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How to get backlinks that work for SEO, and avoid wasting time on those that do not.

Getting backlinks to a website that work for SEO ranking has become increasingly difficult. Methods that worked yesterday don’t work anymore, simply because they didn’t comply with what search engines want. We’ll see a method that still works, because it does comply.

There are a lot of people competing for search engine traffic. This article reveals how you can get a big head start for your blog or cause enough backlinking to get a small affiliate site in front page search engine results for reasonably competitive keywords (this is an essential part of the online affiliate marketing plan).

Without backlinks, it is simply impossible to be seen on search engines!

The latest trend is (was) using social bookmarking sites to get backlinks needed for SEO. People bought software that automatically posts links on those sites.

Supposedly this will get them tons of “high PR backlinks that will skyrocket their search engine rankings“.

If you haven’t heard of rel=’external nofollow’, then it is about time you did. When that tag is added to a link, it instructs search engine robots not to take the link into account in the evaluation of the destination page’s page rank.

For SEO, that link is useless. Actually there is a debate going on on whether it is entirely useless or just close to useless.  In any case, it is a lot less worthwhile than a “dofollow” link.

And guess what? That tag is on the outgoing links of 95% of social bookmarking sites (as well as blogs). It used to work, it doesn’t anymore.

Previously it was all about ezine and article directories. But for that, one link required either an article or a spin off of an existing article. 100 backlinks required a solid week’s work that way. Millions of self-promoting, shallow articles later, article directory links have been seriously downgraded by search engine algorithms.

Before that, webmasters depended on online directories. Now most people know about link juice. Or just how little one link weighs when it is part of a list of dozens of outgoing links on the same page. If you don’t know, well that page’s authority is divided by the number of outgoing links. If it is a PR 5 page, that link will still be valuable. But chances are those pages are filled up and your listings will end up on pages 2,3 or higher, and the PR there isn’t the same.

It isn’t the website’s home page PR that counts, but the page your link is on.

That page is likely to be “not ranked by Google”.

The kind of links Search Engines want.

Have you been messing up your backlinking strategy? That’s OK, back to square one. It’s all right, square 1 is underrated!

We’ll see how to do that quickly, rather painlessly, and, this time, efficiently.

Links are considered, especially by Google, like referrals. If someone links to you, that means they consider your content to be good quality, and they put their reputation on the line in the process because their readers will judge them on the content they link to.

When a webpage includes a (dofollow) link to your site, it uses up some of it’s authority capital (link juice again), which is measured by Google and translates into that page’s PR.

Any link that doesn’t follow that logic has, or someday will be downgraded by search engine algorithms. Article directories are mostly filled with drivel. Directories are link farms. FFA’s were worse. They weren’t meant to last.

That is also why it is very hard to get legitimate high PR links toward a new website (or blog). Why?

Most new sites and blogs are left idle after a month. Do you imagine Seth Godin linking to a blog that then shuts down (meaning he is left with a dead link on his blog)?

Even if your content is excellent, he will prefer that you pay your dues a little longer first, just to be safe. After all if you are new online (or your blog is new, making it look like you are new online), then you could turn out being someone he doesn’t want to be associated to. He might consider associating himself to you later, once you’ve been around long enough and revealed enough about your identity, and built some authority of your own.

So what do we do?

We forget about Seth Godin (just an example of top online authority figures in general) for a while, and we concentrate on PR zero backlinks.

But you need hundreds of those. And all the backlinking everyone uses doesn’t work (rel=’external nofollow’), link farms (directories), …

So, how?

There are several examples of my backlinking strategy on this very blog which is why it is a PR2 and has, according to bizinformation.org, 1820 backlinks.

Games! Or, more exactly, submitting software to software sites. There are thousands of them. Submit a program to a few dozen and it spreads. Many freeware sites take software from other sites and add them to their catalog on their own. And when they do, they typically create an author page and a product page for each software from the same author.  Most of them link to your site on one or both of these pages… With dofollow links.

This example you can easily replicate as many times as you want (one for each affiliate site, blog or content site you would like to give a boost to). It only takes about an hour to set up and is enough to get first page rankings for reasonably competitive keywords.

It complies with what search engines want because it provides actual value (the better the games, and the more relevant to your site’s theme, the more the added value).

Note: I am no longer offering the game package creation tool, but why not visit the game programming section and learn how to create a downloadable game yourself!

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