Getting back links is by far the best way to improve your search engine rankings. There are many ways to get back links, commenting on dofollow blogs , submitting your articles to social bookmarking sites that do follow , writing articles for article directories and buying link ads are few of the methods you can use to get back links. The best and the one that will give you good return in the long run is writing quality unique content. Problem with all of the above methods is it takes a lot of time to build considerable amount of back links that way. Exceptions is you write a good quality article and it gets popular and get lots of back links. Well one method I found out by chance is that sponsoring contest is a great way to build back links without little or any effort.

There are hundreds of blog contests going around in the blog sphere and they all want it to be the greatest contest in the blog sphere. The greatness of the contest is usually decided by the number and the value of the prizes so more sponsors the blogger can attract more likely the readers will participate in it. So when ever they start a new contest they usually ask for sponsorships at the end. Now is your chance to go get some back links. Blogging about the contest usually gives additional entries to participants so you will get at least 10-20 back links from this. Depending on how much the blogger promotes his contest you can get more than 20 back links as well.

There are plenty of prizes you can give out without costing you anything at all. My favorite one is a blog review. It want cost me anything , I get to write a post , If I do a good honest job with the review I might build a long lasting partnership and the winner get a back link from a PR2 blog. Then there's the most underestimated prize of all EC credits , I always love winning EC credits , the biggest I won is 10000 EC credits. You can sponsor a contest with around 1000 EC credits. Additionally you can give away ad spots , text links etc which want cost you anything. So just be sending one e-mail to the contest holders you can get lots of back links. This is a win win situation for all parties so you are more than likely to successfully pull this off.

• You get backlinks , traffic and exposure
• Contest holder get lots of prizes
• With lots of prized participants chances of winning increases.