3 Simple Backlinks For Better Rankings

Now, we all know the benefits of inbound links for top search engine rankings. Unfortunately, acquiring inbound links can be very time consuming and/or expensive and on top of that it can take months or even years to get high rankings for highly competitive keywords.

However, in order to make some cash on the internet you don't necessarily have to rank for highly competitive one-word or two-word keyword phrases. It is true, those kinds of keywords usually create huge amounts of traffic - once you rank for them - but on the other hand, they don't convert very well into sales.

That's why I prefer to focus on long-tail keywords with low competition and good buyer intent. Those keywords don't drive that much traffic, but they are likely to show incredible conversion rates and most of them are quite easy to rank for.

Trying to rank for a highly competitive term like "SEO" will almost certainly take you years and plenty of hard work. However, if you focus on a keyword with low competition, such as "Go Click Cash" you should be able to get into Google's top 10 within a few weeks.

The more words your keyword phrase includes, the faster and easier it will be to rank for. So, if you choose a keyword like: "Go Click Cash Bonus" it could even happen that you get a top 10 ranking within one week.

If you want to rank for highly competitive keywords, you will need a lot of high-quality inbound links. When I try to rank for long-tail keywords I usually only focus on quick and easy backlinks, so-called low quality backlinks.

Here are the 3 link types I use for all of my long-tail keywords:

* Article submission with one or two inbound links in the body text or resource box.
* Backlinks from the top 15-20 social bookmarking sites.
* Forum profile backlinks from 40-50 forums that are related to my niche.

The big advantage of those link types is that they are fairly fast and easy to build. And the link building process for all those links can be entirely automated using a variety of software tools.

Now, these so-called low quality backlinks would never allow you to rank for highly competitive terms, but they usually work very well for long-tail keywords with low competition.