Do You Have These 8 Types of Backlinks Yet?
Backlinks are critical for your website’s success. How many ways do you use to get them? You did know there are many different types of backlinks. Actually 8 very common types are discussed here. Plus this article will discuss which types of backlinks are most helpful.
Do not give up on reciprocal links. They still have value. The ease of obtaining these links make them less effective than other types of backlinks but they have some value and they’re not “dead” like so many people claim. These are 2-way links that happen when webmasters agree to link to each other’s sites.
Social bookmarking may be entertaining and a good way to connect with folks but the links are not really that valuable. It is a great way to get a new post or page indexed though. But if you want to rank well for really competitive terms, you cannot rely on only social bookmarks. Take a look in your website’s Cpanel at the AWSTATS interface you’ll see that social bookmarking links are in a special category separate from other types of links. That is a hint that they are devalued links.
One-way links are more powerful links. However,do not stop at only getting incoming links. Keep your outgoing links and incoming links in balance or it will be an unnatural flow of traffic at your site. Most of the time though this is not a problem because affiliate marketers are out-linking to affiliate programs anyways.
Blog commenting for backlinks is a popular method and free and you choose the relevant sites. However, these links aren’t as valuable either. This is particularly true if the blog has been set with the NoFollow attribute. While you will find some value to blog commenting for backlinks you also need to pay attention to your return on investment on the time it takes to get these links. Often this is a time drain rather than a valuable backlink process. Your blog commenting does help build your recognition and credibilty in your field, though.
When you get three way links or 3 way links it is usually a part of a networking system. Three way links are a hybrid of reciprocal links and 1way links . The way it works is you link out to one site and a different site links back to you, so it is non-reciprocal. All of the sites are part of the same network. When the network is full of quality sites, then there is real value to this automated link building. There is the risk of losing all of your links if you cancel your membership for most of these services. Also, this types of linking service is most helpful for low-competition keywords or key phrases or niche topics. If you have a portfolio of mini-sites with low competition terms, this is a good deal, you can add about 50 sites to these networks and get backlinks to all your sites automatically with 3 way links services.
Footer links are links at the bottom of sites that link to other sites. Many SEO bloggers claim that these types of links are ineffective and they are 100% wrong! Nowadays, footer links are most often seen at the bottom of blogs with links to the site that made the free WordPress theme, if the webmaster was using a free WordPress theme and many of those WordPress theme sites attain high Page Rank in very little time. And the same holds true for the sites where WordPress plugins are downloaded, and there is one marketer who has his footer links in all of the Master Resell Rights Websites he sells and all of those sites and sales pages that people are putting up are linking to his main site, which is page 2 for the term “make money online”. Suffice to say that footer links do work well if there are a lot of people using the themes, plugins and leaving links intact into the footer sections of the Master Resell Rights website packages.
Paid links are links that you pay for in order to get some high Page Rank and relevant links back to your site for your chosen keywords. I think that this an extreme waste of money because they’re usually expensive. Not only that, they are not permanent either because you only have those backlinks as long as you’re paying the monthly fee for those links. You’re better off paying less of a monthly fee for a linkbuilding service like Unique Article Wizard that delivers quality, permanent one way links in quantity.
Comment by D Mohan on 27 June 2009:
Nice article. I think there is no use in blogging and giving backlinks to the blog.
Comment by andrea on 27 June 2009:
great article.
andrea
Comment by Dave on 4 July 2009:
Interesting take on Linkbuilding as it relates to free and 3way linking. I agree that footer links are valuable, otherwise they wouldn’t put them in their plugins. Like anything else I’m assuming Google plays with this in their algorithm as well. I think there is a lot of misinformation out there. My theory is to research my links just like I research services.