How To Get Free Backlinks: What You Need To Do

What are backlinks? Backlinks are links that point back to your website and helps search engines rank your website or blog. If you find that you are barely getting traffic to your site or blog it is because you don't have enough quality backlinks. The more backlinks you have, the more traffic you will get.

So how do you get these business building backlinks? Actually it can be quite easy and yes, even free.

1. Article Directories

Writing articles is one of the best ways to get free traffic to your site or blog. When you write a quality articles and then submit it, attach you site or blog link somewhere within your article that way it can point by to your site. That ladies and gentlement is called a backlink.

2. Social Bookmarking

When you use social bookmarking you can list your site or blog as one of your favorites then share them within your "circle." Your link can spread like wildfire thanks to tagging and as a result your site will get indexed very rapildy within Google, Yahoo or Bing.

3. Posting on Forums

The key to using this method correctly and to get good backlinks is to either create new threads or respond to existing ones, all that are related to the subject of your website or blog. However, do not spam threads with your link. You'll never get backlinks that way. They key is to give helpful advice and to teach something new. Then in your signature add your link. Do this and you will get high quality backlinks in no time.

4. Web Directories

These directories help tremendously with getting backlinks to your site or blog and these directories ae acceptable to search engines. All you have to do to find these is search for "web sirectories" in Google and you should get a ton that are free to submit to. NEVER PAY TO SUBMIT YOUR SITE. You will just be wasting money doing it that way. Submit it for free! The more web directories you are identified with, the higher your ranking in the search engines will be.

Now you know what backlinks are, why they are essential for success with your online business and how to get them for free. Without these things acquiring these links are far from easy, but it still is possible. With some time, patience and hard work your website or blog should top #1 om the search engines without any problems.