Can backlinks bring real human visitors to your website?

It depends on what your squeeze page is about. In general, no matter what it is about a targeted forum signature is one of the most effective free ways to get people to your page.

Definitely they can, there are really nice reputable sites which actually redirect users. And there are portals which is used by users to find top sites.

Sure!!
Article marketing, if done well, is one of the most powerful traffic generators you can find. Besides, it helps you improve your PR because the articles generate backlinks.

However, how much traffic you can get, depends on how do you do your work.

- Write good content
- Use relevant keyword with plenty of daily searches and not a lot of competitors
- Submit your article to the right category
- Always submit it to Ezinearticles, and if the niche you are working on has any popular article directory or magazine, try to submit it there too (if possible not the version you send to EzineArticles, but a rewritten one).

Hope it helps,

Wechito

Wechino, what's up with the sig pic?

Sinpeople,

You're missing the point when it comes to backlinks so let's clear things up for you.

Backlinks for organic traffic

Articles. Yes, if they are good and people use them on their own sites then you can get traffic from them. That's if they don't remove your links and replace them with their own.

Blog commenting and forum signatures. At a popular blog I have a comment link on a sex tape story. My stats show that people are clicking on it. Same goes for the links I have on wikipedia.

They key to using these methods to draw in traffic is you have to have your links someplace where people will see them and want to follow.

Having a link on a blog that's been spammed by 500 other people isn't going to do you any good. Nobody is reading those spam comments.

Having your links in the signature of a relevant forum that you are active in (like the sig links here) will draw traffic. Problem with signature links is it's a fine line between advertising and spamming and mods are quick to delete accounts that appear to be spammers. That Get Rich Quick signature at the Hanna Montana forum probably isn't going to last long.

Backlinks for ranking

Creating a massive number of backlinks anywhere you can by any means possible.

Backlinks are like votes, the more votes you have the more popular your page is. The more popular your page is the higher you rank in search engines.

This is why many people use various methods to artificially inflate the number of backlinks to their site. They want to become more popular and rank higher. Drop around a million backlinks all over the internet and you too can get a piece of the 29,900,000 people searching for free porn a month

Of course, you need to use appropriate SEO both onsite and off to get the full effect and not all backlinks are created equally.

Hope that clears up some of your questions when it comes to both of these backlinking strategies. You can find plenty of information on this forum for more indepth ideas and philosophies. Read up on it.