15 Ways To Get Free Backlinks To Your Home Business Website

If you use a website to promote your online home business then getting traffic to your website is a major area you want to concentrate on. The best way to get targeted website visitors is by ranking well in the search engines. For that you need a good number of backlinks to your website.

This article will show you 15 easy ways to get webmasters to link to your website even without you asking for it.

1. Write short articles that are easy to read while offering powerful information, and submit those articles to article directories like Ezinearticles.com, Articlealley.com etc.

2. Add comments of true value to related blogs that allow “do follow” links.

3. Feature their blogs in your blog, and you’ll get bloggers linking back to you.

4. Join social networking sites. Add your link at relevant places and contribute useful content.

5. Go to Answers.Yahoo.com and answer a question that someone has asked about your subject area. Add your useful info and post your link to a specific page on your site.

6. Write a high quality press release and submit to top press release sites like http://prweb.com. Include your url in the resource box.

7. Give away something of value in exchange for a link back to your site.

8. If you have web templates with PLR, give them away with your link embedded in the footer. Make it a condition of use that it stays there.

You can also order a custom wordpress theme and sell it with a similar condition.

9. Write short & extremely helpful pdf reports, include a few links with good anchor text and give it away to your list, on Twitter or in your forum sig. Be sure to ask folks who read it to give it away for free on their sites and blogs. Everyone wins.

10. Find a high trafficed website in your niche and and shoot a video testimonial for the owner about a product they sell.

11. Review a blog post related to your market and put a trackback url on your blog. Most often then not you get positive response and a backlink to your site.

12. Submit your website to web directories.

13. Join a forum with your link on signature. Post and discuss as much as possible.

14. Provide easy social network links on your page using services like addthis.com, onlywire.com etc to make the page easy to share and bookmark.

15. Be different! – In the world of online marketing, too many people are copy cats…just copying what everyone else is doing. – If you want to truly draw an audience (customers)…you have to be DIFFERENT – you have to stand out from the crowd!!!

There are many other ways to get people to link back to your website for free. However, these 15 points can mean a lot in improving your search engine rankings and thereby getting targeted visitors to your home business website.