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Getting backlinks to your blog is one of the best ways of getting traffic. Getting your blog known, getting pagerank and getting a quality perception of your blog.

Here are some of the top ways to do so…

Good Content

Obviously, you don’t need to read this to know this. Good content is at the primary core of getting backlinks. If your content says nothing new or doesn’t even say something known in an articulate or interesting way. People won’t link to it. Make sure your content is as good as it can be.

The more you put in, the more you get back.

Here are some quick tips on how to improve your blog content (posts):
- Think viral
- Use correct grammar
- Use images in your posts
- Cover popular news within your niche
- Give your unique opinion on things

Competitions

Competitions, if good. Work. It’s just the nature of humans, we like to win free prizes! No matter how bad the prize, some people just cannot resist entering. Literally. They will enter just for the chance of winning, even if they have absolutely no interest or lust for the prize. Or believe they have nearly no chance of winning (just look at the lottery!). People do it because that thought in the back of the mind is always “I could win…” they enter INCASE they do win, because if they don’t and they watch someone else win they think “that could of been me!”.

It’s very hard for some people to resist the urge of a free competition and the Internet is no exception. Start doing some good competitions on your blog, give away some prizes and if your competition is viral… people will link to it. Aside from hopefully getting your blog linked to more, competitions also add interactivity to your blog. Letting your readers know you have their interest in mind as well.

Visit and Comment on Your Readers’ Blogs

It’s always good to keep in touch with your readers. They’re the ones keeping your blog alive so at least pay them the respect of taking a look at their stuff now and again. If you just take some time to visit some of your avid readers’ blogs, comment, look around, give some feedback. They will appreciate it and will be far more likely to link to you for nothing if they like an article you write.

Aside from this, another good way to get a free backlink is to read and comment on well known blogs. Most big blogs have a Top Commentators list now as a way of rewarding the most avid contributors. Getting the no.1 spot on a TC list, on a well known blog can bring some fairly good extra traffic and some more general awareness. It’s also a free backlink!

Use Social Networking Sites

Another obvious point. But a good one. Use social networking sites as much as you can. Sites like Digg can bring you enormous amounts of traffic, in quick succession no doubt but the traffic it produces can obviously lead to a lot of backlinks. Better still, targeted backlinks. They will be very likely to be from blogs and sites within your niche.

If you submit to the Business category on Digg… the people who digg it, will most likely; like, write or be into business. Therefore any backlinks they give to you will most likely be on their business site/s and or blog/s and anybody who clicks these links from there will also be targeted. It’s a on-going trail of links that will grow if you keep persisting.

These are just some of the ways of getting backlinks. Feel free to share your ideas on doing so to!