How To Build Quality One-Way Links To Your Site

If you have a website or blog and you rely on free organic traffic from the search engines, link building MUST be one of your MAIN FOCUS. When I say link building, I mean building QUALITY one-way links (from other sites) to your site or blog.

The search engines, especially Google will treat sites that have many quality one-way links as AUTHORITY sites. If your site is categorized as an authority site, your site will be able to gain top spot (or 1st page) in Google’s search result page. That’s how you get free organic traffic.

Of course, if your strategy is to rely on getting traffic using the paid method (such as Pay Per Click), link building is perhaps not so important for you. However, many successful Internet marketers are using both free and paid methods. And I think if your plan is to build a long-term online business, you should also focus on both methods.

For me personally, I focus more on the free organic traffic but I do use PPC for getting more specific targeted traffic. I’d say the proportion is about 70 to 30 (meaning that I focus 70% of my time on getting free organic traffic and 30% on PPC traffic). This ratio works very well for me so far.

Here are some of my ways of getting quality one-way links:

1. Article Marketing.

This is not a new method of getting backlinks and is still very effective. This is because some (not all) article directories are considered as “authority” sites by Google. Besides giving you good one-way links, article marketing is also very effective for dominating highly targeted keywords or niche topics. If you do it right, your articles will gain top spot in Google. For more information, read this article: how to use article marketing to dominate a nice.

Article Marketing is also very simple to implement, it’s free of charge! You just need to spend time writing 300 to 400 words articles on the topic that’s related to your site or blog, and submit them to the following article directories:

EzineArticles.com
ArticlesBase.com
GoArticles.com
ArticleDashBoard.com

There are many more article directories. If you have more time, you can also submit your articles to Buzzle.com, IdeaMarketers.com, Amazines.com, Squidoo.com and Zimbio.com. I experience all these sites rank pretty well on the search engines.

2. HubPages

Here is what I do…. I will take the articles I wrote and re-write them. Make them at least 75% different from the original articles and submit to HubPages.com. This site has very high authority and rank very well IF your article is UNIQUE. They hate duplicate articles and will disable your account if they find you submit duplicate articles (even those are your own articles).

Although HubPages use a “NOFOLLOW” tag (which is useless for link building purposes), I will still submit articles to this site mainly because it gives me good free orgarnic traffic.

3. 3 Way Links

This is a PAID method ($47 a month) but is very worth its price. It’s an automated link building service created by Jonathan Leger. This is NOT one of those spammy “link farms”. It builds one-way links to your site AUTOMATICALLY, but NATURALLY.

Here is how it works….

You submit your site for approval. Once it’s approved, the 3 Way Links software will go to work immediately. It will automatically look for sites that are related or in the same category as yours and form a 3 way connection.

For example, let’s say there are 5 sites (A, B, C, D and E) and the software will form a network like “A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> A“. So each site has ONE-WAY link to it. This process is NOT built overnight, it builds the links slowly (3 or 5 links per day) until your site reaches 250 one-way links. So the process looks very NATURAL in the eyes of the search engines.

For $47 a month, you can submit up to 50 sites per account. It’s a no-brainer! Your sites will gain authority without you having to put time and effort building backlinks.

For more information, go to Jonathan Leger’s 3 Way Links.