In starting a blog, one of the few things that you need to capitalize on is to have constant links towards your blog to increase its “relevance” to search engines, this can be done in numerous ways that my fingers wouldnt be enough to enumerate them (i have 10 to make things clear. lol). I am going to tackle this one out in the coming posts but for now, im sticking with two ways to get links to your blog.

Now, you can do this either organic way, artificial way, or both. Organic link building can be obtained from personally going to blogs and asking bloggers to have link exchange with you. This is the most employed method in the blogosphere and its very easy and most of all, its free! It has a big setback though, its very time consuming and laborious. The second method, the artificial way, is getting links from paid links, contest links or sponsored links. Its an exchange wherein you give something to get that link you want like having blog contests to get links from participating blogs or paying a particular price for the link to your site for a specific time (e.g. $20 for 1 month). This is by far the easiest way to get links in the blogosphere and its setback is obvious, its expensive! And i would not recommend it to a starting blogger.

In relation of today’s lesson, I am going to employ the organic ways of getting links to this blog; getting high quality blogs to link to this one. A tip though, when requesting links from bloggers, put yourself in a position where you are the beggar and you are asking for alms but do it in a dignified way by offering something in return like free ad spots or blog reviews. Im actually in the process of asking links by offering site reviews for their bloggers and the first one who I approached readily approved and im reviewing his blog in the coming days.

That’s it for today’s lesson class! Do come back for more money making tips and blog secrets. I suggest you subscribe to my blog and ill make sure it will be well worth it.