Backlink is a link on another site that points to your website. Backlinks are important to SEO success. High quality backlinks are needed for a site to rank high in search engine results (SERPs).

Gaining a backlink is an easy and straight forward task. You can do it in a minute or two. To achieve good ranking, hundreds or even thousands of backlinks may be needed for your site. Getting hundreds backlinks is not an easy task.

How to Build Backlink

Backlink is essential part of SEO. How do we get them?

There are several ways you can gain backlinks for your site. Among of those recommended by most SEO Expert are getting listed in directories, posting in forums, blogs and article directories.

Directory Submission: Submit your site to free directories is an easy way to get backlinks. You can get a free link simply by submitting your site’s details to these directories. However, you may need to wait days or even months to get your submission approved by the directory owner. Paid directories offer faster approval for a fee. A good place to find a list of free directories and start your directory submission is directorycritic.com.

Posting in Forum: Forum posting is another good way to get free backlinks. Sign up a forum account, create a signature that links to your site and you are ready to get some free backlinks.. For some forums, you need to make at least 10-15 posts before you are allowed to add a signature link. Before you make your first post, please read forum rules and regulations.

Blog Commenting: Blog commenting generates backlinks for your site. Before you put link in your first comment, you need to find out that if the blogger allows keyword in the link. To prevent your comment deleted by the blogger, avoid posting spammy comments such as ‘great post’, ‘thank you for sharing’, etc. The blogger would definitely approve any useful comments that are good for the blog’s readers.

Article Submission: As compare to previous linkbuilding methods, you may need to spend more effort and time on writing articles for your article marketing campaign. However, submitting your article to article directories is a great way to get traffic as well as backlink. There are many free article directories. A good place to start is Ezinearticles.com.

Sponsoring a WordPress Theme: Sponsoring free wordpress themes is a good way to gain backlink automatically. This is a common method used by many bloggers to gain backlink for their blogs. Here is an example of a sponsored theme: wordpress magazine themes

Apart from building backlinks using the above link building methods, you can also buy backlinks for your site. You can buy backlinks from several link market on the Internet. However link buying could be risky. You have to do it with care.

Link Building Automation

Creating hundreds of backlinks could be time consuming, tedious and boring. There are several ways you can automate the link building process:

• Linkbuilding Tools: There are many submission tools available in the market for directories submission, article submission and social bookmarking. You can try Brad Callen’s Free Directory Submitter for directories submission.
• Submission Service Providers: There are a lot of companies which will be happy to do all your submission jobs for a small fee. One of such service providers is phpldtemplates.com. You can also find many service providers in SEO or webmaster forums.