Permanent backlinks aren't all that hard to get. In fact, it's fairly simple to get this type of link. Just make sure you check the quality of the places you share your link and add quality when you post your link.

Blogs Forums Articles Q&A Sites Testimonials Web 2.0

Blogs

For blogs, I'm sure you've noticed that a lot of blogs have this strange little format for posting comments. It has a name, e-mail, and URL field. This makes life extremely simple when you're using blog comments to get backlinks!

Simply post a thought-provoking comment on the blog topic and include your website in the URL or website field for a free, high-quality link! Just remember to change the name field a bit. Sometimes post your name, sometimes a random username, and sometimes your keyword. This variety makes it so Google doesn't catch on to your off-page optimization.

Forums

For forums, it's a little more difficult. Some forums will give you the ability to include a website in your forum profile. But you can't just make an account, insert a website, and leave it forever! As far as Google is concerned that profile is a new page of the forum, just recently created with no content or internal links. You need to make some forum posts!

By making posts in the forum, of a similar quality to what I said about blog comments, you can generate an internal backlink from the forum itself to your profile. This is getting a little advanced though for an article of this level, just know that posting in the forums can help your link.

Articles

Articles are a bit difficult right now as a lot of article sites have started to use No-Follow. But, if you can find an article site that will accept your high-quality articles with a backlink to your own website, then I shouldn't have to explain what you do or how this works! Just make sure you don't submit the same article to a bunch of sites or Google may penalize you for duplicate content.

Also, be wary when it comes to certain article directories. "Made for SEO" article directories are never a good way to go. As an analogy, think about all of those products that are advertised as "collectible". If a coin or toy is designed, produced, and then sold to be collectible, then collectors will generally laugh at you if you try and sell it to them. Same with article directories! If a directory's main pitch is that it's good for SEO, you should probably find another place to post your link.

Q&A

When it comes to Q&A sites the first thing that pops into your head is probably Yahoo Answers, right? Well in this case wrong. That site has gone No-Follow. But it isn't the only Q&A site out there. When you consider how many of them I posted in, you may have come from one yourself. In which case you know exactly how this works. Use your article, website, or article on your website to answer questions on a Q&A site. These can give you a backlink and also some targeted traffic!

Testimonials

This works best if you do reviews on your website or article. If your review is positive, send the company which produces the item a testimonial. Remember to include a link to your review as carefully as possible, try not to come off as a spam. Companies love testimonials. It builds authority for their product and noticeably boosts sales. If you wrote a positive review, companies love you as well. You're helping to build up hype and credibility for the product you review, and the company as a whole.

The reason this is so lucrative is that companies also tend to have SEO teams working on their websites, especially the bigger ones. So, if you get a backlink to your review as thanks for your testimonial, you indirectly benefit from the SEO team that is constantly building links, social signals, and content aimed at the company's website and pages.

Web 2.0

Have you perhaps seen a commercial for an online website development suite called Weebly? What about Wix or Webs.com? Did you know that you can get free accounts with all these services, create a simple, but optimized, web page, place an article relevant to your site on it, and include a backlink to your website? Well, you can, and that's Web 2.0 in a nutshell!

This also includes things like Blogger, Wordpress, Jimdo, and just about any other property that lets you blog.

One of the major pitfalls of Web 2.0 properties is that people will build these links and then leave them alone, adding nothing. As you can probably guess, this is a terrible idea. Once you've built a Web 2.0 that links back to your main site, remember to use the tactics I've talked about so far in this article to build links from other sites to the Web 2.0.

For more advanced users, schedule out 10-15 Web 2.0 posts over about 6-8 months. Write a high-quality article to post last that will include a link to your main site. and schedule it to appear last. This is known as a Super Web 2.0, and you can read more about those here.