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Is it possible to get free back links for your website? Of course you can, if you know where to get them …

Firstly, why do you need backlinks? Obtaining links from other websites back to your website is a very important part of SEO (search engine optimization). It is part of what is called offpage SEO. It is called offpage because it is not on any of the pages of your website These links help your SERPS (search engine ranking positions) for your chosen keywords.

Google ranks websites according to these links, which they see as popularity. In their efforts to be the ‘people’s search engine’ they need to have some way of ranking sites. Other people linking to you means to Google that they found something interesting on your site, so others may too. When someone does a search Google looks at all the pages and ranks them in order of relevancy and links (including the Page Rank of the referring page) with the searchterm/keyword in the anchor text.

This is not always true as we know, because we can build backlinks to ourselves. We can in a way trick the search engines into thinking our website(s) is more popular than it is. Getting lots of backlinks is not enough though. You need to think about it before you do it. It should be natural, at least natural looking Link spamming is very tempting, but can get your site sandboxed or even de-indexed, which is bad.

One good way to get some free incoming links is through social bookmarking. I use Social Marker, because it has all of the sites in one place so I don’t miss anything. It also provides you with the title, description and tags handy so no need to flip between windows.

Remember before I sais it should look natural … well if you vary slightly your title, description and tags instead of them all being the same, it will look more natural. You should also not create all the bookmarks in one go.

Another tip is to ask family/a friend/a co-worker to bookmark your site(s) too and offer to do theirs in return. More back links, more naturally.

There are lots of other ways to create free backlinks like writing articles and link swapping. The most important thing is to keep it natural. I cannot stress this enough, if you want long term success, slowly and surely wins the race every time

If you are wondering how many links back to your website you currently have, you can check out this free site … http://www.backlinkwatch.com/. They give you the anchor text too, so you can see which keywords you need to add.

For more information on Simple Keyword Domination you can click to get a free report I was a part of creating at IMMembership.com.