Building quality back links to your blog.

By Vichaya Kiatying-Angsulee

Back links to a blog is essential when it comes to ranking well in the search engines. Tons of links to your blog from various sites points that your blog is popular and it boosts your search engine rankings to the next level. Its not always easy to get to the top of the search engines when you are starting out new and especially in a competitive niche.

Tons of hard work is needed to rank well in the search engines. Why I am focusing on search engines because people who happens to come to your site/blog through search engines tends to acknowledge your site better than those who come through other links because they are already searching for the stuff they want and most probably they tend to browse more. If they find the content useful and informative. So make sure every content is top notch and well structured.

Writing guest post in other blogs of the same niche, submitting articles to various directories, commenting on do-follow blogs, contributing in forums can all prove helpful in increasing the number of back links to your blog. Higher the Google Page Rank(which is a number which indicates the popularity of the blog/site) for the site the better is your site going to be ranked. Links from higher PR sites can positively impact your search engine ranking.

Social networking sites like Facebook, twitter are not useful as all the links have no-follow attribute but they can used to drive traffic to your blog. Link exchange between bloggers is a popular way to get back link fast here the two bloggers link to each other under some agreement between them. Comment which methods do you use to get back links to your blog, I would like to know about it.

What are no-follow links and do-follow links? Explained in the next post.

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How Interlinking post boosts your blog traffic.

Interlinking is how to link to contents within your blog. Suppose you are writing a post on social networking and you have earlier written about using them as a traffic generator to your blog. You can link the article with the new article. Interlinking post in your blog can boost your traffic exponentially and it also drives traffic to your older post. Not only this interlinking relevant post reduces the bounce rate of your blog.

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Bounce rate increases when a number of visitors left the site just after viewing a single page. Interlinking makes sure that your visitors are engaged with tons of relevant post which you have already published. Its a win for both you get more traffic and the visitor gets more information related to the topic. Make sure you link only to relevant articles because you would not like to disappoint the reader.

Interlinking can also help to get more traffic to the post which you have earlier wrote in the same topic. Thereby saving time to be spent on explaining the same topic again. The reader gets tons of relevant contents to read and if they like it who knows they might even turn to a loyal fan of your blog.

Never resist in linking to other useful contents, your goal is to help the visitor get the most benefit out of the post whichever they land. Providing relevant links would boost your credibility and makes them to form an opinion regarding you that you have spent some time in research before publishing the post. Always make it a point to link to your older entries regarding the same topic every time you publish a new post in your blog. This indirectly gives an impression to the visitor that the blog has got everything they need to know and they do not need to search elsewhere. Social networks how you can make use of it to drive tons of traffic to your blog.

Comment below what do you think about interlinking post in a blog. Next post on building backlinks to your blog.

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Drive tons of traffic from social networks.

Social networks can prove to be the best source of traffic to your blog and reaching out to tons of people which you have otherwise not known that would have been possible to reach out. Facebook is one of the best social networks from where you can get tons of traffic to your blog. I am going to share with you all the experiences that I have so far and how I used facebook to get traffic to my blog. Make sure there is nothing distracting you for a few minutes because who knows what I am going to share with you might just change your life.

With over 1 Billion user base facebook is growing at an exponential rate and it can used to generate tons of impressions to your blog. What you need is one facebook account randomly visit any of the facebook pages of your interest and add friends to that account, game pages can prove to be the best place to add friends to your new facebook account. Create a facebook page and request your friends to like your page. Facebook pages can prove to be a great source of driving traffic to your blog. Post a new interesting post every few minutes that people would feel like sharing it with their friends. Do this for a while and I bet there will be tons of traffic coming to your blog from facebook. It takes sometime for things to fall in the right direction till then wait for it.

One thing I learnt with my experience with facebook tagging images with your friends can prove to be a get your blog known to the friends of your friend. Its a plenty huge traffic out there for you to grab which gets bigger and bigger. Creating groups can also help you in building long term relationship with your friends. Implement the power of facebook to its full potential you would know what you can get out of it. Do not focus on other social networks just focus on only one and try to rule it.

Almost all the facebook users are online most of the time and they can easily spot any new updates in a few moments. Make sure you provide catchy headlines so as to get attention because the attention span is just a few moments. Creating a page or a group is pretty simple and easy. I can bet you can create one in a few minutes. Stick to it and I am sure can do it. I have used facebook as a primary site to drive traffic to my blog and its doing pretty well. Make sure you only find relevant people and add them to your friend list so that you can achieve the maximum benefit from it.

So what do you think can you do it? Speak your mind in the comments below. In the next post I am going to write about chosing a topic to blog about. A problem many bloggers face when they are starting out online.

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