6 Easy Steps to Add Backlinks to Your Website

Ideas on getting backlinks for your blog or website

Co-authored by Anar Kazimov

Last Updated: August 8, 2024

What do backlinks have to do with a website or a blog? Why should website and blog webmasters be concerned about getting high-quality backlinks? Backlinks play a huge role in getting visitors known as traffic to websites and blogs. Backlinks from different directories, blogs, websites, and articles all help direct traffic to websites and blogs. This traffic translates into money and that is why high-quality backlinks are so important.

Things You Should Know

Look on Google for high-quality and related backlinks.
Log into your account and add links to your website or blog with relevant keywords.
If you need to, use HTML if needed.

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Find places where you can get backlinks.

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You can go on related forums for more information on backlinks or read the Google Link Guidelines on what is required

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Register or sign up for the sites you find.

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The registration or sign-up procedure is straightforward and will usually have an activation link sent to your email.

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Sign in to the site.

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You might have to create a password as well.

4

Go to your profile editing screen.

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Now that you are signed in, search for your profile button or control panel button (cp). Navigate to edit your profile.
- Keep in mind that each website or forum that will give you a backlink is different. In some cases, you add your URL address where indicated. In other cases, you also leave your URL address in the signature box. Still, in other cases, you leave your URL address in your bio section. It all depends and it is up to you to figure out, unless the backlinks have instructions.

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Leave 3 links to your site with keywords.

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For example, keywords can be: Best Ways To Make Money Online, Make Money Online From Home, Best Home Based Business. These are 3 examples of keywords that will contain the link back to the website. However, recent changes to the Google Guidelines will suggest that you don't use anchor rich keywords and you will be much better off with just a 'Click Here' or URL link.

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Use HTML or BBCode if required.

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Depending on the site, you may need to use codes to create links. It will be indicated. Here is an example of the HTML code: <a href="http://www.YOUR%20WEBSITE.com">KEYWORDS</a>
- Here is the example of BBC code: [url=http://www.YOUR WEBSITE.com]KEYWORDS[/url]

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What's the difference between a good quality backlink and a bad quality backlink?

Anar Kazimov
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Anar Kazimov is a Digital Marketing Expert based in Vancouver, Canada. He is the Owner and Marketing Director of Pixel Prodigies, a company created to help business owners achieve more sales by revamping their digital portfolio. He has helped the NIH, IBM, Canadian film studios, Rolex dealerships, and many other firms in their marketing campaigns. He previously had a career in the IT industry and worked at Freelancer.com. He received a BS in Computer Science from the University of Victoria.

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So, a good backlink comes from a website with high domain authority, such as Forbes or even wikiHow. This has a big impact on your website's credibility and search engine ranking. On the other hand, a bad backlink comes from a site with low domain authority that's full of ads or affiliate links, or a newly created website. This gives little or no help to your site's SEO. High-quality backlinks tell search engines that your content is trustworthy and authoritative. Poor-quality backlinks don't improve your site's reputation and can even hurt your SEO efforts if they seem manipulative or spammy. Other examples of a good backlinks are government sites like CDC or academic institutions like Harvard.

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Backlinks are links from other websites to yours. You can go to dropmylink.com and search for places to get backlinks.

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You can use tools such as SEM Rush which costs money. There are also free tools to check with such as Backlink Checker or Moz.

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Be prepared to get tired. Adding backlinks is time consuming, frustrating and something you would rather not do.

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Be prepared with your HTML codes and BBC codes written out with your website and keywords. That way you highlight, copy, and paste.

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Never use unethical means (automated) to try to gain links. You also need to steer clear of link networks, in-line links with keyword rich anchor text and poor-quality directories.

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6 Easy Steps to Add Backlinks to Your Website

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Find places where you can get backlinks.

Register or sign up for the sites you find.

Sign in to the site.

Go to your profile editing screen.

Leave 3 links to your site with keywords.

Use HTML or BBCode if required.

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