Link popularity refers to the number and quality of the incoming
links that are pointing to your site. Search engines use link
popularity as one of the methods to determine the ranking of
sites. If more sites link to your site, the search engine is
likely to rate your site higher on the results of a particular
search than other similar sites. However, the engines don't
want links that have been artificially increased, so there
are no easy ways to build link popularity. The engines prefer
links from well known sites, or links from sites that share
the same focus as your site.
How do you increase the Link
Popularity of your site? This is where the process
of Link Building comes in. Link Building is also
a form of networking. It is important to link
to sites that lend credibility to your site and
whose content is possibly similar to yours. This
will ensure that visitors to your site gain value
by clicking on the links. This will make them
come back again and refer other people as well – simply
because they had a good experience with your
site the last time.
Another method of linking building
involves contacting the Webmaster of a site that
is complementary but generally not competitive
to your own. You ask them to link to your site
while offering to link back to them in exchange
for this courtesy. You should make sure that
the content on your Web site is of interest to
the trading partner.
There are many ways to find
link partners. Searching for sites that rank
high for search terms that are important to you,
and then looking through the results for sites
that do not compete with you will give you a
good list of link targets. You could also check
the link popularity of your competitors, and
find out who is linking to them.
If someone says they can not
or do not wish to link to your site, you could
still ask their permission to link to them. Often
enough, you might be surprised, that they do
link back.
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