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Do You Have These 8 Types of Backlinks Yet?

September 22nd, 2009

Wendy Jones

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There are so many different types of backlinks. Don’t you wish you knew which works best? This article discusses 8 ways to get backlinks. It also discusses which types of links are most valuable.

Reciprocal links are still of some value. These are 2-way links whereby webmasters agree to link to each other. The ease of obtaining these links make them less effective than other types of backlinks but they have some value and they’re not “dead” like so many people claim.

Social bookmarking links are a great way to get a new post or page indexed but have low value otherwise. If you want to rank well for highly competitive terms you need more than social bookmarks. I mean how many boxes of Girl Scout cookies can you sell to your friends? If you look at Cpanel for your website and look at AWSTATS you’ll see that social bookmarking links are in a special category separate from other types of links. Hint. Do more than just be social.

One-way links are the more powerful links these days and probably always have been. However, if you only focus on getting one way links to your site and do not have any outbound links, then that’s a seemingly unnatural or abnormal linking strategy and it could hurt you. On the other hand, most webmasters are affiliate marketers so they’re out-linking to the affiliate programs anyways so in most cases, there’s really no need to spend time on looking for sites to link to when it will just come naturally if you’re outbound linking to those product or program sites.

Your blog commenting helps build your recognition and credibility in your field but blog commenting takes more time to do than you get in return in terms of income. Just be aware of its effect on your time management. Blog commenting for backlinks is a very popular method of getting backlinks because it is free and pertinent and you get exposure. However, these types of links aren’t very valuable especially on blogs with the NoFollow attribute set.

Three way links or 3 way links are a hybrid of reciprocal links and 1way links . Most 3 way link building services will require that you link out to other sites in order to get links to, non-reciprocally, by other sites in the 3 way link building service’s network. If the network is full of quality sites, then there is some decent value to this automated link building but in most cases, you will lose all your links if you cancel your membership to those types of services. These types of services are usually only good for getting links to low-competition keywords, key-phrases, and niche topics, however, you can add about 50 sites to these networks and get backlinks to all your sites automatically with 3 way links services and this is a pretty good deal for webmasters with a portfolio of mini-sites for low competition terms.

Many SEO bloggers claim that these types of links are ineffective and they are 100% wrong! Footer links are links at the bottom of sites that link to other sites. Footer links at the bottom of blogs often link to the site that made the freeWordPress theme. Many of those WordPress theme sites attain high Page Rank in very little time. WordPress plugins work the same way. One marketer uses his links in the footer of the Master Resell Rights Websites he sells each and every one of those sites and sales pages that people link to his main site. Now you know how he got to be on page 2 for the term “make money online”. Enough said. Footer links work well when people do not change them. Just pay attention to the links on your own site.

Paid links are a waste of your money. You’re better off paying less of a monthly fee for a link building service like Unique Article Wizard that delivers quality and permanent one way links in quantity. Paid links are those that you pay a fee for in order to get a high Page Rank and relevant links back to your site for your chosen keywords. Those links are not permanent and will only last as long as you keep paying for them.

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Tracy Wheeler
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