Get hundreds of free in-bound links to your site.
August 17, 2006
I think I say this in just about every article I write on search engine optimization, but I'll say it again: If you want to rank well in the search engines, you have to have a lot of in-bound links to your pages.
The question becomes then, how do you get those links? In the last article I discussed the pros and cons of buying links. Now I'm going to tell you how to get a huge number of links to your site for free. Are you ready for this? Because it's complicated:
Write articles.
Ok, so it's not complicated. Yes, to get hundreds of free links, write articles and submit them to the top article submission sites. The one I like the most is Ezine Articles. Here's the link:
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
Ezine Articles is great because it is very popular, so you'll get lots of exposure to webmasters looking for content.
How do you get links from writing articles you ask? Simple: each article has an "about the author" box that is required to be kept with the article. And in that about box you can include a link to your website.
Ezine Articles is great because it lets you include an HTML link in your about box, whereas many of the submission sites do not allow any HTML at all.
That means that with Ezine Articles you can include your keywords in your link text, which is very important!
In time people will start using your articles on their own websites, and your about box will be included with the link. If your article is of high quality and in a fairly popular category, it is not unusual to get hundreds of links to your site this way. Hundreds of links, all with your keywords in them, means much more ranking power for your website.
So take a little time and write some high quality articles on your area of expertise. Be sure to check the spelling and grammar! You might even have a friend who is a good reader and/or writer look over it for you to make sure you didn't miss any errors. A second pair of eyes is always better than just one.
Another great benefit of syndicating your articles through Ezine Articles (and other good article
directories) is that people reading the articles will often visit your site through the link in your about box. That's free traffic! Multiply that times hundreds of copies of your article and it can really add up.
And yet a third benefit is that once your article is on hundreds (or even thousands) of websites, you can state that on your site for added "authority value". "My articles appear on thousands of Widget websites across the web" really makes you sound like you know
your stuff, doesn't it?
What are you waiting for? Get to work writing those articles!
P.S. Once you're really serious about writing articles, I recommend you use Aricle Submitter Pro to submit your article to 900+ article sites.
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11 Responses to “Get hundreds of free in-bound links to your site.”
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Jonathan Leger has been earning his living online full-time since the fall of 2004. He regularly posts advice about search engine optimization (his current passion), AdSense and Internet Marketing. 
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Just visited website of Aricle Submitter Pro and clicked on Download link. I got below message "We are sorry but this product is no longer availble for sale." Another too old product you are suggesting
Article Submitter Pro has moved from its previous home at PayDotCom to a new home. I just got the email yesterday and will be updating the links.
Be careful about assuming things before having all of the information.
This seems like an interesting way to easily get links. Do you have any other places besides the site you referenced where you typically submit articles? I would just like to see some results before I go out and buy a program that submits my articles for me.
Sorry but thats not true for all ses
Msn you can can achieve very high in the serps with just a few backlinks and a brand new site, I've done it over and over again with many different sites with very competitve keyword phrases.
Google often only requires a few quality inward links not quantity.
Articles you are better off using with in your own site as creating internal page rank as well as more search engine fodder than you are posting them to article sites as most webmasters use them in sites/blogs which are full of duplicate content and the search engines attach very little relevance to the links created hence as result.
You want hundreds of inward links use something like link dash, build reciprocal links etc you get thousands and none of the ses slam you for them they will do little to help your traffic though.
You can turn one article into 10 articles by submitting them to http://www.how2article.com as they are translated into 9 languages plus english.
Apologies posting this twice the first one the link is incorrect :
You mention in your article that in the author box you can insert links. If you submit an article in text format, how do you add a link? How would a word or a phrase appear as a hypelink in a text document? Please forgive my ignorance of html, but I have always used editors like Front Page or XsitePro to build web pages and the few times I worked directly on the html code was just to make minor changes.
Thank you for the explanation.
Robert
Robert:
Most article submission sites accept HTML links in the articles, but the few that don't (like ArticleCity.com) will convert a link to HTML for you. So at the bottom of your 'About the Author' box, you put your URL, like so…
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Jonathan Leger runs an AdSense, SEO and Internet Marketing blog at:
http://www.jonathanleger.com/
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Make sense?
Jonathan,
I can give my personal endorsement of this strategy. I have submitted over 150 articles to ezinearticles for two other blogs I own, and have now started with my new blog, Ask A Criminal Defense Lawyer at http://askcrimelawyer.blogspot.com.
I now have articles on thousands of other websites, each pointing links back to me. Even the new blog, which is less than a month old is generating traffic from these articles.
With highly competitive keywords it takes more effort, time and articles to see results. But with narrower, less competitive keywords, the number of articles and time to see results is much fewer/shorter.
Charles Brown, JD
Jonathan, you're so right.
When I first optimised one of my sites, then put out an article to around 200 sites, links helped push my site onto page one of MSN and Yahoo.
Unfortunately, I paid for some additional links that weren't properly targeted and I got bounced down to pages 2 and 3.
I'm busy writing more articles to climb back onto the first pages.
Adrian Kelly
Another way to do this is to add a similar type source box to every post you make on your blog or in forums. It will increase your visitation rate from these venues, also.