Shafi Khan
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In addition to methods shared by Thomas Rousseau, Sharing on Video Submission Sites and Visual Content Submission site can also be used to build backlinks.
There are infinite ways to build backlinks, but not all link building strategies are worth doing. Some strategies such as link farming are illegal and will get your website penalized by Google, and some strategies just don't bring in traffic at all.
So here I have compiled 7 of the best ways to build high quality backlinks that will actually bring traffic to your site.
1) Q&A Mediums
People have questions – and websites like Quora, Yahoo, and various Subreddits are all dedicated to answering them. Take some time to create an account on each of these sites, then follow topics, questions, or subreddits that are relevant to your niche.
2) Guest Posting
Guest posting remains an excellent way of getting backlinks as long as the links are helpful and relevant. Google is very good at noticing spam links – thus, the more you focus on high quality content, the easier guest posting will be. However, keep in mind that guest-posting is a time-consuming process, and you'll need to allow plenty of time for each post.
3) Put Links in the Comments of Related Blog Articles
Now, you don't want to spam these links – Google will recognize and penalize them, to say nothing of how quickly blog owners will delete them (though regular, organic comments will be fine).
Basically, links should only be posted alongside meaningful comments and on relevant topics. Google Alerts can help you identify good places to do this. Now, these links aren't very helpful for improving your authority, but they do bring traffic, and especially appropriate links might even be edited into the main article.
Here's Matt Cutts to affirm you that as long as you do not spam links on blog comments, only drop links organically, you'll be fine and Google will not penalize you.
4) Broken Link Building
This one takes some effort, but it's actually quite effective at getting new links. When you're reading blogs, you can take the time to search for old, broken links that are dragging the blog down… and ask the blog's owner to replace them with links to your own content. Most are willing to do so as long as your content is fresh and accurate.
5) Submit To Blogging Communities
Blogging communities are another excellent way of getting noticed by people who are interested in reading blogs. Sites like Blog Engage, Inbound, GrowthHackers and Bizsugar all offer access to a wider community and can help you get a number of excellent links back to your blog.
Be sure to vet each site before you submit a blog post to it, though – remember, you don't want to be associated with spam sites, and some blogging communities are precisely that.
Our personal favorite community to submit content to is Inbound.org. Inbound is a website that caters mainly to inbound marketers, which is in our niche and target audience.
6) Help A Reporter Out
HARO, or Help A Reporter Out, is another great way to build quality backlinks from authoritative news sites.
7) Link Reclamation
This is the last method, and like #4, it's often difficult to predict how many opportunities there will be. In essence, though, well-known blogs tend to get mentioned in various places without actually having links pointing back to them – which is inconvenient if you're trying to bring new people in. Link Reclamation is how you fix this.