Creating backlinks is very import for your site if you want to get ranked in the search engines.
In a previous article I addressed how to Optimize Blog for wordpress SEO.
Now that you have your blog's on page SEO sorted out it's time to take care of the off-page factors - the backlinks.
Backlinks are basically like votes for your websites and you need votes to get ranked.
Here are things to keep in mind when backlinks for your site: #1.
Variety If you get backlinks from the same sources time and time again without any change, Google is going to notice and are going to rank you lower than a website that is getting their backlinks from a wide variety of sources.
So instead you should try to get links from unique domains.
Aim for 100+ unique backlinks(not all at once).
#2.
Quality The quality of the backlinks you are getting definitely matters in the eyes of Google.
You might not get penalized if you are getting low quality backlinks but you won't get much benefit either.
So make sure that you are using at least some high PR sites when creating backlinks.
The quality of a site is measured in PR (Page Rank) on a scale of 0 - 10, 10 being the highest.
A PR of 5 or above is considered high page rank, so if you get backlinks from sites with PR5+, it is going to greatly help your site to rank.
#3.
Quantity Having said that, you do still need to have a certain amount of backlinks for Google to deem your site as important.
However, you also want your backlinks to build naturally over time, so once your site is established, you can start fleshing out your backlinking to increase volume.
As long as you increase the quantity of links naturally, you will only benefit from this because its not like you are replacing your quality backlinks, you are just adding to them.
Generally the newer the site the more conservative you want to be in terms of the quantity of backlinks.
Caution: Keep away from link farms or packages where you get 1000's of backlinks for $10 - this is the kind of backlinking that can hurt your site.
Conclusion All of this won't mean much if you're not creating quality content, so make sure you have unique, quality content on your website because Quality is King! In future articles I will go into more details and show you how to get backlinks, this article was just to show you what you need to keep in mind when creating backlinks.