What Does it Take to Get Quality Backlinks? |

Ryan Biddulph March 7, 2025 blogging tips 🕑 4 minutes read

Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Quality backlinks gain strong credibility.

Backlinks from respected blogs potentially increase Google traffic. Bloggers enjoy passive, highly targeted traffic generated by the search engine giant. Experiencing freedom from time – and location – are sugary sweet benefits of driving passive blog traffic.

Gaining credible backlinks drives a steady flow of traffic from high quality sources.

Imagine multiple traffic streams which send organic traffic to your blog passively. Picture trusting audiences who visit your blog consistently, around the clock. Five quality backlinks from leading bloggers tap into five trusting, highly targeted communities who find your blog through these links. Consider how far and wide one reaches by patiently building the highest quality links from leading bloggers.

How do you enjoy the sugary sweet benefits of piggybacking on the success of successful bloggers?

Basically, getting respected backlinks is like piggybacking on the fame, fortune and credibility of established bloggers. Think of it as riding on their coat tails. But never consider this process to be parasitic. Quality backlinks originate with a quality, patient, consistent effort executed over a decent chunk of time.

How long is that period of time?

No one knows.

I don’t care.

Readers do not care.

Successful bloggers who dole out quality backlinks do not care.

Only your ego cares about the time element.

What do readers and successful bloggers care about?

High quality content.

Rock solid relationships.

Detailed content and strong relationships build quality backlinks.

Detailed Content

Detailed content influences successful bloggers to link to the content.

For example, a post like this one:

How to Start a Blog the Right Way

can generate quality backlinks because I answered the question of how to start a blog, in-depth.

I set aside a few hours to lay out all necessary steps for starting a blog intelligently. Respected bloggers tend to link to such resources because doing so bolsters their credibility. Pros look good by linking to highly credible content. Publishing highly credible content is a skill one masters over a significant chunk of time.

Practical Steps

solve pressing reader problems
publish long form content spanning 1200 plus words
add practical tips to baby step readers from problem to solution
craft posts to be easily readable and scannable with headers, paragraphs and bullet point lists
pick an easy to understand title

Publish one thorough post weekly to establish your credibility. Be timely to be relevant. Blogs serve as news portals. Keep readers current. Build trust by sharing accurate tips, techniques and strategies highly relevant to your reader’s needs right now. Remember to update old blog posts every 3-6 months to bolster your credibility.

Credible bloggers often link to your homepage versus an individual post as a vote of confidence. Consider this to be a vetting mechanism; doing quality work for a long time influence pro bloggers to give you a hearty “thumbs up” with a coveted backlink.

Strong Relationships

Strong relationships spawn quality backlinks.

Successful bloggers need to know, like and trust you before making your link-blog part of their content.

Backlinks are content pointing offsite. Backlinks increase credibility. Backlinks build reputation. Pros need to develop some relationship with you before linking to your blog because no one puts their reputation on the line for a stranger.

Blogging From Paradise scored a few high level backlinks based on my relationships established with successful bloggers. I earned their trust with my content and service. Pros perceived me and my blog in a trusted light based on my patient relationship-building. Quality links became the delicious fruit borne of these bonds (and of quality content too, of course).

Practical Tips

comment genuinely on top blogs from your niche
promote top bloggers from your niche via social media and LinkedIn
engage followers who resonate with your content
reply to comments on your blog
drop relevant backlinks to highly successful bloggers

Consistency = The Time Element

Follow the practical tips listed up top consistently.

Put in the work over a sustained period of time to land quality links.

Admittedly, this is the difficult but do-able part. Bloggers rarely land quality links because few consistently create detailed content and build strong relationships over an appreciable stretch of time.

Building your blog into a trusted, backlink-worthy resource requires one to spend years publishing 100’s of detailed, quality blog posts. No human can complete that work in 24 hours, 1 week or 1 month. Years and many 1000’s upon 1000’s of hours go into publishing 100’s of highly-detailed, credible blog posts.

Blogging for 1000’s of hours triggers fears in the mind like:

“I am wasting my time. Nobody reads my blog.”
“No successful blogger will ever link to my blog.”
“I will never get quality backlinks, anyway. Why waste my time?”

I listened to these fears from time to time. You hear these fears from time to time.

Hear the fears but do not trust the fears to proceed with your quality backlink building campaign.

Successful bloggers create and connect consistently for a long time to run respected blogs.

You too will create and connect consistently for a long time to gain the respect of pros who offer trusted backlinks pointing to your blog.

I think of this as being an exclusive club of credible bloggers who organically backlink to fellow leaders based on the detailed work, mindfulness and sheer consistency of these select few. Pros pay their backlink building dues to enter into this exclusive club.