Ways To Get Quality Backlinks To Your Blog

In the search engine optimization (SEO) world, the number of backlinks is indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page. Specially, to boost your ranking, you need to get quality links from other authority sites.

How can you achieve that ? Of course, with strong backlinks because Google likes strong backlinks from authoritative domains.

Also Read: Get Do-follow Backlinks from PR9, PR8, PR7 Websites

What is Backlink ?

In Simple Words, Backlink is number of inbound links from other blogs and website. More number of inbound links means better search engine ranking. Another advantage of backlink is that your website will start getting index as soon as you publish articles.

When you are building backlinks, you need to keep quality of links in your mind. Also, instead of creating lots of backlinks to your homepage only, start working on building links to internal pages. This way, you can also target Single or double word Keywords easily.

Here are 30 ways by which you can get quality backlinks to your blog:

1. Submit Guest Post to Other Blogs.
2. Comment on dofollow blogs.
3. Make Use of Discussion Boards by Linking to Your Blog in threads (Like-Quora).
4. Submit Your Blog Posts to Blogging Communities (Like-Blog Engage and MMO Social Network).
5. Answer Questions in Yahoo Answers.
6. Exchange links with other bloggers in your niche.
7. Submit your blog to top web directories.
8. Submit your articles to stumbleupon.
9. Submit your blog to digg, it is dofollow and Google crawls most of its submissions.
10. Submit your rss feed to rss directories.
11. Most forums have a website review forum, review your blog on these forums.
12. Convert your blog posts to pdf and submit it to document sharing sites.
13. Review top companies and products and they might link back to you.
14. Make use of web 2.0 sites like squidoo to promote your blog.
15. Submit your blog posts to blog carnivals.
16. Write controversial posts.
17. Write a post comparing some top gurus in your niche.
18. Submit your site to Dmoz, many other directories use this directory and that alone is enough quality backlinks for you.
19. Submit your blog to .edu and .gov forums and blogs, Google loves backlinks from these sites and regards them as authority.
20. Make use of groups like Google Groups and Yahoo Groups.
21. Submit your blog to technorati and build more links to increase your ranks, this alone can help you get many high quality backlinks.
22. Blog about celebrities.
23. Submit your resume to resume directories while linking to your blog in your resume.
24. Write posts that starts with numbers (e.g. “7 ways to…”) these type of posts do tend to get backlinks.
25. Write on about.com and link to your blog in it, this will likely be crawled and used by a lot of websites thereby increasing backlinks to your blog.
26. Create niche specific tutorials, which are not only unique but help the community.
27. Create viral youtube videos and include links to your blog in the video and its description.
28. Update your blog regularly because this will make more people trust your website and it will also make you rank for more keywords which means more traffic and eventually more backlinks.
29. Write a list of the “top 10 myths” or “top 10 mistakes” about something.
30. Try to know which stories are trending at the moment and make sure that you blog about them.

Also Read: High Page Rank Dofollow Blogs List

What are the ways, which you prefer to get backlinks? Share your secrets in comments. :)