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It is not so difficult to promote a website through the search engines. The key is to learn how to build targeted backlinks in addition to using effective on page SEO.



The key point when building backlinks is to remain consistent. In order for your website to maintain its rank, you need to do everything to gain backlinks on a regular basis. While building backlinks isn't entertaining and takes work, it is important.



There are a multitude of online forums you can participate in with a variety of niches. Insert your website or blog link right in your signature link on those that allow this. Search engines love backlinks that come from forums like these because of the regularity at which they are updated with valuable content. Immediately post to all of the accounts you create in your niches on these forums. You'll see that you're not only getting a powerful backlink from each forum, but if you're active on them, you'll also be able to receive consistent traffic when your site gets noticed by the rest of the users. So if you haven't started to make use of forums for link building purposes, now's the time.



Blog Commenting: This is probably the most popular way to gain targeted backlinks, as you find many bloggers and webmasters trying to take advantage of it. You simply post comments to the posts of active blogs in your niche. The comment is short, simple and informative, but in return it gives you a backlink since you'll be linking to your website. You not only end up getting a backlink from the blog but also direct traffic from the other readers that come across your comment as informative and want to check out your website. Be sure that your comments on other blogs are superior.



Use Squidoo/HubPages: There are many sites where you can post content and build pages, these two are the best that you can trust to give you worthy backlinks. By simply creating your own pages on these sites, you'll be able to put your text in anchor text and create a valuable backlink.



As you can see, gaining quality backlinks through various methods is important. You will gain more backlinks when you diversify your efforts and that is important if you want your site to rank with the search engines.