Forum Signatures: Most forums allow a user to add a signature tag to their posts. Signature tags allow you to promote your blog and by doing this you will also increase your link popularity. Be sure to use keywords in your anchor text. For example: If your blog is about blogging tips, then you would use ‘Blogging Tips’ as the anchor text and link the word Blogging Tips to your blog. Ex: [url=http://rosedesrochers.todays-woman.net/category/blog-babble/blogging-tips/] Blogging Tips[/url].

Directories- Submit your blog to blog directories. Be sure to check out the directory before you submit as some directories only pass traffic not Pagerank.

Article Submission - Write Articles to promote your blog. When you write an article and submit it to an article directory, the directory allows you to have a resource box. In the resource box you include information about yourself and a link back to your blog. Webmasters are constantly in search for quality content for their website. Each time someone uses your article on their website or blog, it's a link back to your blog.

Comments- Become an active commenter on a Wordpress blog that has the top commenter plugin enabled. The plugin displays the top 5-10 commentators. This is a free backlink to you.


Guest Blogging- There are always bloggers looking for guest Bloggers to blog for them when they are busy or on vacation. By guest blogging not only are you helping out another blogger, but you are gaining exposure for your blog, and you are receiving a link back to your blog.


Link Out- Be generous with your links. Link to other blogs. Passing on the linky love has a way of paying off.

There you have it: six tips on increasing links to your blog, which also helps increase your Page Rank. Personally I have found that the best way to get links is to focus more on blogging, and creating valuable content. I have gained a fair amount of backlinks just by blogging, being helpful and getting to know other bloggers.


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About the Author: Rose DesRochers is the founder of Blogger Talk Blog Community http://www.bloggertalk.net, a friendly fast growing blogging portal, offering bloggers support, advice, tools, tips and information about blogs and blogging. Rose DesRochers personal blog can be read at http://rosedesrochers.todays-woman.net