5 Best Ways To Get Free Links for Gaining Top Link Popularity & Search Engine Optimization
Link development is one of the most important features you
should focus. Google is taking link popularity as a main point
while deciding where to place your website. Backlink for Google
means that another website is giving you a "vote", so the more
good votes you have, the better.
You can check your current link popularity visiting the search
engines and typing the command. For example at Google you would
type link:www.yourdomain.com, at Yahoo you would type
linkdomain:www.yourdomain.com. You can also use one of the many
tools out there, and make your job easier. I use Marketleap's
Search Engine Marketing Tools by clicking "Link Popularity
Check" link (go to http://www.bestfreehomebusiness.com/Great%20Free%20Web%2
0Tools.htm , then from section #2 ("How To Spy On
Your Competitors") of "Free, Great Internet Marketing
Courses" choose the link. This is a great Free Tool to find
out all the links to your website; also the links to your
competitors' websites.
I will explain some of the best ways to get new backlinks,
hardest ones first, easiest at the end. I hope you find this
useful.
1) Emails - You go around visiting other websites and
emailing the webmasters asking for a link trade. It can be very
time consuming, but this is one of the best ways to trade links,
because you are visiting the site and you know that it is
related to yours. However, sometimes it is difficult finding
some email to contact the webmaster, and sometimes good websites
don't seem to have any link page. To make this job easier, I
thought it might be time to re-hash the list of web searches you
can perform to find sites & pages to link to your website.
To find the Sites, which will let you to add your website at
their "Links" page, you need to use correct Keywords. Here you
can find a list of keywords, which you need to use for your web
searches. To get the list- Go to this site http://www.bestfreehom
ebusiness.com, then on the top, click "Great-Free Web
Tools-Updated Daily" link. Then from the top of that page,
click "Links Submission List"
2) Links To Directories- Everyone is looking for ways to
improve their site's visibility, and one major way is by getting
listed in the major business directory sites. This is a very
important part of being successful on the Internet. The only way
to grow your business is if people can actually find you!
Most importantly to improve your sites ranking in the top search
engines you must begin to submit your site to the well respected
business directory sites on the web. This is a very time
consuming process, however it is a proven fact that must be
done. As you begin to see your site being added into these
business directory sites, you should also start to see an
improvement in your visibility in the search engines.
As you begin to do your research on submitting your site to
directories you will find that many directory sites are not
human edited directories but more of a Link Farm or Link
Exchange site. If you want to be successfully recognized by the
top search engines this will only hurt your site rather then
improve it. Be sure to pay special attention to detail when you
are submitting your site to business directory sites. If a so
called business directory requires a reciprocal link in order to
have your site listed, then you can assume it is not a human
edited directory but a Link Farm or Link Exchange program. This
will not pull a lot of weight in the top search engines. The
most important piece to remember is placing your link on a page
with relevant content.
As search engines are trying to give their users more relevant
results they are now using stricter guidelines for giving sites
a low, medium and high ranking. Some key rules to remember is to
review the directory guidelines. Most directories follow the
same rules however each one may have one or two rules that only
apply within their own site. Before you rush into submitting
your site you should sit down and review how other sites are
listed in their directory. You must suggest your site to the
most relevant topic and subtopic as possible. You might find
that you can also suggest a sub category which your site is
better be suited to be listed within.
How to write a good directory submission
To write a good description for a business directory site you
must remember a few key rules that apply to all of the major
directory sites.
Search within the directory
First and foremost, always do a search for your site to be sure
that the URL does not already exists within the directory. From
time to time you might be surprised and find that your site
already appears. Volunteer editors within the directories are
always adding sites within their own category and they may have
stumbled across your site and added it in themselves. As this
has been known to happen, it is not common.
How are the current site descriptions written?
Secondly, do a search using one of your sites keywords. The
directory will formulate a number of results. This will allow
you to review the current sites that are listed and in which
categories. Giving you a general idea of where your own site
should be. By reviewing what you see on the page you will get a
better sense of how this particular directory wants the
descriptions written. You will want to follow the general format
of how the other sites listed on that page read. If you submit
your information incorrectly or in a sales and marketing kind of
way then you might not get accepted. Stay away from verbs that
will make you sound like you are throwing a pitch rather then
giving a brief and accurate review of the site and business.
Keep your description between 10-20 words but do remember to
include some of your very important keywords into that small
description.
To get the list of Directories (Free, Pay, International,
Specialized) to add your website, Go to this site http://www.bestfreehom
ebusiness.com, then on the top, click "Great-Free Web
Tools-Updated Daily" link & then from the top of that page,
click "Directory Submission List
3) Articles- A great way for gathering non-reciprocal
links. If you've spent any time online trying to promote your
website or business, you must have very likely realized that one
of the most effective ways to generate tons of free targeted web
traffic on a long term basis is to write your own informative
articles and freely distribute them to other webmasters and
ezine publisher for their use. However, you need to have good
knowledge of what you are going to write about. Many people use
articles as a free and quick way to add content to their sites.
They will post your article, which includes your URL as a
credit, so if your article is popular you can get loads of new
backlinks every day.
Some of the benefits of this amazing strategy include:
-it's totally FREE and gets links to your website distributed
to a huge number of other related websites on a permanent
basis...
-no need to pay for the links...
-no need to give a return link on your own website to other
sites...
-The presence of your links in many other websites also directly
increases your Google PageRank and increases the targeted free
traffic you get from search engines!
-When people see your name and website/company in the bylines of
the articles on different sites, you will naturally be thought
of as an "expert" in that field...This increases your
credibility and makes it more likely that your visitors will
take your recommendations to them more seriously.
To get the list of the sites to submit your articles Go
to this site http://www.bestfreehom
ebusiness.com, then on the top, click "Great-Free Web
Tools-Updated Daily" link, then from the top-left corner of
that page, click "Article Submission List". The ones with
the red colors are the Top Choices (The Best Places to submit
your articles).
4) Link Exchange- There are many good directories where
you can find websites that are looking for link trades. This is
good, because you don't have to waste your time with sites that
aren't interested in trades.
One I do recommend is www.linkmarket.net. It works like this:
you submit your site, and once it is approved you get the chance
to make 10 link trade requests per day (if you are only
interested in trading with related websites, this amount would
be enough). Once you find a site in their directory to trade
links with, you add it to your cart, when you have 10 links,
"check out" and linkmarket will email those sites saying that
you are interested in trading links. If the other sites approve
it, linkmarket will email you back and tell you to put up the
links, and then email the other sites asking them to put your
link up. It is one of the best services I have found, and I am a
paying member, for 18 bucks you get the chance to make all the
requests you want for one year, great if you have some kind of
link trade directory or are willing to trade links with any kind
of site.
List of Link Exchange Services: (Be sure to review each of
these services).
www.linkmarket.net -They makes it easy to review the Alexa
Ranking of the domain before you request a link trade.
www.starlinker.com. They let you search their database for
related sites in different ways. Reading through the general
information about linking was enlightening as well.
www.linkateer.com - Don't miss this. Truly a killer app that
will be known far and wide.
www.linkalizer.com & www.links-pal.com -offer great value (they
will email their lists of thousands of link-trading
webmasters.)
www.linkmetro.com -It's nice to be able to exclude categories &
add your specific stipulations for each site
www.linksandlinks.com
5) Forums- This is the easiest one: you post the details
of your site and the type of trade you are looking for, and wait
for interested people to get in touch with you.
These are the some forums, which you can use for trading links:
http://www.jimworld.com/forums/index.php/action::topiclist/forum:
:linkex/
http://www.webproworld.com/viewforum.php?f=34
http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?forumid=65
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=27&dayspru
ne=30&sortorder=desc&sortfield=dateline&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8
http://www.seopark.com/directory/
A final tip: When trading links, always use some good anchor
text. Anchor text is usually the keyword you are targeting, so
instead of trading links and having it look like
"www.yourdomain.com", use one with your keyword, like "widgets"
And don't always use the same anchor text. Try to use at least
3 different ones, so you can target different keywords, and
Google won't see your links as Spam.
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