How to Use Social Networks to Increase Backlinks to Your Site Part I

Before we start everything, it is important that you know what a backlink is and how important it is when it comes to improving the rankings of your website. Backlinks, in reality, come in more common terms such as inward link, inbound link, incoming link, or inlinks. By the names alone, you can deduce that it is merely a link pointing to your website. Such link, however, can be located in someone elses websites.

For those who still believe that link popularity still has weight when it comes to search engine optimization, you should know how to not only acquire inbound links but quality ones as well. It will provide you the steady stream of web traffic in the future and allows you to get indexed in search engines faster than you though. It will not be hard, though, for any individual who basically understands the concept about it.

Of Link Popularity and Backlinks

There seems to be a direct relationship between your backlinks and link popularity. Before, the competition was based on how many inward links you can acquire for your website. Today search engine algorithms have changed, making sure that your inbound links are of excellent quality.

Its Not Only Myspace

Oftentimes, when you hear the words social networking, your mind is just limited to Myspace, Facebook, and the like. Actually, its any website that established connections. For example, forums are social networking sites too as members can exchange links. Blogging, on the other hand, are effective when it comes to affiliate marketing as you allow them to actually subscribe on your feeds.

Think Social Bookmarking

A more complicated type of social networking is social bookmarking. It may not be as popular as forums, discussion groups, chat rooms, social networking websites, and blogs, its already gaining its own momentum. It can actually increase your page rank and increase the backlinks going into your website.

Common types of social bookmarking websites include StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, and Digg. Users of these websites can basically submit URLs of articles or articles themselves. Other members can then rate or give a vote of the submission. The challenge is to get as much reviews or votes as possible.

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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 1574 articles in print and 11 published ebooks.