5 easy ways to gather links
By: SmartKeting | Posted: 03rd October 2007
At some point in my learning curve I was failing to understand
the true value of links. I used to think that the only benefit
brought by links would be the incoming visitors from other
websites. Very untrue! In fact, links are like votes. If a site
links to you, the search engines see it like a vote for your site
and place it above other sites in the search results.
If you manage to get many of them, not only you'll get your
site indexed by the search engines faster, but you'll soon
start receiving visitors - targeted visitors straight from the
search engines.
But how do you gather links? Well, it's not that hard - here
are 5 excellent ways to do it:
1. Submit to site directories - A directory is a human edited
website containing a list of websites by categories. Some of
them are totally free, others require a reciprocal link to get
approved or even a monthly/yearly fee. Register, fill in your
applications and wait for the results to come - if your site is a
quality site, you'll get approved in most of them.
2. Submit to article directories - Write a top quality article and
spread it across the Internet throughout article directories.
The system is simple and it works like magic - the directories
publish your article and other webmasters come and pick up
the fresh content to display it on their websites. And with
that, they're forced to display your author box containing links
pointing back to your site.
3. Link out - Linking out to attract links? Of course! Some
webmasters will notice the link and feel like they have to link
to you too. Another more powerful method is to let the
webmasters know about you linking to them. This will even
put a little pressure on them resulting in a better response
rate.
4. Post in forums - Forums posting is very useful in terms of
SEO because it ensures one way targeted links ¨C but it should
be done very careful without upsetting the forum moderators.
If you go to a forum, register and your first post is about how
nice your site is and you even place a link within, you¡¯re most
likely going to get your post deleted and your account banned
for spam. However, some forums will allow a ¡°signature¡± to be
attached to each one of your posts - that's the legitimate way
to do it.
5. Comment on blogs - Some blogs offer the possibility of
commenting their articles. There are fewer and fewer of them,
but there will always be some available. Many blog owners
stopped their viewers from commenting due to spam ¨C but
pertinent straight to the subject comments will always be
welcome. They important thing is that they offer the possibility
of displaying a link to your website next to your post.
These are only a few of the methods that can be used to
acquire links at a good rate. However, there are many other
methods and many more things to consider before starting.
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