Simple Ways To Increase Your Backlinks And Get Your Link Building Campaign Started

Link popularity can be described as a measure of the quality and quantity of sites that link to your website. In other words, the more popular a website that is linked to yours, the higher your website rankings will be on Google. The number of links pointing to your website also plays a significant role in your link popularity. If you have more links pointing back to your site, search engines will assume that your website is of some value and rank your site higher.

There are some very effective and natural ways of increasing your link popularity. However please note that it will take some time and effort before you start seeing results, so be very patient. A few ways in going about increasing your back links and your link popularity include but are not limited to the following:

• Participating in forums.
• Writing articles and submitting them to article directories.
• Commenting and making contributions to other blogs.
• Submitting your blog/site to blog and website directories.
• Answering queries on Question and Answer sites such as Yahoo Answers and leaving your link there.
• Making use of anchor texts (This is where you include certain keywords in your text that links back to your site.)

By doing a few or all the above you are leaving a link to your website/blog in the article directories, blog directories, site directories, question & answer sites and on other blogs where you participate. Also you will be leaving your link on all the websites and blogs that choose to republish your very informative articles.You will definitely be increasing your back links over time so continue to provide value and you will be rewarded.

Something else that you can do to increase your backlinks is to try getting other website owners in your niche to place a link to your website from theirs. In return they may ask you to do the same. This is called reciprocal linking. Do the same for your blog. In some cases your requests may be turned down and sometimes you may be charged a fee but you should not be deterred in your efforts to get linked to popular sites.

Once you have a good quality site providing a lot of value and a lot of information you will find people linking to your sites. Once you have good quality articles posted in article directories such as Ezine you will always have persons republishing your articles all over the internet and your links could go viral. Article marketing is probably one of the most effective and easiest ways to increase your backlinks so start writing good quality articles and eventually you will start seeing some results. Your links in your resource box attached to your articles will be there for years to come on all these sites, all over the internet.

Pretty soon you will have a combination of one way links (where a website links to you without you linking back to them) and reciprocal links (where a website links to you and you link back to them in return). Please note that quality wins over quantity in the link building game so always try to build good quality links instead of focussing on getting a ton of low quality back links. Having higher qualiy links is better for search engine optimization. Anothe point worth mentioning, Avoid this whole thing about buying links as Google dosen't like this and you could be penalized for this. So just take your time and don't try to rush things along.