This post would cover various ways to create backlinks (mostly free ways) to have better page rank and higher search engine result position. Promotion of website is not only limited to just SEO there are other factors that play important role as well. Just think about a simple question, what if your site is coming at number 1 position for some keywords? The answer is promotion through other ways. With these backlinks visitors will arrive from other sources as well and not only search engine.
In this list, I would try to give a brief information of various ways and would put up other posts for each of them to show lists of sites where these can be done. These lists won’t be exhaustive but would cover some sites and will give an idea. To find more sites of a particular kind either search these terms using some search engine, look out in sites which gives similar sites or go for the interesting way to find out from where sites have backlinks and categorize those backlinking sites in one of the following listed categories below and build your list.
- Answers – You know theme of your site and can search for questions related to your site and theme and provide answers. Do provide your site link as source URL or give the exact page url of your site in answers. Answers provides very good backlinks and sends many visitors because even if the questions are interesting and important they are searched over longer period of time.
- Article Writing – When you are writing article for sites as a blogger or guest blogger you can put your site link there.
- Article submission – Submit articles with links to your site in them
- Blog Commenting – Comment on blogs with your links in comment. Though one should try avoiding them and should always provide a site url when asked for while submitting a comment. Because such URLs may be no follow, no index but will provide a referral visit when user clicks on your name.
- Blog submission – Submit your blog to blog submissions directories
- Blogging – Write a blog for your site or as a guest blogger
- Bookmarking – Save URLs on famous bookmarking sites and share them with your network
- Classifieds – Post classifieds ads
- Content sharing: Knowledge sharing, slides, ppts and documents etc. When you add slides, PPTs and documents like tutorials etc. include your URLs. If you provide good enough information on you sites, portals then include a source on Wikipedia.com for that article.
- Directory – Submit URLs to web directories
- Forum Participation and linking sharing
- Gadgets and widgets submissions – Submit your gadgets and Widgets
- Mobile apps submissions – Submit Mobile Apps
- Groups – Create groups, participate in groups and share links
- Micro-blogging – Share your URLs with updates
- News submission – Create News and Share it
- Press releases – New features, announcements submit it to PR sites
- Profile building – Build your profile and submit it. This could be done in various ways. There could be sites like social sites where you can create a user as individual or company profile. There are sites for Website stats, whois records which creates websites profiles.
- RSS/feed – Submit your feed to RSS directories
- Scripts Submissions for script sites
- Search engine submissions – Submit your site to SEs
- Social networking – Promote your site using SNs and give links there
- Videos – Create and share videos