February 14, 2010 by Moomette's Magnificents (Admin)
Filed under Blogging Resources, blog and social networking, blog tips, business, networking, wahm, wahm tips, work at home
Blogging Tips
Why You Need Backlinks On Your Website
Each day I spend a substantial portion of my time writing blog posts, reviews, and taking the time to do some social networking. Recently I’ve been allocating an additional hour towards building backlinks to my blogs.
I found some invaluable information from an all-in-one backlinks package from Lynn Terry and Paul Short that contains tools, URLs and advice on how I can get 450 search engine dominating backlinks to my site. There’s no membership fees or logins.
Many work-at-home moms, Direct Sales business owners, such as Tupperware, virtual assistants and graphic design businesses will put up web sites or blogs in anticipation of getting readers and clients from the Web. Usually what happens is they get few readers, or no traffic.
Here’s the reason why.
A web site or a blog isn’t an ad. No one “reads” web sites in some sort of “web site newspaper.” In fact, nobody will discover or visit your site unless you specifically invite them. A blog or web site actually needs advertising.
You need to build the traffic to your site in order to receive traffic.
Commenting on other blogs is one way to do this, and another terrific way is through backlinks.
What is a backlink?
A backlink is a link FROM another site TO your site.
For example, if you’re a member of a social Ning site where your niche is food, and someone is looking for a food blog, then there’s a pretty good chance that this person will see your listing or personal page in the “Food” section and click a link to your web site.
This is a backlink from Food blogger’s ning to your blog.
Backlinks are also referred to as “in-bound links” and oftentimes can also be called “reciprocal links.”
Many of the links that bloggers have on their web sites are specifically designed to take visitors from the link on their web site to other web site. These are usually located in a link section called a “Blogroll” link exchange or a resources section, such as “Good Stuff.” These are also called “forward links” or “outbound links.”
The important thing to keep in mind is that backlinks bring visitors TO your site. Once visitors come to your blog or business web site, you can turn them into returning readers, affiliate product sales, newsletter subscribers, commissions and more.
1. Why are backlinks totally necessary?
Foremost, an obvious reason is to direct traffic to your site. This traffic can be cashed in for sales, clients or advertising CPMs.
2. If done right, “backlinking” can tremendously increase your search engine rankings and thus result in even more traffic.
How?
From the eyes of search engines, your “site’s worth” increases when the number of backlinks increases. Each backlink raises the popularity of your web site.
Liken it to being someone who works the crowd when they walk into a room. The more people who know who you are, the more popular you become. Call it the “Law of Attraction.”
3. What can this lead to?
When people put the phrase “Mom Blogger” or “Baby Boomer” into a search engine, for the most part, the sites with higher popularity will come up first.
4. Backlinks can create consistent traffic
Most bloggers send out weekly newsletters which often lead to immediate “bursts” of traffic. I send out customized weekly Newsletters to my subscribers on Wednesdays, using the Feedblitz Newsletter service.
Bursts of traffic are great, but they require that you take those additional efforts in order to continue to get that traffic.
Backlinking builds a steady, consistent, and predictable stream of traffic that keeps coming without additional work. You can confidently expect the same number of visitors each month.
With the creative backlinking strategies that I’m using through this package, I can create a situation where my web site is attracting backlinks without me doing any work at all.
As a New Englander, to me it’s like a snowball going down-hill that hopefully continues to grow!
Check out how many links you have here: Backlinks Checker – This shows you the backlinks you have coming into your site. It take a little bit of time to get all the links if you have quite a few.
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grissell on Sun, 14th Feb 2010 9:40 pm
This was great info.
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sarah @caiafa Craziness on Sun, 14th Feb 2010 10:38 pm
I love your site. I am always learning. I am prininting this to add to reference folder. Thanks you .
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Judy Harper on Sun, 14th Feb 2010 11:14 pm
Very interesting! Thanks for the information. Now I’ve got to read again so I can absorb and try.
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Creative Junkie on Sun, 14th Feb 2010 11:18 pm
Great great post! Thanks so much for the information – and now I’m going to have to figure out my backlink status.
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Moomette's Magnificents (Admin)
Twitter: Moomettes
on Sun, 14th Feb 2010 11:51 pm
Hi Andrea -
There are a number of sources to check your backlink status. This is one of them:
http://www.submitedge.com/pr.html
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Courtney on Sun, 14th Feb 2010 11:56 pm
Thank you for sharing, very interesting
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Heather in BC on Mon, 15th Feb 2010 4:27 am
That was great you added in the Submitedge link. It’s really interesting to compare sites
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Sue on Mon, 15th Feb 2010 10:10 am
Thanks for the info. I will have to do some more research on this subject.
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Eric Clickbooth on Mon, 15th Feb 2010 10:38 am
Cool post
Besides using that package, what is the most common way you build backlinks to your blog?
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Web Your Name® on Tue, 16th Feb 2010 5:29 am
Backlinks definitely contribute to a website/blog’s success. Though great content is more important, good linking is always a great way to increase visibility.
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ileane
Twitter: Ileane
on Tue, 16th Feb 2010 6:32 am
Hi, I’ve been working on a strategy for creating backlinks but it doesn’t involve a paid service. It’s mostly submissions communities like Blog Engage, FAQPAL and the new site called BloggerLuv. I also have several blogs to help built backlinks to and from.
Thanks for the post.
@Ileane
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banquet manager on Tue, 16th Feb 2010 7:40 am
I’ve worked hard over the last 1 1/2 years to build backlinks to my blog.
So far so good. Good luck with yours.
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Tricia Meyer on Tue, 16th Feb 2010 2:23 pm
Getting new bloggers to understand the importance of (and different between different types of) backlinks is so important. Thanks for the great article. Now I know I need to sign up for your newsletter.
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Christine
Twitter: starryskye81
on Tue, 16th Feb 2010 5:37 pm
Fantastic article! Thanks Cindi!
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molomatic on Wed, 17th Feb 2010 12:37 am
Great info, thanks for sharing!
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Moomette's Magnificents (Admin)
Twitter: Moomettes
on Thu, 18th Feb 2010 6:11 pm
Hi Eric – The most common way I build backlinks is of course, commenting on other blogs. I find that DoFollow blogs and blogs with CommentLuv installed are better, if I find an interesting post and have something constructive to add. I have DoFollow and CommentLuv installed on my blog, as well as KeywordLuv. The jury is still out for me on KeywordLuv and I might be disabling it. I really get only a certain reader demographic base, and I’m not sure if those readers are utilizing it correctly.
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ConnieFoggles
Twitter: ConnieFoggles
on Fri, 19th Feb 2010 12:26 am
Valuable information! I hope that you’ll write an update on how the package is doing for you later on.
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Heather (formerly Maternal Spark) on Sat, 20th Feb 2010 10:49 am
fantastic info here Cindi and something I’m working on now that I”ve changed my url
I’ll tweet this one for ya!
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Emily on Sat, 20th Feb 2010 10:55 am
Interesting. Thanks for al the great information! Have you noticed an increase in traffic yet?
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Harriet on Sat, 20th Feb 2010 2:58 pm
Hi Cindi.
Wonderful post.
Thanks!
Take care.
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Amanda
Twitter: householdsix
on Sat, 20th Feb 2010 4:33 pm
Thank you so much for this post. I plan to implement some of these strategies. My readership is way down since I moved to WordPress.
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Gail @ Do Follow Lists on Sat, 20th Feb 2010 10:05 pm
I hope all your regular readers pay attention to your coverage of backlinks. It is one of the most important tasks any site can use to pull in more traffic.
I go even further with this idea, encouraging bloggers to become visible participants in blogging communities. These are not always formalized communities – they can be simply all the bloggers who use the CommentLuv plugin for example.
The cream of the bloggers who decide to join the dofollow CommentLuv KeywordLuv community as you have will grow the fastest.
When they support each other with appropriate links and anchor text at every opportunity they won’t be out seeking links all the time – their community will get larger, more blogs in the same niches will join, and ALL will grow exponentially.
There is more detail in my KeywordLuv post featured in CommentLuv in this comment. Any blogger using KeywordLuv that links to that post using KeywordLuv or KeywordLuv Lists will help us all grow.
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Rachael @ Empowering Mommy on Sat, 20th Feb 2010 10:54 pm
Thanks for the great info, Cindi! Some I knew and some I didn’t. I love all the great information you share!
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Deal-ectible Mom on Sun, 21st Feb 2010 12:43 pm
Bravo! Great article and you really touched all of the points and in great detail…it was an excellent read!
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Amie on Sun, 21st Feb 2010 5:35 pm
Great post. I realised when I deleted the backlinks from my site the traffic dropped. Thanks!
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Darren on Wed, 24th Feb 2010 12:08 am
Very good job putting it in layman’s terms. This is something I can NEVER do and I envy you.
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Dimes2Vines on Mon, 1st Mar 2010 12:57 pm
Thank you for the info – I have a lot of work to do!
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Alli
Twitter: Chemist_Direct
on Wed, 3rd Mar 2010 8:55 am
Backlinks on niche websites helps boost our site serp’s but useful original content is necessary.
yea there are many who flood out comment box with spam comments so i prefer using Akismet plugin
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Moomette's Magnificents (Admin)
Twitter: Moomettes
on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 4:17 pm
Hi Tricia – glad I was able to provide some insight! Looking forward to your future visits!
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Moomette's Magnificents (Admin)
Twitter: Moomettes
on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 4:18 pm
Hi Amie ~ Are you sure you don’t mean you deleted pingbacks? Pingbacks is when another site lets you know that they’ve linked to yours, which is a good thing!
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Moomette's Magnificents (Admin)
Twitter: Moomettes
on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 4:20 pm
Amanda – by switching to wp as well as utilizing some of the fantastic wp plugins available, and working on your SEO, I’m sure you’ll see your traffic go up!
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Moomette's Magnificents (Admin)
Twitter: Moomettes
on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 4:21 pm
Thanks for your kind words Sarah!
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Brittany
Twitter: BrittanyGreer5
on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 10:18 pm
Thank you so much, I was wondering exactly the weight and worth of a backlink and how to start creating more of them. Great post as always with great information!
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Shop with Me Mama (Kim)
Twitter: shopwithmemama
on Sun, 7th Mar 2010 8:10 pm
Great post! Thank you for all the great information, Cindi
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Annie on Mon, 8th Mar 2010 1:15 am
Amazing tips! Thank you Cindi! I am always looking for directories and other places to list my blog. 5minutesformom.com is a wonderful one and so is blogcatolog.com
This is a very well written post. Thank you so much!
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Alli
Twitter: Chemist_Direct
on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 8:35 am
i liked the way of your explaining about backlinks and how to build backlinks
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Jenny
Twitter: jenniferspeaks
on Mon, 22nd Mar 2010 9:12 pm
This is a great post
Now I’m gonna have to go through my posts and see what I can do 
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Kathy on Wed, 24th Mar 2010 9:44 pm
Because attracting traffic is a key to a successful online presence, this information about back linking is very helpful.
I vaguely understood the concept and even less the importance but your explanation brings it home.
Thanks, I’m going to make it a practice and dedicate an hour to it myself.
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Moomette's Magnificents (Admin)
Twitter: Moomettes
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March 24th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Hi Kathy – even setting aside a small part of your day to creating good backlinks will make a huge difference – sort of like 30 minutes per day on a treadmill – that time will pay off in the end! Glad you found the explanation easy to understand.
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Jenny
Twitter: freebiexaddict
on Mon, 5th Apr 2010 12:50 pm
I know backlinks are important, I just don’t know where to go posting, to get them.
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Moomette's Magnificents (Admin)
Twitter: Moomettes
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April 5th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
All the information and recommendations were listed in this post, including the backlinks package.
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Brea's Mommy on Thu, 29th Apr 2010 7:06 pm
Thanks for sharing. Now if I can find the time to do it!
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paula schuck
Twitter: inkscrblr
on Mon, 17th May 2010 3:06 pm
Hi there: This is my first time here and I have learned a lot about backlinks. Thanks. I am following you now.
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