How to Get White Hat Backlinks
Backlinks are important for any website looking to gain more traffic. Backlinks are basically links from other websites back to your website. Search engines look favorably on backlinks, and having more of them can mean a higher page ranking for your site. White hat backlinks are the best kind of backlinks you can have, as they come from well-respected sources. Search engines favor white hat backlinks over any other kind.
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Develop high-quality content for your website. One of the best ways to get legitimate white hat backlinks is to write interesting content, or at least host interesting content from contributors. Focus on a niche keyword with well-written copy, and you may get re-posted across several different popular websites.
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Post links to your website's content on social content aggregation websites. StumbleUpon.com, Reddit.com and Digg.com are three examples of popular content feed websites where users can find your website, rate it and send it to friends or other contacts. If you have high-quality, interesting content your copy may circulate around these sites and that counts as a white hat backlink.
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Comment on high page ranking websites with information relevant to your website. Many of these websites have forums or comment sections where hundreds of followers read and post their opinions or other information about each new article that comes out. Writing interesting, useful comments on these websites, then linking to your website at the bottom of your comment, can be a good way of adding both traffic and white hat backlinks to your website.
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Develop several other blogs with similar keyword foci and link them back to your main blog. Create high-quality, but shorter, content for your mini blog network, and have them link back to your main blog after each article. This is a viable way of adding white hat backlinks to your website, but these smaller blogs must have a different IP address than your main blog. As long as each small blog has quality, keyword-focused content on it, the links will count as white hat.
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Write guest content for other popular websites, then provide a link back to your own site. E-mail the webmaster or lead writer of a high page-ranking, relevant website and ask if you can contribute a piece of content to their website. Many websites and blogs are receptive to free content, but you may have to repay the favor by hosting some of their content on your site first. This is the most successful way to create white hat backlinks, but it does require work first. Remember to post your contributed content for more popular websites on social content feeds to increase the number of white hat backlinks you receive.
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Tips & Warnings
You can also use social media websites to spread your content effectively. If your content happens to go "viral" you may see your website increase its page ranking quickly.
Avoid creating content that is considered to be "keyword-stuffed." Focus on one or two keyword phrases for your content; otherwise, you will not receive many white hat backlinks.
