7 Ways to Build Quality Backlinks to Blog

SEO (search engine optimization) is always associated with a backlink. What are backlinks? Backlink is a link from a blog towards other blogs, in other words a blog to provide recommendations to their users to visit other blogs.

So what we aim to build backlinks? The ultimate goal is that our blog is more popular in the eyes of search engines, such as Google.com. Blogs that have a lot of quality backlinks normally would receive special attention from the search engines, and search engines will put the blog on the main page of search results for a certain keyword. How to build and create quality backlinks for your blog?

Here are some ways to build and create quality backlinks for your blog:

1.    Through Social Bookmarking Sites

The first idea of social bookmarking site is allows users to save URLs or links from sites that they like, so they will easily reopen the sites. In it’s development, social bookmark site commonly used by SEO expert to help popularize a blog page in search engines.

Search engines like Google also explored the social bookmarking pages to find out the pages of the blog that is often stored by Internet users. And of course this will affect the search results in search engines.

2.    Through Article Directory

Article directories are often used for marketing activities and build backlinks. We can build backlinks from article directory sites by creating quality articles then submitted to article directory sites. Many article directories that are already very well known today, such as Ezinearticles.com, Articlebase.com, and others.

3.    Through Blogwalking

Blogwalking are activities visit other blogs and leave a comment and we can leave the URL of the blog we posted on the comments. There are two advantages of blogwalking activities, the first is that we get a backlink, and the second is a direct visit from the owner of the blog and also others who commented on the blog.

The very important thing is give a good comment in order to avoid spam by the blog owner. Before leaving comments on blogs you should read the article, and then leave a comment that is associated with the article. Do not give origin comments, such as "good article, thanks yes", and other comments that are too short.

4.    Through Guest Blogger

Be a guest blogger on a blog that has been established is one of very powerful way to make a blog popular. We could be on another blog writers (of course with the permission of the owner of the blog) and we posted a good article and in accordance with the existing topic in the blog. In the biography of the author introduces himself and we can also put a link to our blog.

5.    Through Social Media

Backlinks from social media sites are very high quality backlinks, for example backlinks from Twitter, Google+ and Facebook. Although usually backlinks from social media sites are nofollow, the search engines like google still considered.

Besides backlink of course we will also get visitors from our friends or followers on social media. Therefore, every blog that we build should have its own social media accounts such as Facebook fan page and twitter account. With so many friends or followers on social media sites would be very easy to make your blog becomes popular, of course, we also need active in social media.

6.    Through a Press Release

Backlinks from press release websites is quality backlinks, besides press releases potentially provide traffic on our blog. Many press release sites often used for promotional activities and build backlinks, whether it is for small, medium, and large companies.

7.    Through Web 2.0

In addition to create a blog for free, Web 2.0 is also often used for activities to bring backlinks. And of course backlinks from Web 2.0 is very effective in our SEO activities for the average Web 2.0 is a high authority in the search engines, in other words, Web 2.0 has been trusted by the search engines.

Some Web 2.0 is often used for building backlinks is; Blogger.com. WordPress.com, Blog.com, Blurty.com, Webs.com, Livejournal.com, Gather.com, and much more.