Backlinks: Creative Ideas from Janet

Excerpt from Janet's post Make Money At Home With Backlinks:

We all know about GoArticles and Hubpages and Squidoo and your basic everyday blog comments, but what are some alternative ways to get backlinks that most make money at home people "in the know" don't talk about?


Make Money at Home with Backlinks Idea #1:

Create some Wordpress themes. This blog offers a good Wordpress tutorial to help you out if you've never done this before.

Why would you want to do this? Easy... People love free Wordpress themes and if you design a few nice but simple ones (especially if you name them according to some niche you are targeting: bankruptcy, gold investing, European travel, whatever.... so that it's searchable via Google and you get traffic) you will be putting a backlink to your blog in the footer. Most people don't delete these as it is proper etiquette to leave it in to credit the creator for their work. If lots of people use your themes, you will have lots of backlinks with no work beyond initially creating the themes.



Make Money at Home with Backlinks Idea #2:

If you have a purely informational site (that isn't monetized) that you plan to use for backlinks and it has some good, helpful content on it (not Adsense tweeked blog material) then try to find a related page in Wikipedia that you can edit and leave a reference to your informational blog or website. You cannot make it obvious that this is your blog or that you would directly benefit financially from the backlink (that's why it can't be a monetized site).


Make Money at Home with Backlinks Idea #3:

Get some .edu links. Easier said than done? Not really. If you downloaded the SEO for Firefox plug-in that I mentioned in my make money at home ebook, you have a very powerful tool right at your fingertips. Simply type in your main keyword for your niche to look-up where your competitors are getting their .edu backlinks from and how many they have. Look at this picture (click picture to enlarge):

Once you have completed your Google search (in this case, I searched for "make money online"), click on the part I circled that says "Y! .edu Page Links" to see where these people are getting .edu links from. When you click on that text, a page will come up with all the websites or blogs (it's usually blogs) where they left keyword anchored backlinks on. The funny thing is, the comments usually aren't even thoughtful. LOL. Just go to the blogs they went to and leave a comment for yourself with your keyword anchored properly like so:

Don't leave all your comments on the same day - space it out so it's not obvious.

This is the page that comes up when you click on the "Y! .edu Page Links" hyperlink (click picture to enlarge):


Just follow the links and start leaving comments.