One of the most important aspects of SEO is the number of backlinks (links on external sites that point to your site) that your site has. Large numbers of backlinks (especially those on related sites) give search engines an indicator of how important a website is. The more backlinks, the more important a site is considered to be. There are certain things to keep in mind when backlinking however.
- Backlinks on related websites are far more important than backlinks on unrelated sites
- Backlinks contained in website content are higher quality than those in blog comments. See my post How to generate traffic, get backlinks and increase link popularity for details on how I acheive this.
- Backlinks on sites with higher google pagerank are superior to links on sites with no pagerank
One of the best ways to backlink is via social bookmarking sites. Probaby because these are viewed as independant reviews of your site. The exciting thing is that you can even encourage your website visitors to create backlinks for you via this method. How do you do this??? Simple: You install social bookmarking buttons such as the addthis social bookmarking button or the socialmarker.com bookmarking button.
At the end of this post you will see this little image 
This nifty little ‘widget’ allows visitors to bookmark your site to their favourite bookmarking service.
I’m currently hunting for a bookmarking widget with larger icons… perhaps even separate icons that will be even more ‘in the face’ of visitors. When I find a way to do this I will update this post.
So how do you encourage visitors to bookmark your site? Provide quality content they’ll want to refer back to. Providing a bookmarking button makes the process much easier for them. Of course, every time someone bookmarks your site you receive an extra backlink, This will help your site receive good rankings in the search engines.
Click the following link to receive your own addthis social bookmarking button . Alternatively you can visit socialmarker.com
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June 19th, 2009 - 4:59 am
Backlinks today are an important part of the SEO process because when you build quality backlinks, your website stands a higher chance of getting indexed faster by the search engines. Also, from the long term perspective, it will help in boosting quality traffic to your site. Apart from this, building backlinks serves your bottom-line of website visibility by improving your page ranking.