Consider that you have freshly hosted your website or blog, and pretty excited about the fact that innumerous visitors might be flocking in to take a look at what you got to offer. Furthermore, you paid a hefty sum to your hosting company and there's no looking back now. You ought to get better traffic or you are 'doomed'! Eventually, you realize that the number of visitors on your website has become as bleak as have your hopes of growing your business. And you were thinking that providing top-notch quality content was the sole Holy Grail for a runaway success on the web. If you have come across this term called 'SEO', or Search Engine Optimization, but don't know how and why to apply it to your website, then it's high time you learn a couple of handy optimization tricks which just might give you that right breakthrough in your search rankings, which would consequently increase website traffic. Inserting backlinks at various sources could be counted as one of the preliminary steps. Now the prevailing question would be, 'How do I devise effective ways to get backlinks to my site?' So here are a couple of handy tips to get you going.

What are Effective Ways to Get Backlinks to My Site?

Firstly, let's understand what are backlinks. Backlinks are links or URLs which direct users from other websites (blogs, profiles, forums, etc.) to your site. It is a legitimate and ethical website promotional technique without shelling out extra bucks. Here are a couple of techniques which would give you a fair overview of how I use, and sometimes buy backlinks for my website, for promoting my business.

• I find out the competitors associated to my realm and derive some ideas from them in terms of content, style, promotional methods, and how they try to incorporate the elements of variety, freshness and ingenuity. Sometimes, I try to understand what my visitors want and how I can cater to their requirements by providing the right content from the right source.
• I usually write articles which are related to the my website's domain and submit them at various article directories with my website link where people can check backlinks to my site. Also, starting a blog could be a handy tool for attracting interested audience. If the content has an extra edge over others, then you might start raking in ample interest in no time.
• You might have noticed that there is a feedback section after most blog entries. This is another great place to place your backlinks because a lot of people go through the comments too. I usually post a couple of feasible comments followed with links to my site. There is always a possibility than other visitors might just stumble upon those comments and give my site a try!
• Start writing authentic blog entries and submit them to social news directories like Digg and Delicious. Digg has an interesting feature where they can rate your entries as interesting or boring by digging and burying.
• Be a sport and share your opinion/feedback regularly on online discussion forums. In the meantime, you could slip in a couple of backlinks which might be fruitful in your endeavors.
• Sometimes, I purchase advertising space on any other website where visitors could find backlinks to my site on the sidebar. Many of them, just out of sheer curiosity, might check backlinks to my site and thus add to my site's traffic. Pretty interesting,huh?
• You could also take the initiative to write reviews or testimonials for various products which have been launched recently in the market. This is the perfectly right place to create backlinks to your website which not only would help people to learn about the product but also help to 'sell' yourself.

The above methods would help in making a mark in the information superhighway and furthermore, direct your ideas to the right audience. At least, I found these techniques on backlinks to my site to be very effective and useful.
By Dhritiman Basu

Posted in: Link Building