Link building today is a vital part of any work from home business that has a web presence. It’s a skill that can be easily learned and should be done on a daily basis. I use backlinking to gain more traffic to my webpages. Here is some of what I do that makes me more money.

1. Visit Relevant Blogs And Comment. I love visiting blogs that are in my niche to see what they are talking about. Then, once I’ve read their latest blog post, I like to leave a comment that will add value to the post, if I can. If I can’t then I usually will ask a question about their post so that I learn more.

Doing this will get the attention of the blog owner and even their readers and subscribers.

I leave a link back to a relevant page on my own blog which gets me more traffic from relevant traffic.

2. Take Time To Get Listed in Web Directories. You should take the time to find directories you can list your blog or websites in as it’s another method of getting backlinks and better ranking for your sites and pages. One way backlinks are the best kind to get but they should be located in the proper categories on these directories.

3. Request Link Exchanges. I don’t really do a lot of reciprocal linking today as I much prefer one way linking as do the major search engines. It’s part of why I have multiple domains on the same topic and have multiple hosting accounts with different IP addresses.

Having multiple sites in the same niche but on different IP addresses allows me to offer three way linking so that they appear to be one way links.

4. Use Article Marketing. To do proper article marketing you really should find pages on your site and use those keywords to write articles you will publish to various places online. You will be able to leave at least one backlink, or it’s not worth your time.

Each article should have similar focus, keyword focus that is, but should not be the same article, as some people do. Write an article that complements the page you are linking to so the search engines will see it as relevant and help your ranking.

I only publish articles to article directories with pagerank. I look for PR4 and up. I also always start with eZineArticles.com as they are the strictest at accepting articles.

Rewrite each and every article so that you are not publishing duplicate content as it won’t help your pagerank. Personally I use The Best Spinner to rewrite articles faster but before I publish spun articles I make sure I have proof read each one to see that they read like a human wrote them.

5. Vary Your Anchor Text. This is important because it makes your backlinking look natural to the search engines. If they see that you have 1000 links pointing back to your site which all say the same thing they will know they are not natural and that can go against you and your site’s page rank.

These 5 points should help you get your own backlink campaign going that will start the process of getting your site ranked higher in the major search engines.

Those who have been marketing for any length of time are aware of the potential there is in article marketing for building traffic, increasing page rank for their web pages and making money online working from home.

That and a buck fifty might just get you a coffee, maybe.

I know a few people personally who knew the earning potential there is in article marketing yet never made a nickel for their efforts. So knowing the earning potential and earning from article marketing is not the same thing.

Learn How To Earn From Article Marketing

Just sitting down and writing articles isn’t going to make you a successful blogger. I see people all day long who write articles that have no focus, especially keyword focus and it takes keyword focus to make article marketing work the best.

First Comes Niche Research

The number one step is to do your marketing and niche research to find a profitable niche, which is easy. The next step is to find keywords you can get traffic for quickly or you may go broke before you ever make any money.

Next Find Keywords You Can Get Traffic Using

So don’t use the same keywords people have been using and ranking with for years. It’s going to take you too long to get ranking and make money. Unless of course you have a really good plan. to use those keywords as secondary keywords.

Those two steps are your most vital steps and without them you’re likely to be stumbling around in the dark because there is more to article marketing than writing articles all day.

Stay Relevant In Both Content As Well As Hyperlinking

I write articles for my individual sites and focus on unique keyworded articles but I also publish my articles in a variety of places I can leave my relevant links and today I found a new place I can get quality ranking.

I’ve tried 4 of the article networks available today and after a year of working from home writing and spinning articles I have seen little benefit. My understanding is that most of the blogs in these networks have no page rank and give me little link juice that benefits any of my blogs.

I tend to write longer articles running near a 1000 words per article. People tend to want things short and to the point so shorter articles are great if they are in the 300 – 500 word range.

What I do now is instead of writing long and wordy articles I divide them into 3 or 4 articles which will have 2 links each. Much more powerful for ranking purposes, which of course is my goal.

Publishing to Article Directories

I also publish articles to the top article directories. For this I use The Best Spinner to rewrite articles for these directories.

Note: I don’t use the auto features for replacing words and phrases, although they do have an extensive user generated database, I prefer to rewrite semi-manually, if that’s a word. This way I avoid destroying the flow of my articles or worse, losing the focus of my keywords.

So I use The Best Spinner to rewrite sentences and then swap out words and phrases individually, although I pick them from the user generated database, which saves me so much time and I end up with unique yet keyword focused articles.

Article Marketing Makes My Business Money

So in conclusion I would suggest you avoid most of the article networks out there today until you learn about the blogs your content is going to be on. Do they have pagerank?

For your article spinning needs give The Best Spinner a try, you won’t regret it and both have a trial period. BMR is a free 2 week trial while TBS is just $7 for 7 days. I was sold in just a couple of hours though.