Improving Blog SEO – 5 Ways Building Quality Backlink

What is Backlink and How Important it is to Your Blog SEO?

Backlinks are any link that linking back to your blog. Most of link with do follow attribute pointing to your blog is considered as backlink. For instance, John is has publish a post regarding health issue and published on his blog, and Jane find out that the article posted by John is related to her blog. Then she write some article that explain in detail about health issue and cite some of work done by John which linking back to John original post. This is considered as backlink to John’s blog.
Backlink for Blog SEO
Most of people does not know what is the important of backlink for blog SEO purpose. Backlink is used by search engine to determine whether you blog is relevant to people or not. Backlink is one of indicator that can help you blog rank in search engine result. If other people are discussing about your blog and create some articles pointing to your blog, search engine will consider your blog as a good reference and useful to other people. Therefore, based on that link search engine will place your website higher in the search result.
How to Get Backlink?

Based on my experience, when people are using keyword to search, search engine will match the keyword with trusted website, which are websites that have high domain and page authority. From that website, it will check the outbound link on the website. If one link is pointing to your site, then search engine bot will rank your blog. More link pointing to your blog from high authority domain or page, high chance for your blog to get rank on the first page of search result.
How to get a quality backlink to your blog? That is the main question on this article. There are few ways you can use to generate backlink in order to improve your blog SEO.
1. Blog Commenting
This is the most link building method that loved by search engine especially Google. It take very long time to generate backlink by using this method, but it will be a great benefit to your blog for longer period. What I often do for blog commenting is, search your keyword by using the search engine, and select few sites from the search result to leave comment. Always choose a site that having higher page authority. To this job easier, I use SEO Quake plugins.

2. Guest Post
Guest post is another method that I like, so the search engine. Guest post worked by publishing your article on someone else blog. Most of the blog owner allow you to place single link to point to your blog. The important things is, your post must be relevant to the blog that you are guest posting. You can blog that offer guest post on few forum such as  My Blog Guest. Always find a blog that have traffic instead of Page Rank to guest posting your articles.
3. Social Media
Social media is one of the best method to create quality backlink. Always update your published post in your social media account. If people love your work, they will share it to their friends and will drive traffic to your blog.
4. Forum
The fourth one is forum. Join and be active on several forum that is related to you blog niche. If your blog is about cars, then find a forum that focusing about cars. Create a good profile, include your blog link in the signature and posting only helpful sentences.
5. Article Directories
Most of article directories have high page authority. Placing your link in one of the article directory will always be a good way to build quality backlink. Most of article directory that I often used is Ezine Article. The best thing is, Ezine Article provide WordPress plugin that allow you to submit article from your post without having to login to your Ezine Article account. Submit your article and build a great profile at the same time. You can find this useful plugin here Useful WordPress Plugin


Building quality backlink to your blog always take a long time but the link will be a good investment for long period. People always look for fast ways to build backlink by subscribe with link building service. Do not fool the search engine by doing that because their algorithm is good enough to detect if you are buying the link. You do not need big number of link, what you need is the quality link to you blog. So please avoid buying backlink!