The major search engines such as Google and Yahoo! place a large importance on one way links to determine rankings. Each link to your site is like a vote and the more votes you have, the higher you will rank. This brings that building backlinks is an essential task for most bloggers. There are many ways to get backlinks to your blog, and one of the easy and quite simple to do is by harnessing the Google Alerts.
Google Alerts is a free program run by Google that allows you to keep track of any topic on the web. You select your keywords and Google will alert you via email whenever links or web page content containing your selected topics appear anywhere on the web.
Suppose that you have a site on “make money” then you would create a Google Alert for those keywords. Google will alert you by email whenever a new link or web page content related to those keywords appears on the web.This is a valuable source of potential linking partners because many of those links are blogs that will allow comments with a link back to your site. Google Alerts will probably send you 10-20 links each day, depending on the popularity of your keywords. Just go to these blogs and see if you can leave a comment with some valuable additional information on what’s been discussed.
Your main purpose should be getting targeted traffíc back to your site and any link PR should be secondary. Always put the reader in priority and don’t talk about your site or put your affiliate link on your comments – just join and enhance the discussion with valuable suggestion then you will be rewarded with traffic and a link. But make sure you get your targeted keywords in the anchor text of the backlinks.
Finding quality backlinks is might be the most tedious job for most bloggers. It takes time and patience. By using Google Alerts you can have relevant keyword related links emailed to you each day. Use this information to help build your backlinks in relevant related blogs. Do this consistently over a period of time and your site will get noticed and ranked higher.
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good tip, but people have to be sure to not use “make money” type phrases – results will be in the millions. Use a longer phrase like “make money selling shoes”
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very cool idea, thanks. I’m using your tip straight away…hehe
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really good tip ..thanks
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This is an excellent way to also look at new ways to dominate entirely new markets.
Sometimes a new offering comes out and people start searching on it – or many times a new concept is being discussed. You can capitalize with an adwords campaign using Google Alerts.
That’s pretty darn amazing if you ask me, this could really help out webmasters tremendously. You can find websites that have similar keywords as your sites and comment on them, that means relevant traffic to your site. Even if they are no-follow!