Top 3 - Backlinking Tools

There are many strategies for obtaining backlinks… but the aim is to get high page rank links and lots of them which as we know can be time consuming. Here are some invaluable tools, resources and education in this most important area.

Calculate Your Page Rank with different linking strategies – Click Here! This is a really cool free tool to help plan a linking strategy to ensure you get the highest Page Rank for your most important pages.

One of the best services you can get is Angela’s Backlinks… for $5 a month you get 30 high quality, high PR places you can get back links for and steps on how to get them. You need to get the back links yourself or outsource it.

Link Services

With these you submit articles or blog posts and they get distributed to the network of blogs. Some of these blog networks are built for the company whilst others use blog networks made up of other members or publishers who sign up for content.

Linx Boss – LinxBoss has Re Open For New Members! – This is an automated back linking service with tracking and flexibility. You get 1000 back links a month for up to 5 sites and you only need to enter in the information once. The links come from PR 2-6 and are over 2 years old all with their own incoming links but none of the sites are interlinked. More automated and cheaper than Linkvana (below) but not as proven and not unlimited.

Linkvana – One of the best due to the fact that the blog network is built within the company so they control the blogs. Their blogs are PR2-5, have tons of inbound links themselves and have good domain age. This ensures the links you get from them are quality links… and you can get unlimited links per month.

Firepower 2.0

Unique Article Wizard

Article Marketing Automation

3 Way Links

Answer Communities

Yahoo Answers

WikiAnswers

Askeet

Answer Bag

Yedda

Buying Backlinks

iSellPR

Text Link Brokers

SitePoint Marketplace

Link Exchange

LinkMetro

Forum Posting

To find forums in your niche…

Big Boards

Forum Find

Web 2.0

LinkedIn – Set up a link in your profile

Squidoo

Hubpages

Flickr

You Tube and other Video Directories

See Web 2.0 Tab for complete list

Do Follow Websites

Comment Kahuna – Use this free tool to find high page rank blogs without DFN enabled and automatically post to those blogs.

Do Follow Social Bookmarking List – 192 Do Follow Social Bookmarking sites with a Page Rank of 3 or Higher?

Do Follow Websites – 66 Do Follow Backlinks from high PR sites

Other Fantastic Tools

SEOBook Link Tools – Analyze your link profile compared to competing websites, and find pages which would be great sources to get links from

Market Samuari – Absolutely incredible tools… You can fully check your competitors and their entire linking campaign… Click here for a free trial!

SoloSEO – Link Building – SoloSEO helps SEO to be easier, by managing keywords, content, and link building all in one place. With SoloSEO you can use professional SEO tools to track, manage, and optimize your site.

Trifector – Measure the strength of pages, blogs and entire domains based on factors inherent to popularity, influence and ranking ability and see your impact compared against others in your industry.

How Many Backlinks Do I Need?

To get first page rankings you very basically need to optimize your site better than the other on Page 1… but how do you find this out? You just need to get the same, or better links than others… or see if you CAN actually compete with them.

Very basic & easy method…

Google your keyword. Then take the url of the top 10 and go to Yahoo Search

Type this into the search box: “link:url.com” << you don’t need quotations. the url.com is the url you want to find the backlinks for.

You will get a result and know how easy it is to compete with them.

Internal Linking and Page Rank

When setting up your website or blog it is also important to understand the power of internal linking and what it can do for Page Rank if performed correctly.

Here is a fantastic free video explanation – Increase Search Engine Rank Without Incoming Links!

Calculate Your Page Rank with different linking strategies – Click Here! (The above video has a short demo of how to use this – it’s towards the end of the video)