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Whitehat backlinks are considered legit techniques that follow Google guidelines. A backlink is an incoming link created on another site that leads back to your site. Backlinks are necessary to gain rank on your site or blog, so that it will hopefully grab the attention of the search engines. It can be time consuming, but worth the effort.

A variety of quality whitehat backlinks is necessary, so that it will look natural. Otherwise, Google may penalize or sandbox you. This means your site will disappear for a while, however, it usually comes back no worse for the wear.

Many newbies panic when their blog is on the first page of Google and it mysteriously disappears. Where did it go? Only Google knows and only Google will bring it back.

Getting spanked by Google is part of internet marketing, so you may as well get over it. There is nothing you can do, but try to stay within guidelines best as you can.

Blackhat methods will get your site, or multiple sites, banned for good. Of course, all black hatters know this and don’t care. They create multiple accounts, change names, have several computers etc. They are into making money fast and that’s it.

So much for the blackhatters let’s get on with getting legit whitehat backlinks. Some of these are considered gray hat by some you be the judge and do what feels right to you.

Article marketing is a great way to get quality backlinks. Some of the top sites to use are Ezine articles, Articlebase, Buzzle, eHow and Goarticles for starters.

Forums are another great way to get whitehat backlinks just be sure that you stay relevant and use keywords in the links or you’re wasting time. This is a one really good reason to have keywords in the domain name of your site/blog.

Yahoo answers is good, but you must be careful or you will get banned. Use them once in a while and give good answers. Also watch out for competitors if they see your link often they will report you just to get you out of their way.

Submit links to social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Twitter, Yahoo Buzz, Mixx and Propeller. Also, create blogs or pages on Blogger, Squidoo, Hubpages and Wordpress and link them to your site. Once again, stay relevant don’t link to non-relevant sites.

Do link exchanges with site/blogs that have a higher rank than yours. If you can’t do this then leave comments with a link to your blog and again stay relevant.

Always write good quality content that is well SEO’d. If you don’t understand search engine optimization then learn it NOW! You must understand keywords and backlinking.

If you use whitehat backlink techniques you will stay safe and not get banned by Google. On the other hand, if you decide to go blackhat then be prepared to get shut down.