5 Types of Backlinks You Need to Know for SEO

High Quality Backlinks

If the website is working well on the Search Engine Optimization (SEO), but they don't focus on creating backlinks for their website. They will face an issue in the ranking because backlinks are the backbone of a website. Without creating quality of backlinks your website will not ranked in the Google. 

For example a website is old and creating so many high quality of backlinks but their content is not unique and cannot meet the user intent. On other side your website is new and focus on creating a good unique content but your site has no backlinks. Then in this case Google will rank the website with more backlinks because it builds trust. Here in this blog we will guide you in some easy steps how you can create a quality backlinks for your new website.

What is Do follow and No follow Backlinks?

If you see a website page and they add a link in it, check the code if they include rel=”nofollow” attribute in its HTML code. It means the backlink is No Follow and it is not a high quality of backlink.

On the other hand, if a website adds a link with “dofollow link” then it is a high quality backlink and you need to focus on creating this type of backlinks for your website. Dofollow backlinks are very important for the website SEO and ranking.

5 ways to create Quality of Backlinks

1. Guest Post Backlinks
2. Social Profile Backlinks
3. Image backlinks
4. PDF submission Backlinks
5. Forum backlinks

1. Guest Post Backlinks

There are so many type of backlinks mostly are paid mostly are organic. If you are a beginner you can not afford the paid backlinks but you can create them free. Guest Posting is a free way where you can submit blog post on other website related to your niche and add your post or website link in it. For this you can also use some of the famous website like:

• medium.com
• tumblr.com
• substack.com
• hubpages.com
• blogger.com
• bloglovin.com

These website are just and example for you, there are so many website where you can submit your blog post and add your website link. Make sure to choose only a few ones and work on them and focus on creating high quality backlinks. Means the backlinks which are do follow because these backlinks increase your website authority and ranking in the Google.

2. Social Profile Backlinks

If you notice there are so many people add their website link in the Instagram, Facebook and other social media platforms. These are also a type of backlinks, whenever you are creating backlinks check the website authority and ranking. If the website have good domain authority then create backlinks from it. These website includes:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Reddit
• Quora
• LinkedIn
• Twitter

These social media website are the most top websites with the Domain Rating (DR) over 90+. If you create backlinks from these website, it give a signal to the Google about website authority. On the basis which Google will give you ranking. When your website have high quality of backlinks it increases your website Domain Authority.

At first you will face many issue with website SEO, and it doesn't mean that your website have SEO problems. But when a new website trying to rank in Google it is so difficult. For this you need to choose the niche with less competition.

3. Image backlinks

Image backlinks are so easy to create for a new website. And these backlinks not only give you a authority but also help your website to get more visitors. When you search for the query and visit to images and find the related image and then redirect to that website. This is just because of the image backlinks for this you need to use websites like:

• Imgur
• Pinterest
• Flickr
• ImageShack
• Facebook
• 500px

These are the image submission website, you need to choose those where you can add link to your website. Just open the account in these website upload your content related images and add the link back to your website. The website which we mentioned are those with a high authority and ranking which also boost your website SEO.

4. PDF submission Backlinks

Now here in this type of backlinks you need to do some hard work. First you need to create a PDF which is related to your website content and add your web page links in it. Then you need to submit those PDF in the website where people download that PDF and use it. Here below we mentioned some of the PDF submission websites:

• Keep and Share
• Share Presentation
• Upstore.net
• Free Computer Books
• Tresorit
• Academia.edu
• Turbobit
• Dropbox

These are some of the authentic and real website where you can submit your PDF for quality of backlinks. Make sure the content which you add in the PDF is related to your website niche and people download it and use it.

5. Forum backlinks

In the Forum backlinks you need to solve the users problems and do some discussion in some platforms like Reddit, Quora and some other forum website. Where people ask some questions related to their problem. You need to find the questions related to your blog post, answer that question and add the link in the question which help that user.

For example your blog post is about "How to earn Passive income in 2025?". You need to find the forum where people ask questions related to passive income. Then you need to write a short answer of their questions. Add the link and ask them to get more information from this blog post.

This method will also increase your website traffic and you will get a quality of backlink to your website. It requires a lot of work and patience, so in the starting you may face many difficulties. Set a daily target of backlinks and achieve it.

How to get Paid Backlinks?

Paid backlinks are so easy to create but if you have a good budget. For this you just need to contact the similar website related to your niche which have a high domain rating and good traffic. Ask them about the guest posting if they accept they will charge you some amount of money. 

You need to write a guest post according to their requirements, add your post link then paid them. They will add your blog post in their website and this is how you can get paid backlinks. The other method is hiring someone who can create backlinks for your website. 

You can hire a freelancer from Fiverr or Upwork and paid them. They will create backlinks for your website according to their service you will buy.

Conclusion

Creating backlinks is not a big issue but, the main problem is indexing those backlinks. Because if you create 100 backlinks for your website but none of it is indexed you get nothing benefit from those backlinks. If the backlinks are not indexed they are useless and mean nothing for your website.

So, if you are creating backlink by yourself or creating them from someone make sure to check the indexing of those backlinks.