10 ways to generate quality backlinks

If you wonna score in search engine results, one of the most important things is to have (high-quality) backlinks from websites, blogs,...that push your site or blog up the search engine rankings.

What is a backlink?

A backlink is a link from another site that points back to your website. The Google algorithm is still a secret. But from a lot of experience we can tell that backlinks are very important. The higher pagerank your backlinks have the better. Here you can find a nice explanation about PR(pagerank) and backlink on youtube.

Importance of relevance of backlinks

If you are a webdesigner it is important your backlinks come from design related websites or blogs, and not from a fishermans website. When search engines calculate the relevance of a site to a keyword, they consider the number of quality inbound links to that site. So the higher the relevance the better the quality.

DMOZ

Getting accepted by the Open Directory Project is an important. The Open Directory Project http://www.dmoz.org, better known as DMOZ (its original domain name, directory.mozilla.org), is probably the single most important directory on the Internet. Google uses DMOZ as a directory source so it is important to have your site listed in its index. 5 basic tips to get listed for dmoz.



Blog Commenting

Search engines still give value to comment links especially if they are dofollow. Commenting on other blogs can be a great way to generate quality backlinks to your blog, and this is an easy way to spread your blog url all over. Just posting the URL of your website in irrelevant blogs is considered an unethical way.

Social Bookmarking

Create accounts on the most popular Bookmarking sites and share your site's URL together with other bookmarks.You can bookmark your own articles or blog posts to help market it to other people and to get a backlink to your site. Make sure posts are easy to facebook, tweet, share, digg, stumble, delicious, etc. and ensure it is easy for readers to spread the word about your post to any social media site they want.

RSS Marketing

You can submit your site’s RSS feed to various RSS Directories on the web. You’ll automatically get a new link each time you add a new post to your site.

.edu and .gov links

Search engines are known to favour these Edu and Gov links far above the others. Sites with an .edu or .gov are considered as trustworthy sites. Therefore, such a backlink, originates from such a trustworthy site, the reputation is carried over to your site as well.



Submit and Ping your website to following sites

http://alexa.com/siteinfo/www.yoursite.com
http://quantcast.com/www.yoursite.com
http://www.google.com/addurl
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
http://sitesubmiturl.com-take the free submission.
http://www.squidoo.com/Ping-Tools
http://pingler.com

Forum Posting

This is the same as commenting, but you will add your links as a signature. Forums are real places with and for real people, so don't SPAM, think long term, be an active contributor. Also check if it is a Dofollow forum. Here is a nice list of dofollow top forums.

Video marketing back-links

By creating a video, you have opened up another method of generating back-links: submit to YouTube and post your hot URL in the description box.

Internal Links

Internal linking is designed to help website visitors easily navigate through your site, finding relevant information as they learn more about your product or services. A well designed internal linking structure is ranked higher, and will help indexing your whole website. 

Content is King

The last but maybe the most important is your content. Creating great content will drive traffic to your website, and bring links to you automatically. If you want quality backlinks, start with content that is worth linking to.