SEO Report: Getting Links to Your Blog

Besides optimized content, getting others to link to your blog is the key to increasing your blog’s ranking, popularity, and visibility.

A considerable amount of time spent blogging is in the hope of getting some decent links to your blog. Not all bloggers enjoy equal success. You can spend several hours thinking about an interesting blog post and do extensive research to provide our readers with excellent content. But despite making a brilliant post, you may not get anyone link to your blog posts. This can be discouraging and frustrating. You find yourself asking, “What am I doing wrong? What is wrong with my post? Why won’t anyone link to me?”

Many bloggers share the same plight, which indicates that something more than just good content is required. When you have good content those who visit your blog will enjoy your post but they may not necessarily link to your blog. You need to be connected to the right network that will link to your blog post. You need to be connected to the ‘sharers’.

If you are posting a blog then the first thing that you should do is to share it with your friends and encourage them to link to you. You can also make use of your opt-in email list to get people link to your posts. It is not enough to get your friends link to you as this is a very limited approach. You need to get the attention of other bloggers and get them to link to you to attain a higher level of visibility. If you get links from popular bloggers your traffic and links can increase because the blogs of popular bloggers will be getting good visitor traffic and links. You can basically piggyback off of their following.

You need to make yourself known to your niche community. This is time consuming and  requires planning, starting with finding the best blogs in your niche industry. Become actively engaged by leaving feedback and comments on those blogs, with an emphasis on being and sounding genuine in all your commenting and feedback. Seasoned bloggers will be able to make out immediately that you are scavenging for links and that you are not genuine, so BE genuine and appreciate their blog.

You can also volunteer to write posts for relevant blogs. All these should happen in the preparation stage before you actually start posting in your own blog. Once people in your niche circle get to know you, you can start inviting them to view your blog posts. This will increase the chances of getting links for your blog posts. This is a slow and painstaking procedure, and there are other faster ways of getting links for your website. However, you should not totally disregard blogging as blogging efforts will not only help you get some good links but it will also keep your website’s content fresh for the search engine bots. A blog is more than just content, or just links, or just a traffic driver. You can utilize your blog in more ways than just one.