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Budget Backlinking System: How To Backlink Your Sites Like a Pro For Under $20 a Month

I mentioned in an earlier post that I have recently entered into a mentoring relationship with someone who is fairly new to internet marketing, and you can really thank him for this post. Recently he asked about what I thought would be the best way for him to backlink his sites given limited resources, and I gave him the following suggestions. He suggested that others reading this blog might find this information of use as well, so I’m taking his advice and publishing my suggestions here as well.

One of the major challenges for people starting out in internet marketing – myself included (last year) – is that there are so many backlink producing systems to choose from, and when you have both limited experience and funds, using and choosing between them can quickly become both overwhelming and pricey.

When I first started out, I stuck to free systems almost exclusively – mainly because that was all I could afford. Although I have invested much of my earnings back into my business, it took about six months before I was earning enough to afford many of the tools and services I was interested in – and I’m still not able to purchase everything I want to use or try out. I do use a few services that have a pretty hefty monthly fee and whose results I feel merit paying those fees (UAW, Blog Blueprint and The Link Juicer), but I also believe that you can create a pretty effective backlinking system using only free or very cheap services and resources.

One of the things to keep in mind when creating your Budget Backlinking System is that you need link diversity. By diversity, I mean that you should try to get backlinks from a variety of different sources. For this budget backlinking system, I’m relying on four different kinds of links:

1. Article Directory Links
2. Blog Links
3. Profile Links
4. Social Bookmarking Links

1) Article Directories. Manually submit articles that link back to your website to one or two of the top article directories. EzineArticles is one of the most powerful article directories you can post to and each article allows you to put two backlinks in your resource box. GoArticles is probably my second choice, although you may want to backlink your GoArticles to make sure they get found and indexed by Google. But submitting just to EzineArticles may be enough. Try submitting four or five articles to Ezine Articles with backlinks to your site, and see what happens. If you move some, but not enough, submit another five (and so forth).

For even more article directory backlinks, you might also want to take advantage of the one month trial to JetSubmitter. One bonus is that you get access to the JetSpinner for free when you subscribe to JetSubmitter, and you will be able to continue to use the JetSpinner after you cancel your membership. Just be sure to remember to cancel your membership before your free trial is up! After doing the JetSubmitter free trial, you might then want to take advantage of the $1 UAW trial for a month. That would give you at least two months of article submissions for almost free! Each service should allow you to spin and submit one article to hundreds of different article directories (although they will often be low PR article directories).

2) Blog Article Links. Use the Free Traffic System to submit your spun articles to their blog network as well. Each article you submit (and is accepted) will be published on up to thirty blogs in their system. The FreeTrafficSystem uses a slightly different spyntax than JetSubmitter or Unique Article Wizard, so what I have done in the past is paste the articles into a simple text file, and then use the find and replace all function to switch the { to [spin] and } to [/spin]. It takes only a minute, and your ready to submit the same spun articles you sent to JetSubmitter and UAW to FTS. As the name suggests, the Free Traffic System is completely free to use at the basic level (which is all you really need, I think).

3) Profile Links. Use Sick Submitter and the free profile link packets available on their forum to create forum profile links back to your websites. It is the fastest and easiest way to generate profile links that I’ve found so far (and I’ve used a lot of different methods!), and a regular monthly subscription costs only $19 a month (right now – although I think they may be raising the price soon for new members). You will find many different link packages containing thousands of free profile links to use with Sick Submitter on the user’s forum.

Although there may be debates in some quarters about forum profile links, I’ve found them to be very powerful. In fact, they can easily be too powerful, so use them in moderation on a new site or one that has little link diversity. See my discussion of how I backlink my new sites for suggestions on how to do this a bit more safely, but do expect some “dancing” in the rankings (and sometimes even disappearing) for many days or even weeks when creating profile links. The good news, however, is that in my experience when they return from their dancing, they return much stronger and much higher than before.

4) Social Bookmarking Links. I’ve been using the free version of Onlywire.com (you need to put their logo on one of your websites to use it for free), but there are many other free, and possibly better, services out there (for example, IMAutomator might be a good option). At the very least, however, manually bookmark your articles and posts using Digg, Reddit, Mixx or similar services. It’s great if you can get some do-follow social bookmarks, but since a mixture of both do-follow and no-follow links looks good to Google, I tend to use both when it comes to Social Bookmarking.

These four sources should keep you happily backlinking away for under $20 a month. However, if you want even more diversity, there are many other options to consider as well. For example, if there are some blogs you know of that are relevant to your website (or even if not), you can do some blog commenting (“do-follow” blogs are best). Creating an RSS feed mixing some of the backlinks you are creating or of your website post links can help as well (IceRocket is one good free option to do this). You might also want to throw some free directory links into the mix as well (although I personally have not found these to be of much use). However, at the very least, try using the four I suggested above, and develop a consistent system to track your backlinking efforts. I’m guessing you will see some good results in the near future!

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