How to Get Your First Backlinks
We’re going to talk about how to get that very first, high authority backlink that’ll get the ball rolling for your website.
Of course, you can easily buy backlinks and guest blog posts that’ll take care of this for you. However, if you don’t know how to manually create backlinks, you won’t be able to check if the ones you purchased are as high quality as they claim to be.
What Kind of Links do We Want
You want any link that comes from a high authority blog/website. A good rule of thumb is to stick with any website that has a DA of 80 and above.
What happens once you get a high DA link?
Your site gets tons of benefits. Your site’s DA will go up as well as bringing in more traffic over the long-term.
Imagine your website as being a pyramid that keeps growing and growing. At the very top we have our main website. Every brick below it is a link that’s pushing our main site higher and higher. We should start to think about our link building strategy in this manner.
How do we get high authority backlinks?
Firstly, we want to type in the keyword we’re trying to rank for in Google. Once we find out the top websites owning the space, we have to see where they’re getting backlinks from. We’ll determine their strength on the web.
You can check the DA of a website using Moz.
Now that we’re able to find out the DA of any website, we can start to look for the ones we want links from.
Methods for getting your first backlink
There are a few ways you could go about this. You can start off with article submissions, blog commenting, guest blog posts, web 2.0s, and a multitude of other strategies.
Guest Posts
We’ll talk about guest posts because they’re one of the highest quality backlinks we can get. That’s because we’re getting links from a high-quality blog as well as a good referral and a piece of their traffic.
The way you go about it is to search up blogs related to your niche on Google. Check their DA rank and make sure your time spent in getting a blog post is used wisely.
Once we determine that a website has the potential to bring us tons of link juice, we’ll have to reach out to the blog and pitch good content to them. Hopefully, they’ll be accepting guest posts and you won’t have to pay anything on top to get it there.
Tips on getting more guest posts
You can’t just pitch any old article to get a guest blog post up. These blogs are getting hundreds, if not thousands of visitors a day and they can’t afford to put out under par content.
Your pitch will have to blow them away. They’ve got to see your content is so unique and helpful that they can’t afford to pass it up!
When targeting a website to pitch, look at a few of their blog posts to get an idea of their writing tone as well as the structure of their posts. Maybe they include a new picture every few paragraphs. They won’t want to take anything that doesn’t follow this structure.
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