Ask HN: Effective Methods to Generate Backlinks

Here are a few general ones:<p><pre><code> - Join forums related to your site and post about it - Write guest posts on news or blogging platforms that point back to your site - Ask other people to share links to your site on social media, their own websites, whatever - Sponsor sites, podcasts, or videos so they include links to your site on their pages </code></pre> What kind of site are you trying to promote?<p>Edit: Formatting

I remember that Simpsons episode when Homer creates a website, which contained nothing controversial, and full of bells and whistles, yet thin on content. Then he wrote an article about something controversial, and his visitor numbers went through the roof.<p>This is content marketing 101. Discover something new, tell people about it, profit. The backlinks will happen naturally and organically. You may even have your article featured in some high profile website that gets 10,000x more traffic than your site, boosting your SEO in the process.

Create interesting content.