How To Get Backlinks For New Websites or Blogs

Bloggers and website owners are particularly interested in getting loads of visitors to their page and it's achievable with link building and boosting search engine presence with quality backlinks.

A greatly constructed content without visitors defeats the aim of starting up this line of business. What is a great show when no one turns up to listen to your art?

Search engine optimization is very important for website owners who are looking to milk from the huge number of visitors that search engines like Google, Bing, and yahoo offers.

An essential component of SEO is about building backlinks which are like people referring or recommending your sites to search engines for information related to a particular keyword.

The more other sites refer to your site for certain keywords, products, or topics of interest the more these search engines consider your sites as valuable and will rank your site high when queries are made on their platform for keywords related to what you have on your website.

Not all links are considered valuable but if it is coming from a high authority site then Google and other search engines will give you better scores.

Those from spammy sites make search engines penalize you and drop your rankings even more. For example, you got a recommendation for a top position for a vacancy opening, and you get another recommendation from someone of a lower cadre who previously mismanaged the resources at their disposal who do you think stands a better chance of getting you employed? The former I guess.

The number of backlinks in SEO is important but not at the expense of quality. So for your SEO needs your aim should be gathering quality and not just a bunch from spammy sites.

Ways to get backlinks fast

It can be challenging but if we follow certain rules we can succeed at it with ease.

1. Write quality content:

Content is chief if you must rank for those significant keywords that the big names in the blogging industry are already ranking for.

To replace the sites on the first page you have to show the search engines that you have something better, original, and of higher quality than your competitors.

Answer the pertinent questions of web visitors and meet their search intent. Don't just reinvent what is already in existence. Google wants to show searchers more useful information, for instance, searchers for skincare tips for babies need to see the best website content related to the search term. Also, it has to be content free of plagiarism.

If your contents are of high quality and meet the particular query a web visitor is asking, other websites and high authority sites can easily link back to your content.

This first step is how to get backlinks for free, websites owners can take advantage of it without spamming other sites' comment sections.

I know at this point you'll think that's the way to go, I did as well during my early days.

You can monitor the progress of some reliable backlinks checker tools which I'll recommend in other articles that follow this one.

Personally, I have applied these methods and can confirm to you that it works. When your contents are unique, original, well-researched, and solves problems, the search engines will reward you by indexing your content so others can reference it.

2. Join an online community

Various communities and online forums are available, if you engage well, and offer solutions to topics of interest in these communities, you’ll get rewarded with traffic and link to your content, people are always eager to learn more when they find wisdom.

This is the easiest form of winning a link game. The hack to creating content on forums that people engage with can be to share a success story. I once got over 10K visitors to my site from a forum after I shared what I implemented to recover my website from a major algorithm update. An example of such a forum is Medium, Google community, yahoo, Quora, Reddit, warrior forum, and Freelancers

However to do it right make sure you are interacting with the right audience. Look out for communities related to your website niche. A crypto blogger has no business interacting with the vegan community if your aim is to get them to visit your website.

I was successful at this as well when I joined Quora, I answered a question on a trending issue and I got rewarded with 20k+ website traffic in 24 hours and 50 backlinks.

Imagine If you do this repeatedly how fast your website will grow.

3. Start a blog on popular forums

Having a blog on popular forums can give you free links juice where you link back to your content and others who find your content interesting can do likewise.

This is similar to what is called guest blogging, I use this strategy a lot of the time. Articles on these sites tend to get higher search rankings because they are authority sites with good DA and link profiles. Also, they allow you to put links back to your site which can be a great source of website visitors.

I have tried this method on medium and Quora, and they work perfectly. Other sites like Reddit, HubSpot, steemit, Pinterest, Tumblr, Blogger, etc. offer this kind of platform and opportunity to grab some link juice.

4. Comment on other blogs

Writing useful comments on other blogs especially related to your niche is one of the easy traditional ways of gathering backlinks. You must try your best to do this in a non-spammy way to achieve a better score on search engines and to avoid the likelihood of these website owners deleting your content making this strategy wasteful.

Usually what I do is write my comment and where there is an option to include my website link I will add my URL. Some websites allow you to even use the HTML "a href" link tag to link back to your content.

Finding these blogs is not hard to do. You can search popular search engines for sites related to your keyword or niche.

5. Market yourself on forums

Big forums have lots of subscribers and can offer you links that you can milk traffic from. Make sure you include your links in your signature and make sure the forum niche is related to your website niche.

Become an authority in your niche on the forum and people will naturally be on the lookout for you. Where you are required to write about yourself, don’t forget to include your link.

6. Guest post on authority sites

Contribute useful articles on other websites related to your niche in exchange for backlinks. Website owners will love to give you backlinks if you offer to publish useful and educative content on their site. Personally, I accept guest posts related to my niche. Let's do this seo game together.

7. Pay For backlinks

I won’t go through the article without mentioning this. It is very possible to buy but many are not utilizing it yet because they don't know how to buy backlinks SEO.

The truth is the big players in the industry can sell space on their home page and put your links. They usually offer this for a fee.

If you have the resources, you can give this a try. I am certain this will pay off. These website owners can be contacted via their contact page and a deal brokered if you want to buy backlinks. Just look for authority sites in your niche.

8. Offer to fix broken links on other sites

Take your link-building strategy to the next level by studying the links of these big sites in your niche for broken links. Each one you find is an opportunity to pitch the site owner and grab it for your website.

You will be required to reproduce that content on your site and write the website owners requesting to fix the broken links and replace them with yours.

Many of these owners will be glad you helped them solve the issue and will gladly link back to your page.

9. Submit your site to link factories

Directories are available for any niche you can think of, you can submit your links to these directories and be sure to acquire some SEO backlinks but be careful as this may go against google terms and conditions that forbid link farms.

10. Competitor Backlinks analysis:

If you master competitor backlinks analysis, finding quality backlinks will be very easy. You can see our article on how to find competitor backlinks. What this aims to do is to look out for the source and try to get from the same sources by replicating what they did.