What are the best ways to build backlinks for a website?

[Farris]

Based on your experiments can you share good ways to create backlinks?

Let me start first ...

Original research. To get organic backlinks you need to do experiments and come back with data. For example, if you are writing about "making money from surveys" then you need to do some surveys and include data like 50% of surveys I was trying to earn from I did not qualify for.

What about you? How do you build backlinks?

 

[HughBriggs]

Using SEMRUSH to find the backlink opportunity.

 

[hipcat]

Write a good article on whatever the topic is and share it on social media. You don't need a lot of backlinks. Just enough to gain some traction.

 

[RenderedElite]

Yeah I don't understand why some people go overboard with the backlinks haha. I have a client that runs a local business - he has over 1k backlinks, and was asking how he can get more to increase his DA

I ended up talking him out of the backlinks. Instead, I optimized his content, added more content (service pages, service area pages) - and a month later his phone was ringing like crazy with new customers.

 

[hipcat]

hipcat

YES! Exactly this!!!

The only ones still complaining about needing more backlinks or stupid crap like DA are newbies who don't know any better.

Good CONTENT gets rewarded by not only search engines, but your actual customers, who ultimately are the reason for doing this in the first place.

Never forget that the end goal is measured by visits, not scores that are meaningless without visitors.