Building backlinks - long term strategy?

**InesB** · January 11th, 2010

To create more traffic to my website I like to have a lot of backlinks
because I heard it can work out very good.

But I am working on it a few months now and I don't have the amount of quality backlinks that I would like to have by now.

Is it a long term strategy or is there a way to get these in a short term?

**cindybidar** · January 11th, 2010

What have you done so far?

**ress** · January 11th, 2010

Building backlinks is a long term commitment and there are many ways you can get links but one of the easiest ways is article marketing.

**David Jackson** · January 11th, 2010

Originally Posted by InesB

I am working on it a few months now and I don't have the amount of quality backlinks that I would like to have by now.

Is it a long term strategy or is there a way to get these in a short term?

Yes, acquiring enough backlinks to make a significant difference in your search engine ranking and traffic is definitely a long-term process. Remember, there are tens of millions of website on the Internet, and many of them have been online much longer than you - and have acquired a significant number of backlinks.

You could always buy links, but I don't recommend doing that. Google frowns on buying links because they want high quality results and not any that seem to be manipulated. I guess a good counter-argument would be, how would Google know? My response: Are you willing to take that chance.

Just keep adding plenty of quality, relevant content to your website and the backlinks will come eventually.

David Jackson

**Jackie Lee** · January 11th, 2010

I used to get completely overwhelmed about this ~ which led to not doing much to build links. Thanks to Lynn's new backlinking product my thoughts/goals on this process have changed. I now build 10 new links to my site a day. Each link adds up over time, yet building 10 new links a day does not overwhelm me into being paralyzed. It feels very manageable. Yes, it is a long term strategy.

As for the short term ~ depending on the keywords you are targeting it may not take many backlinks at all. My short term strategy is to build backlinks to the posts of my blog targeting low competition keywords. As the authority of your site grows you may find you need less and less backlinks to the easier keyword posts to make them rank.

**mommyenterprises** · January 13th, 2010

What is a good source to check your backlinks?

**InesB** · January 13th, 2010

Thanks a lot to you all for the comments.

Cindy what I have done so far is article marketing, submit my articles to
several directories and in this way I receive some backlinks but not the amount I would like to have !

I have read about another tactic: using Web 2.0 sites like Squidoo or Hubpages for building backlinks. Does anyone have experience with that?

**cindybidar** · January 13th, 2010

I like article marketing myself. Also posting on relevant forums with a good signature, commenting on blogs, and guest posting.

Article marketing does take a bit of time. You have to wait to get your articles approved and then the links have to spread across the web, your articles have to get picked up by other publishers and spread that way, etc. It's definitely a long term project.

**wade_watson** · January 13th, 2010

I think the need for backlink work varies for different niches and keywords. I've got one site I haven't backlinked in 3 years and gets a consistent 10K visits/month. Also, the value of the website to visitors makes a huge difference. If you do a site as valuable to visitors as, say, Clicknewz.com, people are going to give you backlinks without you're doing anything. Quality pays off better than anything else.