The importance of backlinks for top Google rankings never be told to a blogging audience as this. Success in blogging means doing two things right – getting unique, high-quality content on your blog/site and getting good and quality backlinks to your website. Getting quality content is easy. Getting high-quality links from other websites to your website is not.

While there have been several ‘tips and tricks’ on how to get websites to link to you, including article marketing, distributing freebies and announcing contests, one of the simplest ways is often forgotten – ‘Plainly emailing the website author to provide a link to you’. Continue reading →