Building backlinks doesn’t have to be hard, so below are 7 Free Backlinking Tips from Plymouth SEO Services to help you get started building some free powerful and Google-friendly backlinks, so you can diversify your link profile and get the links your site needs to start ranking higher in Google.
After you have your on-page SEO dialled in and have built a strong foundation, backlinking is the next step for getting your website ranking high in the search results.
Backlinks are simply links from other high-quality sites pointing to your website and they tell the search engines that your site is popular and regarded as an authority site. This builds trust and authority and moves your website up the search results.
1 – VIDEO LINKS
A great way to get tons of high authority links is to get video submission links! These are super easy and free to get set up.
The Process:
1. Create an account on YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMail, Imdb and other video free sharing sites
2. Upload your video.
3. Make sure you include a link back to your site on the video description as well as some keywords for relevancy!
Link juice flows from the videos to your website
2 – AUDIO LINKS
Similar to the video links, audio links are also a great way to power up your new site. Again, these are super easy and free to get set up.
The Process:
1. Create an account on SoundCloud, Audioboom and other free audio sharing sites.
2. Upload your audio file.
3. Make sure you include a link back to your site on the audio description as well as some keywords for relevancy + make sure your file name is your keyword!
3 – PDF LINKS
PDF Submissions are a great way to diversify your link profile.
The Process:
1. Create a Word document and write some relevant content about your business. Make sure to include relevant images and as many links as you want inside that word document.
2. Convert it to a pdf document
3. Upload it to free pdf sharing sites!
4 – YAHOO ANSWERS
Yahoo answers are great as a source of free links but also as free and targeted traffic!
The Process:
1. Create an account on Yahoo’s answer platform.
2. Make sure to fill in everything, from profile picture to description to skills etc…
3. Find relevant questions in your niche and answer them, giving value to the community.
4. Make sure to leave a link at the end of your answer.
5 – QUORA ANSWERS
This is the exact same process as the Yahoo answers tactic, but with Quora. Quora allows you to write more in-depth answers.
The Process:
1. Create an account at Quora.com
2. Make sure to fill in everything, from profile picture to description to skills etc…
3. Find relevant questions in your niche and answer them, giving value to the community.
4. Make sure to leave a link at the end of your answer.
6 – GOOGLE LINKS #1
Google has several platforms that you can benefit from. Firstly, you can build a free website and get a super high authority link from Google, just go here: https://sites.google.com/ Just make sure your site if fully optimised for on-page SEO.
Every link on this site is a link directly from Google!
7 – GOOGLE LINKS #2
There are other platforms Google offers for free, including Google Sheets, Slides, Drawings and Docs, which are all platforms you can include your links on and then embed them on the Google sites you just created.
This will interlink everything and make sure you get as much link power as possible.
Check out our next post Beginners Guide To Building Links 2021 which shows you the best backlinks to build for your website to get it ranked higher in Google, so make sure you don’t miss it.
You can also find more SEO Tips like this by checking out our last Blog post 5 Tips On How To Write Blog Posts That Get 1000+ Visitors.
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Pete Skuse (The SEO Guy)
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