9 Simple Ways To Get Backlinks To Your Website

Backlinks are very important for building popularity for your internet business and the more of them you have the more potential traffic they can bring you. A backlink is simply when you have your website URL on somebody else's website.

So let's take a look at just 9 ways that you can get backlinks and so increase the amount of traffic coming to your site every day.

1. You are reading this article right now and at the bottom of it there should be what is known as a resource box. The resource box will contain a link pointing back to the author's website. One simple way to increase the number of backlinks is to write and submit large numbers of articles to online article directories. Each one that publishes your article, is linked to your site through your resource box.

2. Writing blog articles and submitting them to social directories is another way. This method is known as bookmarking a blog post and is a valuable way to get backlinks to your blog. Social directories love these as do search engines. The more people go to your blog, the more search engines rank your site, so the more visitors you get.

3. Make a habit of posting comments in other people's blogs. Do however post only to those blogs that allow you to include a link back to your blog or website. Otherwise you'll spend an awful lot of time, with no reward.

4. Visit and participate in online discussion forums. Include your signature file which should always contains a hyperlinked keyword phrase back to your website. These posts in discussion forums usually stay online, so are giving you backlinks for years to come.

5. Trading links with other websites is a fairly slow business for most people. This is known as reciprocal linking, but you can speed up the process by joining a reciprocal linking company, thus finding hundreds of link partners to trade with.

6. Adverts placed in ezines that are archived on the Internet is another useful way of getting back links. The archived issues can serve as backlinks when your advert is published in them. Multiple adverts can be purchased from ezine advertising companies such as HBAds so you save money by being in multiple ezines with a single purchase.

7. Put out a press release each time your Internet business has something new to offer. Press releases should contain a link back to your website which can bring traffic immediately and well into the future.

8. Purchasing text link adverts on other people's blogs can end up on thousands of pages giving you massive exposure with one link. If you can get on a blog sidebar your link will be seen by millions if it's a really popular blog.

9. If someone asks you to write testimonials for a product launch, make sure you do it. Such testimonials can give you immensely valuable backlinks and traffic as people will read the sales page over and over again.

Here are only 9 ways to get backlinks to your website or blog. There certainly are plenty more ways to get them and as you can see, the more backlinks you have the better. Keep your eyes open, for opportunities to get your URL out there on each and every website you can.

Jane Holloway is owner of Tap-inprofit.com and writes on work from home business, including affiliate marketing. If you'd like to learn more about this topic, Jane recommends you visit http://www.Tap-inprofit.com