Link popularity
Link popularity
The link popularity (the amount of incoming
links to a particular website) is one of the most important factors for
achieving top positions in search engines. The more quality links you
can get the better.
How to improve your link popularity:
1. Submit to the major web directories
Google seems to add weight to the websites that are listed in DMOZ and
Yahoo directories. If your site will be accepted in DMOZ, soon it will
appear in the Google directory and in hundreds of DMOZ clones out
there. If you've got budget, submit your site to the Yahoo directory.
If you don't have the budget, try the free submission (don't expect too
much though). For non-commercial sites a submission to Zeal.com could
be worth the time you need to understand their submission guidelines.
2. Free directories
Almost every topic has a directory that accept free submissions. Submit
your site there. Do a search on your favorite search engine for
"yourkeyword directory", "yourkeyword links" etc.
3. Link exchange
The link exchanges are not as effective as one way links to your
website and pretty time consuming but still worth it sometimes. Look
around in the Google directory for your keywords. You will find a lot
of sites with link pages that do link exchanges with other sites.
Simply ask for a link swap. A non-templated personal message can do
wonders. A search for "yourkeyword add url", "yourkeyword submit site"
etc will pop up hundreds of websites to exchange links with.
4. Links Quality
Quality, on topic links work best. Don't waste your time by submitting
your site to FFA pages and by spamming guestbooks and forums - this is
not a long term solution and those links seems to count less and less
in the last time.
5. The secret to get a lot of good one-way links for free
Write quality content for your website. Provide some free services that
everyone would love. Work really hard and with passion and you will
wonder how many people will link to you. Not because of the link
exchanges or PR, but because they like your website. At last, that is
what the web is about - the links from some sites to other.
How to use link popularity tool
1. Enter the exact website address of the page you want to check the
link popularity for into the text box. (eg. www.freelance-webdesign.eu)
2. Click the "Check!" button
The results will provide you details of your listings in five different search engines.
This tool retrieve a number of backlinks of a specific website on the most common search engines.
