Link Popularity (Part-2)

Written by admin on June 16, 2008 – 3:02 pm -

link popularity-1 After you have attained directory listings, the next step is to locate other quality sites so that your link popularity will increase. Not only will increase your link popularity, but may also be expanded your customer base if you try to find sites that are related to yours in some way. You want to look for sites that are useful to your site’s visitors and avoid your competitors. Let’s look at the Food Cows Libary site example. Linking up to a site that sells high quality grass supplies would be helpful to your visitors, and the chances of the high quality grass supply site wanting to link up are also greater to your site. That will be relevant to your website’s traffic by linking to a related site, you are increasing both of your sites’ link popularity and both of your site’s business prospects.

When you are looking for possible linking partners, you will have to do some research because of not all sites want to link to other sites. For your search, Google is an excellent starting place. Make sure you enter keywords that you think quality customers will also enter to find your own site.

Just remind to you that your criteria are highly ranked, quality, non-competing websites that have a resources page or links. Go to these sites and objectively assess them. Look at the graphics, the quality of the product and the ease of use. Then determine and check out the other sites they are linked to, if your own site would fit in with the crowd.

You must set out to woo them when you decide you have found a good prospect. To add a link on your own links page to their site is the first thing to do. This is an essential first step; it shows good faith, and ups your chances significantly of their reciprocity. You must contact the webmaster of their site after you have added their link. You want to make sure it is immediately clear that your message is not junk mail, since this is almost always done by email. This requires that you tell them right off the bat that you have added a link to their page on your site. The reader will almost always insures to read on with a hook like this.

Next, let them know how much you appreciate their website and be sure to be flattering. Make sure you emphasize that their site is not just a random pick and that you have actually visited their site. Give them your links page address and ask them to check out the link for themselves. It’s better to mention that they will not only receive the benefit from the increased traffic of your website will direct their way, but their link popularity will also increase. Explain briefly, why link popularity is so essential, but do this in two or a sentence so you don’t sound like a professor! Finally, tell them if they would reciprocally add a link on their own links page to your website, you would greatly appreciate.

With as many appropriate sites as you can find, just go through this process, bearing in mind the criteria of non-competitiveness and quality. Be sure to check these website frequently, after you have emailed all relevant sites, to see if they have added a link to your page. Give it about a month, and try another charming email if no link appears. Then give it another month, and it’s time to remove their link from your own links page if your site is still absent from their links page. If you believe a site is crucial to your business needs and your link popularity, then it’s the only time you want to pursue a link further than this.

To check your ranking in search engines frequently, then set up a schedule to see if your link popularity has improved. In the blink of an eye, this is not achievable. It will take a good deal of work and some times. Why search engines regard it with such importance, so there is no way around the labor-intensive quality of improving your link popularity.

Make sure you have a streamlined, beautiful site or you will never persuade anyone to link up to you. Until you achieve link popularity stardom as long as it takes, be prepared to keep plugging away at this process.