How to Increase Link Popularity
and Improve Search Engine Ranking
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How to Increase Link Popularity and Improve Search Engine Ranking
By Herman Drost
If
you want to improve search engine ranking of your web site, you
need to find a large number of high quality links from other web
sites. These are called inbound links. Gaining links from high
ranking sites that point to yours will increase your link popularity
in the search engines.
The most popular search engine Google, places great significance
on the link popularity of your web site. In fact, you can even
get listed in Google without submitting your site to them, by
getting other sites to link to yours. Finding many high ranking
sites that link to yours, will improve the search engine ranking
of your own web site.
Four effective ways to increase link popularity
1. Get your site listed in the
search engine directories - first submit your site to the human
edited directories of ODP (Open Directory Project - dmoz.org)
and Yahoo (yahoo.com). Getting listed in these directories will
give your site a boost in link popularity and improve search
engine ranking in other search engines.
However, this may take some time.
You can get listed much faster by getting links from niche
specific directories. Find these directories by doing a search
on the major search engines with the primary keywords of your
web site.
2. Provide high quality content
- people will naturally link to your site if you have what they
want (i.e. articles, software, etc). This will save you a lot
of time searching for quality links yourself.
Optimizing your content with well placed keywords, will improve
your search engine ranking dramatically. Search engines love
focused content.
Add Your Site to 1,500 Search Engines and Classifieds!
Your site will be submitted once a month to 1,500 search
engines, announcement services and classifieds for a whole
year. Also, with just one click you can do a re-submission
of your site any time you want. For example, if you are
updating your site often, you can re-submit every time
you change it. Every submission produces a detailed report
on the results.
Don't you love it when you immediately find what you are searching
for?
One way of achieving this is by writing and publishing articles.
You can include a link at the end of your article. When your
article gets published, you will automatically have gained a
link to your site.
3. Requesting links from other
sites - request links from sites that ideally have a high search
engine ranking. Start by including a link from your site to
theirs. Include a paragraph describing what your link is about.
This helps achieve a greater number of clickthroughs to your
site.
Request that they do the same when linking to your web site.
If you provide this for them (with some of your primary keywords
included of course), and provide quality information, you will
have a greater chance of gaining a high quality link.
4. Write a testimonial - write
a favorable review of someone's product or web site. Include
the benefits you received through visiting their site. If that
person wishes to use your testimony on their site, make sure
they include a link back to your web site.
These are some of the best strategies you should implement
to increase link popularity of your web site. It will improve
search engine ranking and also boost your web site traffic.
