In addition to on-page SEO, off-page SEO is also influential in optimizing the blog's position on Google. Off-page SEO is done to get backlinks from various sources. In fact, there are a couple of backlink sources that can be used.
Fortunately, if you are a beginner blogger looking to build backlinks, you don't have to use all of these sources. For the initial stage, based on my experience bringing more than two dozen niche blogs to page 1 of Google, you should focus on the following 8 backlink sources.
1. Social Bookmarking Sites
Social bookmarking sites are sites that people use to store, organize, and manage web pages or blogs they like.
Getting backlinks from these sites is very easy: you register, verify registration, log in to the site, and publish the URL of your front page and/or blog posts. The backlinks that you will get can be dofollow or nofollow, depending on the provisions of the social bookmarking site.
Here are social bookmarking sites that you can try.
- url.org
- bookmark4you.com
- socialbookmarkssite.com
- delicious.com
- ping.sg
- buzznet.com
- stumbleupon.com
- plurk.com
- diigo.com
- reddit.com
2. Social Media
Social media are sites that allow users to create and share content or participate in social networks. Backlinks from this site are believed to be of high quality because they are counted as social signals by Google and other search engines.
Here are some social media that you should try to get backlinks :
- Faceboook.com (in the form of a Fanpage)
- Twitter.com
- Pinterest.com
- Google +
- About.me
- Linkedin.com
If you want to know about other social media, please see the list of social media on Wikipedia.
3. Blog Comments
Blog comments are no longer effective. Maybe you've heard that statement. I also initially thought so. However, after I tried, it turns out that blog comments can bring my blog to page. In fact, blog comments are one of the best backlink sources
To get blogs like that, I searched Google. co. For example, if I want to search for auto-approved blogs with the extension .go.id, the query used in Google is the site:.g
When you find an auto-approved blog, comment by entering the keywords you are aiming for. If you don't want to enter keywords, you can enter your name, your pseudonym, your blog's name, or your blog's domain name.
4. Video Sites
Online video in the last decade is growing rapidly. Of course, video-sharing sites can also be used to plant backlinks for your blog, namely in the description section of the uploaded video.
To get backlinks from various video sites, you must have your own video so that it does not violate copyright.
Examples of Video Sharing Sites
dailymotion.com screencast.com sonico.com
vimeo.com telly.com clipmoon.com
youtube.com wat.tv ganges.com
tmblr.co videobash.com myvidster.com
reddit mefeedia.com 220.ro
picturepush.com tagworld.grou.ps sharevideosonline.net
photobucket.com kewego.com video-bookmark.com
tinypic.com ishare.rediff.com wideo.fr
video.fotki.com mobypicture.com zappinternet.com
videos.sapo.pt streetfire.net pixori.al
webeetv.com careercrate.com mymoviedeals.tv
businesstube.com thatshow.com thetributenetwork.com
5. Authority Sites
Authority sites are authority sites with various functions and topics. These sites usually provide profile pages for their members. It is on the profile page that the backlink is placed. Because it comes from an authority site, the backlink is believed to have a tremendous "banging power".
Some of the authority sites
- flickr.com
- contributor.yahoo.com
- discussions.apple.com
- ireport.cnn.com
- apache.org
- drupal.org
- disqus.com
- kdp.amazon.com
- openstreetmap.org
6. PDF Sharing Sites
As the name implies, PDF sharing sites are sites for publishing documents in PDF form. The link in this PDF can be read by Google. Not surprisingly, many SEO practitioners take advantage of these sites to plant backlinks.
Some of the PDF sharing sites
- issuu.com
- scribd.com
- doocu.com
- pdfcast.org
- uploading.com
- filesanywhere.com
- You Can Search on Google too (ex - free pdf sharing sites)
To get a backlink from a PDF sharing site, create an article in MS Word complete with a link to your blog. Convert the MS Word to PDF format and upload it to PDF sharing sites.
There are many sources of backlinks. As a beginner blogger, try these backlink sources above to optimize the position of your blog on Google.
Don't get caught up in the dichotomy of quality or poor quality backlinks. Just try it first and see the results continue later.