Link Building Success

A proven method in the modern search engine optimization world without any doubt is how successfully you create a powerful network of links pointing at your website. Google specifically and other leading search engines nowadays put emphasis on the number and quality of links that directly or indirectly shoot at your website. It's not a couple of years ago that all you had to do was making web pages loaded with keywords or what is called keyword rich web pages, at present if you want to appear on first pages of search engines, you necessarily have to have valuable, high quality links to your website, and this can be done in several methods. Some people think that Ok, yesterday we registered a domain, and today we set up our web hosting account and tomorrow we buy links from so many websites offering text links or banner links and so the next week we are in the top ten results of search engines and two weeks from now, we will be circled by thousands of visitors to our website and so our newly launched business will skyrocket. Unfortunately or fortunately this is not the case, time is needed, and you have to be very smart and patient at the same time, it's a general belief among leading online web marketing experts that you shouldn't expect a miracle to happen in the first six months of being online. The reason is that search engines in addition to the number of links established to your site, they calculate the lifespan of the links as well. For example, links that you buy or other webmasters exchange with you are nice but their powerful effect appears after usually three months of establishment. So, please be patient and look for quality links. For instance if you set up a web business about website design, try to exchange or buy links with other webmasters in the same related field, how on earth a link from a website that sells books can help your web ranking in search engines? The other case is true as well, only 5 quality links from related websites are much better than hundreds of links from unrelated sources. By quality, I mean links that come from authoritative sources and websites, as you know the importance of links is measured through pagerank, for example 5 links with pageranks of 5 are much better than 10 links of pagerank 2. Please note that monthly links are not very much helpful, so if you buy text links make sure you order for several month, or when you decide exchanging links with other webmasters, make sure you both are determined to display each other links for years to come, and this is the place where the importance of yearly links and permanent links are eminent. As you might know there are certain related websites called directories that offer permanent or yearly based subscriptions, links from these websites are very helpful. But there is a minor hidden fact that some directories are called link farms because they do not have any contents except for links, so be aware as to where your links appear on, on useful related directories that contain useful content as well as links or merely some websites that are loaded with thousands of links, stay away from such artificial link building strategies. Another very important note about establishing links is how the actual link points at your website, as in our previous example, if you want to pay for a link to point at your website design related website, arrange the format of the link in a way that the anchor text or the clickable part of the link contains the words website design and not necessarily your website name, this is a proven method. The other note that can be mentioned in here is the number of links per page, for example if another webmaster put your link on a page with 20 other links, this is nice and acceptable but if your link is seen on a page among 150 other links, you see this is not recommended. Search engine friendly pages too are very important, make sure your link appears on pages that are indexed by search engines easily, how, if the link Url contains only your real Url, this is great but if the link is established through programming codes, not very much useful.