Backlinking and SEO go hand in hand when it comes to attraction marketing. Let me explain each one before I tell you how to use them to your benefit. Have you ever read a Squidoo lens or article that had certain words or phrases that you could click on? If you notice when you click on one of those links it’ll take you to a website that the author directed you to. That’s what a backlink is, you can take words within your Squidoo lens, for example, and link those words to your website. When you include backlinks into your website it increases the chances of your lens coming up on the search engines.

This takes us to the next part of the article which is SEO, an abbreviation for Search Engine Optimization. SEO is basically maximizing your chances of coming up on the search engines, with things like keywords or phrases and backlinking.

It’s difficult to explain exactly how to put a backlink into your lens and articles, so I’ve created a tutorial on my blog on how to do that.

Backlinking is very important when it comes to your lenses and articles because Google loves when you put them in your content. Content on the internet that’s linked to different websites and or videos are ranked higher with Google because they appear more important.

There’s one thing that’s really important when it comes to backlinking even though it sounds obvious to most people. When you backlink to your websites, make sure that the word or phrase that you’re backlinking is relevant to the website you’re linking to. For example, if you have a website based on overall nutrition and you write an article on women’s health, make sure that you link women’s health. Google loves to see relevant phrases link to relevant websites.

Here’s something I learn until recently that will really increase your SEO.

You can really increase your SEO with backlinks that go to highly ranked websites according to Google. Here’s what I mean, in my tutorial I teach you how to obtain a tool called “Google Toolbar.” The Google Toolbar can be used for a multitude of things but the thing that is really important is the page rank portion of the toolbar. On the toolbar there’s a ranking system for every website according to Google, which makes this a tremendous tool to increase you SEO.

I’ll give you an example, when you have this tool on your toolbar and you go to a site like youtube, you’ll see most of the bar fill up with green. If you hover your mouse over the “pagerank” part of the toolbar and you’ll notice that it says 8 out of 10. This means that Google holds youtube in high regard so if you put a backlink to your youtube channel or a youtube video, your SEO will be very high.

Another great thing about this tool is that you can click the down arrow next to the page link and you can select, “similar pages” which takes you to all the pages with a similar rank. This is another tool that can help you in a tremendous way, if you link to these sites Google will literally be in love with your content, and you’ll be on the front pages in no time.

Backlinking can really help you on the search engines, but you want to make sure to implement my tips so that you can start ranking highly on Google. Don’t just backlink and think you’re going to make it on the top of the search engines, you have to be strategic with your backlinking. Just like anything else, it’s going to take practice but once you’re used to it, you’ll start showing up on Google, at will.

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I would like to recommend 3 most effective ways that can be used to get your article indexed in search engines (particularly Google) fast and possibly within less than a day.

Powerful Tool 1 : EzineArticles

EzineArticles is basically an article database on all topics. It is the best way for you to gain an extremely valuable inbound link by writing an article with good content and submit it to them. It is very important that you should remember to include a link to your website with the right keyword in the author’s signature.

Well since Google loves EzineArticles and crawls the website for new content several times an hour, there is no need for you to wait for weeks to get your article indexed in search engines. Best of all, your article gets syndicated too so you get even more inbound links. Now if you sign up, you get to submit 10 free articles for a start for free. Whenever I post a new article, I would definitely submit it to EzineArticles for sure.

Powerful Tool 2 : Digg

Digg is a user driven social content website. Everything on Digg is user-submitted. After you submit your content, other readers read your submission and vote (Digg) for what they like best. If your story receives enough Diggs, it’s promoted to the front page for other visitors to see. Recently, there are news that Google is acquiring Digg. If it really turns out well, Digg will be part of Google’s family and naturally submitted contents will be more favourable for search engine ranking.

Powerful Tool 3 : Squidoo

Squidoo is an interesting social networking site that allows users to build free, single-page marketing page (called a squidoo lens) to flip and market it. Due to its web influence and size, Squidoo lens can easily skyrocket to the top of Google Index in a short week or even a few days. Due to this loophole, there have been news that spammers and black-hat marketers are abusing this tool which force both Google and Squidoo to take action against them.

However, in my own opinion, Squidoo is still a very powerful tool yet more effort is required now to create a good quality lens to avoid being identified as spam. I have previously written an article on “Making Money On The Internet With Squidoo” which you can read more about this wonderful marketing tool.

Once your article gets indexed by search engine and if you work on improving your ranking well, it is not surprising that your website will begin to gain tons of traffic when it ranks high. My previous article on “Improve Your Search Engine Ranking Easily For Free With A Simple Software” will teach you an easy way to improve your search engine ranking.

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What are backlinks?

Plain and simple, backlinks are links that point back to your site. They are links you have exchanged with or received from other sites, as well as links placed strategically by you in forum posts, blog posts and comments, and the resource box of submitted articles. The submission of your site to website directories also provides backlinks that are highly favored by search engines.

Ideally these links, especially those placed in your forum signature and resource box of published articles (see my related article “Your Signature – An Internet Marketing”), will contain keywords in the text of the link to create “anchor text.” For example,

<a href=”http://www.googlepagerankchecker.info”>Online tool for pagerank checking</a>

instead of

<a href=”http://www.googlepagerankchecker.info”>Click here</a> for online pagerank checking.

Placing keywords in the text of the link anchors your keyword(s) to your url rather than anchoring “Click here” to your url. Not only do you have a backlink to your site, you have created a link of higher quality that includes the keywords you are targeting in your overall marketing campaign.

Why do I need backlinks?

The number of quality backlinks linking to a site is one of the main criteria used by Google and other search engines to rank and place websites. This statement, written by David Austin in a Feature Column of the Monthly Essays on Mathematical Topics, sums it up: “The fundamental idea put forth by PageRank’s creators, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, is this: the importance of a page is judged by the number of pages linking to it as well as their importance.”

With this all-powerful statement from the creators of Google, the importance should be clear: you need backlinks to attract the robots that determine the importance of your website. The value of your page, your website, in the eyes of Google’s robot lies in the number and quality of the links that it finds from other sites to yours. As the number of other popular, high-ranking sites find your site worth linking to grows, your popularity goes up along with your position in the search results.

Additionallly, quality backlinks are needed to entice search engines to stand up and take notice.

Quality backlinks are

* links from websites that have a higher page rank than your site
* links from websites that have content or purpose related to your site (also known as relevance)
* links that include anchored text, especially in forum and blog posts and the resource box of published articles
* links that are built naturally over time, not a sudden increase in links just for the sake of having a high number of links

Quality backlinks are also helpful in leading visitors to your site. In this regard, backlinks are much like bread crumbs left by Hansel and Gretel to find their way back home. When your site is new, the robot will not place your site at the top of the results list immediately no matter how much time and effort went into the design and SEO of your site. Links from other sites that searchers are likely to find could lead them to your site if they look through the links page to find related products that might be available on your site.

In addition, links placed in posts to forums and blogs and the resource box of published articles have the potential of being seen and followed by thousands of visitors every day. If the forums, blogs, and article directories have high page ranks, you have more than just a link for visitors to follow, you have a quality link that will serve to increase your page rank as well as your traffic.

Google has made it very clear that the importance of a site in the eyes of Googlebot is greatly influenced by the number and importance of the pages linking to it. In order to increase your Google PageRank, your website’s importance in the eyes of search engines, seek out links from higher-ranking sites that have related content, include anchored text in your signature for forum and blog posts as well as your resource box in articles, and let links build naturally over time. These practices will be a valuable part of your overall marketing strategy.

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