Back links and where to get them?

Pet Nanny

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I have seen a lot on here about back links and a few years ago, someone posted a list of sites that offered free ones.

I don't think my website has that many and since we are looking to build in the New Year, I just wondered if anyone could point me in the right direction.
 

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You need few backlinks from websites with traffic and from same niche as more as possible. For example, if your business is to sell clothes, find 10 good portals with clothing category, make a blog in wp and blogger, be social and find options to add your link in profile. Also, you could buy 2, 3 links from good websites. Hope it helps..
 
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You don't want any bullsh*t backlinks from some free list of places you can spam a link onto. Google is busy figuring out how to tell real brands and real businesses from fakers manipulating their rankings all day long. I'm never going to say that link spam doesn't work, of course it does, but you do need to know what you're doing in the first place to pull it off, so given you're asking that question I'd stay WELL away from it.

Think about real business situations that warrant a link - your partners/suppliers. Real business organisations you can join. Places you can contribute value and content (not just for the link but to pick up traffic and customers directly). Amazing content that people across your niche would find interesting and useful then promote that to them via e-mail getting links and shares. And so on...
 
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Hi Nina, Quality and relevance are key when it comes to backlinks. Ideally obtain backlinks from sites that have a better authority than your own, and also are ideally relevant to your niche. Remember to keep your backlink profile looking natural, so a mix of no follow, do follow, anchortext and url style links are best.
 
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Nina, it's not back links you need, it really great content and internal linking. You have got a good start but there is so much more you could do internally. For starters you could bring all the sub-domains onto the main site, they aren't doing you any good sitting out in the cold. and sort out the articles/blog - there is no need for both and gain the blog needs to be properly integrated.

Fix the site and you won't need any backlinks.

PS: what happened to your new site?
 
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Google stopped giving relevant link information a long time ago - you need a tool that has it's own link database ie like it's own database of links - like Google has. I use seo spyglass from Link Assistant - it has it's massive database of link information with literally trillions and trillions of link information - which I pretty much guarantee your competition will not be using.

Also just had an email earlier saying from the 15th Dec they have a 70% off sale - so fill your boots - that applies to all their other tools as well
 
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I also use scrapebox for checking backlinks of competitors and seeing where that takes me - its interesting when you find a lot of high ranking people are using garbage link builders and have their ranking precariously placed near the top - a simple shove and its gone forever.
Scrapebox is one of the most useful tools for finding high Pagerank links - but its important to have a natural backlink profile. There are great articles on sites like GotchSEO and Matthew Woodward on tiered linkbuilding and using scrapebox aswell.
 
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Blog comments are no-follow. Google won't even index the links. Guest blogging links have been downgraded by Google.
 
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Luke R

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Backlinks are crucial but earn them via PR - not simply by guest blogging or simply placing links on directories and so on (this is all about quality!) - if your news and content is of a high enough quality you'll earn it via your PR work. Check out Link Building: how To Build Links To Your Website in 2016 (Hobo Web) for some good guidance (on Hobo Web's website).
 
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@Leinfinito They maybe your thoughts as well but Twigg is wrong. None of that is going to make any difference at all.
 
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Buying backlinks are really bad for your website.

While you buy backlinks and even those backlinks are for free then all of those links are mostly low quality links and quickly they build backlinks for your website.
It;s really harmful for your website as Google has strong penguin algorithm to identify those types of single links.

So what i would suggest you to is if you want to buy backlink then only buy quality backlinks, source of domain should be high quality. and take some time between while you build your second link. don;t create too much backlinks in short time.

Other thing is that you should try guest posting for getting good authority backlink for your website.
 
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Nothing wrong with buying backlinks. Millions of people do it all the time without any issues. In fact Google encourages it. It's called advertising.

What Google doesn't like is buying backlinks to manipulate ranking.

Forget guest posting, it's on its last legs for nearly everybody.
 
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Guest posting can be great for getting traffic to your site though, putting aside rankings. Get a really good article written and have it published on a big site in your niche and it could throw loads of traffic to your site. And that is what we want in the end.
 
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What? It abolutely violates google's policies.
No it doesn't. All Google says is to not buy links to manipulate ranking. Google doesn't say you can't buy links. If you couldn't buy links the whole advertising model would collapse.
 
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Yes. The purpose of a backlink is to direct people to your site. Some backlinks will contribute to your ranking. Many do not.

link = backlink = inbound link = any other words defining a hyperlink between one URL and another.
 
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Facts not hearsay.

Google says to not buy links that pass page rank. You can buy as many links as you want as long as they don't pass pagerank. Google tells you how to do this here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en

If you pay £100 for a no-follow link that brings in paying customers then you will not be penalised by Google. If you pay £100 for a link that Google can follow and you get caught then you may be penalised.
 
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