Admit it. Everyone loves backlinks. With each new inbound link to your site, Google smiles at the vote of confidence. Your reputation subsequently increases, your search rankings skyrocket– and with it, the number of web visitors to your site.
More visitors translate to more clinking in the empty piggy bank. Sounds good? Let’s get down to business.
For the average Joe, there are three boring ways to create inbound links.
The first is the most common: reciprocal linking. You fire an email to a related site and request an exchange of votes. It’s tideous and webmasters tend to tell you to buzz off. Google doesn’t give much value to such backlinks either-they deem such behavior self-serving. Expect to do months of reciprocal link building before reaping decent returns. It is simply not worth it.
The second way is to spam. Spamming quickly blasts hundreds of your links into many forums, blogs and directories. You can create almost 2000 backlinks with this method in a week. Ever got those viagra ads posted on your Honda fansite? The spammers probably thought a triangular blue pill spins up your twinturbos more rapidly. You’ve...