Two Common Ways to Get Backlinks to Your Site

When it comes to search engine placement and actually getting into the search engines, one of the most important things that must be done is the building of backlinks to your site.  There are many, many ways to go about doing this and two of the most common are blog commenting and forum posting.

Blog Commenting

This is really nothing more than simply searching out blogs that are relevant to your site and making comments on the posts of the blog.  It's important that when you're searching out blogs to comment on, you find those that are either in the exact same niche as your site or in a niche that is somehow related because in the eyes of the search engines this makes the your site even more relevant to what you're trying to rank well for.

When you're using this strategy to get backlinks there are a couple of things to take note of.  The first is that blog doesn't have 'no follow' tags in their URL's.  These tags tell the search engines to not follow the link, effectively making it useless for the purpose of getting links back to your site.  The other thing to make sure to NOT do, is spam.  Spamming will either get your comment not accepted, deleted or could cause the link itself to do you more harm than good.  Not only that, but spamming will also turn your name and your site into something people in your niche will want to shy away from.

Forum Posting

Similar to blog commenting, forum posting is all about finding forums and discussion boards that are relevant to your niche and posting.  The most common way to get links back to your site with this strategy is by placing your links in your signature on the forum, thus, every time you post your signature and your links are shown.

You can also place links in your posts, however, it's important to make sure that the link you're putting in a post itself is extremely relevant to the topic you're replying to otherwise, it's little more than spam and on most forums you'll quickly get reported or booted.  In addition to that, spamming a forum with your links in any way is just as similar to spamming blog comments.  More than likely your post will be deleted and your account banned, essentially costing you a probably very useful resource for not only building links but also building relationships with others in your niche.

Again, these are probably two of the most common strategies to use in your attempt to get more links to your website, however, there are still many other ways for you to get backlinks so you shouldn't rely solely on these two.