Backlinks are vital for good SEO. Even if you get absolutely everything else right, it is very unlikely that you will make it to the first page without some backlinks. Of course, it can be tricky to get good backlinks, because the best backlinks would come from other sites in your niche. Obviously, the webmasters of those sites are going to see you as a competitor. They won’t be too eager to give you a link that might help you outrank them!
The good news is you can create your own backlinks very easily. There are many easy ways to do this, and you can even hire someone to do this for you for as little as $3 per hour!
One easy way to get backlinks is through article marketing. Article marketing is the process of writing articles and submitting them to websites called article directories. These directories often have very good authority with Google and other search engines, so the articles can rank high, and they can provide very high-quality backlinks.
In exchange for giving the directory free content, you get a link or two back to your site, usually in a section at the end of the article called the resource box. Occasionally the links in resources boxes are tagged with the rel=”nofollow” attribute, which makes them useless for SEO purposes. But you can easily find out whether a particular directory uses this tag by using the Firefox plugin “NoDoFollow” to view the page. Nofollow links are highlighted in pink when using this plugin.
Another easy way to get backlinks is to comment on blogs. Most blogs use the nofollow tag on the links in comments, but you can find blogs that don’t by searching for “dofollow blogs” on Google. This will return several dofollow blog directories where you can find blogs for getting backlinks.
Finally, you can get very easy backlinks by creating small feeder sites on social content sites like Squidoo.com and HubPages.com. These will give you a quick backlink, as well as some additional traffic from people who actually read those feeder pages.