Internet marketers understand backlinks are paramount to their business. You have to have them pointing people to your website and offering. Otherwise, how will the people find you at all.
One of the main reasons you want to have good backlinks when you first build your website is to get indexed. Backlinks allow the search bots to follow established websites to yours. This allows them to find your site, index you, and start the process of gaining search engine rank positions for your desired keywords. Backlinks are important part of the Internet marketing business.
Let’s discuss the top ten 3rd party backlink sources for Internet marketers.
10. Squidoo Lens
Squidoo lenses are easy to create and make an excellent source for you to create a backlink. Just start a lens on your niche, write some relevant content, then link the anchor text to your home site. Squidoo ranks well in the search engines and should prove to be a reliable resource for your backining and traffic needs.
9. Blogger
Yes, blogger is the old school name, but it is still owned by Google and that makes it important and relevant. Blogger or now called Blogspot is a blog creation site where you can create a free blog on their server. The playbook is the same as above. Write relevant content to your niche and link the anchor text to your home site.
There is thinking that Blogger links carry more weight than others because it is owned by Google. Not sure if that is true or not, but why not build the site and get a quality backlink in the process.
8. Hub Pages
Similar to blogger, Hub Pages offer yet another third party website to host your thoughts on the subject. The important thing to remember about Hub Pages is that you are only allowed to link to a particular site one time. If you try to put more links to a single website, you Hub Page will be deactivated. Trust us, we know from experience. They are not playing.
7. Wet Paint
Wet Paint is another third party website to build a site on for your backlinks. Just heard of this one this year, but have been steadily using it and the link does register. Quick and simple to set up an account and you can build as many individual sites as you need for your various niches.
6. FeedAgg
FeedAgg does something a little different that the others. This site takes your rss feed, burns it, and post on the FeedAgg.com website. The link to your main site is automatically created for each article published.
5. MySpace
Did you forget MySpace. com has a blog on it for each and everyone that is signed up? This blog is your ticket to write content about your niche again and link back to your site with the anchor text. Obviously, MySpace is a larger site and adds some juice to your backlinking strategy.
4. FaceBook
Everyone is on Facebook these days, or the Book as it is called. You can leave links in your Groups or Pages are the preferred method, but it is not essential. However, a link from FaceBook is a good link in my book.
3. Stumble Upon
If you are not submitting your websites to Stumble Upon, then I have to wonder what planet are you coming from. Stumble Upon allows users to visit random websites according their interest level. If you website is in that niche, then it may show up. And Stumble Upon can give you some good traffic sometimes. Be sure to check it out.
2. Digg
Digg is the grand daddy of these social media marking websites as it has the presence and the branding to back that claim. I am sure you have seen the Digg logo, but be sure to submit your website and post to this site every time.
1. Social Marker
There are more social marking sites that you need to be getting your website to, but instead of just listing out all of them I decided to give you the resource that will allow you to send your page, details, link to 50 of these sites at one time. Yes, you are welcome.
