Offsite SEO (search engine optimization) is all about back links! You should practice good onsite seo as well as offsite seo, but the lions share of your time should be spent on building high quality back links (offsite seo) and strive for the coveted #1 spot in the serps. If making extra money online is a goal, this is where you should be!

Back links come in many forms, and importance in the eyes of the search engines. So which backlinks are best, and deserve your attention? Here’s a list of methods I use to get back links, pretty much starting with the best and working my way down:

Natural backlinks-the kind you get for writing the best content available. Write content that others will want to link to! These types of links are the very best (to my way of thinking) and I think Google would agree with me! Also with this type of link it takes no effort on your part (after you write the piece of course), you just check your back links and ‘voila’ there they are!

Links from the top blogs in your niche-While hard to come by, these can be very beneficial! Whether you trade for them, buy them (frowned upon by Goog!) or whatever, they can give you blog a much needed boost up the serps!

Article Marketing-Many marketers can churn out 10-20 articles a day, so this supply quantity as well as quality when it comes to backlinks. The trick is to get to know your subject matter so well (become “the expert”) that you don’t need to research for your articles, you can just write them! With a little experience you too could produce high quality articles in numbers. I’ve written as many as 5 good solid articles in just a few hours, and so can you! Article Marketing tends to be a numbers game with more just about always being better.

Find the high PR sites in your niche and offer to write a high quality, unique “guest post”-Just for their blog, this will give you some of the best backlinks. You might be amazed at the number of webmasters that will trade a few links for good quality content (I will!). Always include a link or two back to your site.

Build Blogger blogs, Hubpages, Squidoo Lenses-These can supply link-juice to your main site, and may turn a profit themselves. Once you realize some success, you need to expand in that very same niche to make even more money! Become your competition, build even more inter-linked blogs, hubpages, lens, etc.

Get listed in Blog Directories-Tends to be a bit time consuming, but is worthwhile nonetheless.

Leave Comments On Related Forums and Blogs-Be sure to leave relevant comments and posts. Comment on blogs that offer do-follow links, and sport Keywordluv/Commentluv/Top Commentator plugins.

Time to get social-you know start digging, twittering, stumbling, tumblring, and all the rest!

You should try to spend most of your time online improving your offsite seo (building back links) and the rest on content creation as well as onsite seo. Again if your online goals include making money, you’ll need to build enough back links to hopefully get to the first spot in the serps to get as much of that coveted search engine traffic as you can, because regardless of how you monetize your site, search engine traffic is by far the best and easiest to monetize! Content may be King, then I guess backlinks must be the “prince”!

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