Top Search Position -- How To Build Link Popularity
If you want to make the most profit possible in your chosen niche, then you need to do your best to ensure you build residual traffic. And what better way to do this than to win at the search engines? This involves a lot of steps.
There are onsite and offsite factors that determine whether you'll rank high for the keyphrases you target or not. But of them all (those that we are sure of), getting high quality links to your site happens to be the surest way of ranking high for your chosen keywords. Let's look at some ways to get those links...
1. Write and submit high quality articles to article directories. This is certainly the most cost effective way of building link popularity.
Why I personally use article marketing as my preferred way of building links is that I have total control on how the links to my site are formatted. With this level of control, I can decide and affect which key phrases I rank for.
Now, some people think that they can submit just a few articles and have first page ranking. While this may happen in some low competition niches, you'll need to submit many articles to reap the rewards. The more competitive your niche is, the more articles you'll have to submit.
Just make sure you have the right tools for this or you'll be wasting your time and money. Some services help you submit unique versions of each article to each article directory. This increases the effectiveness of your efforts and gets you as many as 500 to 1,000 permanent links for each article you submit through them.
2. You can start blogs that are related in theme to your main site. Since your blogs are different webpages from your main site, links from them will help you increase your main site's link popularity.
Lack of money is certainly NOT an excuse to postpone starting your own blog. You only need to have what you want to say. Just make sure it's some useful and relevant to your theme. You can start within a few minutes for free at either blogger.com or wordpress.com.
If you do NOT have the time or inclination to start a blog, you can still build great links from other people's blogs. All you have to do is look for blogs that "DO FOLLOW" and post useful comments with a link back to your site.
3. Have you heard of sites like digg.com? You've probably used them. You can build links to your site by bookmarking your articles on these sites. You'll also do well to make it easy for your site visitors to easily bookmark them.
Furthermore, it makes saving and sharing your content a lot easier. With so many social bookmarking sites out there, you can get high quality links to your site since most of them are sites that are highly respected by Google.
4. You certainly shouldn't forget web directories as you do your link building. They are very important for your link-building success.
Dmoz is certainly one of the most important directories. However, it does take such a long time for your site to be included. But while you're advised to submit your site for review there, don't stop there.
Do NOT limit yourself to just the big directories. Search in your niche. Although niche directories might NOT have very high page rank, their links are very useful because they are theme-focused.
If it looks like a daunting task to submit your site to many directories, then check some software or submission services.
5. Most forums allow you to link back to your site. So look for high PR forums and post helpful comments. Spamming is NOT a viable strategy as it will hurt you on the long run.
Although we've touched many ways to build links to your site, they are NOT the only ways. But just bear in mind why you're building links: It's to drive massive free and residual targeted traffic to your site.
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