subject: Link Building Clues That Produce Results [print this page] A different way to develop one-way backlinks for your site is to hold contests for it. That's right; there are websites that run contests to attract other bloggers who can post anchor text links on their blogs. What it comes down to is using your intelligence to cajole bloggers into placing your anchor text link, in hopes of winning the contest. You can have any type of prize to give away to the luck winner.
Essentially, it's your decision about which method will work for you or not. Contests let you take control of the anchor link and allow you to make the decision on what text to put in it. On the flip side, having too many backlinks using the same keyword may do more harm than good because the search engines might view it as link spam. To keep in ordinary, be sure to have a cutoff for the number of contestants. Keep it inconspicuous and get your links spread out with random keywords.
Those who have been marketing on the internet for some time now already know the benefits of a good blog. But there is another way blogs can be leveraged and that is by using third party blogging networks such as Blogger.com, Xanga.com and WordPress.com. These blogging networks allow you to create your own blog on their platform, where you can insert your own links. This gives you a unique opportunity to leverage such platforms to gain strong, high quality backlinks. It might not show big returns right away but it will help. Your backlinks will be made easily when you use multiple networks for blogging.
Forum signatures are another way to effectively build backlinks. There are an abudance of forums you can use that offer you the opportunity to signature your link in posts. Your ranking will increase when you use forums that are reguarded highly by search engines. The idea that posting to forums is too difficult to be worth the effort is obsolete. Negative rankings will occur if you are posting to irrelevant forums.
So backlink building may seem like a lot of work, but it's definitely worth the effort.
