By Local Loyal Clients LLC.
Written by: jennifercorgan
Alongside great content, links are the best way to build up your ranking on the web. To rank without back links is hard, if not impossible, to do. Google cares very much about the links that you have, and you should too. And it is not just about having links. It’s also about having useful, high-quality links too. In the not so distant past, the focus was all about quantity. The more you had, the better that you did. So people tried to get as many as they could get, and they didn’t care where they came from. They would even buy links in quantity. And it worked. But with Google’s new algorithms, this put a stop to that craziness and shadiness. Links can now pose a risk.
If Google suspects link buying or other Shady tactics, it will penalize you for it. And it will now penalize you for low-quality and spammy links, so it’s essential to take the time to slowly build up high-quality backlinks to help you rank your site. Slower is now better. It is necessary to research the website you are going to get a backlink from and make sure it is high domain authority and not a spammy site. You need to keep reminding yourself that not all links are the same.
So, what are some legitimate ways to get good, high-quality, backlinks to link to your website? Ways to improve backlinks you may have?
1) Ask for them
This idea may seem like a no-brainer. But many people have friends and relatives, colleagues, partners, and clients who have their own websites are blogs. This is a fantastic and realistic place for beginners to start. Just ask and see if they would be willing to help you out by giving you a link. But make sure that their website is relevant to your niche. If it is not, it may not help, and it could even possibly harm your rankings. If it is within your niche, then go for it! It couldn’t hurt to try, and you have everything to gain by doing so and nothing to lose.
2) Build up relationships
You should be engaging in niche-related communities, forums, blogs, social groups, and groups like link building Facebook groups as an example. Be really active and responsive. There needs to be more give than take in your relationships. Make interesting and relevant comments and posts, provide real value to the group, and to each discussion, you engage in. When you actively join in on these groups, you will not only get some backlinks, but you will have access to the best and newest information in the industry and be able to connect and join with interesting people. You might even make some new friends.
3) Have your site listed in trusted directories
You don’t want your site listed on directories that have zero value and that Google excludes from its searches. There are many such directories on the internet. But they are not all bad. Posting on a list gives you a chance to leave a link back to your site, and it also provides useful information for potential customers. Posting on a niche directory is ideal as it is a directory that is for a particular industry. If your business is on that type of directory, it’ll make it easier to get indexed in the major search engines, and it will help people find you online.
4) Guest Posting
Another great way to get a high-quality backlink is from guest posting on a high domain authority website. The blog or website should be relevant to your niche. It should not be self-promotional, or advertising of a product, and it should provide real value to the reader and the website. The writing should be of high quality as a weak, low-quality article could damage your reputation. You want to build a good reputation as a quality guest poster and a reputable authority in your niche. Quality guest posting will help you do this. Guest posting will get your name out there as well as getting a link, so it serves more than one purpose. If you provide a great post, you could be invited back to do more guest posts and even become a regular on a website. Guest Posting is an excellent way to get a lot of high-quality back links.
5) Discover your competitor’s backlinks
Researching your competitor’s backlinks is an essential tool. You can use MOZ or AHREFS Competitor Research Tools to do this. You can then write more superior content then what your competitor wrote and then email their backlink source and tell them that you have better material to give them then what your competitor gave them, and you can then ask them to link to you instead. But make sure what you wrote is genuinely superior then what they wrote. It should be 100 times better and offer so much more to make it worthwhile for someone to go and change the links to your favor.
6) Turn mentions into backlinks
This is an easy way to get backlinks. This is if someone wrote something about you or your business but did not link back to your website. You can find these mentions by using several tools that you can find online. Once you find a mention, you simply write and ask the person to link back to you. Almost all website owners will be more than happy to do this. The key is to have great content that people will want to mention on their websites and blogs. It always comes down to great content.
7) Find competitors quality backlinks
After finding your competitor’s backlinks, you are still not done yet. You must research each backlink and make sure they are high-quality backlinks. If they are not, then they are useless to pursue. Because, remember, bad, poor-quality back links can hurt your rankings, not help them so pick out the best and discard the rest.
8) Set up a scholarship or give away
Some of the best backlinks come from.edu and .gov websites. They are top of the line, and they passed a lot of trust. This idea is one of the rare link buying opportunities that is white hat and legit. But it can be expensive, and you’ll need a chunk of change to do it. But it’ll give you some excellent backlinks that will help you with your ranking.
9) Infographics
You may have excellent writing skills, but some people find infographics easier to understand and comprehend. Everyone learns things in different ways, and you’re writing should reach as wide of an audience as possible. This is where infographic comes in. And they have been shown to work very well for a wide range of people. You can also find out if someone is using your infographic without linking to you by doing a reverse image search. You can then contact them and ask them to link your infographic to you
10) Lists
People love things that are in list form, just like this very list that I am creating right now. With a list, people are more likely to click on them and then share them. You’ll be more likely to get your content out there and get a link with articles and blog posts that are in link form. There are so many ways to write lists and so many topics it works well to write about in exciting ways. The ideas and possibilities are endless, and so are the link possibilities that come with them. Be creative and have some fun while you are at it and create a bunch of informative, fun, and useful lists and get some great backlinks from them.
11) Fix a webmaster’s mistake on another site
You should, like we said, be building solid relationships. You should always be willing to help someone out. Then they will be more willing to help you out when you need it. If you find broken links on other sites, you can inform the owner of that site and then give them your quality content that would be a suitable replacement for the broken link. Most website owners will be grateful for being told of the error and to be given a suitable alternative that they do not have to go out looking and searching to find. They will actually be grateful to you and will remember you for future link building opportunities when you approach them in the future. Good relationships are vital in this business!
12) Yahoo Answers, Quora, etc.
These are very high authority sites. You get a lot of link power from them. One way you can use them is that you can ask your own questions. And the big thing that you can do is also answer other people’s questions. You can provide relevant links to your site within your answer. Answering questions also gives you authority by solving problems. You can eventually come across as an authority on a subject by answering enough questions for enough people thoughtfully and professionally. And by also providing quality links that will provide real value to the problem and to the conversation. The links must always be relevant and must never appear spammy, or you will get seen for what you would be a spammer, and that is NOT what you would want. That is the opposite of what you would want. Being an authority on a subject is the goal, and getting your link out there is the key.
13 ) Comment on other blogs
You can leave your link sometimes when you comment on other blogs. But do not leave useless comments because this is considered spam. And that is not cool to do. Use what knowledge you have to help people and again, build relationships and be involved. Show yourself as a real authority and a leader on a subject and make sure your link is relevant to the conversation. Make people want to hear from you and want to use your link. Build trust around your name and link. People may start to seek you out eventually, and that is a fantastic feeling knowing that you are looked up to as an authority on a subject.
14) Publish articles for Content sites
You can write unique articles and publish them on content sites like Medium, Ezine. You can sign up for free, and at the end of your article, you could put your bio with your link on it. You will get a broader audience in addition to the link. Here too, you can get your name known as an authority on a subject, and your link will be out there for all to see. Your writing should be top rate because your reputation rests on it and how you present it. Don’t ever look at this as an opportunity to dump second rate, lower quality work. It will affect your reputation, and that is something you do not want. Always present your best work. Delete all the rest.
15) Create social media profiles
If you don’t use social media, you really should. You are missing out on a humungous opportunity to reach thousands of people to build relationships with and to get your name and link out there. Create a profile with as much information as you can. You can repurpose content you have already used on your social media accounts. Concentrate on content from your site or blog so you can build the right backlinks. When you create your profile on social media, always include your website URL. Get it out there as much as you can, and build your visibility.
16) Make and publish a resource list
you can help people find resources to solve their issues and also create an excellent link bait in the process. By creating a vast and comprehensive resource list, people will want to link to it. It will become wildly popular and well sought after. They will want to link to it on their own content, and then you will both win with that. A way to do this is to have local listings or to have listings within a niche. You can have a broad topic or have it narrowly focused. Just be sure to have great information that people want to link to. Again, we have to say, it’s all about great content and what people are looking for. Try to get an idea of the things people are looking for and provide resources to satisfy those needs. Using tools that tell you how many times a person uses a particular word as a search term in Google would give you some ideas of what people are looking for.
17) Create amazing content
This should be number one. Creating excellent, compelling content is vital to getting a backlink. Your content should be keyword rich also with your anchor text and have it optimized for the search engine. You should have a lot of content. The more, the better. Two thousand words or more is realistic for people to stand up and take notice of your content and want to link to it. Writing” Ultimate Guides” is very popular, and when you write the “Definitive” of something, then people notice. People want information all in one place. The Ultimate Guide satisfies that desire. It makes people want to read it, so naturally, they are going to want to link to it. Linking to it can beef up their own content. You know the saying ” build it, and they will come” For here in this instance, it’s “write it, and they will read it.” Give them exactly what they want and desire, and you will get your coveted backlinks.
18) be a case study for your clients
You should let yourself be a case study for someone else, and this will help you link your clients with an inbound link. Let yourself volunteer your time to someone for a case study about your personal business. Once it gets published, you’ll get an inbound link.
19) you can publish press releases
You should release an online press release frequently about new products are new updates. Journalists can find these press releases, and then they can distribute them throughout the internet, and you won’t have to do anything on your part. How easy is that? But you add links back to your website, so you gain a fantastic authoritative inbound backlink from the article.
20) make your business field local
You can rank better with local links for when local customers search for you online. You can go online and visit your local Chamber of Commerce, the Better Business Bureau, and the local library and build a relationship with them. These are trusted sites by most people in the community, and your website can benefit from the exposure, and you can get your link out there to local people and local businesses. You will build trust and friendship within the community and the local business community.
Well, here you have 20 ways to get backlinks that are not that hard to do. You can increase your Google ranking by following these tips and applying them to your business. You do not have to be a genius, and anyone can try these ways to improve backlinks and expect to see great results. Some things take time. Ranking on Google is one of those things. Ranking is not an overnight process, and you should not expect to see instantaneous results. But if you put the time and effort into it, you WILL see results, and your website’s ranking will go up.
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