Build High-Quality External Links (Inbound Links)

Backlinks are links that direct people from external pages to your own page. This is a key factor and part of what constitutes a Page Rank score in Google and other major search engines.

The major ways to build high-quality backlinks for your blog include:

• Providing quality answers on Quora;
• Posting to high-quality PR industry-related forums; and
• Creating a public profile on social channels with your blog URL included.

To generate links from Quora, you must consistently provide quality answers to people’s questions. You’ll regularly receive traffic updates on all of your answers from Quora.

Forums are great places to build lots of quality links provided they are industry-related ones. One of the best forums to explore is Warrior Forum. Just make sure you remain active in the forums and have the URL to your blog added as a signature in your member control panel.

Creating a public profile on social channels with a URL added is equally a major way to build links. People click through, follow you to your blog and you generate links genuinely.

Allow Readers to Leave Comments after the Reading

Many bloggers removed the comment box from their blogs and reinstalled that months or years later. People do all of that because search engines no longer follow the comment links – meaning that they can’t get the traffic juice from blogs any more.

It’s true that the blog comment links are now set as No follow – meaning that search engines will not follow such links for ranking anymore, Google still rewards bloggers with incentives for keeping readers engaged and for producing quality and engaging content for readers.