A very good way, and free way to get dofollow backlinks is to do backlink exchanges with other websites. But this process can be long and also frustrating but it is a really important backlink income. What other websites owners will check is if your site is worth a backlink. If they have a very popular site and yours is not quite as great as their own, then they are likely to reject your website backlink exchange request.
Why would you want to trade links?
The entire point of exchanging link is to get more traffic. Exchanging links can give you traffic in 2 ways.
1. On the site where your link is, someone clicks on the link pointing towards your site and ends up reading your blog and such, and might even click on one of your ads.
2. The search engines will see that the site has a backlinkpointing towards your site; it will consider that your site must be good. It will give you more power from a search engine point of view.
Those 2 reasons will generate traffic and that is basically what making money on websites is about.
How to exchange link?
Just take contact with a site you want to exchange link with. Look at the fallowing images for details.
Find the contact form of the website, and write a message that shows your interest in a back link exchange.
Why would I get rejected?
If you have a PR 1 website, don’t expect PR 3 and higher to want to exchange links with your site or reply positively to a request. So you should ask PR 1 PR0 and PR 2 backlinks exchange, they will go for a yes. If you want to exchange a backlinks, there are several ways to do so.
If your niche has nothing to do with them. Example: Gambling VS saving the Peruvian Lamas
If you don’t reply quickly and don’t look serious and professional about link exchange.
If you don’t post their link fast enough
Be careful:
Make sure to keep a list of links you exchanged as some people might delete them, and that way get one-way backlinks from you. Verify every now and then if the backlinks are up. There are programs to do so like : Link Assistant.
