There are so many different types of backlinks. Don't you wish you knew which works best? This article discusses 8 ways to get backlinks. It also discusses which types of links are most valuable.
Do not give up on reciprocal links. They still have value. 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. These are 2-way links that happen when webmasters agree to link to each other's sites.
Social bookmarking links are a great way to get a new post or page indexed but have low value otherwise. If you want to rank well for highly competitive terms you need more than social bookmarks. I mean how many boxes of Girl Scout cookies can you sell to your friends? If you look at Cpanel for your website and look at AWSTATS you'll see that social bookmarking links are in a special category separate from other types of links. Hint. Do more than just be social.
One-way links are the more powerful links these days and probably always have been. However, if you only focus on getting one way links to your site and do not have any outbound links, then that's a seemingly unnatural or abnormal linking strategy and it could hurt you. On the other hand, most webmasters are affiliate marketers so they're out-linking to the affiliate programs anyways so in most cases, there's really no need to spend time on looking for sites to link to when it will just come naturally if you're outbound linking to those product or program sites.
Blog commenting for backlinks is a popular method and free and you choose the relevant sites. However, these links aren't as valuable either. This is particularly true if the blog has been set with the NoFollow attribute. While you will find some value to blog commenting for backlinks you also need to pay attention to your return on investment on the time it takes to get these links. Often this is a time drain rather than a valuable backlink process. Your blog commenting does help build your recognition and credibilty in your field, though.
When you get three way links or 3 way links it is usually a part of a networking system. Three way links are a hybrid of reciprocal links and one way links . The way it works is you link out to one site and a different site links back to you, so it is non-reciprocal. All of the sites are part of the same network. When the network is full of quality sites, then there is real value to this automated link building. There is the risk of losing all of your links if you cancel your membership for most of these services. Also, this types of linking service is most helpful for low-competition keywords or key phrases or niche topics. If you have a portfolio of mini-sites with low competition terms, this is a good deal, you can add about 50 sites to these networks and get backlinks to all your sites automatically with 3 way links services.
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.
I think that paid links are an extreme waste of money. Paid links are links that you pay for in order to get some high Page Rank and relevant links back to your site for your chosen keywords. They are usually very costly. Worse yet, they are not permanent. They only last as long as your membership fees with that company is paying for those links. A far better idea is to pay a lesser fee each month for a linkbuilding service like Unique Article Wizard because they deliver quality and permanent one way links in quantity.
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