How To Ask For Links To Your Blog

In my previous post, I shared How Not To Ask For Links To Your Blog. So well this post, I will be showing you how you can get backlinks to your blog from other bloggers. I have seen that people who are desperate for links are those who are starting out, and they often make mistakes that effect their blog’s reputation significantly.

Some say just write quality content, and you will get links to your blog. But it is really hard to get blogs to link to you when your readership is small. A lot of of my newer posts have no links even though they are one of the better ones. Some of the great tutorials are toward the beginning of the blog. Well this is when you would need to ask other bloggers to link to you. Sounds simple, but it is not.

Some Ideas for you to consider:

You must make sure that your content is best of the best if you are approaching one of the top bloggers. Because I certainly won’t link to a post that you wrote in 30 minutes between your break from work.

Check if the Blogger Links out

Find out whether the blog links out. Some blogs never link out whereas others link out almost all the time. Take Engadget for example. They link out just about every time. Then there are blogs that have weekly link roundups. My Blog, and several other blogs in the blogosphere. Then there are ones that never link out. So you would be wasting your time if you pitch a story to someone who never links out.

Learn the blog inside out. You need to know what type of stories they link to, how they link to them and more. The more you know the better you will be prepared. The more prepared you are, your chances of getting a backlink would be higher. Some blogs even present you with methods to pitch them stories with contact forms dedicated to story submissions, so make sure you look around.

Relevant Content

Don’t expect a webmaster blog to link to your blog if you run a real estate blog. So only suggest posts that are highly relevant to their website. So don’t bother if your story isn’t relevant because not only you will waste your time, but you will waste the other blogger’s time.

Save it for your Best Content

Don’t just go out and promote all of your posts. Save it for your best posts. Because I definitely don’t want to link to your blog every week unless you have a best post every week. Hint: Always think of your post from other blogger’s perspective.

Ask them to link to your articles, not blog

Don’t email bloggers asking for links to your blog. Ask them to link to your article. Remember if someone comes to your article, he is coming to your site, so it is actually better than getting a link to your homepage.

Suggest Guest Posts with Resources

Write guest posts for bloggers. I always welcome guest bloggers on Balkhis. Your chances of getting your post approved would be even more if you attach pictures with it because you will save bloggers a lot of time. Also since guest posts are mutually beneficial, your chances of getting approved is much higher.

Be Personal, Polite, and Helpful

Use their name, show that you know their blog etc. Remember no one likes a Kiss ASS. However be careful when doing this to multiple blogs – you don’t want to personalize an email and then send it to the wrong blogger – major embarrassment! Always be polite in your email, and make it brief. Always include details that will help them. Save them time and get to the point. No need to make the email long.

Don’t just limit to top bloggers

Often times people ignore some of the B, C, D list bloggers because they think they won’t get a lot of traffic from them. So they only pitch to the bigger bloggers. Half of the times their requests get rejected. You need to think that if you get about 30 small blogs get approved, you will have 30 links and more users.

Now if you follow the steps above you will be likely to get more links. Always remember that if a blogger links to you, then you make better relationship with them. Always keep in touch with them, so it does not seem like that you always come to them when you need something. Enjoy more links for your blog.