Link This! Drive Traffic to Your Site!
How do you make more money online? Increase your online
visibility! And how do you increase your online visibility?
Driving traffic to your website is key. Achieving and
maintaining a high ranking with the search engines is a definite
must.
The best way to achieve these directives is to link and be
linked with similar websites. This is called, reciprocal
linking. If all of this seems a little confusing to you,
keep reading because I'm going to give you a free tool that is
most likely one of the best resources you will ever find for
increasing your visibility, gaining higher traffic, and reaching
better rankings with the search engines.
Let's back up a little bit though and explain what reciprocal
linking is and does.
You create a reciprocal link by placing a link on your website
to someone else's website. They, in turn, will do the same. As
an example, take a look at the Ideas For Home Businesses Motivation, Coaching and Goal Setting Resource
page. Scroll down and you will notice a link for "The
Realgoalgetter Website", along with a description about
the website. Now, let's look at The Realgoalgetter
Website. Scroll down and you will notice a link back to
"Ideas For Home Businesses", on the left side
margin!
These are reciprocal links. We each found value in one another's
websites. We also found that our websites, while not dealing
with the same subject, complimented each other quite well.
Furthermore, we both realized that the other's site was a
valuable, high ranking, reputable site that our visitors would
appreciate. All of these points are extremely important when
deciding whether to accept a reciprocal link. Personally, I have
declined over 100 requests for links for varying reasons. Some
of the sites were poor quality with very low rankings. Others
did not relate in any way to home business. Some were link
factories. While still others had annoying pop ups, pop unders,
or automatic downloads of Gator or Gain Publishing. I could not
see the value in these sites and as such, I felt sure my
visitors wouldn't appreciate a link to those sites.
You must, at all times, keep the interests of your visitors
your foremost priority. If you feel they would not
appreciate a link to a particular site, regardless of the reason
- don't do it. I cannot stress this enough to you - Only link
with websites that are reputable and hold value to your
visitors!
Now you may be asking yourself a few questions right about now.
How does creating reciprocal links increase your search engine
ranking? How do you find good quality, valuable and similar
sites to link with (aside from surfing the net 24/7)? We'll
answer those questions now.
When the search engine robots look at your site, one of the
criteria for ranking you is your in-going and out-going links.
However, when looking at that they also look at the site you're
linking with. If it is a link farm, they penalize your site for
linking with it. These robots have become much more intelligent
in their ranking criteria than you realize. Personally, I'm glad
for it! Otherwise, link farms would always rank the highest in
all the search engines and I find little to no value in those
sites. Hopefully, you're like me and you want sites that hold
content rather than fluff.
Now, to answer your question about how you find sites to link
with. Previously, you did have to search the net to find good
sites, send them an email, hope that someone read your email and
wait for a reply. As you can imagine, this was not only time
consuming, it was tiring, unproductive and yielded few
responses. Luckily, because my website was built using Site Build It!
the Value
Exchange reciprocal linking tool was included free of
charge. I am passing along this amazing and free tool to you.
Trust me, you will thank me for this! I was completely blown
away with how easy it was to use and the amazing response I
received!
How complicated and time consuming is this? Not at all! What you
do is input the simple information requested (URL, keywords,
site description, etc) and click to register and search for
value exchanges. You will receive a list of sites you matched
keywords with, along with emails from members who want to
exchange with you. Review your list of sites received, decide
whether you'd like to exchange with them and if you do, an
automatic email is sent to them, requesting a link. It's
really that easy!
Check out the Value
Exchange today! Before I took part in the Value Exchange, my
site ranking was 3.7 million out of 16.5+ million total sites.
In less than three weeks the Ideas For Home Businesses Alexa
ranking was 275 thousand and it's climbing every day. That put
IFHB in the top 3%! Aside from the Value Exchange, I owe the
popularity of IFHB to Site Build It!
and the great resources that came along with it. Yes, I did the
work and am dedicated to IFHB but Site Build It! made it
easier and much more enjoyable than I thought possible!
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