How to Build a Backlink to Improve your Google Rankings in SEO

Whether it is a small or a multinational company in the current digital world, the internet is where your customers are and Google is where a large part of the internet population is present so your website SEO ranking on Google determines how your company performs on the internet.

There are other ways you could bring your website on the first page which is SEM. So What is SEM? In general terms, it’s a way you could rank your website in the ads section of Google after optimizing your website to a certain extent.

To rank your website in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) there are many steps one of them is Off-page SEO. In Off-page SEO, linking your website with other websites is one of the most crucial steps known as backlinking.

Let us understand what a backlink is with an example. We also try to cover various backlink creation methods which would further help us grow our knowledge on backlink building strategy.

Do you remember?

The last time you watched a movie on Netflix because your friend suggested it. If you do, then you know the basics of how backlinks work.

Backlinks are a type of suggestion one page on the internet gives to its visitors to come to your website through that link.

There are two types of backlinks, Do follow and No follow.

So when you tell your friends that you must watch this movie, then kind of a Do-follow link

But, when you tell your friend you can watch this movie, but I am not insisting you do so, then it’s a No-follow link for you.

Following are some of the easy ways to get the do to follow a link to increase your website ranking

 

1. Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.

So now that you know what it is, the question arises how to get a do-follow backlink from a social bookmarking site? You can get it by just posting your business details on it.

Follow the steps given below to create a Post and to get your do-follow backlink.

The first thing you could do is to search google for the list of social bookmarking sites.

For example, we have taken bookmarks2u how to create your link on social bookmarking sites.

 

How to create Social Bookmarking?

1. Go to https://www.bookmarks2u.com

 

2. Under USERS, select REGISTER.

 

 

3. Fill up the registration page and select REGISTER.

 

After creating your account, choose SUBMIT ARTICLE, then a new page will appear, provide the details and submit. Your ad will go for approval then it will be published. After that, you will get a do-follow link from the website.

Similarly, you can get a Do-follow backlink from other social bookmarking websites. This method is one of the quick and easy ways to get backlinks.

Here are the top 10 Social Bookmarking Websites you could start with:

1. AdFreePosting: DA – 30
2. ActiveBookmarks: DA – 17
3. A2ZBookmarks: DA – 23
4. BookMarkdeal: DA – 17
5. Bookmarkfeeds: DA – 17
6. Bookmarkmaps: DA – 17
7. Folkd: DA – 61
8. FreeADS: DA – 38
9. bookmarking: DA – 24
10. WhaTech: DA – 52

 

2. Blog Submission

Blog Submission is one of the ways you can do free marketing of your products and services and your level of expertise in your niece.

In this way, your blog content will tell your readers about you, your services, and the information they were looking for, so your traffic and profit highly depend on the quality of your blog.

A good blog must be

• Relevant (relevant to the niece & time)
• Unique (in its way of conveying information)
• Specific (only about the niece)
• Readable and Understandable by all kinds of audiences

These are some of the key components of a well-written blog.

A good blog work requires the right audience to appreciate it, so how to reach your audience? Answer to the question could be to submit your work on a High DA Blog Submission Sites, by doing so you could get not only free traffic but free Do-follow backlink to your website as well.

Good content is what people will share, which will give you free marketing! Which in turn would result in revenue based on your offer and services.

Below are the top 10 free high authority blog submission sites where you could start submitting your blogs on

1. alltop.com
2. blogcatalog.com
3. ontoplist.com
4. blogarama.com
5. blogadda.com
6. bloghints.com
7. blogflux.com
8. entireweb.com
9. seoheights.com
10. bloggerspassion.com

 

3. Image Submission

A picture is worth a thousand words, stated by Henrik Ibsen. Your image could tell many things about your business in a glance than a write-up could.

A good image would not just convey information but will also persuade the viewer to take action, which will give you traffic.

Image is also essential for image SEO so that when an image is searched, regarding your niece, the image from your website will show up at the top along with other images.

Let’s see how to submit your image, for we will take Myspace.com.

 

How to submit images to the Image submission site?

1. Go to https://myspace.com/

 

2. Then click on Sign up.

 

3. Choose which way you want to sign up if you choose mail then fill in the given details.

 

After filling in all the details, accept terms and conditions and click Create Account. After filling in all the details, accept terms and conditions and click Create Account. After which you have to confirm your email and then your account will be activated.

Then you have to select upload from the right section and then a new panel will open.

 

 

In the new panel, select photos and then upload them from your device.

 

4. Guest Posting

Guest posting is the process in which you post an article on some on else webpage and by doing so, you will get traffic and brand awareness, Which will improve your website performance.

Now we will talk about how to do the guest posting.

First, you need a hIghly-authoritative website. See whether they are looking for a guest post on their website, then check if that website falls under your niece or not? If it does, then start with the second step.

Now that you have a website to post your article on, then do some research on that website regarding the topics on which they already have a blog, then in which format their blogs are written, the type of audience they are targeting.

After getting all this detail, create a blog post that is unique, relevant, and fill all their requirements.

On some websites, there is a section where you can post your guest blog for review, once accepted it will be published.

There are also some websites where you need to send them a mail with the summary of your blog and whether your blog is relevant to them, if they like it they will post it on their website.

 

5. Profile Creation

Profile creation is one of the essential parts of search engine optimization, which helps you increase your brand visibility. It brings your customers and services one step closer to each other.

To get a backlink from this method, you need to remember that the profile which you create should be on a highly-authoritative website; because from there you’ll get traffic and do-follow backlinks.

Below we have given the list of those websites from where you could start your profile creation.

1. amazon.com
2. yahoo.com
3. linkedin.com
4. wordpress.org
5. pinterest.com
6. facebook.com
7. flickr.com
8. myspace.com

 

6. Forum Submission

There are forums on many nieces where people share their knowledge on different topics and submit links to their website for further details. On those platforms, people advertise their services through their comments which show their experience in the field.

This forum is a good place for problem-solving and link-building. On these forums, you get to know experts of that field, who you may not know, which could help you understand the way experts work when you research them.

Remember, if you try to spam the comment section, it won’t be any good, because people don’t like those things and like to stay away from those links and websites.

On the other hand, if your comments are helpful and the content on your blog is good, people would like to connect with you, creating opportunities from more backlinks.

On the other hand, if your comments are helpful and the content on your blog is good, people would like to connect with you, creating opportunities from more backlinks.

Below are the top 10 SEO forums which you could check out.

1. www.warriorforum.com
2. www.sitepoint.com/forums
3. www.thehyipforum.com
4. www.webmasterserve.com
5. www.warriorforum.com
6. www.namepros.com/index.php
7. www.submitexpress.com/bbs
8. www.iq69.com/forums
9. www.acorndomains.co.uk
10. www.forums.onlinebookclub

 

7. Directory Submission

Directory Submission is the process of enlisting your website URL and its details on a directory submission site. By doing so, you can improve your link building.

In the directory submission website, you have to put your business in the category it belongs to, let’s take an example if your website is regarding Website Development, then it will come under IT services.

These directories are somewhat similar to the phone directories, which have a list of websites in each category. For the people who have just started blogging, it is an essential thing to do. This way you will see growth in the rankings of your website, and blog by submitting your URL to web directories.

There are two types of Directory Submissions:

1. Paid Submission: In this, the Directories site will charge for submission and your link will be approved after some time or within 24 hours. Some sites offer you this package for a yearly or lifetime.
2. Free Submission: It is free for Directory Submission, no one charges for free or regular submission but there is no guarantee of the websites getting approved by the Administrator. Also, this involves time.

 

How to do Directory Submission?

If you want me to guide you through this process, then here it goes:

1. The first step is to choose among the best directory submission site list.

2. Select the site where you want to post your blog or website. I have taken https://www.abc-directory.com/ for an example.

 

3. Now click on the Submit URL.

 

4. After that select, a specific sub-category of your business.

 

 

 

5. After selecting the sub-category select, Submit A Site at the top.

 

6. Now submit all the information on your website and click Next and then submit your site.

 

7. After posting your site, it will be active after 24 hours.

 

8. Email Outreach

Email Outreach is not about spamming people’s inboxes with your request for accepting one of your articles; if you do this, your business reputation will get damaged in the market.

You do email outreach when you have fresh and great content regarding your niece, which other websites that fall under your niece do not have and which can provide your readers with the value and you with some High-authority backlinks, which will improve your SEO ranking in google.

Now you understand what email outreach is, now let’s see how to do email outreach?

Let’s say you have fresh and great content. Now you need to send it to people. What you need to do now is to find websites where content is similar to yours.

Then send them the email, that’s it. That’s all you have to do.

 

9. Article Submission

Article Submissions help your business by bringing traffic from high authority sites and thus help you in improving your Google ranking in SEO.

It is not only about marketing your articles by posting them on the directory site, but it’s also about marketing your articles on different social media platforms like Facebook to generate attention and traffic.

Various free article submission sites help you in marketing your articles. Below we have given the list of some of the free article submission sites.

List of top 10 free article submission sites.

1. github.com
2. quora.com
3. ezinearticles.com
4. articlebiz.com
5. storify.com
6. isnare.com
7. goarticles.info
8. tumblr.com
9. myarticles.com
10. livejournal.com

 

Backlink building in off-page SEO is the strategy that you need to use to attract the right traffic. It’s simple, the more people visit your site, the higher sales will be. So go through our blog on off-page SEO for more details.