8 Types of Backlinks For Your Website
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There are many different ways to get backlinks. This article will discuss 8 of the most common ways to get backlinks. It will also discuss which types of links are most effective.
by DanielMcGonagle


There are many different ways to get backlinks. This article will discuss 8 of the most common ways to get backlinks. It will also discuss which types of links are most effective.

Reciprocal links are still of some value. These are 2-way links whereby webmasters agree to link to each other. The ease of obtaining these links make them less effective than other types of backlinks but they have some value and they're not "dead" like so many people claim.

Social bookmarking links are also of little value. Getting social bookmarking links is a good way to get a new post or page indexed. However you cannot rely upon just social bookmarking links if you want to rank well for highly competitive terms. If you look in your website's Cpanel under the AWSTATS interface you'll see that social bookmarking links are in a special category separate from other types of links because they are devalued links.

One-way links are more powerful links. However,do not stop at only getting incoming links. Keep your outgoing links and incoming links in balance or it will be an unnatural flow of traffic at your site. Most of the time though this is not a problem because affiliate marketers are out-linking to affiliate programs anyways.

Blog commenting for backlinks seems to be a very popular method because it is a free method for getting backlinks from relevant sites. However, these types of links aren't very valuable either, especially on blog with the NoFollow attribute set on those sites. There is still some value to blog commenting for backlinks but if you analyze your return on investment on the time it takes to get these links versus the value of those efforts you'll see that this is a time-sucking effort that usually isn't worth your time.

Three way links or 3 way links are a hybrid of reciprocal links and one way links. Most 3 way link building services will require that you link out to other sites in order to get links to, non-reciprocally, by other sites in the 3 way linkbuilding service's network. If the network is full of quality sites, then there is some decent value to this automated link building but in most cases, you will lose all your links if you cancel your membership to those types of services. These types of services are usually only good for getting links to low-competition keywords, key-phrases, and niche topics, however, you can add about 50 sites to these networks and get backlinks to all your sites automatically with 3 way links services and this is a pretty good deal for webmasters with a portfolio of mini-sites for low competition terms.

Footer links are links at the bottom of sites that link to other sites. Many SEO bloggers claim that these types of links are ineffective and they are 100% wrong! Nowadays, footer links are most often seen at the bottom of blogs with links to the site that made the free WordPress theme, if the webmaster was using a free WordPress theme and many of those WordPress theme sites attain high Page Rank in very little time. And the same holds true for the sites where WordPress plugins are downloaded, and there is one marketer who has his footer links in all of the Master Resell Rights Websites he sells and all of those sites and sales pages that people are putting up are linking to his main site, which is page 2 for the term "make money online". Suffice to say that footer links do work well if there are a lot of people using the themes, plugins and leaving links intact into the footer sections of the Master Resell Rights website packages.

Paid links are a waste of your money. You're better off paying less of a monthly fee for a linkbuilding service like Unique Article Wizard that delivers quality and permanent one way links in quantity. Paid links are those that you pay a fee for in order to get a high Page Rank and relevant links back to your site for your chosen keywords. Those links are not permanent and will only last as long as you keep paying for them.

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