3 Easy Ways To Get Backlinks and Exposure Fast

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Backlinks and exposure are two important factors for every blogger and everyone wants them, though some struggle hard and don’t manage to do it. I won’t come with any mind-blowing ideas or blackhat techniques, but only 3 ideas that could bring you some backlinks, exposure and traffic for the beginning.

While you shouldn’t blog for the robots, you definitely need to care about SEO and do your best to get better ranks on search engines. The search engine traffic is usually the best, because it converts very well and is also very targeted. Fortunately, the 3 ways I will be talking about will bring you both traffic from search engines and also targeted traffic from other blogs in your niche.

So let’s get started, because I want to be quick and I also know your time is important.

1. Network

Networking can help you a lot, especially online, where you can do it extremely easy, because there are dozens of huge platforms where you can find people who have the same interests as you. So you should spend some time networking with fellow bloggers from your niche and help each other succeed and no, don’t think about competition, because they only represent a small portion of your competition. While it’s harder to succeed by yourself, you will find it way easier if you get some people by your side and help each other.

This way you can get a lot of high value backlinks from your competition and together you will be able to outrank the others, especially if they prefer to be solitary wolves.

2. Comment

Many believe comments are useless, though I really believe they can bring a lot of value, if they are written wisely. Spamming tons of blogs with comments like “Great post”, “Thanks,” and so on won’t help, because nobody will notice it and if they will, it will surely be marked as spam. But if you write intelligent comments on other blogs from your niche, you can trigger both that bloggers and readers attention, which means exposure and traffic. Some blogs have do-follow comments and other have do-follow links for the top commentators, which means quality backlinks.

You need to decide where you want to comment and subscribe to those blogs. Don’t make a huge list, because it will be hard to keep track of them all. Along with getting value from comments, you will also be able to learn more from their posts and research the way they succeed in the specific niche.

3. Link Bait

Link bait is a really controversial topic nowadays, because everyone talks about it, but few know how to do it correctly, so you need to learn more about it, do some research and test a lot. Link Bait has to be done very carefully, because everything matters when writing a post like this, especially the headline, image, and quality of the content.

Also you should know that link bait depends on the first 2 ways I have been talking about. You need to do some networking before, because some friends need to help you kick-start your link bait post. Commenting on other blogs will also bring visitors that may see your link bait post and actually link to it or share it. Link bait posts usually go viral, which also means backlinks, exposure and traffic, and that’s what you want, right ?

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  1. Am vazut ca vorbeai si in alte posturi de networking. La ce te referi cand zici asta?

    off: Ai schimbat fontul cumva ?

  2. Great post and I have used two of the methods VERY effectively. I need to improve my link-baiting though!

  3. Thanks for the post.I really want exposure fast.

  4. I agree to a couple of methods you got there Alex. Same here with Profit Addiction, I need to learn and improve more on link baiting. This is friendly for both newbies and pros.

  5. Alex, comments are important mostly to network with the author of the blog, and show support. So later if you ask them question or ask for help they will be more likely to help since they know a bit about you,

    Marios

  6. You get two birds in one stone. Gain a new friend, the owner of the blog, and expose your blog to other visitors of the blog who may like your comment and go to your blog to know you more.

  7. What about Twitter retweets, LinkedIn, and Facebook Fan pages ?

    Also, what are your thoughts on Disqus ?

    • I don’t like disqus very much, though I might try it, I don’t know yet.

      Twitter and Facebook are good, though they don’t help with link building very much. They are good at networking.

      • Networking and link-building (as Alex said) are vastly different. Link building is more along the lines of outside the social networks, but other than that, it is about working hard and learning about your potential ‘linkers’

  8. Very good post. On may i not help me now, but i hesitate to use him again when i start building my site. Too bad you have not posted earlier.

  9. Alex, it’s easy to get some backlinks and traffic from StumleUpon, and del.icio.us too. Facebook is also one of my biggest traffic source. In my case, Vi.sualize.us works, in yours I don’t think it will, only if you post some interesting images there.

  10. I think that if you don’t respect the first two points, link baiting can turn easily into spam.

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