Simple and Free Link-Building Method

Creating backlinks to your site is the most effective thing that you can do to get web sites positioned in the search engines. There are various backlinking-strategies, some of them complicated and expensive, others very simple and straightforward. This article is about one easy and free method of creating back-links which is often overlooked, but can generate excellent results regarding search engine optimization.

Blogger and WordPress are probably the two best-known free blogging and site-building platforms. A Blogger-site can also be monetized with AdSense and other methods. With WordPress.com blogs, it’s a different story: The WordPress TOS does not allow any type of monetization on the free blogs. But that doesn’t matter so much; both of these blogging services can be used for useful off-site seo. You can simply build a free blog on each of these platforms and rather than directly monetizing the free blogs themselves, create some content on them an link back to your self-hosted blog or website. The free blogs then simply serve as backlink-sources, directing link-juice and visitors to your self-hosted, monetized site.

This is quite a simple strategy and the good news is that WordPress and Blogger aren’t the only free blog services available. Not even close. There’s also tumblr, Blog.com, wetpaint, Vox, Livejournal, Doodlekit, Bravejournal and many more. Simply search for “create a free blog” on Google and you’ll likely find a dozen more sites like this.. You can post content and links to each of these blogs, effectively building your own small link-network.

In case you’re worried about how many posts you’ll have to write to build these links, just remember: You can take articles that you’re already submitting to article directories and re-purpose them by posting them to your blogs. Particularly if you’re making use of article re-writing, this will be no problem at all, since all the content will be unique.

It’s also worth noting that there are programs and tools like Web 2 Mayhem  that can automate the whole process of posting articles to many different free blogs. This means: Easy, free and effective link-building. Give it a try and get some backlinks and traffic going!