A lot of people make money writing through their blogs. Either they use affiliate marketing, advertising programs, or use them to link back to their company website or service. The more people who read you blog, the higher is the chance that one of your advertisements get clicked on. Or perhaps one of them would refer to another person who would be interested in purchasing the product or availing of the service that you have.
Therefore, it is one’s goal to be at least on the first page of search engine results. And so you apply SEO strategies, update your blog as often as you can. Decorate your blog and strategically place ads on key areas. However, these alone are not enough. Other people should link your blogs from their blog. This increases the popularity of your blog and thus moving you up the search engine results. The only catch is, you have to link back these websites as a way of thanking them. But it can be messy because your home page will be filled up with different blog sites that are not related to your topic, or perhaps you have way too much friends to link back to.
There are numerous ways to get free backlinks. Surely, not all your friends has blogs that could link you up, that means you have to approach a complete stranger online and ask for an exchange of links on each of your blog roll. It happens quite often nowadays so you really do not have to be embarrassed. You can also submit your blog to different web directories which group blogs according to different categories. This makes it easier for someone to get to your blog based on the keywords that they search for. There are also companies who offer free backlinks but then like any make money writing advertisement you come across, you have to make sure that they are legitimate and not a scam.
