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5 Killer SEO Tips to Get Backlinks
By Steven Clayton

Anyone who pays attention to SEO techniques knows that getting high quality, “do follow,” and diverse backlinks is the key to search engine optimization. The challenge, of course, is where to find places to get powerful backlinks.

Most people build their link building strategies around blog and forum postings. This makes sense and is certainly part of our plans as well. However, it stands to reason that Google also knows that most marketers who are using SEO tactics to rank their sites are doing this, and it makes sense that they will be looking for a much more diverse backlink pattern to award the highest rankings to.

With that in mind, I’m going to share the top 5 non-forum/blog backlink sources.

Squidoo Lists
Squidoo.com is a great place to get links back to your site. Type the following into a Google search:

“add+to+this+list”+site:squidoo.com

You will be presented with a huge list of Squidoo lenses where you can add your site, with custom anchor text. Many of these have very high PageRank as well!

For extra credit, append +”keyword phrase” onto the end of this query, and you can target your links for relevance. For example, if you were trying to rank a fitness site you could type:
“add+to+this+list”+”fitness”+site:squidoo.com

Web 2.0 Profiles
Many Web 2.0 sites that allow you to create profiles and interact with others provide high PageRank, “do follow” links to the web site listed in your profile. Some examples include www.linkedin.com, www.twibs.com, and www.zoominfo.com.

When creating profiles on these sites (which you could do for every niche you’re in) you’re able to list your web site, which becomes a high quality backlink to your site.

Article Marketing for Links
Most marketers are familiar with writing articles to get traffic, but we write most of our articles for backlinks. If you’ve put a link to your site within the article (and let’s certainly hope you’re doing that!), every article that gets posted becomes a backlink (or even 2 or 3). The more articles that get posted, the more links you can build.

To get started, you simply have to write the article and submit it to a few article directories. I recommend: www.Ezinearticles.com, www.goarticles.com, and www.articledashboard.com.

Steven Clayton and his partner Tim Godfrey are the creators of several Internet Marketing information products, including Commission Blueprint 2.0. You can get more advice and information on their blog.

This article originally appeared on the ClickBank Blog and was edited for this newsletter.

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