Anchored backlinks is touted as the main strategy to getting your site or blog to the top of the search engine rankings for your desired keyword. It has been said that there is not such thing as too many backlinks, and that if you are not ranking high enough in Google, just get more backlinks.

There are numerous ways you can use to get backlinks. I have listed below the more common ways that a webmaster uses to get backlinks.

Linking From Your Own Sites

One way you can do this is to have one main site about your product, say clocks. You can have a blog that talks about anything and everything related to clocks, a hub at HubPages that describes all the different types of clocks, a Squidoo lens that goes into detail about clock manufacturing, and .... you get the picture. You can then have anchored backlinks from all those sites linking to your main website about clocks.

Post Your Own Backlink On Other Websites

Getting your website listed in the relevant directories is a good way of getting an anchored backlink. Another way would be to participate in forums, in which you are usually allowed a backlink to your website in your signature. You can also comment in blogs, in which there usually is a field where you can leave a link to your website or blog.

Getting Other People To Post Your Anchored Backlink

This is the most time consuming way to get backlinks. But the general consensus is that these types of backlinks are worth their weight in gold. So, in any campaign to build backlinks to your website, make sure third party backlinks are a priority.

You can find a list of the more standard ways of getting anchored backlinks from webmasters and third party websites below. These are by no means the only ways and you are encouraged to come up with better and more innovative ways and ways that are more suitable for your talents and resources.

• Link Exchange. Webmasters have been exchanging links since the early days of the Internet. Links are exchanged between the link directories or the home pages of the sites doing the exchange.



• Linkbaiting. For this technique, you come up with content, or link bait, that is so humorous, or so good, or so controversial that the webmaster just have to link to it. If you do it right, you might just be able to get hundreds of free links from just one piece of content.



• Give Away Something Useful. Nobody can resist a free gift. Look for products, free or otherwise, that allows you to give it away for free. Do make sure that it is a useful product. Offer a free download of the product, and request that the webmaster provide a backlink to your website in return.

Conclusion

It was much harder to get anchored backlinks in the early days of the Internet. In the past, to get backlinks, you submit your site a web directory or ask for a reciprocal link from a webmaster. That's it. Right now, there's a whole list of techniques and websites from which you can get a backlink. So there is no linger any excuse for not getting any backlinks to your site. It is just a matter of getting out there, doing the work needed, and you will get all the anchored backlinks you will ever need.