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Linking Strategies Using Link Directories (Page 1 of 2)
Introduction:
Building high quality links to your website is one of the most important things that you can do to improve your search engine rankings. You can think of these links as votes in favor of you website (this is the way the search engines see it). Acquiring high quality links for your site can be very time consuming, however it is a very important thing to do if you want to get great search engine rankings.
Before I continue, let me quickly define Link Popularity (link pop) for you. Link Popularity simply refers to the amount and quality of inbound links to your site. There are many free tools available on the internet for checking your link popularity.
How Link Directories Can Help You
Using link directories is one of the best ways to get quality links to your site. A link directory is basically a web site which has a huge collection of links that are sorted by categories. People who are searching for a particular type of web site will use links directories as an alternative to doing a search engine query.
There are thousands upon thousands of link directories out there to choose from. I recently typed the keywords: link directories in to Google and received 1,120,000 hits.
When you submit your site to a link directory, it is edited by a human. Your submission will either be accepted or rejected, depending on the quality of you site, and whether it is relevant to the directory you are submitting to. If your site gets accepted, the users of the link directory will consider your site to be credible. Also, the search engines love links that point to your website from quality link directories.
You will want to have your link placed on as many link directories as you can. There are three reasons why you’ll want to do this. First, you will get targeted traffic to your site when people search the directory for your type of site. Second, you will increase you search engine rankings as your link popularity increases. Third, having links from link directories will help your web site pages to get indexed quickly.
Some Features Of Link Directories
When you submit to a link directory, you are usually given 3 choices that look something like this: o Featured Links o Regular Links o Regular Links With Recipricol The featured links will normally keep your listing towards the top of the list. There is always a charge for featured links (this is one of the ways that link exchanges make their money). The trouble here is that if a lot of people are buying featured links for a particular category, you may still be pushed quite a way down the list. With a lot of link directories, the regular links and the regular links with recipricol are offered for free. When I submit to directories, I always choose regular links and I only choose free ones. Listen, there is such an overwhelming number of link directories out there, that if you start paying for your submissions, you will quickly empty your bank account. There are plenty of free ones to choose from (just type free link directories into Google, and you will be amazed at the numbers). Finally, always choose the regular link option (one way) rather than the reciprcol link option. These days, search engines consider one way links to be more valuable that recipricol links (recipricol links are still OK, but they are not as good as one way links).
Supercharge You Backlinks with Article Writing
After a lot of hard work, your website design is spot on and your Web site is now up there on the Internet for the world to see. Unfortunately, the world at present has no idea that your Web site even exists. So, what can you do to bring the Web site to their notice? Mmm
how about writing an article? Sounds weird? But, it’s completely true! Article writing is one of most effective methods of promoting your Web site on the Internet. It can help you earn free backlinks to your site from a variety of popular Web sites. Let’s see how you can use article writing to develop a strong backlink network.
Article writing is a cost effective way of driving up your search engine rankings and attracting traffic to your Web site. Unlike other forms of advertising, you can start an article writing campaign with zero investment. Therefore, article writing is quickly becoming the ideal method for promoting a Web site. To start your article writing campaign, all you need to do is write informative articles related to your field and submit them to reputed newsletters and e-zines related to your field. At the end of each of your articles, add author information in the form of a couple of sentences about you and your products. In addition, provide the complete URL of your Web site and invite readers to visit your Web site. If your article is accepted and published, you get free backlinks to your Web site through these newsletters and e-zines. Readers who like your article can click through to your Web site using the link you provided at the end of your articles.
To get even better results from your article writing campaign, you should submit your articles to article directories. An article directory contains thousands of articles on varied subjects, ranging from team building to shopping. Web publishers, such as Webzine owners and bloggers, pick relevant articles from the directory and post them on their own Web sites. The publishers don’t need to pay anything for using the articles. However, they are required to replicate the author information at the end of the articles exactly as it is on their own Web sites. So, publishers who select your article in effect provide you completely free backlinks from their Web sites. These backlinks provide exposure to your Web site and help drive traffic to it.
Lets take an example to understand how you can build a powerful backlink network through article writing. Suppose you have a Web site for selling pet care products. You write articles on topics such as “Best Food for Dobermans,” “How to Get a Personalized Pet Collar,” and “10 Secrets for Getting the 1st Position in a Pet Show.” In the author information box at the end of each article, you include a backlink to your Web site on pet care products. Finally, you post these articles on a reputed article directory. Let’s see what results you can expect from posting just these three articles.
Let’s say each of your three articles is picked by 5 publishers who use them on their own animal care or pet training newsletter, e-zine, or Web site. That amounts to 15 free backlinks from a single article directory. Now let’s say you modify the three articles a little and submit them to 5 additional directories. If you get a similar response in these directories, the additional backlinks you earn on those same three articles is 225! As you keep on posting an article a day, the number of backlinks to your Web site starts increasing at a phenomenal rate. And, the more backlinks there are to your Web site, the higher will be the number of readers clicking through to your Web site.
Another advantage of building backlinks through article writing is that it positively affects your search engine rankings. This is because most search engines take the number of backlinks into account when determining the position of your Web page on their search results. So, the higher the number of backlinks to your Web site, the better will be your position in the search results for related keywords.
Article writing is an efficient and economical way of developing a powerful backlink network for your Web site. Articles not only attract more traffic to your Web site but also help establish you as an expert in your niche.
Supercharge You Backlinks with Article Writing
After a lot of hard work, your website design is spot on and your Web site is now up there on the Internet for the world to see. Unfortunately, the world at present has no idea that your Web site even exists. So, what can you do to bring the Web site to their notice? Mmm
how about writing an article? Sounds weird? But, it’s completely true! Article writing is one of most effective methods of promoting your Web site on the Internet. It can help you earn free backlinks to your site from a variety of popular Web sites. Let’s see how you can use article writing to develop a strong backlink network.
Article writing is a cost effective way of driving up your search engine rankings and attracting traffic to your Web site. Unlike other forms of advertising, you can start an article writing campaign with zero investment. Therefore, article writing is quickly becoming the ideal method for promoting a Web site. To start your article writing campaign, all you need to do is write informative articles related to your field and submit them to reputed newsletters and e-zines related to your field. At the end of each of your articles, add author information in the form of a couple of sentences about you and your products. In addition, provide the complete URL of your Web site and invite readers to visit your Web site. If your article is accepted and published, you get free backlinks to your Web site through these newsletters and e-zines. Readers who like your article can click through to your Web site using the link you provided at the end of your articles.
To get even better results from your article writing campaign, you should submit your articles to article directories. An article directory contains thousands of articles on varied subjects, ranging from team building to shopping. Web publishers, such as Webzine owners and bloggers, pick relevant articles from the directory and post them on their own Web sites. The publishers don’t need to pay anything for using the articles. However, they are required to replicate the author information at the end of the articles exactly as it is on their own Web sites. So, publishers who select your article in effect provide you completely free backlinks from their Web sites. These backlinks provide exposure to your Web site and help drive traffic to it.
Lets take an example to understand how you can build a powerful backlink network through article writing. Suppose you have a Web site for selling pet care products. You write articles on topics such as “Best Food for Dobermans,” “How to Get a Personalized Pet Collar,” and “10 Secrets for Getting the 1st Position in a Pet Show.” In the author information box at the end of each article, you include a backlink to your Web site on pet care products. Finally, you post these articles on a reputed article directory. Let’s see what results you can expect from posting just these three articles.
Let’s say each of your three articles is picked by 5 publishers who use them on their own animal care or pet training newsletter, e-zine, or Web site. That amounts to 15 free backlinks from a single article directory. Now let’s say you modify the three articles a little and submit them to 5 additional directories. If you get a similar response in these directories, the additional backlinks you earn on those same three articles is 225! As you keep on posting an article a day, the number of backlinks to your Web site starts increasing at a phenomenal rate. And, the more backlinks there are to your Web site, the higher will be the number of readers clicking through to your Web site.
Another advantage of building backlinks through article writing is that it positively affects your search engine rankings. This is because most search engines take the number of backlinks into account when determining the position of your Web page on their search results. So, the higher the number of backlinks to your Web site, the better will be your position in the search results for related keywords.
Article writing is an efficient and economical way of developing a powerful backlink network for your Web site. Articles not only attract more traffic to your Web site but also help establish you as an expert in your niche.