Getting Backlinks

I told you earlier that the most important ingredient in getting a site ranking high in the Google serps was getting keyword-anchored backlinks, and I wasn't lying. Now I'm going to give you a few backlinks to start with, and it will only require a small amount of work on your part.

Before I go any further I'm going to warn you that today's exercise will involve writing. Yes, I know many of you probably just groaned, but this is going to be relatively painless so suck it up and do it...

OK, now for what I want you to do exactly: I want you to go back to that first post on your blog, the one where you just wrote a basic overview of your subject. Now I want you to rewrite it, It doesn't have to be good; In fact, I'm going to ask you to shoot for crappy because you're going to be giving this article away for other sites to use - FOR FREE. Yep. The only thing you're going to get out of this is some backlinks, so there's no point in putting any effort into writing an interesting article. As long as it doesn't look like it was written by a drunk first-grader, it'll be fine. When I do this, I strive for mere competence - the articles I write are boring as hell but they work for their intended purposes. Any more effort than that will just be wasted.

Your article should be about 450 words long at least, and your main keyword should be in your first sentence - I want you to to turn this main keyword in the first sentence into a link to your site. Usually people put their links at the end of the article - don't do this. You want it in the first sentence so the people who put your article on their site will have to include your link as well.

Now that you're done writing your "new" article, I want you to go and sign up with GoArticles.com - it should be said that this isn't that great of a way to get backlinks, but it's free and will only take a minute or two. After you finish with that, submit your article into their directory. You may as well vote for it once as well (it might not help, but it certainly won't hurt either). There you go - I just gave you your first backlink, and any sucker that posts your article on their site will now be inadvertantly helping you - Hopefully. The scraper sites have been finding ways to get around this, mainly by only posting a small snippet of your article. Fine then - this is what I do to try to prevent this:

Take your article to Bad Article's excellent free article spinner and spin it using their program until it's total nonsense. Then write a short but juicy opening paragraph and stick your link in the first sentence. Submit to Goarticles. Perfect - Now the only thing the scrapers can post on their site is the part with the link. Of course, there's nothing stopping them from just removing it, but some will keep it the way it is.

Easy enough - we're more or less just going to repeat the process on Associated Content. If you haven't signed up with them already, do so now, and submit your rewritten article (not the BadArticle one). Make sure you choose to submit it as "Display Only Content" - they won't pay you upfront for it but we're not doing this to earn money from them. Your article will have to be approved before they post it but assuming it's crappy enough for Associated Content's incredibly low standards , it should be up on their site in a few days.

Now that we've got some backlinks through articles, lets change it up a bit. I now want you to make a new blog that is a derivative of the one you're working on backlinks to right now. It doesn't have to be genuis or anything - in fact, feel free to make it as crappy as you want to (take a look at the Money Making Websites blog I made while demonstrating how to create a blogger blog if you need something for reference). Who cares? Right now you just want a link from it. You can use blogspot again but for the sake of diversity it would probably be a good idea to try out a different host...

Great - that's enough for one day. And that's about all there is to it - All you have to do now is repeat the process until you rank #1 on Google. Tomorrow create a lens on squidoo.com, then make another blog on Today.com the day after that. And keep doing it.

Well, there you have it - you now know everything there is to know about getting backlinks.