Every webmasters want their website to rank on the search engine. One of the factors that influence the ranking of your site is the backlinks. Purchasing paid links can cost you to spend a lot of money. To save money, you can find free backlinks to your site. Free links can be obtained via a wide variety of ways including free classified sites, answer sites, submitting to Wikipedia and Squidoo lens.
Free classified sites allow webmasters to advertise their websites. There are many free classified sites on the internet. The advertisement will only last for a period of time. Free classified sites are different than the FFA (Free for All) sites. The FFA sites can damage the reputation and ranking of your sites because it list all types of illegal sites such as porn, and gambling. Though your site does not contain illegal content, you are affiliating with the bad sites. Hence, it is recommended that you don't submit to the FFA sites. Examples of famous free classified sites include Classifieds for Free, Blazoom, Craiglist and etc.
The answers site allows you to get free backlink for your site. Examples of answers site include Yahoo Answers, Google Groups and etc. The question in Yahoo answers always rank on top of the search result. If your answer is chosen as the best answer, a lot of people from the search engine will visit your site. When answering a question, make sure you don't include the link in the body of the message. Instead, the link should be included in the resource box. By doing so, people won't become suspicious that you are including a link to your website. If you include the link in the body message, the moderator will check it. If the moderator feels that you are trying to promote your site, he will remove the link from the answer.
You can also submit an article about your website to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the most visited encyclopedia on the internet. Though the link is no follow, people from the search engine will still find the Wikipedia page of your company. When they want to learn more about your website, they simply click the link in the Wikipedia page. Before creating a content in Wikipedia, you are required to register for an account. Anybody can modify the entry in the Wikipedia as long as they are registered. If there is a page that is related to the topic of your site, for example list of free video hosting site, you can login to your account and add your site to list provided it is not already included.
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