Top Ways To Getting Free Backlinks For Effective Search Engine Optimization

Every dominant search engine utilizes what are known as "Backlinks" as a huge part of their determination of a site's rankings.  Backlinks are, basically, a link from another website which points to your site and to make things simple, the more backlinks you can get the higher in the rankings you will be.

That looks like child's play right?  Find more backlinks and improve your rankings and traffic.  The easy way is to hire a Toronto search engine optimization expert however that is not always within everyone's means.  However how do you find them without spending large sums of money and time?  You can get large numbers of backlinks in simply a few easy steps so let's take a look.

Most people understand that to the search engines content is king.  This is accurate for 2 reasons.  Visitors that come to your site need something to hold their interest and search engines have to be able to index it. Content is also needed by all other sites for the same reasons. The second part can be used to your advantage.  Give them your information for free.

Compose an article on a subject that is closely related to your website's theme. Your article needs to be around 500-1000 words in total. Adding in your site's keywords is good but only if it doesn't interfere with the flow of your content.  The main goal is to write quality content.

Next you will be giving this content away for free, but with terms.  You will be submitting this content to article directories like Article Factory.  An article directory serve two purposes.  They will deliver or allow others to download your article and use it on their own site and they permit you to add a resource box at the bottom of your article.  They display your content on the site but as well enable others to use that article on their own sites and above all give permission for the content creator to place a link back to their site in a section called the Resource Box.

Within the resource box you are adding a brief bio about yourself. That's nice, however what you are really looking for is to add a link to your site.  So every time a site posts your content they will also be adding your website's link.

Submitting to only one directory though is not enough.  The more places you submit your content to the greater leverage you will receive from it.  Lets say that your article is on twenty directories that means that there are twenty sites that are linking to your site.  Now if those directories distribute your article to only 5 sites each your links climb to one hundred with no extra effort.  In many niches like real estate this will be a huge step in getting your site to the top of the search engines.  However if you want to have a capable real estate search engine optimization strategy you will have to to do a little more.

There are sites that can further increase your article's publicity by converting it into a podcast.  To do this you can either record yourself reading your content or use a service like odiogo.com that will convert the words into speech record your own reading of it but the easiest way is to use a free text to speech service such as Odiogo.  These require that your article be posted on a blog like Wordpress or Blogger.com.  You can get a blog on-line with a few clicks of the mouse.

By following this guide you will be able to increase your search engine rankings and bring targeted visitors to your site.  In a short period of time you can be at the top of the search engines in your niche.