7 Ways to Create Backlinks for B2B Websites

With millions of websites giving cut-throat competition to each other, quality backlinks can play an important role in improving your organic search ranking.

When it comes to B2B websites, backlinks are more important than any other SEO strategy to build authority and get visibility among their B2C counterparts targeting the same keywords.

So, in this article, I’m going to share some of the creative ways that you can use to attract quality backlinks to your website.

But before going ahead, let’s understand what backlinks are and why it is important.

What are Backlinks?

Backlinks are the incoming links or inbound links from other websites to your site. Search engines like Google consider backlinks for a specific page as “votes” of credibility and authority.

So, the pages with the highest number of votes or backlinks are considered to be more relevant and credible than those with few or no backlinks. Thus the more backlinks your pages gain, the higher it tends to rank in the search result pages.

However, not all backlinks can be useful to your site. For instance, to rank higher in the SERP, you need to focus on gaining quality backlinks. A single high-quality backlink can prove to be more effective than 100 other low-quality backlinks.

So, which links are considered to be high-quality?

In simple words, backlinks from trusted websites with domain authority higher than your site are considered to be quality backlinks. If the site has more authority, then it will pass some of its authority juice to your website through the link thus results in increasing your domain authority.

Now, to gain backlinks from trusted websites, you need to have high-quality and linkable content on your site. And the pages or sites that link to you should be related to your industry and relevant to their audience.

That being said, let’s look into some of the powerful and creative strategies to find such websites and gain backlinks from them.

7 Ways to get quality backlinks to Business sites

In this section, I will cover a few creative ways to attract backlinks from other successful blogs through different channels. If you want to dive deeper into the topic, I recommend you read my ultimate B2B link-building guide.

Ready? Let’s get started.

1. Target your competitor’s backlink sources

Peeking into the competitor’s website is extremely important to know what kind of strategies they are applying to get links from authoritative websites. For this, you can use Semrush Competitive Research Toolkit to see the type of backlink they are getting into their website. This will, on one hand, save you time, as you will be getting similar site links from your competitor’s backlink analysis and you can easily connect with them to gain more backlinks. 

If you are using Semrush,  then here is what you need to do to gain an in-depth backlink analysis of your competitor.

The first thing you need to do is go to the competitive research tool kit from the sidebar of the Semrush dashboard.

SEMrush Competitive Research Toolkit

Next, you need to click on the backlink analytics option to view your competitors’ Backlink Analytics. Here’s a glimpse of the Backlink Analytics for “ventureharbour.com

Backlink Analytics Report

Click the Backlink tab, and you will be able to see all the backlinks that your competitor has gained and also the referring domains.

SEMrush backlink report

Now, you can add filters to identify all the new or lost links. You can also filter the links with the do-follow attribute. Apply your filters to list out the relevant links from where you want to get backlinks and export them to Google Sheets. 

SEMrush Backlinks

Finally, find out the website manager, owner, or author of the article and reach out to let them know that you have published an article that is better and relevant to their readers.

2. Publish guest posts on reputed sites

Although Google doesn’t recommend Guest blogging to gain backlinks if done smartly, it is one of the most effective strategies to get quality backlinks to your Business website. 

With the help of tools like Semrush, you can find the list of the best authority blogs related to your domain. You can make use of the SEMrush keyword magic tool to find the most relevant guest post website. Here’s how you can use the tool-

Step 1: Head over to the Keyword magic tool in the right sidebar and add your primary keyword in the search bar. Here the primary keyword is “Accounting Software

Accounting software keyword magic tool

Step 2:  Click on one of the keywords to find the list of top pages ranking for your target keyword on Google search results. 

top-ranking pages for a keyword

Step 3: Export the list of URLs to your Google Sheet and identify the sites that allow guest posts.

Now, find out the website manager or owner of the website where you wish to get published, and allows you to add a link to your site. Reach out to them with the topic of your article and let them know why you are the right person to talk about that topic.

Along this process, remember that you have to send 100 emails to get one response which allows you to publish your article. But that one guest post can transform into an open door for a surge of standard guest posts to other sites. So, just keep following up and find opportunities for yourself!

3. Be a guest on popular podcasts in your niche

Using podcast interviews can be considered one of the most effective and easiest ways of gaining backlinks to business sites.

There are several podcasts that conduct interviews. Apart from that, they also publish articles on each interview episode. This creates an excellent opportunity for you to get backlinks. 

If you are using an Apple podcast, then make a list of a few keyword phrases that are related to your business and then list out the names of the top shows that appear in the search result.

Find-relvant-podcast-for-your-brand

There are several other popular podcast directories like Spotify and Apple Podcasts where you do your research as well.

Once the listing of all the podcasts where you want to be featured is done, start checking all the podcast names in Google and find how many of them have a genuine website.

The next thing that you need to do is start comparing the DA or domain authority of all those websites. You need to find out which websites have a higher DA than yours. You can use Moz Link Explorer to compare the DA of websites.

And the final step you need to do is to reach out to the podcast host. Search for them in social media channels like Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook, so that you can pitch your idea and get selected for their podcast show.

For this strategy, all you need to do is to convince the podcast host that you are the right person to talk about the topic. 

4. Utilize business listings Websites

Google business listings are another way of earning backlinks. Listings include the name of the business, website, email address, office address, and so on. Backlinks from different business listing platforms are good for domain authority.

Various business listing websites add no-follow tags to their website links. However, backlinks from these platforms could prove to be very advantageous if it has a higher DA and are related to your niche.

For research purposes, most business professionals go through the business listing sites to find out more about your organization or any other vendors before they begin talking with your company. Therefore, you need to focus on different business listing websites by reading your company’s essential information on them.

5. Make use of infographics

Infographic on website pages or blogs helps the target audience understand what you are trying to convey with a graphical presentation. It is scannable and easy to understand for the audience. 

And that’s why it is one of the most useful strategies that most smart entrepreneurs apply to gain backlinks to their sites in a short time. 

Creating beautiful infographics can cost you both money and time. And most website owners cannot afford to invest in infographics.

This is where you can come into the scenario by offering them a quality infographic depending on one of their mainstream blog entries or something new identified with your business specialty and consequently, you can trade for backlinks to your site.

The idea of this strategy is to offer something beautiful and relevant to their audience, which they can’t afford, and get some favor in exchange for that. In this case, it is a backlink.

6. Provide insights to journalists

Another technique for gaining quality backlinks to your website is by reaching out to the journalist who reports or publishes articles related to your industry on recognized websites.

These journalists need expert opinion and insights on current things going around in the industry like changes in government policies for business, technology updates, etc.

You can be that expert with insights and opinions to share. Are you getting my point?

Now, the best way to find the right journalist for your brand is to go through popular news portals and blogs from your industry and check the authors of articles related to your niche.

On most websites, you can the social links or email addresses of the authors. Follow them on Twitter, Facebook, or wherever you can find them, and let them know that you have expertise in the field and would love to share your thoughts on industry-related content.

Or you can always use HARO (helpareporter.com) to connect journalists seeking an expert’s opinion to include in their content.

7. Keep your old posts up-to-date

Your blog section or any of your website pages needs optimization from time to time. After you have optimized your content, you need to connect with the relevant journalists or bloggers who had once linked the old content. You need to inform them about the updated content version.

Start with checking for the older content on your blog page. Make a list of the old contents and see what needs to be updated. For instance, you need to update an image or any piece of information that is no longer relevant to your business or niche. 

All you need to do is create a fresh and better piece of content with relevant statistical data, pictures, and infographics. Moreover, optimizing your content regularly increases the chances of your ranking as well.

Remember, the more relevant and up-to-date your content is the chances of backlinks are higher, and most importantly, you will not lose the backlinks you already have because of outdated content. 

Wrapping Up

Backlinks are a vital element of a long-term SEO strategy, and it is not a new concept. The fact is, that backlinks form the backbone of Google algorithms. Google has come up with various algorithms and has even made changes to them for a few years now, and backlinks have always remained a crucial factor for search engine rankings.

So, do not underestimate backlinks and devote much time to link building every day to get your site to organic search engine rankings. That being said, let’s wrap up the article by listing out all the strategies to build backlinks to business websites –

  1. Target your competitor’s backlinks.
  2. Publish guest posts on reputed sites.
  3. Be a guest on popular podcasts in your niche.
  4. Utilise business listing sites.
  5. Make use of Infographics.
  6. Provide insights to journalists
  7. Keep your old posts up-to-date.

I hope you find this article helpful and informative. Apart from getting quality backlinks to your site, you also need to focus on targeting the right keywords for your site. You can check out my step-by-step guide to B2B keyword research to discover relevant keywords and drive quality traffic to your site.

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