Another Sneaky Way To Get Backlinks
Posted on January 26th, 2009 by Rishabh Sood under SEO Tricks/TipsMany webmasters use and recommend forums to get backlinks for their websites. The good thing about forums is they can not only give you backlinks but also give you targeted traffic (assuming you are posting on relevant forums). Many forums will allow you to post 2 or more signatures and the signature links are dofollow links.
Forums give you following places to get a backlink from:
1. Signatures, note that you can include links to your internal pages as well.
2. Homepage – Almost all forums will allow you to have a homepage link.
3. Latest blog post
4. Solicitations and Announcements for directories – If you own a directory, you get a direct link from a post that stays with the forum even if you get banned.
(Please note that your signature links go away when your account is banned in a forum).
5. Review my website: Most webmaster forums (and many non-webmaster forums) would include a section called ‘Review my website’, you can post your link there to get opinions about website’s design, navigation and other feedback from other forum members.
That’s a lot of links you can get from a forum and one shouldn’t start spamming the forum for these backlinks. Forums are very useful learning resource and can be used to build lasting business relations.
Where is my sneaky tip? Oh yes, I am coming to that right away !!
What if you have a plain simple website that doesn’t have RSS, you are loosing out one ‘latest blog’ link. You can create a file in the following format:
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<rss version=“2.0″xmlns:content=“http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/”
xmlns:wfw=“http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/”xmlns:dc=“http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/”
xmlns:atom=“http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom”xmlns:sy=“http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/”
><channel>
<title>PUT YOUR SITE TITLE HERE</title>
<link>PUT YOUR URL HERE</link><description>A GOOD DESCRIPTION</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:51:38 +0000</pubDate><language>en</language>
<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod><sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
<item>
<title>THIS WILL SHOW UP AS TITLE OF YOUR LATEST BLOG</title><link>THIS IS WHERE PEOPLE WILL GO WHEN THEY CLICK ON YOUR LINK</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:50:04 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
<description><![CDATA[WRITE A QUICK DESCRIPTION HERE]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[WRITE ANOTHER QUICK ONE.
]]></content:encoded>
</item></channel>
</rss>
Upload this file to your server as .xml or .rss extention, don’t forget to put URL of your website (even internal links are fine).
Now go to control panel of your forum, edit profile (or options in some cases) and put URL if the page you just uploaded.
Voila, your plain jane website has a latest blog entry. You can put any of your internal page to get a backlink for that page.
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January 26th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Thanks for your work! Nice blog!
January 27th, 2009 at 11:46 am
another sneaky way is to leave your comments in blog sites with dofollow attributes on their links.
January 28th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Very good tips. But are these tactics allowed by google? If I do so, won’t google ban my adsense account? Why are you not publishing Adsense ads in your site? Have you been banned?
One more question, you are publishing AWsurveys refferal image link in your webiste. Your site gives me the impression that you are a talented blogger. But don’t you know that AWsurveys is the bloodiest SCAM in the cyber world? If you don’t remove the banner of AWsurveys immediately, then your site will loose credibility very soon. Thanks again.
January 29th, 2009 at 3:52 am
Just got another new idea on how to get backlinks. Thanks for sharing this informative post
January 29th, 2009 at 5:43 am
Good article. in feature i will try this code
January 29th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Very nice!
Your tips never cease to amaze me
January 30th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Thanks a lot ! Gonna use this.
I have been using forums to drive some traffic to my blog, yet I haven’t done it enough (not enough time).
Anyway, thanks for the code.
Cheers,
The Moneyac
January 30th, 2009 at 11:34 am
Hello,
I agree that authority article is the easiest way to get backlinks, perhaps thousands of them. Writing an authority article is tedious and requires a lot of research, but once the post becomes popular, the result will be amazing. People are linking to you without you asking them to do so.
February 1st, 2009 at 3:46 am
Very useful tips. It’s most of step to promote blog to others for getting traffic.
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Really I would be reluctant to call these sneaky ways to get links. It is more along the lines of branding, you are just creating a brand in the space that is alloted to you.
February 7th, 2009 at 12:37 am
Thanks for the advice mate
I am always looking for new ways to get links
February 7th, 2009 at 5:14 am
Wow!!! Good method …
will try it … great if it works …
February 9th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Just got another new idea on how to get backlinks. Thanks for sharing this informative post
February 10th, 2009 at 2:53 am
Good tip – thanks for the suggestion. I’ll give it a try.
February 14th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Do I need to give any specific name to that .xml file I am going to upload to the server ?? and this file will go in home dir?
April 7th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Another tactic to try out. Thanks.
May 8th, 2009 at 1:21 am
thanks for sharing your work
May 27th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Thanks for sharing this information on how to get a backlink. This is very informative and a very useful tip.
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