Links to your website: How to get them
Links building is a primary job for developing link
popularity. Link
popularity is one of the vital measures taken in consideration by the
search engines to rank your web pages. The number and the quality of
links on your website would also play an important role for raising
your page ranking. Some
sites get as much as 200,000 visitors a month from links. Remember,
this is free traffic. You can use various strategies such as article
writing, software and tools to raise your link popularity.
Methods to get links
- Make your site worth linking to
- Before other webpages are going to link to you, the want to
know that your website is going to be liked by their visitors. A simple
way to ensure this is to offer something for free. Free software,
services or information all work.
- Request larger sites to link to you
- Links from larger sites are worth more in terms of traffic
and improving your ranking in the search engines. Adding your link to
places like http://syncrat.com/add-link will do much more for your
publicity than many links from smaller blogs.
- Write Press Releases
- Writing a compelling news-worthy press release about your
site or
related topic, can also result in multiple websites and news sources
picking it up and linking to your site. This is a very effective way of
obtaining numerous one-way links very quickly, but doesn't offer the
long-term benefits that articles do.
- Submit Your Website To Directories
- This is a good way of getting one-way links to your site
(if a
reciprocal link is not required). There are numerous directories you
can submit to, offering both free and paid submissions. When deciding
on whether paid submissions are worth it, you should look at the page
where your link is expected to appear and see if it has a reasonable
page rank, and the number of other links that appear on that page, with
the fewer the better.
- Dmoz
- Work on getting into the Dmoz.org directory
- Exchange Links With Other Websites
- This process, known as reciprocal linking, is common place
on the
internet, and is something most webmasters do. However, while it's
something you should do, it's important to note that search engines
place more importance on one-way links than two-way or reciprocal links.
- Build A Network Of Websites And Interlink Them
- When building multiple websites it makes sense to interlink
them,
preferably from a home page link for maximum benefit. This can be very
beneficial if each of your websites is on a different server, but be
careful if they are hosted on the same server, as the search engines
will think you're deliberately manipulating their results, and will
most likely prevent you from achieving higher rankings.
- Write Articles
- This is a very powerful method of obtaining a lot of
incoming one-way
links to your site. By submitting your articles, which include the all
important resource box with the link to your site, to multiple article
directories you can pick up backlinks from not only these article
directories but from other websites who pick up your articles and
include them on their website or blog.
- Create A Blog
- Blogs are very easy to create with multiple websites
offering free
services, so there is no excuse for not creating a blog related to and
linking to your main website. You could post anything - your thoughts,
articles, or affiliate program reviews, for example, but make sure you
include a link to your site in the links section, and at the end of
each post if appropriate.
- Leave Comments On Blogs And Guestbooks
- You've got to be careful with this method that you don't
abuse it and
start spamming other people's blogs or guestbooks. Leave legitimate
comments, and make it look like you actually have something to
contribute. For example, just saying “Great Blog!”
and then leaving
your link is rightly considered to be spam, and will also damage your
reputation in the long run.
- Post On Forums That Allow Sig Files
- Sig files are the line(s) that appear at the bottom of each
message and
act as a discreet way of advertising your site. You won't get a great
deal of benefit in terms of page rank, as most forums do not have a
high page rank for their threads, but you will build up a good number
of links, and as forums generally tend to get spidered by the search
engines regularly, they will follow the links to your site and
subsequently spider your site on a regular basis.
- Write Testimonials
- By writing and submitting testimonials to websites that you
have
previously purchased products or services from, you can get
high-quality links to your site, often from the home pages of the sites
in question.
- Buy Links
- The final way to obtain incoming links is by simply buying
them. This
can have a dramatic effect on your page rank and subsequently your
search engine rankings if you can get links from PR6+ sites, however
the only problem with this is that most links for sale are often for a
set period of time, usually a month, and so you have to keep buying
them to maintain your higher page rank and rankings.
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