10 Methods For Backlinks To Get Traffic To Your Home Based Business Website.

First I want to make sure you know what a backlink is. If you post a comment on a blog and have a link in your signature or you post an article in an article directory or in a blog and there is a link back to your site you have just created a backlink.

You can also make a video or post classified ads or set up a blog and post there with a backlink. The more backlinks you get the higher your site will rank for the search engines. The higher you rank the closer to the top of page one your site will show up when someone does a search. The closer you get to the top of page one the more traffic you will get.

If you find out through research what keywords people will use to find what your site offers you can write articles focusing on those keywords and post them to generate traffic for yourself. Long tail keywords, which are phrases with 3 or more words, are better because they are more focused on what you have and there is less competition for them.

To make your links even stronger you can use the keywords themselves as the link back to your site. This is called anchor text and this method works way better than when you see where people make the words "click here" as their actual link.

Every search you do online shows a page of the most relevant site to your search. There is usually some shaded sites at the top and on the right side of the page. These are pay-per-click ads where someone has to pay a little bit of money every time someone clicks on their ad. All of the other sites that show up are the generic results and this is where sites with a lot of backlinks will show up.

Articles are the beginning of you backlinks because they can be loaded with content. You can also get videos to rank pretty high too. Some of the highest ranked videos will lead you to an article though. One thing about articles is they will be online forever once they are posted and that means people will be following those links.

Most people will think they cannot write articles but it is not that hard. There are many things one can do to gain some expertise. Find some great sales pages and copy them several times and this will familiarize you with the language and forms used. There are also sites like copyblogger.com that can help you. Practice makes perfect.

Here are the top ten ways to build backlinks:

1. Articles because they are free and you can also buy software or use a service to automate your work to post them on lots of places.

2. Posting on social sites- Linked-In, Facebook, Twitter, Ning, etc...

3. Social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, etc

4. Using forum signature links- Post comments or solutions on forums with a link in your signature.

5. Find other marketers to swap links with as long as they are in the same niche.

6. Post on your blog and ping blog directories, if you use Wordpress for your blog this will be done automatically.

7. Go to other people blogs and post comments with a link in your signature.

8. Submit your site to appropriate directories like niche forums, ezine, and others like DMOZ.org

9. Post viral content on your blog. Great content will cause others to link to your site and this will draw traffic

10. Video posts on Youtube

There are two very important items on the list: articles because your content starts with articles and they can be posted on blogs, social sites, and article directories. And videos because you can talk about your articles in the videos and people like to watch videos.

If you are not used to doing either you need to bite the bullet and get started on both because the more you practice the better you will get.