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I like to think of backlinks as roads leading to my internet business. You would never build a business in the off-line world and not have a road leading up to it would you?

Yet that is exactly what many people do when it comes to building an Internet business. They design a beautiful website and forget to work on getting potential customers to it.

One of the best ways to get traffic to any website is to develop a high number of links pointing back to it. This can take time and be a lot of hard work, but the rewards in terms of free visitors make it worthwhile.

Here are the top 8 ways you can get free backlinks to your website and build a future for your internet business.

1. Write a blog article and submit it to another blog owners blog. Be sure and include a link pointing back to your blog or website in the article itself. Many bloggers are hurting for unique content so you can help each other out by doing this.

2. Trade blog articles with other bloggers. This is a form of reciprocal linking and you both get fresh content for your blog. Plus you both get backlinks this way.

3. Write and submit articles to the best article directories. Be sure and include a link back to your website or blog in your resource box. Hyperlink a targeted keyword phrase in directories that allow html resource boxes.

4. Write and submit articles using a submission website such as Submit Your Article. This way you get your article out to hundreds of directories with one click and can create numerous backlinks from one article.

5. Post comments in other people’s blogs and hyperlink your keyword phrase where you would normally put your name.

6. Run a text ad in an ezine that gets published on the internet. Archived ezines give you backlinks from your ad for many years to come.

7. Join a handful of the top discussion forums relating to the theme of your website. Participate in the discussions and be sure and include a signature file that has a link pointing back to your website in it. If the forum does not allow signature files be sure and include a link in your profile.

8. Social bookmark your articles to the top social directories such as Digg. This is a good way to get a backlink to your blog as well as get traffic from search engines. Search engines spider these directories all of the time for unique content and will rank you high for targeted keyword phrases if you do it correctly.

In summary this is 8 of the top ways to get high quality linkspointing back to your website. By always working at getting free backlinks everyday you are building a future for your onlinebusiness.

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