Twitter to Build Backlinks to Your Blog

All of the webmasters that have been using Twitter to promote their site very well understand the power of the site and the kind of traffic it can drive to your site. One thing neglected here is the fact that Twitter can also be used to build quality back links to your site.


If you have a blog with good and original content, you can expect to get some quality back links for your blog. Here are simple steps which you need to follow in order to get back links to your site using Twitter:


1. Get your friends and followers to re-tweet your tweet so that it spreads virally.

2. As more and more people read your tweet visit your site and like your post, more chances are they will let there friends know about your post by sending your tweet.

3. Assuming that your tweet becomes popular and is re-tweeted by many, your site may get featured on a PR4 website known as popacular.com/twitter, automatically.

Popacular.com displays original story and post and links to the site with large number of tweets and re-tweets. The link is a do follow one so it helps improve your PageRank.

This method can be used by webmasters who cannot push their stories on the front page of high traffic websites like StumbleUpon or Digg.If you can put a thought into your tweets so that you can drive visitors to your site you can get some back links as well as traffic which will help your website become popular and get sustained traffic.

Downfalls of using this technique for link building-

1. It is not a reliable method for link building.

2. There is not guarantee that your link will get a permalink status.

3. You cannot control the number of re tweets and hence the popularity is not under your control.

So why should you use this method to promote your site?
The answer is very simple- If you do not get back links at least you can expect decent traffic to your blog using this method, and traffic is more important to your blog than link juice.