Getting Website Links
To succeed at making an online income with websites promoting your business you’ll need traffic to them. You can either use pay per click advertising and pay a keyword bid price every time somebody clicks on your ads, or you can properly optimize your websites to get search engine traffic for free. PPC advertising has become way too expensive for many website owners to profit from, so getting free search engine traffic by optimizing your sites may be the way to go. Though it may take some time, getting website links will go a long way towards your search engine optimization success.
To get indexed and rank high in the search engines you’ll need to start getting website links from other sites. You can get your sites indexed by the major search engines much quicker (possibly within a few days) from getting website links than by using search engine submission. Once you get your sites indexed you’ll need to continually get more and more incoming links to them from other sites to improve your rankings. Getting lots of incoming website links is especially important to ranking high in Google.
There are a few different ways to go about getting website links. You can buy links, exchange links, or get one way links by submitting articles to article directories or by posting or commenting on blogs.
Getting website links by buying them from other sites can be quite expensive. The major search engines can also tell if a link to your site was purchased and will likely give less credit to it. Whether or not you think buying links is worth it is up to you.
There are many programs that you can find on the web where you can exchange links with other sites. Many webmasters are getting website links this way. However, exchanged links are also starting to lose their luster with the major search engines. At the very least, exchanging links won’t cost as much as buying links one at a time and still may help your websites get higher rankings. There are also some programs that offer 3 way linking in which site A links to site B, site B links to site C, and site links to site A. Getting website links this way creates the illusion of one-way links coming to your site even though you’re actually exchanging them.
The best kind of links you can get are one way links from another site to your site. One way links look the best and get the most credit from search engines. If you get one way links from sites with a high Google PageRank your sites search engine rankings are almost guaranteed to rise.
One of the best ways to get one way links to your sites is to submit articles to the best article directories such as GoArticles and EzineArticles. Make sure to add some links to your site in your articles. If you do this and your article gets approved, you’ll start getting website links from these high PageRank directories. To avoid duplicate content you’ll want the articles that you submit to directories to be original. There is automated article submission software that you can use, though many major article directories don’t allow it.
Another great way to go about getting one way website links is to post or comment on blogs. Of course, you’ll again want to add links to your website on your posts and comments. Many blogs allow you to do this, especially Wordpress blogs, as it will add more content to them. Most blogs automatically have a ‘no follow’ tag that will make links from them pretty much worthless to Google but not to Yahoo. Nowadays you can find many blogs that have gotten rid of the ‘no follow’ tag to post to.
As you keep getting website links, especially one way links, you’ll certainly see an explosion of free search engine traffic from your increased rankings.
