Back linking - can you tell me why it works?

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by vitalbusiness, Oct 13, 2010.

  1. #1
    I honestly know nothing about back linking. I post ads on craigslist and backpage. I post ads on twitter and facebook. What is back linking exactly and how can it benefit bringing traffic to my site(s)?

    In layman's terms please... :)
     
    vitalbusiness, Oct 13, 2010 IP
  2. hamburg

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    You have a website, you want people to be able to find it. One of the best of ways of doing this is to have your website on the first google search page...preferably within the first 3 search results.

    Backlinks are one way of doing this. Say you had an incredibly popular site and everyone was talking excitedly about it on forums, facebook wherever and posting links to pages on your website. Then google sees 'ah ha! This website is very popular with the public' and shoves it up the page rankings hence bringing you in even more views.
     
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  3. vitalbusiness

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    I am still not getting it. There are probably 1000's of sites fighting for the same niche every second of our lives and/or the first 3 PAGES on Google. How can some amateur blog or site benefit from back linking?

    But most importantly: What IS back linking? Is it when I ask someone to post my URL on their popular site? Is it what it is?
     
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    geester1 Well-Known Member

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    the best and easiest way is to write an article with your keyword FIRST in the title then create an article of 350 words, submit it to ezinearticles and check your stats, you will see the amount of people who will visit it as this article should (if done right) appear on page 1 of Google for the search term.

    The idea is to have as many backlinks pointing to your site from as many websites in your niche that are classed as "expert" in Googles eye, these are the sites with a high Page Rank, they then in turn pass some of the power of the Page Rank on to you, sharing the love.
     
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  5. thinkingahead

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    Webmasters build backlinks because we want to please Google. When Google sees that your there are many sites pointing to your websites, Google gives more importance to your site. And when that happens, your site will be served in the top 10 or 20 of Google Search results.
     
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  6. vitalbusiness

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    Ok, thanks. Now I get it. Well, then I am using the best backlinking ever: craigslist and backpage. And this forum, of course. :)
     
    vitalbusiness, Oct 16, 2010 IP
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    #7
    posting links on classifieds sites wouldn't be much beneficial as they are no-follow, try to post on dofollow sites.
     
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    Forum sigs, blog comments, forum profiles, articles all good places for backlinks.
     
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    more links point to your domain and key phrase which used them will help that keyword to get ahead from comp.
     
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  10. northernweb

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    the best backlinks are one-way links from authority domains (domains with trust, age and pagerank). you can build this by writing and distributing content about your website to other websites, like article directories and blogs. i've taken the liberty of adding some tips to the article directory in my signature to explain further.
     
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    Keep in mind that for successful linkbuilding, you have to achieve backlinks from different sites.
     
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    Think of it this way... every link back to a site is like a VOTE telling search engines that site is important.

    When a word or phrase is hyperlinked rather than the URL typed out... for example, if clicking the word mortgage brought you to somemortgagesite.com, that is like a VOTE telling the search engines that the website is important for "mortgage" and would help it rank better for that term.
     
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  13. vitalbusiness

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    #13
    That helps me visualize how it works. Thanks.
     
    vitalbusiness, Oct 18, 2010 IP
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    google needs something to measure your website
     
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    check your competition, find those high keywords and spread the word. Get tons of traffic
     
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    see it is the basic thin to get ranking for highly competitive keywords. Even I can say it is steps after successful website..
     
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    you're just pretty much spreading the word on your site and getting it more attention
     
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    You're referring to linkbuilding. Well, it's a process of building links. There are many ways to do that. Among the common methods are forum posting, article submission, social bookmarking, etc. As much as possible, your links should come from quality and relevant sites.
     
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  19. vitalbusiness

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    Ok, I got it! NO NEED to beat this already dead horse to death. We can now all leave this thread alone.
     
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    backlink is any link received from web node like from directory, artictle ,socailbookmarking etc where u submit ur site..
     
    meenu24, Oct 19, 2010 IP