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There are 5 basic ways you can develop backlinks for your web-site:

1. Affiliate Programs — join an affiliate program, or create one for your website. A good place to checkout is Commission Junction, the world's biggest affiliate network marketing site.
2. Invite your friends to post a link to you from their pages. Don't bother to ask to trade links with another site though, since trading links works to cancel-out the effect. The idea is to have your site thought-of by others as being more important. This is a zero-sum game, popularity. If you win, they lose. Everyone cannot be more popular than everyone.
3. Buy links on popular sites. Nothing wrong with that. Make sure those sites are page-ranked higher than you are currently, or what's the point? If you get links from UNpopular sites, then that proves that these nobodies think that you are somebody. That's a waste of time, and money too.
4. Write articles on subjects related to your site and post them to popular article sourcing sites. These are sites web-authors go to, to find new content for their own site. The rules are that people have to have one link in the article they republish back to the original authoring site. Works great!
5. Issue press releases to the many free press release sites now available. You can see a list of free press release sites at Yahoo's press release site list page. Your press release should be newsworthy. This means that you should be making a claim, announcing an event, or commenting on something else in the news, etc. Don't merely discuss how great your product, your store or your service is. Nobody cares about that. Talk about something that you think people would want to know about. Include your web-site URL of course, and also your contact information, including your phone number, email address, etc.

The last two of those five ways are actually the easiest, and pay the highest dividends over time, in our opinion. It may only take a few minutes or an hour or so at most to write an article or a press release about some aspect of your business or web site. And, using the existing social networking, press release, and article submission service sites, you can have that article out there working for you in only a few more minutes. And, it's free!

Nothing else compares to this power.  Free backlinks in minutes. Furthermore, some of these article and press release sites have a pagerank of 5, 6 or even 7 — wow!

How to Write an Article in a Few Minutes That Will Attract Backlinks (and traffic) for Years! 

For an example of how to get backlinks, here is a guy who did just what we're talking about — He wrote an article on writing articles on backlinks, and, sure enough here we are giving him one! Here is his article on "How to write articles to create backlinks", from his web site blog, called SEO Is Easy: 

Anyone should be able to write 250 words on a subject in which they are familiar.
It doesn’t really matter on what the topic or subject, as long as the article is not about illegal activity, is harmful or profane.

Create your article in a word processing program so that you can easily edit, spell check and format. Don’t worry about font sizes, bold, italics etc., because most submission services won’t keep that original formatting.

Copy your article into a text file for easy copy and paste when it is time to submit.

An author’s bio section for each article is available on each article submission service. The bio section allows you to insert an html hyperlink. Write one or two sentences referencing your website and include your name. Make sure you use proper hyper linking for your URL.

It is of utmost importance that you do create the proper true HTML hyperlink in the bio section of your article, otherwise the article will be re-published without a true live link to your main site.

Proper codes:

<a xhref="http://www.yourwebsitename"> Your Target Keyword Phrase – www.yoursitename</a>

This will show the words, Your Target Keyword Phrase – www.yoursitename .com with the entire line a live hyperlink.

Submit your Article to several article submission websites.

Here is a List of a few good ones:

• http://www.ezinearticles.com
• http://webpronews.com
• http://www.ideamarketers.com
• http://www.certificate.net
• http://www.goarticles.com
• http://www.articlecentral.com
• http://www.articlefinders.com

Most Article submission sites have RSS feed capability. This allows your article to be shown on multiple websites that utilize the RSS feeds. In addition many webmasters and blogs retrieve articles from article submission sites to add content article to their own sites. Every occurrence of your article “re-published” on a website, creats a free one-way back link to your site.

As time goes by, your articles will be re-published on mutiple sites. An article even on a non-popular topic can still be re-published on 75 or more sites. Popular category topical articles will be published on 100 to 1000’s of websites. Every instance of an republished article creates a backlink if the hyperlinked URL was correctly inserted in the original bio section area of the individual article.

As your articles age on the re-published sites, and the re-publisher work on their own SEO and Page Rank, your article on their site increases in Page Rank as well.

Additional tip for checking your back links.

Do a Google, Yahoo, or MSN search using quotations marks around the name of the article, For example search for “ My article title”, you will find all the results for that name that will consist of mainly the article that you have submitted. Daily you can easily see with a simple search the amount of back links you are gaining through the simple re-publishing of your article. You should check to make sure that the backlink is Live on the new site republishing your article. Also check over time the Page Rank of those new backlinks.

Most sites that house articles allow the option to make comments. You can then make a comment on your article and include a simple phrase to seek more information by going to the same site referenced in the bio while including another hyperlink. If you do make a comment, make sure you reference by name you are the author and don’t attempt to include a hyperlink not already in your article.

In a few months when the next Google Page Rank update occurs, all your articles should have page rank of their own, all passing Page rank back to your main site.

You should also notice some click through traffic in reference to your well written and informative on the article topic.

(End of the SEO Is Easy article.) 

 

How to Find Out What Your Pagerank Is

To monitor your Google Pagerank (PR) you will need to download and install the famous Google Toolbar from Google. Go here to get the Google Toolbar that.

It only takes about 1 or 2 minutes for the whole installation.

• For Windows PCs: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or newer, or Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or later
• For Macs: Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or later on Macintosh computers.

Once you get it installed, you'll see a little bar in the middle showing your pagerank. For new sites, it will usually be 0/10 or simply an empty white bar about a half-inch long. As your backlinks increase and your pagerank is raised by Google, you'll see the little bar become filled with green.

What does the Green Mean in the Google Toolbar?

When you finally DO get a Googe Pagerank, the green starts creeping across the toolbar. It grows in 1/10th segments until the bar is full. How many hits does it take to get to a 10/10 rating, showing all green in the Pagerank bar? Well, the page rank is not determined or related to your traffic. It does not relate to 'hits' or even to 'unique visitors'. Instead, it merely measures how many backlinks you have on other peoples' web pages, and to what those links say inside the link itself (the keywords used that are underlined on their page), and also to the actual pagerank of those pages who are pointing back to you. 

Visit a few well known sites and you'll see the Google.com page ranking system in action. The New York Times is usually a 10, and Walmart.com or OfficeDepot.com would also be highly ranked. That's because thousands and thousands of people have linked to their sites.

How Can You Monitor The Number of Backlinks You Have?

Go to Google.com and type "info:yourdomain.com" (using your domain, of course). Google will show you a short list of info pages with everything they want to reveal about your site. One of the lines will read: "Find web pages that link to ideapro.com". Click that link to phrase, and you'll see how many back link pages they think are important enough to list. It won't be as many as you think.

Google is VERY conservative. Other search engines will show more sites doing the linking. Microsoft's LiveSearch.com will be much more generous. Checkout your domain's back links at Microsoft using this link (making the change for your own domain):

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=link:yourdomain.com

How Long Does It Take to See My Pagerank Increase or Changes?

Google updates their pageranks continuously, but each incremental change in page ranking is displayed only every few weeks. Some updates have happened in only 4 or 5 weeks, but they usually take place about every 6 to 8 weeks. Don't worry about it. Have faith that more high quality, unreciprocated (non-traded), topically relevant and appropriate links from highly ranked sites will certainly increase your Google PR pageranking. It will come!

Now that you know the basics, go out there and get some backlinks and watch your Google Pagerank grow.