If you’re running one of the web’s millions of blogs, one of your biggest goals is to grow your reader base. Having quality backlinks is a great way to get more readers. A backlink is essentially when a link in its content is provided by another website that goes back to your site or content.

Some of these come from an organic perspective and others come from a partnership or agreement with another site. They can help you get into a whole new market and gain some extra credibility. Websites and bloggers, however, don’t always easily give those away.

There are some great ways for your blog to build some quality backlinks, and this article will look at a few of them.

Get Your Blog in Order

You’ll need to get your blog in order before you can think about getting high-quality backlinks. This means ensuring the quality is there, the website looks good and your blogs give value and are properly formatted. If your blogs have mistaken, look bad, or aren’t well organized, the chances of getting backlinks are slim to none.

Take the time to edit blogs, make sure each post gives value in some way. Also, make sure that you use photos and subheadings for easier reading throughout.

Once your blog and content look great and give value, you can start worrying about getting more backlinks. As a blogger, the quality of your content should always come first.

Share on Social Media

Another great way to use social media to build up some backlinks is. Billions of people use social media, and getting shares is an incredible way of building credibility. If a website seeks to add some backlinks to its content, it is more likely to link something that seems credible and of high quality.

If you approach bloggers to provide backlinks, they’ll feel comfortable including one people have seen and enjoyed before. Also, many bloggers may use social media to research external links in support of their blog posts. So, if your blog gets a lot of attention and shares, these bloggers might have a good chance to see it and use it.

Look for Broken Links and Old Resources

This is one of the most forward-looking ways to get backlinks to your blog content; however, it can be very effective. If you find a broken link on a website or link providing outdated information, please consider reaching the site. You might suggest, after pointing out the broken link, that they replace it with a high-quality link from your site.

This often works because not only is your link better than one that no longer works, but you also have done them a favor that might leave you in their good graces. Sure, this method may take some research but it may be worth the results. Online tools also exist that can help you identify broken links on a page. For the best chance of success, the content should also be very relevant to their content.

The work is worth it

Yes, each of these methods demands a certain amount of work. But the reality is that organic search traffic is gaining in importance as social media platforms kill business reach.

Also, organic traffic tends to be more valuable than social traffic, because the intention behind searches is there. In other words, when people search for something, whether that is a product or the answer to a question, people are looking for something. If you can provide them with what they want, then you will become valuable to them and they will return in the future.