Top quality backlinks are king. But where the heck do I get them from?"

The truth is, you either build them yourself - manually - or you have them manually built by someone else!

I used to always manually build high quality backlinks myself simply because I could not find anyone out there who would do it for me the way I wanted them to.

Heck, I even hired a bunch of people overseas who worked full time - building these backlinks for me. They were great people, but their link building sucked. It just wasn't up to par with what I considered to be "high quality" backlinks.

Did I mention it cost me a fortune to always outsource these tasks? Not to mention, by the time I finished explaining how I wanted my links built, I could have built a few dozen myself. It just wasn't for me!

So I tried fiverr. I used to outsource a lot of my manual link building there but guess what? The quality standard I had set for my own sites wasn't there. So I went back to building all my backlinks myself again.

That was until I discovered RankCrew - a manual backlink building service started by Jon Leger - one of my favorite SEO legends.

I read rave reviews about their service and signed up - added some money to the account - and then went ahead and tried them out. First one campaign, then another, and then another. I skeptically double checked all the reports they sent me and was relieved to finally have found a service that not only matched my expectations, but also exceeded it.

Just about every time they send me a completion report (that shows the backlinks they manually built for me), I go ahead and order two more campaigns. It's not only addicting, but has been a huge help in getting my sites ranked on top of the search engines.

If you're still on the edge - wondering if RankCrew is for you - just sign up already. It is free to sign up and you only buy credits if you see something you really like. I know you will like them - because their backlinks are the best I've ever bought in all my years of internet marketing.

 Join RankCrew Here! 

Sure, there are great automation tools out there that will generate a lot of backlinks on auto-pilot. Some of these are not bad. In fact, I personally use and recommend some of them, but only use them in conjunction with manual backlink building services like RankCrew!