Getting traffic via BackLinks

There are two type of links on a website. These are;

Incoming Links – These are the links from other websites to your site.

Outgoing links – These are the links from your site to other sites, also know as forward links, usually described as “links” or hyperlinks.

Google provides free toolbar (http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/FT3/intl/en/index.html) to check any website with its backward links. If you have the toolbar installed on your Internet Explorer browser, you can visit a web site, click on the blue “i” and then click on “Backward links” to see what appears to be the number of links pointing to the site you’re visiting.

Using Google to find backlinks:

You can use link:website.com

Type the following command into the Google search box:

website.com -site:www.website.com -site:website.com

(Remember to type in your actual site, not “website.com”.)

Doing this shows you;

- Pages that link to your site, minus the links on pages on your own site.

- You’ll also see sites that just mention your site but don’t actually link to it.

Using Yahoo:

At Yahoo!, type this into the search box:

link:http://www.example.com -site:www.example.com

This search excludes internal links.

(Remember to type in your actual site, not “example.com”.)

Here’s a refinement. For more extensive results, try this search:

linkdomain:www.example.com -site:www.example.com -site:example.com

The above search includes links to ALL pages on your site, not just the main page.

At Yahoo!, type this into the search box:

link:http://www.example.com/page

At MSN, use

link:example.com/page

In Google, it’s not so simple. Try this search:

example.com/page.html -site:example.com

It doesn’t actually give you “links”. It gives you mentions. However, most mentions tend to be links and it’s more accurate than Google’s “link:” command.

Link popularity check

You can check for backlinks by using link popularity sites such as www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/default.htm

Free backlinks checker

You can find which sites are linking to you by using this free tool, which also shows the anchor text used in the link:

www.helpfulinformation.org/seo-tools/anchortext.pl

Why backlinks are important

When ranking sites, search engines such as Google look at the number and quality of sites that link to your site. Ideally, you want backlinks from sites in your industry that have many popular sites linking to them.

How to get backlinks

Common ways to get backlinks include exchanging links with other sites (reciprocal links) and by placing articles you write in article directories and on other sites.

Perhaps the most effective way of all is to create such a useful, fascinating site that other sites voluntarily link to yours.

An excellent way to get backlinks

If you want thousands of visitors a day from search engines (and don’t we all!) it’s absolutely essential that you encourage other sites in your field to link to you. One excellent way to get links to your site is by writing articles for newsletters, which are then published on other’s sites.

FREE way to get links to your site

Check out the free Value Exchange for sites in your category that are eager to exchange reciprocal links with other sites. As the Value Exchange’s popularity grows, it is becoming more and more useful.

In some topics, it will locate only a few potential links partners. In other niches, it can find several hundred potential links partners for you.

Cheers
Founder, NewInternetTrends.com

Tags: backlinks, links, seo, Traffic Generation, website traffic