"You
Need More Links: Here's How to Get Them"
By Jim Daniels
Most websites have FAR too few
incoming links. This is a gaping hole in most web marketing
campaigns, and it can be a real traffic killer.
After all, did you know that more
website traffic is generated from incoming links than any other
source? And I'm sure you realize that search engine ranking is
boosted significantly when you have lots of sites linking to
yours.
But getting other sites to link
to your site is difficult and time-consuming, right?
Well, the truth is, it does
not have to be difficult if you know a few tricks of the
trade. Today's gazette will show you a couple proven secrets to
boosting your incoming links sharply.
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Let's start by checking out your
site for incoming links. You can do that right now at this
MarketLeap's Free
Link Popularity Checker. It measures your website's
visibility online by counting up all the links to your site.
The site also lets you enter up to three other URLs so you can compare yours
to them. The results show your URL among lots of popular sites
on the web.
Not only is this free tool fun to try, it can reveal important information
about your web presence.
If your site is not as "linked
in" as you want,
here's how to get a powerful link-building plan in place...
First of all, getting other sites to link to yours takes a bit
of originality. You can't just surf the web and email webmasters with "wanna swap links?" messages. (Well, you
can do
that, but you'll spend a good part of your life doing it before you get many quality links.)
But there are ways to get
lots of
links. I invite you (and encourage you!) to emulate the following strategies at
your site...
1. Submit your site to the major search engines (Google, Yahoo,
MSN) and to as many other search engines as you can.
2. Write 1-2 articles each week and submit them to the
free article directories. Be sure to include a link to your site
after each article in your bio box. The articles should be
optimized for a keyword your site is targeting.
Important:
If you ever create your own tips, articles or content for the web or email
newsletters, you really should be pre-licensing it to others. Pre-licensing
content is as simple as
including a short footer after your work. It looks something like this:
* You have permission to reprint what you just read. Use it in your ezine,
at your website or in your newsletter. The only requirement is including the
following footer with it...
Article by YOUR NAME, visit www.YourWebsiteUrl.com for more original
content like this. Reprinting this article is permitted with this footer included.
Sponsor Message 2 of 2...
This passive link building strategy really works, but it does
take some time. But remember, if you do it like the above, the
process is viral.
Even if one site uses your content, you could obtain an endless number of
links without the linking sites even coming to your site!
3. Submit those same articles to email newsletter publishers
in your niche.
4. Find blogs related to your topic and leave useful comments
with a backlink to your site. Here's a great
free tool you can use to find the best targeted blogs where
you can leave your backlinks.
5. Answer questions related to your site’s topic at answers.yahoo.com. Be sure to put a link to your site in each of
your answers.
6. Join a handful of the most popular forums that deal with
your site's topic and become an active poster. Include a link to
your site in your signature.
OK, let's wrap today's lesson up...
The fact is, every site needs a
link building strategy. The sooner you start yours, the more it
will help your profits, especially in the long run.
No matter which route you choose,
the slow steady content licensing route, or the more pro-active
approach above, (or ideally both!) the important thing is that
you have some kind of "get links" strategy. It is one of
the real secrets behind growing your business online.
 To your online marketing success,
Jim Daniels - JDD Publishing
Creator of
ezWebBusinessBuilder.com - the world's first View it and Do
It software for profiting from the web.
P.S. Thanks again to all of you who
wrote
letters raving about my new
CD. It's heartwarming knowing that the
software has helped so many of you get your web businesses going
in the right direction.
P.P.S. Oh, and of course, you have permission* to reprint what you just read. Use it in your ezine,
at your website or in your newsletter. The only requirement is including the
following footer with it...
* Article by Jim Daniels of JDD Publishing, visit Jim's
Internet Marketing Website for more original
content like this. Reprinting this article is permitted with this footer included.
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