Backlinks, to Buy or not to Buy?
Backlinks, To Buy or Not to Buy?
Backlinks are an important part of a websites search engine rankings. However quality backlinks, those from the topic of your website, and relevant area are of importance as well.
Anchor text, which is where the link is pointing will also increase your page ranking. Vary it to closely match the content of the page you are backlinking with.
Obtaining Backlinks
There are numerous way to obtain backlinks. We will go through several of them including paying for them, swapping and free backlinks.
One way is to ask for backlinks with others that you correspond or do business with. These may be people that you have a relationship online with such as from social media groups or those you have purchased products from. Once again, make sure that these are related to your business. You do not want just any link!
You can also purchase links directly from bloggers or other webmasters. This way is more difficult for the search engines to pick up on, as far as the buying part of. Search engines are not found of buying backlinks but they can increase your rankings.
This method is also the cheapest. Once again look for quality and contect as well as anchor text.
Buying Directory Links
Directories are like the phone book online. This can be a valuable place to add your link but it can also be costly.
Yahoo Directory:
This has many categories and RSS feeds
http://dir.yahoo.com/
Cost: $299.00 per year
Best of the Web
One of the oldest directories
http://botw.org/helpcenter/subitcommercial.aspx
Cost: $79.95 per year.
Addurl-free.com
No, this is not free. It was when I first start but it isn’t anymore. It does have 2000 visitors a day though.
http://addurl-free.com
Cost $40.00 for a placement or $80.00 for a featured placement.
Business.com
This is a business directory. Quality hits should be expected from this listing area.
http://business.com
Cost: $199.00 per year.
Link Exhanges
There are several out there. I will show you a few of them. Read how it works and all of the details before signing up for anything. This information is taken from their websites.
Mega Links Exchange:
Mega Links Exchange
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How it works
Mega Links Exchange is a network of link publishers, who publish a directory on their websites which is managed by Mega Links Exchange. The directory consists of only one small 1kb file, linked from the publishers homepage. Link publishing is free because link publishers websites are included in the network. Mega Links Exchange checks all links in the network on an hourly basis, to ensure that no deadlinks will be published at anytime. If a dead link is found, the website will be instantly suspended and removed from the network. The owner of the dead link will be notified about this situation and asked to correct.
Signup as link publisher and get free links instantly:
1. Register for an account.
2. Create link campaign, submit your URL, title and description you want to display throughout the network.
3. Upload a small 1kb file to your server which is provided to you in the account panel, link to the file from your website.
The file will show a directory with links of all publishers, just as on other publisher sites that link to you. This will increase your backlink count instantly and daily, as new publisher sites join which display your link in their directories.
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Link Market’s link exchange is accomplished by a very simple and extremely effective 1-2-3 link exchange step process. Link Market users sign in to their account and browse the link directory. Once appropriate links have been found, the user places them in the link cart. Once ready to send the link exchange request, the user goes to the link cart and sends the link request. At that time, the link request gets sent out. This is where Link Market’s 1-2-3 link exchange step process starts.
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Webmaster (RQ) is a Link Market member that is requesting a link exchange.
Webmaster (RC) is a Link Market member that is receiving a link exchange request.
Step
Webmaster (RC) receives a link request via e-mail and is instructed to log in to the Link Market account to respond to the link exchange request. Once logged in, the Webmaster goes to My Account and clicks on Current Jobs.
In Current Jobs, the Webmaster will see all of the jobs needed for a link exchange to take place. The Webmaster would then select one link and click on the respond link. This will then open a new Web page where the user may examine the link and either agree to link exchange or not.
If the user doesn't agree to the link request, then this link exchange gets stopped and placed in the link request history. If the user does agree to the link exchange, then this link exchange request gets forwarded from the Webmaster’s current jobs and gets placed into Webmaster (RQ)’s Current Jobs.
Step
Webmaster (RQ) is required to place Webmaster (RC)’s link on his or her link page. Once RQ does, RQ submits his or her URL address to the link page where he or she has placed Webmaster (RC)’s link. At this moment, Link Market opens Webmaster (RQ)’s link page and looks for Webmaster (RC)’s link. If the link exists on the page, then step 2 is finished and this job gets moved from Webmaster (RQ)’s to Webmaster (RC)’s Current Jobs. Otherwise, this job gets marked as pending in step 2 until Webmaster (RQ) submits the valid link page.
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Webmaster (RC) is required to place a link to Webmaster (RQ)’s Web site. Once that’s done, Webmaster RC submits the URL address to the link page where he or she has placed Webmaster (RQ)’s link. Link Market opens Webmaster (RQ)’s link page and looks for Webmaster (RC)’s link. If the link exists, then step 3 is finished and this link exchange gets marked as successful. Otherwise, this job will be marked in step 3 as pending until Webmaster (RQ) submits a valid link page.
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