If you aren’t getting search engine traffic I can almost guarantee you aren’t building enough links. I can say this because building links is probably THE most important thing there is to do for your site if you expect to see search engine traffic to your site. Most new internet marketers fail to understand this and go for the “easy” social traffic. Problem is social traffic doesn’t pay. It’s time to get started building links, here are few ways to get you started.

One of the easier ways to go about building links is to comment on blogs. Make sure you find blogs that are related to yours, so it seems appropriate that you are leaving a comment. Fill in the name field of the comment form with your keywords instead of your name, and then fill in the url to your site. Make sure before you leave a comment you have read the post and added a comment with some value. Leaving spam comments will not get you backlinks because they will be deleted before they ever get posted. Make sure you are leaving a comment that is valuable in some way. Leave your opinion on the topic, an extra something that adds to the discussion.

Article Marketing. This is another great opportunity for building links. You can do it a couple of ways. You can do single submissions. Write an article and submit it to ezinearticles.com. This will get you some traffic ~ if you write a good article and bio box as well as the links back to your site. Make sure you use your keywords as anchor text in the links in your resource box. You can also do mass submit to a lot of article directories. This is easiest when done with some form of software.

RSS is a relatively new technology. Even so, it can be a great way to start building links to your site. You simply get your RSS feed url and submit it to a variety of RSS directories and feed aggregators. You will get a link back to your site for each post you make. The link is usually the title of your post, so make sure you use keywords in those titles.

Free content sites. These are sites where you can create content and put it on the site for free. Probably the most well known of these types of sites are blogger.com and wordpress.com. There are hundreds, if not thousands of them though. They work well because you have control over the content and the anchor text of your links. Not all of these sites are friendly to money making so make sure you read the terms of service at each site. Even though you may not even have links to “money sites” some have rules against buildling links to other sites to help with search engine placement as well.

As you can see building links to your site is not very complicated. It can be time consuming and relatively boring, but it’s just one of those things you have to do to see search traffic. If you fail to build links back to your site you can pretty much expect not to see much search engine traffic. A big hit of traffic from stumble can feel good on the stat counter, but you may be surprised that even after 1000 visitors you haven’t made a dime. Work on building links, so you can get some search traffic. It may take a little more work, but you will actually make some money.

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