This is the question that plagues webmasters out there. How do I get backlinks, that are relevant to my site and are not no-follow.
Well you may have started to notice that there are a number of no-follow search engines that make use of the Google custom search. Here is a couple…
http://www.backlinkspot.com/
http://www.commenthunt.com/
These two links allow you to search for your term and will hopefully take you straight to the blog post where you can comment and get a free backlink. Great I here you say and for a number of my readers, they will now be searching on these and adding comments. But there is more to come….
The next essential tool is SeoQuake. This handy little tool will tell you various details about the pages you are visiting or about to visit. For example page rank, alexa rank etc. all sorts of useful information about the quality of the page. These details are also listed in the search results. So if your niche is “Making Money” you can now search for that term and find out how good the page is before you click on it. Allowing you to quickly find quality results, related to your niche, to comment on.
Note: For some reason Google Custom Search goes to /cse for the first page, then /custom. SeoQuake only picks up the /custom so you may need to click next then previous to get the extra information.
If anyone knows of anymore no-follow custom search engines please post in the comments.
This post come after I have spent an hour or so going through my Google analytics for one of my sites. The site in question I purchased back in January is eight years old, gets over 10,000 visitors a month and has hundreds of quality backlinks.
These backlinks are also very old. Having just gone through where my hits come from and which landing page they go to I discovered that, last month, over 500 visitors were linked to pages that no longer exists. These visitors got the standard 404 error page, which has a very high bounce rate, and I guess went to a rival site instead.
After a couple of hours of going through the analytics and creating redirects I have effectively gained several hundred visitors a month for doing very little work.
Today I had my first success with Digg.
I managed to get a story into the “Hot in World News” section. This is the furthest I have ever had an article in Digg and was quite a surpise to me.
The article in question is about pagerank and has so far managed 36 diggs. I do find it a little strange that it was submitted to world news but still it has sent me a nice amount number of visitors.
Getting traffic to your blog can be difficult. You have heard all the things you need to do like write good content, submit to directories, submit articles etc. These all work very well but say you want to get immediate traffic. How would you do it?
Well there is one little trick that I know, in fact I am doing it now, what you need to do is read through some busy web forums, find something of interest which is related to your blog. In this case it is people wanting to know how to get free traffic to their blog. Then you write a blog post, like this, about the subject in question.
The final step is simple, answer the forum post and include a link back to your blog. It probably won’t generate much traffic, maybe 10-20 people, but if they become regular readers then it is worthwhile. Additionally if you find a topic where people are always asking the same question, you can always post the same answer, with a link. Then the free traffic coming to your blog really adds up!
