Website/blog list to get quality backlinks?

[geekwik]

Hi

Everyone says quality backlinks increase ranking of your website. Can you please suggest a list of good websites and blogs from where I can get quality backlinks and how to do that. I have one person at my disposal full time to do manual commenting or any manual tasks for getting backlinks but how should i approach this problem (of getting backlinks). Where do I start.

For information, my website provides online services (its an ecommerce site) and also has a blog in subdirectory. refer to

www.geekwik.com

www.geekwik.com/blog

Would like to become top ranker on search for these services (eg 'logo design services', 'website programming', 'content writing', 'hire virtual assistant' etc)

Also anyone interested to become our SEO consultant or SEO  service provider (of course paid) is most welcome

Thanks in Advance!

[geekwik]

Thanks again Jerry. Would focus more on quality articles in blog from now on

[WhoWuddaThunk]

The short answer is yes, it will help your whole site.

As for the long answer:

Every page that is included in the structure of your website, has internal links pointing to it, or has external links pointing at it will have some amount of authority/page rank.  Of that authority, a page is able to pass 85+% of it's total authority on to other pages.  So, if you have 10 links on that page it will pass around 8.5% of its total authority on to other pages.

So, let's say you have a blog post about the "50 Best Logos Ever." From there you would want to link back to your logo service to try drive authority back to those pages.  That way if your post gets links you will be able to drive more authority back to your pages that make you money.

[WilliamCarr]

One place to start would be to run an analysis of your competitors, see where they've earned links from & how. Then see where you can add value by creating content and linkable assets.

[geekwik]

Thanks Jerry. Here I have a question. Since my basic objective is selling my services (eCommerce) and I also have a blog in sub-directory which is wordpress based, does promoting articles on my sub-directory blog add link authority of my main website and finally will it drive more traffic to my main site?

[WhoWuddaThunk]

Unfortunately, quality back links aren't going to come from a list.  The best kind are naturally earned with great content, but you can supplement this process with a great guest blogging process.  To do this you will want to find blogs in your niche, which would be anything about advertising really, and build a relationship with them so that they will accept your guest blog posts.  There's awesome resources out there for best initial emails to start this process, but I don't have any saved off hand.

The ideal option is actually getting links naturally.  To do this you will want to great engaging content that gets people to link to you.  This may be a list of the best 50 logos ever, or 10 reasons why you need a virtual assistant.  Anything that will get people to read it, comment, and then blog about it.