Free Hosted Blogs: Great Free BackLinks too

Yes it is totally a free backlink for your websites. By using this free hosted blogs like blogger.com or blogspot.com, wordpress blog and the likes are of good baclinks for your website.

Blog started from the word weblog a log file that has been develop into blog. From text blogging to picture blogging, now comes video blogging. “A picture paints a thousand words,” how much more if the it is a video where things are moving? Though this becomes the trend in blogging today, video blogs requires a bigger space and it does consume a bigger bandwidth that picture and text blogs.

Blog is like a journal or a diary of your daily undertakings. The topics depends on the blogger or the owner of the blog. Since it is a record of your daily actions, your blog should be regularly updated. You can still include some video if you like, but you have to know first if this is allowed on the free hosted blog.

From those articles, picture or video you are going to post in the blog, you can put a link pointing to your website(s). Of course, you need also to work to promote this blog. As time passes, you’ll will know that you are creating a good backlink for your websites.  Since you are promoting both the blog and the website, in the long run you’ll notice the benefits of putting your link in that free hosted blog.

If you notice, this free hosted blog could, a webmaster or any other internet user who will have the chance to view you blog could put a comment on your post.  This is what other online marketers are doing, commenting on a particular blog post and putting a link in the comment.  If the comment id good and you feel that is it closely related to the post, there’s no you will not approve it.  This means another link that person’s website.

So you see how powerful and efficient these free hosted blogs in developing your backlink.  But you should remember, that putting a site wide link may not be advisable for this.  You can put a link, why not?  Just don’t abuse it or don’t put too many site wide link because google might suspect you are selling links.

Well, you can start for 1 or 2 different blog accounts to experiment on it on you backlink quest.

Free Links

There are lots of links available online. Some are expensive, worth around $200 for a month, some are cheap, but we do not know how effective these links to the website will be. The free ones, of course, may seem to be irrational but it is always on the website owner if these free links will be worth a try.

There are free links which are very much effective in your quest to develop good backlinks. Forum sites where you could put a link i your signature are good example of good backlinks, especially if the forum site is being visited by thousands of visitors per hour. DigitalPoint Forum is a good example of forum site where you could get a good backlink. Whether it be your link pointing to your website is your signature or just simple post it in the appropriate thread, after a couple minutes or hours, you have already a good backlink.

Directory submission of course is still one of the best one way link for your website, but by promoting it or posting your website to as many forum sites with good page rand will be a sure hit for a link. This will surely be counted when the spiders crawl that site.

Another free link you get from these forum sites will be from the members. Look for a prospect that you know he/she will agree with you for a link exchange. But of course, when you look for a link exchange you should do some exploring on the website you want to exchange link with. The website should be closely related with yours. I am sure you will not want your dog training website to be posted on RPG related website. Well, anyways it will still be a link if you want to. As long as you have both the same ranking, the owner might want to exchange link with you.

You have to search the inbound and outbound links of your prospect website before making an offer. You can do this by using the yahoo site explorer (link:propectdomain.com), google sites explorer (site:prospectdomain.com, and other tool available like SEOlog fake page rank checker, iwebtool tools and others. It is your responsibility to research these things, to make sure you are getting a good website in return to your valuable website.

You can try to look for prospects and discuss further details of what it’s going to be, like how long you’ll be exchanging links, the location of the links and other details.