Backlinks For Newbies

On one of the forums that I use a new member posed a simple question.

How do I build backlinks?

There ensued a flurry of answers and opinions on the best way of building backlinks, do this, do that, don’t do the other!
Everyone and his dog had an opinion of what software to use, whether it was better to comment on blogs or write articles for the directories.

It gradually became clear that the newbie had in fact asked the wrong question. The question he should have asked was:

How do I construct a backlink?

We sometimes forget that the things that are so easy to most of us are still a mystery to be unravelled by the new comers to the scene of affiliate marketing.

So, for anyone too shy to put their hand up and ask here is the method of constructing a backlink. A backlink is actually ‘Anchor Text’ Anchor text is the actual words that when clicked take you to a certain web page or another site, the most common one is Click Here If you right click and choose view source you can actually see how this link is made.

The backlink is made up of HTML tags like <a> and between the tags is the value for where the link will head for and the actual text that is clickable.

So you have:

<a   Denotes an anchor

href= Denotes a hyperlink

“website” The destination

>Clickable Text<  What it says

</a> Closes the tag.

This is a full example of a backlink:

As you can see any text can be inserted between the >< tags and this should be the keyword anchor that you need for your site. I hope this makes it easier for you to get your backlinks constructed correctly.

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