Begin Increasing Your Link Popularity Right Now

Link popularity is important to your website receiving the maximum amount of traffic. This is because the search engines, like Google, Yahoo and MSN look for other websites linking to your website to help determine how popular your website is. The more outside websites that link to your website, the higher your link popularity is and therefore the more traffic you will receive from the search engines.

It’s pretty easy to start building your backlinks. And, you can even find free methods to do so, like the one detailed below. Of course, there are paid methods as well. But if you are just getting started, it’s a good idea to do it on your own at first to get used to how things work.

I love to use blogs to help build my backlinks and link popularity. There are literally millions of blogs out there, so you’re sure to find something on your topic. What’s more, you can get started immediately.

So first of all, go to Google and click the ‘Blogs’ link at the top. You’re going to put in a keyword that is about the topic of your site. After that, Google will give you a list of all blogs that have articles about the topic, and you’ll go to them.

Most blogs have an option to leave a comment after their articles. You will read the article and ensure that it is, in fact, about your topic. Then you will leave a comment on the article.

In the comment area, there are usually three areas to fill out. These are Name, URL and email address. Make sure the URL field has your complete website URL in it so you actually get a link from the blog you are posting a comment on.

Next you leave your comment in the larger text box. You’ll not want to “spam” the site by leaving what is basically a promotional message for your own site. If you do that, the blog owner will probably mark it as “Spam” and it will disappear.

What’s important is to ensure that the comment you leave is actually interesting and contributes to the conversation already going on at the blog. Saying something nice about what the blog author wrote is always a good idea, people love compliments. You can even take part in discussion that’s already going on with other people that have left comments.

Then you hit “Submit.” A lot of blogs will make your comment immediately appear and you’ll get your backlink right away. But in these days of SPAM, some blogs to make the blog owner personally approve the comment. If this is the case, you’ll probably get a notice that your comment is waiting for approval.

Head on back over to Google blog search and visit each one that you found on your keyword. You need to leave comments on as many as you can find that are actually about your website niche. This is because the more places your leave your link, the more backlinks you get.

This is a simple, free way to being immediately begin building your link popularity today. If you repeat the process weekly, or even daily, you’ll find new blogs listed for you to leave comments on. By repeating this process on a regular schedule you’ll be able to build your backlinks over time.