{"id":51,"date":"2009-02-19T04:55:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T10:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.edynamo.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2009-03-02T11:14:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T17:14:07","slug":"the-value-of-backlinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/edynamo.com\/blog\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"The Value of Backlinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.edynamo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/google.jpg\" title=\"google\" class=\"left\" width=\"200\" height=\"120\" \/>Building up a lot of backlinks is a great way to help raise your page ranking on search engine results. A backlink, also called an inward or incoming link, is a link from one website to another.<\/p>\n<p>The quality of a site is often indicated by the number of incoming links it has.<\/p>\n<p>For example, if you have a website that is all about teaching kids math, then if the quality is good you&#8217;ll have people linking to your site in their articles and blogs.<\/p>\n<p>You can adapt that system to fit with your internet marketing plan.<\/p>\n<p>How do you get more backlinks? That&#8217;s where the current generation of Web 2.0 sites comes into play. Sites like WordPress, Propeller and Associated Content allow website owners to upload their own content.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you write some articles about how great your product or service is, then upload it to one of those sites with a link to your website, you have created a combination sales pitch\/backlink.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an exercise: open up a new window in your web browser and go to Google. In the search bar type &#8220;link:yourwebsite.com&#8221; Don&#8217;t enter the quotes and replace yourwebsite.com with the address of your website.<\/p>\n<p>The results will show how many sites are currently linking to yours.<\/p>\n<p>Now try out the website name of a big player in your market. Odds are, you&#8217;ll find that they have a lot more links to their website than you do to yours, and their website probably shows up a lot higher in search results rankings than yours does as well.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidence?  Definitely not.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few quick tips for how to generate more backlinks to your site, and therefore a higher search engine ranking:<\/p>\n<p>* Do you have more than one website? If so, then have them link to one another. This is a great way to get a new site off the ground if you already have an established site up and running.<\/p>\n<p>* Upload content to Web 2.0 sites<\/p>\n<p>* Create videos for your product or service and upload them to YouTube, Google Video, etc.  It is really important to include a link to your site in the description or signature file!<\/p>\n<p>* Check out an RSS aggregator. These are websites that compile articles and blogs into one place. Just about all of them allow you to include links in your Web 2 posts.0 sites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">James Schramko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search engines love sites with lots of other sites linking to them &#8211; backlinks increase your search engin ranking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/edynamo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/edynamo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/edynamo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edynamo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edynamo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/edynamo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"http:\/\/edynamo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/edynamo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edynamo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edynamo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}