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Backlinks are a primary part of affiliate promotion, and if you are not doing everything you can to add to them, you will battle to get traffic to your website. A backlink is a link aiming back to your website from an additional website. You need to be doing something every day to add to your backlinks in order to increase your website rankings, so below I have laid out seven ways of getting free backlinks, plus two paid ways.

Free Backlinks

1. Article promotion. If you are reading this article on an article ezine, you will observe a resource box at the bottom. This contains links to my websites. If you can write articles twice a week or more, and submit them to many directories, you will add to your backlinks rapidly.

2. Blogging. Setting up a blog is free and it’s fun. Each time you post, provide a link to your website and after that submit it to social bookmarking sites. This will get you more than a few valuable backlinks to your blog and to your site every time you post. Search engines love blogs so do this as much as probable.

3. Blog Commenting. Search other individuals’s blogs and post helpful comments. This is only valid if you post in blogs that allow links back to your site. Also, do correctly read the post and make genuine comments, otherwise you could be accused of spamming.

4. Forums. Spend time in on the internet forums that are pertinent to your business, and make sure you have a signature containing a hyperlinked keyword phrase to your website. Most forums posts stay on the internet for a long time so this can give you backlinks for a long time. Of course, it’s imperative that you get correctly involved in forums, providing practical information and asking genuine questions. Spammers are spotted very quickly and you could be disqualified if you just use them purely for the backlinks.

5. Link exchange. Ask other website owners if you can trade links, by giving a link to their website on yours and vice versa. This is known as mutual linking, which is not quite as powerful as one-way linking, but is still worth while, particularly if your link partner has a high page rank.

6. Press releases. Drive out a press release each time you provide a new product or service, or have some appealing news. Press releases contain links to your website that can create traffic immediately and in future.

7. Write Testimonials. If you join a company that has just launched, and are asked to write a testimonial, do it. These will be used in their sales pages and stay around for a extended time, giving you valuable traffic. When you get the chance, offer to write testimonials for other people in exchange for a backlink.

Paid for backlinks

1. Buy Ezine Ads. If you purchase marketing in on the internet magazines you will get a backlink to your site. Buying multiple ads will save cash and time because you will only need one acquisition to be in several magazines.

2. Buy ads on blogs. You can offer to pay for a text link on somebody else’s blog, and if they have a regular readership this can give you enormous contact for your website as well as increased backlinks.

The above thoughts are the mainly well known ways to get backlinks, but you should continuously use your imagination to get as many free backlinks as you can (rightfully of course). If you do this regularly you will find your website rankings just keep moving up.
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