Backlinks, also known as inbound links or incoming links, are links from one website to another.   Here's how backlinks work and why they are important: Linking from one website to another: When one website includes a hyperlink that directs users to another...

Do you have a way with words? If so, you can take advantage of your skills to promote your website through article directories that have a large following. The audience is already created; you just add your backlink from your own articles submitted to these...

When we think of Internet marketing, the word "backlink" doesn't automatically come to mind. In fact, most people who aren't involved with a website would not even know what a backlink means. To put it simply, a backlink is any URL link from another website that will...

This is actually a great way to see how your competition has scored some good PageRank. You can also try to get the same backlinks to your site and at least keep par, until you can figure out a way to surpass them. Use the following search engine to figure out what...

One of the best ways to get backlinks is to have something relevant to webmasters that are constantly searching for content and tools to help make their lives easier. Of course, these people live mostly on the World Wide Web (WWW) and are quick to tell all their...

There are three types of links, even if they're all coded the same: a reciprocal link, an outbound link, and a one-way inbound link. In the past, people would join link exchange sites to get reciprocal links. Now, the newer algorithms actually discount reciprocal...

Once people started to figure out that backlinks produced the sound of a register being opened, they decided to set up multiple websites and interlace all of them with backlinks from each. This is not the same as getting friends and neighbors to reference your site....

There are hundreds of different ways to get back links to your website but here are a few of the easiest and cheapest methods to start getting lots of back links pointing back to you at a record pace. OFFER FREEBIES People love free things and might end up promoting...

While writing articles and submitting to article directories is a very good strategy for getting backlinks, you are probably not too thrilled with the workload. Who has time to build a website, promote it, lay out and implement a marketing strategy, and write multiple...

If you are relatively new to the Internet community, it may seem a daunting task to get free, natural, backlinks to your site. You may understand now how important natural backlinks are towards establishing a solid reputation with search engines, but you are caught in...

If you really are dying to give your content away and don’t mind working hard for the backlink, you can offer to be a guest blogger. The key is to target blogs with high PageRank and avoid making the offer of writing free content on blogs that aren’t worth it. Some...

As always, when someone finds a great way to game the search engine, Google steps in to smack him or her down. This is no different than what is going on with paid reviews right now. Bloggers, in particularly, are being targeted as so are the three main third party...

Social networking sites are some of the best places to get free reviews. People there are talking about other people all the time. Of course, they take a bit more legwork than other sites because you will need to participate in the community and establish a presence...

One great way to get tons of back links or by writing product reviews on other people's products. These product reviews work two ways. You can set up a site with reviews and get paid to write them, offering backlinks to the sites and products you review. They will...

It would be great to just ask for backlinks and receive them without delay, but the online world doesn’t work that way. You have to continually come up with new and innovative ways to get new backlinks so that your website is continually being ranked as interesting...

If you are relatively new to the Internet community, it may seem a daunting task to get free, natural, backlinks to your site. You may understand now how important natural backlinks are towards establishing a solid reputation with search engines, but you are caught in...

Now, that you understand how a backlink is coded and some of the history behind why the search engine ranking algorithms were changed, you are in a better position to see how your website might be analyzed for quality links. Obviously, you don't want to add your link...

If you pay for backlinks, some of these will probably come from directory submissions. If you are doing it on your own, you will have to go and submit your website to different online directories. This strategy can work for or against you. You should be careful to...

A second way of buying links that might be allowed by search engines but aren’t done only through link companies are to buy directory listings. There are free directories that anyone can get listed in, but there are also paid directories that you must purchase to be...

So you need to generate some quick back links to your new website, because you know the more back links that you have pointing to your site the higher your going to rank in the search engine. Here are just a few ideas to how you can generate some fastback links with...

There are many different companies out there selling text links. It is a very profitable business for both the publishers and the advertisers. As advertising sources shrink from television and radio, more and more people are seeking new ways to promote their goods and...

Here are a few additional strategies that might help or hurt your site when planning out your back linking strategy and the reasons why: • Do Scope your own and competition’s backlinks For this you will simply log into one of the main search engines and type in...

It seems like every day someone on the Internet discovers and ingenious way to get a one-way backlink. Sometimes people luck into them by buying advertising in a paper publication or directory that later gets posted on the Internet. If they happen to land on a .edu...

When it comes down to it, the only real reason you want backlinks is to make money my right? Affiliate marketing is a way to sell other people’s products on your site while still making a commission on each sale. You can sell your own products on your site and create...

With all this talk about Google, you might think it's the only major search engine around. Actually, there are various search engines around, but Google with its Adwords campaign of advertising is the most influential one for advertisers. Many advertisers and website...

Backlinks have always had some bearing on how well a site ranked in search engine result pages (SERPs). However, in the past, the algorithms were not designed to take into account people trying to cheat the system by loading up on backlinks from sites that had nothing...