What Is A Backlink & How To Start Getting Backlinks | SEO Tools

So In The World Of 4 Million Blogs Being Published Everyday, Getting Ranked Up Is Necessary & Backlink Is One Of The SEO Tools To Make It Happen. 

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What Is BackLink? 

“Backlink” is often discussed when we talk about SEO ( Search Engine Optimization). Many new bloggers come across this term when they start with their blog to attract the traffic. So what actually is Backlink?

Simply stating –  Backlink Is When One Webpage Links To Another Page. Let me explain you the concept of Backlink with a familiar example. Have you seen people commenting on other people’s blogs & and inserting URL Link that matches the content of the Blog?

Yes that’s the another way to create an Backlink, search for the blog that is based on the similar idea of your topic & comment on their blog with your Blog Link. For Example you are creating a blog on “How To Run a Marathon”. Now search for this topic on any search engine & open the top ranker sites & insert your blog link in their comment section. This will help you to get more traffic and also help in ranking up your site.

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Now I am pretty sure that you understood the concept of “Backlink”. It not only improves Referral Traffic as we discussed in our marathon example, but also improves Organic Ranking (If your content is getting links from other sites, that content will naturally start to rank higher in the search results). It can even make your Indexing Quicker (Search engine bots discover new webpages by following backlinks from existing webpages). So those were some of the advantages of Backlinks.

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How To Start Getting Backlinks ?

Now lets discuss Top 10 Ways To Start Getting Backlinks. Let’s Get Started…

(1) Create Quality Content. 

This step is all in your hand. Yes the content, writing quality and uniqueness will make other bloggers link to you. Some ways to create quality content are:
  • Monitor social media. 
  • Get to know your customers.
  • Check out your competitors.
  • Do keyword research.
  • Test your titles.
  • Read the research.

(2) Guest Blogging

Guest blogging is another strategy used by the blogers to increase traffic to their sites. Guest bloggers offer to write content for other similar blogs in their niche for money or simply to reach out and increase audience.


The owner of the blog will give you 2-3 backlinks to your site with the blog that you wrote. 


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(3) Answer The Questions On Quora/Yahoo That Is Relevant To Your Blog By Inserting Link In The Form Of Answer.

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You must be seeing how he answered his question by putting link quoted in Blue. “most famous social network sites“. 

(3) Social Bookmarking

Let’s not complicate it, we can call it Social Media Sharing. You must have seen bloggers using Facebook and Instagram Pages to promote their blogs  and inserting their links in the caption. That is all about Social Bookmarking. 

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(4) Interlinking Your Blogs.


You can interlink your blogs with each other. It helps you get more traffic at same time. See the screenshot below to understand more clearly. 


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(5) Share Blogs On Social Media


(6) Mail Your Blogs To Top Bloggers, & Ask Them To Share It To There Viewers.


(7) Post Blogs With More Pictures, This Develop Interest in Viewer To Read More. (Like we are trying to do here 🙂 


(8) Add Social Media Sharing Buttons On Your Blogs. This will help users to share blog easily to all the platforms fast & without any hitch.

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(9) Make Blog On “Evergreen Content” 

Making evergreen content will make your content ever trending.

(10) Broken Link Building


You must have seen that there are many pages in the web which are no more. Due to that, searchers can get bad impression of your blog. To find the broken links & recreate that link, you can use Ahrefs. It is an SEO tool. 


There is an Ahrefs Site Explorer which looks like screenshot below.


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You can use this easy option to re-create the dead content & continue growing your traffic.


That’s All For BackLink Basics. Don’t Forget To Drop A Comment So We Can Improve & Produce More Quality Content. 













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