How to Create Backlinks

Backlinks are really important in the world of Search Engine Optimization. If you want your site to do well in Google search results you have to have a good page rank. If you want a higher page rank you're going to need some backlinks.
What is a backlink?
Backlinks are a link to your website from another website. The search engines love these. When they see the link on someone else's site it sends the spiders over to your site and they index your site getting it placed on a search engine organically instead of you going over and entering it. This way is preferred by the search engines.
Where do I put backlinks?
You can put backlinks in any number of locations. You can use them in signatures in forums, you can pay for them, but today we are talking about putting them in blogs. You find a blog that is about a similar topic as what you will be linking to. You read the blog and then you make an insightful and meaningful comment to the post. When you are finished with your post you also put a link to the site you want the search engines to go look at. (and the other people reading the blog for that matter).
How do I make a backlink?
Know your URL. If you want your link to send people to the front page, or to a specific article or blog post, make sure you have the specific URL for that.
Now you need a little html magic. You will need to use this html code to make a link:
Your Keywords Here
You will need a keyword for your link. Don't use a keyword that is in the title of your blog/article/website, because the search engines will already see it in your url. Choose something else that is relevant to where you are sending people. For example, using the above post I might use the key word Peanut Butter and Jelly Chicken Stew.
Let's use the example from my blog and I'll show you what it looks like, in code and then the way it appears in code.

Here's what it will look like in my comment:
How to Create Backlinks
Backlinks from blogs are great and you need to think about the page rank of the blog before you leave the backlink. You should be backlinking from a blog with a higher page rank. I would choose at least a 4 or 5. It may have to be lower depending on your niche. Searching out blogs and figuring out what their page rank is could take forever. That's not even including going and making your comment. You guessed it. I found you some great software to use to help get this done fast.
Comment Hut (www.commenthut.com)
Let's see what Comment Hut is and what it will do for you.
Comment Hut is NOT a blog spamming software. It does not leave your comments and backlinks.
Comment Hut DOES search out blogs by keyword and then tell you what the page rank is of the blog.
You then go and read the post, and post your comment with your backlink.
It is a huge time saver. You no longer have to spend all your time looking for appropriate blogs which can take forever. You also now know what the page rank is for the blog and you can choose to post a comment or not depending on the page rank.
It's a great piece of software, and it will save you time and you will see more traffic and you will find yourself on the search engines faster and easier. The other plus, my favorite one, it's free! Well again, there is a "lite" version for free. You can get all the blogs from wordpress listed in the lite version. If you want more choices from other places you can upgrade and get blogs from just about every other blogging source you can think of. The wordpress blogs will do you for a while though.

Amount of Traffic Social Media Sites Can Send to Your Site

Submitting your content to social media sites can be quite an effective technique to drive large traffic volume and promote your blog. Provided that the content you submit is of high quality and reaches the site's front page, traffic sent to your blog can reach between a few thousand to tens of thousands within a short period of time (a few days). Here's a list of some of the popular/emerging social media sites and the volume of traffic their front-pages are capable of sending.

There is a new sheriff in town, there have been reports of Yahoo! Buzz sending over one million visitors to a frontpage story. From what I have heard off one or two bloggers you can generally expect just short of half a million uniques.

StumbleUpon can send traffic in the amount of 1,000 to 40,000 within 3 days after getting around 50 stumbles.
You can expect between 1,500 to 30,000 visitors to your blog if your post is approved in Slashdot and gets to its front page.
A popular post on Digg's front page can get between 3,000 to 35,000 visitors within a short period of time.The aptly chosen name I Am Bored can send traffic of around 2,000 to 15,000 of its bored members to your blog if your post gets to its front page. Ebaum's World is a humor site with the ability to send its front page landers a good traffic volume of 2,500 to 20,000.Posts on the community-based news site Fark's frontpage can get around 2,000 to 20,000 traffic volume.News/stories on Reddit's frontpage receive traffic of about 2,500 to 15,000, depending on how far up and how long it stays on the front page.Submission to MetaFilter requires a subscription fee, but once your post hits the front page, you can expect around 1,000 to 5,000 visitors.The traffic that the social tagging site Del.icio.us sends is spread over time. Given that your article hit its front page, you can get between 500 to 5,000 visitors within a short period of time.Front page landers on Propeller are not guaranteed much to receive high traffic, unless you're in the Top 5, which can send around 50 to 3,500 visitors.Breaking news that hit the frontpage of Newsvine gets around 500 to 2,000 traffic volume.ShoutWire, an internet news site, sends about 500 to 1,500 traffic volume to submissions that get to the frontpage.The new social news site Mixx has a steady trend of increasing traffic. Currently, its frontpage landers can receive around 50 to 250 visitors.Sphinn, an internet marketing social site, is capable to drive traffic of about 75 to 200 in less than 24 hours to articles on the front page.