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Do You Know How To Increase Your Link Popularity? (Page 1 of 3)

Where’s the first place you go to look for a product or service you need? If you use the internet at all, your answer is probably a search engine. Search engines are what help us find information online. This is why link popularity is so important. If a customer can’t find your website, then you have no chance of making a sale.

What Makes A Link Popular?

So, the question comes up – what makes a link popular? Plenty. Link popularity is the rating given to your website by the search engines. Your website’s rating determines where in the listing your site comes up when a certain keyword is entered into a search engine by a customer. Is your website on page one or page 5,000. It is imperative that you know where you website stands.

How Do I Make My Link Popular?

Search engines give ratings and status to websites that have links to their pages from quality, related websites. This is a simple system, but a very important one. Google created this system, and now virtually all other popular search engines employ it to rank your web pages in their indexes.

It is difficult to achieve link popularity when your keyword is a highly searched keyword. But without it, your site will never be seen in the search engines. Don’t get discouraged if you have a keyword that is one of the most used. There are methods that the top marketers use everyday to achieve link popularity on any keyword.

In your quest for making your link popular, be sure to stay away from what are known as “link farms”. These are just sites with pages and pages of links in any category. You want to research the site that you are linking to. Just any link will not increase your link popularity. In fact, it could harm it. Search engines do not like link farms, and they may discriminate against your website if you are associated with one, so steer clear of them!

The next thing that is important in your link marketing strategy is the quality of the website you are linking to. If you are not sure you would want any of your customers or site visitors to see a certain website, then definitely do not link to it. You don’t want your site to look cheap. You want your visitors to know that your site only has quality information on it. Linking to poor quality sites could completely destroy your link popularity.

So what do you need to do to achieve high link popularity and improve your website’s ratings on the search engines? The first step, and a great starting place is to get a listing in a popular directory like Yahoo and Open Directory Project. Be aware that if your sight is business-related then it will cost around $300 a year to be listed in the Yahoo Directory. This is a great step toward linking popularity, so I strongly suggest paying this fee with yahoo. If your website is non-commercial then the listing is free, but it does take some time and follow up to assure your site actually makes it in the directory. Open Directory’s listing is free no matter what type of site, but as with Yahoo it does take some follow up to get listed.

The Pace Of Adding New Links To Websites

Links as you know are essential when it comes to have some good rankings in the search engines on the web and they are actually some votes that websites give to each other and this way, the search engines can realize how important a certain website is. The links are in fact regarded as the main elements playing important roles in making many websites successful on the web because only through having proper and powerful links, a website can be found in the online world.

But is the matter just this simple about the links on the web? In other words, if links are so powerful for websites rankings online, should we spend some hours everyday, adding as many links to our websites, hoping to have excellent rankings in the major search engines? As a matter of fact, although links are very important in adding to the values of websites rankings, but there are certain steps and complex systems when it comes to counting and evaluating them in order to give bonuses to the websites the links point at.

You know, if the story was just about the number of the links, you could find websites adding thousands of links to their homepages overnight wishing to stand at the top search engines placements forever but as mentioned earlier, the story is not that simple to figure out. Links are very important for ensuring your websites are to be found among the other competitors in the search engines but have you ever thought of the pace of adding new links to your websites?

If you talk to the web professionals, the ones who have been working on optimizing websites either for themselves or their clients for several years, you can see that in nearly all the cases, they recommend not adding just too many new links to a website in a short period of time. Now, you might wonder how there would be the possibility of problems should you add many links too quickly, right? Please note that although links are good, but having them in an artificial manner, will prove to be having the opposite effect.

This is especially true if you are going to make a newly built website popular by establishing so many one way links to that very quickly. The search engines are now very smart in calculating whether some links have been added naturally or not and therefore, paying attention to the pace and the speed of creating and pointing new inbound links to your web resources is very important.

Please note that we are not talking about the number of links to be added to a website but of the pace in the way they are being established. For instance, while for one of your online projects, even 5 good links might be enough to pushing your sites rankings to the top of the search engines listings, in another online project, you might be needing hundreds of new links in order to be found, but in both cases, it is important that the links be added gradually and not hurriedly.

You can continue building links for your websites in order to establish their current good rankings in the major search engines and in fact, the majority of the successful web companies and firms too are practicing this practice of adding to the pack of their websites links but it is highly recommended, following a secured method of establishing new links in a steady course of time and one thing to always remember is that no site can be built and promoted on the web overnight.

Search engines like to see new links being added to the websites indexed in their listings in a gradual and steady pace and not instantly, as some link packages might promise on some websites. Such link building programs are not helpful and in many cases, as the experience has shown, they can even be bad to the rankings of the websites in the main search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN as the three of the engines have more or less similar algorithms.

The Pace Of Adding New Links To Websites

Links as you know are essential when it comes to have some good rankings in the search engines on the web and they are actually some votes that websites give to each other and this way, the search engines can realize how important a certain website is. The links are in fact regarded as the main elements playing important roles in making many websites successful on the web because only through having proper and powerful links, a website can be found in the online world.

But is the matter just this simple about the links on the web? In other words, if links are so powerful for websites rankings online, should we spend some hours everyday, adding as many links to our websites, hoping to have excellent rankings in the major search engines? As a matter of fact, although links are very important in adding to the values of websites rankings, but there are certain steps and complex systems when it comes to counting and evaluating them in order to give bonuses to the websites the links point at.

You know, if the story was just about the number of the links, you could find websites adding thousands of links to their homepages overnight wishing to stand at the top search engines placements forever but as mentioned earlier, the story is not that simple to figure out. Links are very important for ensuring your websites are to be found among the other competitors in the search engines but have you ever thought of the pace of adding new links to your websites?

If you talk to the web professionals, the ones who have been working on optimizing websites either for themselves or their clients for several years, you can see that in nearly all the cases, they recommend not adding just too many new links to a website in a short period of time. Now, you might wonder how there would be the possibility of problems should you add many links too quickly, right? Please note that although links are good, but having them in an artificial manner, will prove to be having the opposite effect.

This is especially true if you are going to make a newly built website popular by establishing so many one way links to that very quickly. The search engines are now very smart in calculating whether some links have been added naturally or not and therefore, paying attention to the pace and the speed of creating and pointing new inbound links to your web resources is very important.

Please note that we are not talking about the number of links to be added to a website but of the pace in the way they are being established. For instance, while for one of your online projects, even 5 good links might be enough to pushing your sites rankings to the top of the search engines listings, in another online project, you might be needing hundreds of new links in order to be found, but in both cases, it is important that the links be added gradually and not hurriedly.

You can continue building links for your websites in order to establish their current good rankings in the major search engines and in fact, the majority of the successful web companies and firms too are practicing this practice of adding to the pack of their websites links but it is highly recommended, following a secured method of establishing new links in a steady course of time and one thing to always remember is that no site can be built and promoted on the web overnight.

Search engines like to see new links being added to the websites indexed in their listings in a gradual and steady pace and not instantly, as some link packages might promise on some websites. Such link building programs are not helpful and in many cases, as the experience has shown, they can even be bad to the rankings of the websites in the main search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN as the three of the engines have more or less similar algorithms.