
Backlink, otherwise known as external link, is a link to your website from another site. This is important to your website for three reasons:
- Backlinks improve your Google page rank.
- Backlinks improve your ranking on search engine result page.
- Backlinks drive more traffic to your website.
For the month of June, I will be blogging on building more backlinks to your website. I will be sharing the tips and tricks I have used and have found effective in generating more backlinks. To kick things off, I’ll be sharing one of the easiest methods I’ve been using over the course of my blogging career.
Article Directories And Link Building
You probably read somewhere else that submitting articles to article directories is an effective link building strategy, especially when you submit your articles to highly indexed and highly ranked article directory sites. Doing this however, is time consuming because you need to spend a considerable amount of your time to make several articles for submission. Then you have to painstakingly submit your articles to as many article directories as possible.
What makes the entire process even harder is the need to avoid getting penalized by Google for duplicate content. In other words, if you use one article and submit it to as much article directories as possible without rewriting it, you’re risking yourself from being penalized by Google for duplicate content. You see, Google wants to return quality search results to their users and the idea of a duplicate content just doesn’t meet their standards.
If you would like to take full advantage of the benefits of building backlinks from submitting articles to article directories, then you have to edit or rewrite your posts before you submit them. This can be done by a combination of any of the following:
- Changing the title of your post.
- Replacing some words with synonymous terms.
- Changing the (sentence or paragraph) structure of the article.
- Remove or add information.
Use Public Label Rights (PLR) Articles
Public Label Rights or PLR, grants you the right to use content written by someone else as if it were your own. Public Label Rights article accords your the right to:
- Modify or re-write the material any way you like.
- Insert your own name as the author.
- Sell or distribute the material to others.
Since I started blogging, I’ve been using PLR articles to gain more backlinks for my blog. Rather than spending more time on writing unique content, which is time consuming, I simply modify or rewrite PLR articles and submit them to different article directories.
There are tons of Public Label Rights articles you can find online. They usually come in packages of 100 or more articles. Some are expensive (exclusive PLRs) while others are cheap (lesser exclusivity). But the good news is, there are tons of PLR articles that are free.
Free Public Label Rights Articles From PLRSpot
PLRSpot.com has been my source of Public Label Rights articles. It’s an excellent resource for free PLR that you can use. Joining is all it takes to gain access of their free PLR articles, and since it’s free, there should be no risk involved.
PLRSpot has a huge collection of free PLR articles from different topics. Some of the topics include; affiliate marketing, technology, product reviews and many more. You can visit PLRSpot.com now, register and start using their free resources. Just remember to modify or rewrite the articles before you start submitting them to article directories. And of course, don’t forget to include a link to your website from the post you submit… that’s the whole point of submitting an article anyway.
There you have it. One simple tip that will help increase the number of backlinks to your website. Visit TheWeblogZone tomorrow for another doze of link building tip. And like always, your opinions and comments are most welcome.
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That,s very good
Hi,
Nice post!
I am new to blogging. I am a handicapped and unemployed person. I want to earn money from adsense by writing blog. I can’t afford to buy PLR articles. I can rewrite articles. Could you please tell me whether I can rewrite articles from article directories? And is it effective in getting a good traffic and page rank in Google for my blog?
Thanks
Amit
Hi Amit,
You can try plrspot.com. They’ve got some collections of good PLR articles. You can rewrite them and submit them to article directories. Don’t forget to link to your blog from the posts you submit.
If the posts you submit to article directories are interesting, you’ll probably get traffic from them but I submit articles to article directories primarily to get quality backlinks to my blog.
Cheers and good luck to your blog.
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