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Backlinks are incoming links to a website and the number of backlinks is one of the important factors for search engines to find out the popularity and importance of your site. There are a few ways that we can increase the number of backlinks.

♦ Web Directories
You can find lots of web directories on the internet where you can submit your website. Just visit these directories and submit your site one by one.

♦ Join Forums
Join a forum and keep writing good quality posts. Most forums allow you to create your own signature. Once you become a trusted poster, other members of the forum will be happy to link to your site.

♦ Link Baiting
If you have a good knowledge of your industry, write some articles people will be interested in on your website and post the summary to forums. People will choose to link to you or not, depending on how interesting it is.

♦ Link Exchanges
If you want to exchange links with others, you should only choose those relative sites. You should send personalized emails instead of mass emails to webmasters. Mass emails will be ignored immediately.

♦ RSS Feeds
RSS feeds allow other sites to display your content on their pages which includes a backlink to your original page.

Lili
SEO Programmer

Dmoz (the Open Directory Project) is one of the largest internet directory systems which is maintained by human editors. It is a great idea to submit your site to DMOZ. However, it may take from 2 weeks to a year to get listed in or rejected. Here are some tips that can help your site get listed in Dmoz.

• To have good quality contents is the most important thing for you because Dmoz is edited by human editors.
• Submit your site to the correct category. Submitting your site to a wrong category will slow the sites’ approval.
• Don’t submit your site if it is “under construction”. It just wastes your time to submit an “unfinished” site because it will not get listed in Dmoz.
• Don’t submit duplicate sites. If you have two sites with same contents, it’s better to submit one domain to Dmoz and redirect another one to this one.
• Don’t submit individual URLs from the same site. Usually, you should just submit your homepage to Dmoz rather than the inner pages.
• Your site will not get listed in Dmoz if consisting of many affiliate links.
• Your site will not get listed in Dmoz if it has any illegal contents.

Lili
SEO Programmer