Link popularity refers to the number and
quality of the incoming links that are
pointing to your site. Search engines
use link popularity as one of the methods
to determine the ranking of sites. If
more sites link to your site, the search
engine is likely to rate your site higher
on the results of a particular search
than other similar sites. However, the
engines don't want links that have been
artificially increased, so there are
no easy ways to build link popularity.
The engines prefer links from well known
sites, or links from sites that share
the same focus as your site.
How do you
increase the Link Popularity of your
site? This is where the process
of Link Building comes in. Link Building
is also a form of networking. It is important
to link to sites that lend credibility
to your site and whose content is possibly
similar to yours. This will ensure that
visitors to your site gain value by clicking
on the links. This will make them come
back again and refer other people as well – simply
because they had a good experience with
your site the last time.
Another method
of linking building involves contacting
the Webmaster of a site that
is complementary but generally not competitive
to your own. You ask them to link to
your site while offering to link back to
them
in exchange for this courtesy. You should
make sure that the content on your Web
site is of interest to the trading partner.
There
are many ways to find link partners.
Searching for sites that rank high for
search terms that are important to you,
and then looking through the results
for sites that do not compete with you
will
give you a good list of link targets.
You could also check the link popularity
of
your competitors, and find out who is
linking to them.
If someone says they can
not or do not wish to link to your site,
you could still
ask their permission to link to them.
Often enough, you might be surprised, that
they
do link back.
Of course this can be a
time consuming and daunting task. And
since you are probably
already very busy, it may be in your
best interest to hire ACES to work on link
building
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