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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).

How to run a successful reciprocal link campaign

Reciprocal linking is a process to establish mutual link between two websites to ensure mutual benefit i.e. traffic, search engine enclosure. It is an important and crucial part of the SEO process because Search engines uses link popularity algorithm (depend upon the number of links that point to a particular page of a website and the title of the link) to rank websites for relevancy.

While doing reciprocal linking you have to be very careful about few particular things. Here we are listing few tips for running a successful reciprocal link building service:

1. Find relevant websites: You will be getting more value from search engines for linking to and from other websites which are relevant to your website. Reciprocal linking from other non-relevant website will not greatly help your website’s standing with search engines.

2. Make sure that each inbound links are good: Be sure to have quality inbound links only. It had been recognized that 100 high quality relevant links is better them 1000 irrelevant low quality links. So try to get links from quality relevant websites only.

3. Do not Link to questionable sites which CAN hurt your ranking: Be aware of such sites that use questionable search engine optimization processes because such sites can harm your ranking. Before accepting any link check whether the page where your link will be posted is cached or not. Also we prefer to not to have any link which is not cached by Google within last 90 days.

4. Few facts to be followed: This is not possible to have all links from same quality sites. But still you have to set up some criteria for accepting links and have to follow them strictly. Don’t go for links which are non-indexed by SE, don’t accept any links with no-follow tag or text links in JavaScript or redirected. These link will not pass any value to your site so better avoid them.

5. Organize the procedure: Be sure to manage your reciprocal link building campaign well organized. Try to keep all records of the URLs where your link is posted along with their link partnership email. Try to track each link periodically and if any links get dropped then try to contact the person and ask him to reestablish the link else delete the corresponding link from your website.

These are few facts that will ensure your rank improvement obvious in search engines. Also while doing reciprocal campaign we recommend you to run a simultaneous one way link campaign as well.

How to run a successful reciprocal link campaign

Reciprocal linking is a process to establish mutual link between two websites to ensure mutual benefit i.e. traffic, search engine enclosure. It is an important and crucial part of the SEO process because Search engines uses link popularity algorithm (depend upon the number of links that point to a particular page of a website and the title of the link) to rank websites for relevancy.

While doing reciprocal linking you have to be very careful about few particular things. Here we are listing few tips for running a successful reciprocal link building service:

1. Find relevant websites: You will be getting more value from search engines for linking to and from other websites which are relevant to your website. Reciprocal linking from other non-relevant website will not greatly help your website’s standing with search engines.

2. Make sure that each inbound links are good: Be sure to have quality inbound links only. It had been recognized that 100 high quality relevant links is better them 1000 irrelevant low quality links. So try to get links from quality relevant websites only.

3. Do not Link to questionable sites which CAN hurt your ranking: Be aware of such sites that use questionable search engine optimization processes because such sites can harm your ranking. Before accepting any link check whether the page where your link will be posted is cached or not. Also we prefer to not to have any link which is not cached by Google within last 90 days.

4. Few facts to be followed: This is not possible to have all links from same quality sites. But still you have to set up some criteria for accepting links and have to follow them strictly. Don’t go for links which are non-indexed by SE, don’t accept any links with no-follow tag or text links in JavaScript or redirected. These link will not pass any value to your site so better avoid them.

5. Organize the procedure: Be sure to manage your reciprocal link building campaign well organized. Try to keep all records of the URLs where your link is posted along with their link partnership email. Try to track each link periodically and if any links get dropped then try to contact the person and ask him to reestablish the link else delete the corresponding link from your website.

These are few facts that will ensure your rank improvement obvious in search engines. Also while doing reciprocal campaign we recommend you to run a simultaneous one way link campaign as well.