Backlinks backlinks backlinks!

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Backlinks backlinks backlinks!

Everybody keeps telling you to get backlinks to your site to increase your pagerank. Not easy, is it?

Conventional wisdom says there are a couple of main ways to get backlinks to your site:

1) Add your site to directories - time consuming - isn’t it!
2) Email site owners of complementary sites, and ask them to exchange links with you (good luck with that - no-one in their right mind is going to link to your PR0 site from their PR4 page, are they?)

3) Post links to your site in relevant forums (this is getting harder, too, as forum owners are getting wise to this plan, and requiring you to have a minimum number of posts to your name before you can post links.)

There is a way to generate relevant backlinks to your site, whilst contributing to the web community as a whole.

Most weblogs have the facility to allow you to post comments about the authors articles. Blog authors love comments on their posts for a couple of reasons: They like to know someone is reading their blog; they like to think that they’ve written something that was powerful to evoke a response; and they love the idea that they might be creating a community of sorts.

Now, the instructions: Go to www.technorati.com, and do a search for blogs of the same subject as your website. look for articles which relate to the subject of your site, go to those blogs, and post comments.

Remember, keep the comments relevant, and avoid spam, and your comments should be approved. Most bloggers won’t mind you including a link to your website in your comments, as long as you introduce something useful to their blog.

If you make it a rule to post five blog comments a day, you will have a valuable list of back-links in no time!