Link Building to Get Search Engine Rankings
After you’ve built an online store or web site and optimized it for search engines, the next step is to build links to your site. This post goes over the top ways to build links to your web site:
1. Submit to directories using the correct category and keywords. This isn’t to get traffic to your site but to get your new site into search engines. If you wait for this it can take months.
2. Write articles and link them back to a relevant page on your site. Again, use your keyword phrases, not the URL as the link text. The point here is to create valuable information related to what your site is selling or about.
3. Write press releases and link back to your site or a page of your site. This is for news, not information.
4. Post on blogs and forums with links back to your site. Each forum has different rules and so read them. If you break the rules people are not merciful at all. Contribute something of value or you’ll be looked on as a spammer and your post will be deleted.
Read the whole article for more ideas, but these IMO are the best. You can buy links, but I’d just ask for a link first.
5 Responses to “Link Building to Get Search Engine Rankings”
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June 26th, 2007 at 8:34 am
are there any directories you regularly submit your sites?
June 26th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
directories arent what they were
June 26th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
“Write articles and link them back to a relevant page on your site.”
What a great point! I hadn’t really given this any thought. I always link to other pages of the site in the web pages and I link from the article to the webpages, but I overlooked the idea of linking from the web pages to the article. Just goes to show, we all overlook the obvious. Thanks for pointing that out.
Katie
June 26th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Thanks for everyone’s comments.
Here are the ones I recommend:
http://www.addurl.nu for free ones
http://www.seocompany.ca for paid ones (you get faster inclusion and sometimes deep links – more than just a link to your home page)
Janet
July 11th, 2009 at 6:56 am
I like the point about Posting on Blogs and Forums this can generate Lots of Referral Traffic.A comment is just as important as a blog post.Many people comment but don’t mention the topic of the post.The Quality of your Comment is Important but I feel that not many people will goto your site from a forum post unless the quality of the Comment is Very high.And thanks for the directory lists.