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How To Achieve Top Search Engine Placement With Link Popularity
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Jean Lam
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Web Site Marketing Secrets
http://www.zineguru.com
To get top search engine placement nowadays, link popularity is
of fundamental importance. If your web site has good link
popularity, you are sure to get a top search engine placement
for your primary keyword. The more web sites linking to yours,
the better in general and this translates in higher link
popularity for your site.
But bear in mind that link popularity is not simply obtaining as
many links as possible. The quality of the links hold more "weight"
than the quantity of links. You will get better results in the
search engines if you have link popularity from sites that have
top search engine placements and hence considerable traffic.
To learn more about how link popularity can get you top search
engine placement, check out
http://www.zineguru.com/top-search-engine-placement2.htm
To develop popularity for your web site and achieve top search
engine placement, consider the 5 tips I am giving you:
(1) High Traffic Web Directories
Submit your site to the most visited directories. Yahoo
of course at (yahoo.com), LookSmart (looksmart.com), and Open
Directory (dmoz.org) are examples of major directories.
(2) Reciprocal link exchanges
One of the best ways to get links is to give links, through
reciprocal exchanges. Using link exchanges does two things.
First, it makes getting links easier. Most webmasters are willing
to help each other, so if you give them a link, most times they
will return the favor.
Second, by adding links to other quality websites, it increases
the quality of your own website. Finally, you are providing a
resource (links to other websites) for your visitors. Will you
lose potential customers? If you website is good, you don't
have to worry.
When looking for possible link candidates, start by searching
your strategic keywords at major search portals. You'll see a lot
of competitors, but look for non-competing, complementary sites.
Screen these sites, selecting those likely to be receptive to
your link request. Give them a compelling reason to link to your
site. Show them where a link might be advantageous. A good
strategy is to link to them first, which might help get a link
back. Target respected and popular sites of relevance to your
target audience.
A note about what is meant by a "quality" website. You do not
want to link to any old website. You need to research the website
and note such things as its Google pageRank, theme, search engine
rankings, the websites it links to, etc. You only want to link
to the best websites you can.
Unfortunately when you are first starting out, many websites will
not want to since you are new ...In that case you might have to
search a bit harder and may be "lower your standards" some but your
persistent will pay off. Set goals and stick to them.
(3) Linkability Within Your Site
Provide quality resources and appropriate outgoing links,
including links to search engines, news hubs, weather reports,
industry resources, industry professional groups, etc. Outgoing
links are important for they provide incentive for other quality
sites to link to yours, and they can improve your PR score if
internal linkage is done properly.
(4) Write Articles
Write articles related to your target audience and submit the
articles to appropriate online publications. Include your Web
site URL in the bio and make it a condition for publication that
the article appear with bio and company link. This can generate
many links and can also help promote future business.
(5) Well Designed and Optimized Web Site
Before worrying about getting those links, you need to create
quality content that will make people want to link to you. Your
website needs to be designed properly and optimized before you
worry about links.
The time spent getting your website's overall design and content
properly done will make your link popularity grow even faster
later.
If your website is new and has been designed well and optimized,
do not fall for those "get link popularity quick schemes." Be
patient-it takes time. Yes, you should work on link popularity
but you just can't get a link from anyone.
To check your link popularity in some search engines, you can use
the following tools at:
http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop
http://www.searchenginepromotion.cc
While increasing link popularity is of fundamental importance,
you should take note that there are certain strategies to avoid.
These strategies hyped in the past should be avoided because
they're now worthless and can get you penalized in search engines.
Here are 3 strategies to avoid:
(1) Link Farms
A link farm is a network of sites linking to other sites for the
sole purpose of increasing link popularity. Search engines
consider this spamming and will remove sites associated with link
farms.
(2) Reciprocal Link Exchange Services
Networks consisting of hundreds of webmasters with sites on
numerous topics are linked to one another. The service requires
linking to all sites in network, making content unrelated. Search
engines consider this spamming.
(3) FFA Listings
Free for All listings appear and disappear rather quickly. Few
people search through the listings except for spammers collecting
email addresses. These sites are not indexed by search engines.
In conclusion, link popularity cannot be overlooked, but as with
any web site promotional technique, to be effective it has to be
done properly.
Running a link campaign can take a little time, but is well worth
the effort if the groundwork has been laid and you put the time
into it that it deserves, for these links establish relevancy, a
top priority for search engines and consumers alike. Only then
will it truly help your website out.
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and also a Web Site Marketing Expert. Check out his wide range of highly
recommended internet marketing products ranging from membership sites,
ezine advertising, internet marketing course, email marketing software,
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