subject: Link Building The Right Way [print this page] Using widgets or templates online is a smart way to begin to build your backlinks. The more people you attract to your widgets the greater the benefit will be. You get credit for every widget that is downloaded. There are many people who are looking for applications that are free, so that they can use them on their site. Most people don't care that they are giving your site credit. So if you create a template and it's downloaded by more than 10,000 webmasters how many links do you think that will create?
Even if only 80% of those webmasters credited your site you would still benefit from about 8000 backlinks. That alone is a crazy amount of links when you consider the sheer quantity. Get your mind out of the gutter and into the mainstream of application creation in order to attract more backlinks. Having a blog is yet another way to benefit from online marketing.
There are several third party blogging networkd such as Blogspot, Blogger, Xanga and Wordpress that can also be leveraged to benefit your site. These blogging networks allow you to create your own blog on their platform, where you can insert your own links. Use this opportunity to leverage these platforms into acquired quality backlinks. The long run benefits will be worth the short run effort. Having links coming from multiple blogging networks will let you build backlinks easily.
You can also use press releases to gain quality backlinks to your site. You can send out a press release about the launch of a product or website, and this can get distributed to many different sites. This is another high quality backlink that is valued by the search engines, as it's highly targeted. This is also a cost free way to get great backlinks. If you use an established press release distribution service, such as PRLeap or PRWeb, you should get good results. Include your website or product's USP in your press release before you send it out for distribution. Do this so that the press release can get wider distribution, and you'll be adding to the total backlinks you can get.
All in all, the advice we shared above can give your link-building venture a new push if you apply them. Be sure you don't get involved in any blackhat or scandalous link-building strategies, because this will ruin all your laborious efforts.
