2 Generating Traffic to Blogs Through High Value Backlinks

By Julie P Birkwood 

Maintaining a constant stream of unique visitors to your site is essential to grow your site. Visitors and traffic are the lifeblood of a site generating both sales and revenue through ads. As a blog owner, one of the best ways to direct traffic to your blog is through high value backlinks. If you are interested in generating traffic to your blog through high value backlinks, be sure to check out this article.
What is a high value backlink?

A backlink is basically a link from another site to your site. Many search engines favor sites with lots of other sites linking to them. There are several factors that determine the power and value of backlink. As a website owner, you want backlinks that are considered "dofollow". "Nofollow" backlinks are not bad, but dofollow backlinks add a lot more power to your site.

Secondly, you want one way links. These are links directly from one site to your site. You don't link back to them. These are also more valuable than other links.

Finally, you want to look at the Pagerank of the linking website. A site pagerank is designated by Google. A link with a PR of say 5-4 has much more power than a link from a site with a PR of 2-3.

High value backlinks can generate traffic through two main ways.

Firstly, high value backlinks can generate organic traffic to your site. If a site with a large volume of traffic links to your site on its homepage, there is a good chance that many of the site's visitors will click on the link. This generates visitors through the link. This is even better if the linking website or blog has a similar target audience to your blog. This means that you get targeted traffic to your blog which usually results in more comments, more subscribers, more returning visitors, and more revenue. Receiving backlinks on social media sites can also be rewarding if you post your content on social media sites. If your link is upvoted by the community, you can receive thousands of visitors to your site in less than an hour or two.

0 Building Backlinks Through Articles, Directories, and Social Bookmarking

By Marc Eabharoid

If you've been in the webmaster business for very long, you know that backlinks are vital to your success. Many people struggle with this, because they have nearly no short-term payoff. Sometimes, it can take a month for new backlinks to start to positively influence your traffic or earnings. If you can muster up the patience and put the work into it now, though, you'll be thanking yourself later - and your bank account will be thanking you, as well. The question that many people get stuck on, though, is this: "How do I go about getting backlinks?" It is possible to go to link brokerage services, but those can be expensive and run up costs very quickly. If you want something cost effective, there are three solid options for you to choose from.

One popular option is Article submission. There are two ways to build up backlinks with this tactic. First, you may pepper links to your own websites within the articles you write, since many article directories allow links to be submitted within the submissions. Secondly, each article will have a link pointing to your site at the bottom of the submission, in order to show who the original author of the article is. These links are especially effective because many people will use articles from these directories on their own sites. Whenever your article is used on someone else's site, you gain even more backlinks. This means that the return you get is nearly perpetual!

second option is to submit your website to website directories. These websites include a link to your site as well as a short description. These links are especially effective if you submit your website to many directories within a short period of time (say, a month or two), assuming that all of the directories are relevant to the content on your website.

Last, but definitely not least, is the option of social bookmarking. Sites like Digg, Mixx, and etc. are perfect for building backlinks. Each page that you submit will get you a permanent backlink - and these are especially powerful in the eyes of the search engines because most social bookmarking websites are listed as "authority" websites. And as the name would imply, a link from an authority website is very effective in boosting your results in the search engines. As with article submissions, an effectively perpetual return comes from social bookmarking. If your content is interesting to those who pass by, chances are that they will "vote it up", meaning that more people will be likely to visit your website. Especially interesting content usually ends up being blogged about or shared on people's homepages - meaning even more free links for you.

Don't feel like you need to choose one of these three tactics. The best thing to do is to do all three of them in tandem! By diversifying the source of your backlinks, your website will become even more trusted in the eyes of the search engines. Once you've got the trust of the search engines, it is much easier for your website to climb up and attain a more visible placement in the search results.