Well, I thought I'd write this article to say a bit about backlinks and what they mean for your website for ranking well in the search engines. You see, backlinks are kind of a scary thing to talk about because there are a lot of people out there right now that are selling backlinks as a service but are not delivering what they are suppossed to be selling. And I'll tell you why.

One of the major roles in having your website be on that first page of Google for a particular keyword is how many website do you have that are pointing to your website. In other words, what other websites like your website and want to reccomend you? Well, this is a goog thing right? Well, not really, because often times what happens is that people get backlink love from other websites but these websites have crummy rankings in the search engines. And Google doesn't like this kind of popularity contest at all.

What you need to do is website pointing to your that are very high in page rank like 6 and above. And, they need to be Do-Follow backlinks which means that Google qualifies these backlinks as REAL backlinks. So there are ways to get these backlinks for a price which is often pretty expensive or you can do it yourself but this takes some time.

If you are going to do it yourself, the first thing that you may want to do is do your research and find out which websites out there rank well with Google. Once you find your handful of websites, then it's time to create accounts on these websites. Once you do this you need to make sure that the site will allow you to post a link to your website and if you are never active in that site again, your link isn't going to dissapear. Getting kind of complicated? Well, it's not too complicated at all really, it just takes a lot of time. One website that carries a high page rank of 9 is the adobe acrobat site. You can go to their forum area and do the steps above and that will give you a nice backlink to your site.

If you are trying to gain exposure in a particular keyword for your site you will want to have at least 30 or so high page rank do-follow backlinks to your site. This will help you in the compitition out there.

If it all sounds way too overwhelming there are always services that you can find out there. We tried a service and had very worthy results in two weeks after purchasing 40 backlinks from a site called googletopsearch. They were selling high pr backlinks for about $4 buck a pop I think and it was well worth every penny because we actually ended up ranking in position #6 for our targeted keyword (childrens pirate books) just from doing that.

Anyway, hope this helps those out there that are wanting a quick way to boost your website rankings. My recommendation, BUY BACKLINKS! But by them wisely.