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If you do it wrong and dishonestly search engines will pick it up pretty quickly and at best discount your backlink and at worst blacklist you site. Lets look at some elements of this:</p> </div> <div id="bdy" class="post"> <h2 class="title"><span>How can you improve what you don't know</span></h2> <p>Each of the different search engines usually have a way to search for backlinks. For example, to search for the backlinks for this page you could type in google "Link:www.cwcwebdev.net\sd-backlinking.php" and it would show you. If you want to give this a try, place a link to this page on your site (you can delete it afterwards) and run the google search again and you should see your site. If your curious how many backlinks you have, try it now and type your site at the end:<BR> <div align="CENTER">  <form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/custom" target="google_window"> <table bgcolor="#ffffff"> <tr><td nowrap="nowrap" valign="top" align="left" height="32"> <label for="sbi" style="display: none">Enter your search terms</label> <input type="text" name="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value="link:www." id="sbi"></input> <label for="sbb" style="display: none">Submit search form</label> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" id="sbb"></input> <input type="hidden" name="client" value="pub-5281407261056790"></input> <input type="hidden" name="forid" value="1"></input> <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1"></input> <input type="hidden" name="oe" value="ISO-8859-1"></input> <input type="hidden" name="safe" value="active"></input> <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="GALT:#008000;GL:1;DIV:#336699;VLC:663399;AH:center;BGC:FFFFFF;LBGC:336699;ALC:0000FF;LC:0000FF;T:000000;GFNT:0000FF;GIMP:0000FF;FORID:1"></input> <input type="hidden" name="hl" value="en"></input> </td></tr></table> </form>  </div> </p> </div> <div id="bdy" class="post"> <h2 class="title"><span>Places to search for backlinks.</span></h2> <p>First off - be a good web citizen, don't spam sites and try to add to the web while you do it not cluter it. <ul> <li>Forums (if you have something useful to say)</li> <li>Comments (if you have something useful to say)</li> <li>Link Exchanges - Create a links page on your site and search for sites on your topic that have link exchanges</li> <li>Blogs - Create a blog on your topic. You can talk less formally about your topic and post links back to </li> <li>Squidoo - Lets you create one free page</li> <li>Social Sites - Del.icio.us </li> <li>Browsing Engines like Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon and Redit</li> <li>News Services - Got some new information, let the world know by releasing press releases</li> <li>Software - Some people use them but</li> <li>Search Engine Submissions</li> <li>Article Submission</li> <li>The most powerful is - write great content and people will link to you naturally over time.</li> <li>Got another suggestion <form method="POST" action="sendmessage.php"> <input type="hidden" name="back" value="sd-backlinking.php"> <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="[CWCWebDev] Backlinking suggestion"> <input type="text" name="message"><input type="submit" value="Send it to us"></li> </form> <li><a href="sd-backlinking-tool.php">Backlink tool</a> - Enter your website and we'll go through these methods and give you a list of quicklinks to quickly get backlinks.</li> </ul> </p> </div> <div id="bdy" class="post"> <h2 class="title"><span>Good Links and Bad Links.</span></h2> <p>Amongst the variety of backlinking opportunities the are some that will help and some that that will hinder, what should you be looking for: <li>The linking text - the links to your site are great, but for what searches are they helping you with. Your site has a name but more importantly it has a topic. Do you want people to be searching for your site name or your topic. The text you place in the text that links to you site is what you are telling the search engines are the important terms. Lets look an examples:<br> <div align="center"><i><a href="http://cwcwebdev.net/sd-backlinking.php">cwcwebdev</a> and <a href="http://cwcwebdev.net/sd-backlinking.php">website development</a></i></div> Now both options above link to the same page but one tells the search engines "cwcwebdev" is the important term and one tells the search engine "website development" is the important term. When people are searching, what term do you think they would use and which would you want your site to come under - Website development of course. </li> <li>PageRank - It is better to get links on pages that the search engines already respect. Google measures this by pagerank. The easiest way to see the pagerank is to set up a google toolbar (<script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>). </li> <li>As a reader what would you think, you can see your link of the page, if you were a reader and not trying to advertise your site, what impression would you have of the add. That is what the search engines are trying to do, emulate a human and pick which are good and valuable links. You want you links to do well and go the distance - then use your common sense and only add valuable links to your site.</li> </p> </div> </div>  <div id="sidebar2"> <div id="sponsors" class="boxed"> <div class="title"> <h2>Blatant Adds</h2> </div> <div class="content"> <div align="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="clear: both;"> </div> </div>   <div id="footer"> <p id="legal">Copyright © 2007. All Rights Reserved.</p> <p id="links"><a href="#">Privacy Policy</a> | <a href="#">Terms of Use</a></p> </div> </body> </html>