Backlink is a link on another site that points to your website. The success of a SEO campaign depends on the quality of backlinks. High quality backlinks will help your site to rank top search engine results (SERPs).

Creating a backlink is an easy and straight forward task. You can create a backlink in less than a minute. To achieve good ranking, you may need to create hundreds or even thousands of backlinks for your site. Getting hundreds backlinks is not an easy task.

How to Build Backlink

Backlink is crucial part of SEO. How do we get them?

There are several ways you can create backlinks for your site. The most popular method recommended by SEO Expert are getting listed in directories, posting in forums, blogs and article directories.

Getting Listed in Directories: It is easy to gain backlinks from free directories. These free directories will give you a free link if you submit your site’s details to their directories. It is totally free. However, it would take from few days to months for directories owner to approve your submission. Paid directories offer faster approval but you need to pay review fee to get your site listed in these directories. You can find a list of free and paid directories at directorycritic.com.

Forum Posting: Forum posting is another good way to get free backlinks. Sign up a forum account, create a signature that links to your site and you are ready to get some free backlinks.. Some forums have disabled signature feature for new user. To have signature enabled, an user must make at least 10-15 posts. It would be a good idea to read the forum rules and regulations before you start making your first post.

Blog Comments: You can gain backlink using blog commenting. Before you put link in your first comment, you need to find out that if the blogger allows keyword in the link. Please do not post comment such as ‘great post’, ‘thank you for sharing’, etc. This type of comment will be deleted. It would be a good idea to contribute something that is useful to the blog and its readers. The blogger would love this type of comment and this will help to get your comment approved.

Submit to Article Directories: Generally articles are longer than posts or comments. You need to spend more time writing them. However, article marketing is a great way to get traffic as well as backlink. There are many free article directories. Ezinearticles.com is a good place to start your submission.

Sponsoring a WordPress Theme: Design a CMS theme and make it a free theme. This is a good way to gain backlink automatically. Many bloggers use this method to gain backlinks. Here is an example of a sponsored theme: wordpress magazine themes

Apart from building backlinks using the above link building methods, you can also buy backlinks for your site. You can buy backlinks from several link market on the Internet. However link buying could be risky. You have to do it with care.

Link Building Automation

Creating hundreds of backlinks is time consuming, tedious and boring. There are several ways you can automate the link building process:

• SEO Tools: There are many submission tools available in the market for directories submission, article submission and social bookmarking. You can try Brad Callen’s Free Directory Submitter for directories submission.
• Submission Outsource: There are a lot of companies which will be happy to do all your submission jobs for a small fee. One of such service providers is phpldtemplates.com. You can also find many service providers in SEO or webmaster forums.