"Link
building" simply means getting other websites to link to
yours. If you aren't already working on this, you need to
start. Even if you don't care about search engines, those
links will bring in traffic on their own, and help you
establish a credible reputation for your website.
Link building is important because search engines look at
these links as a "vote" for your website, and they will
boost your rankings accordingly when other sites link to
you.
There are three simple ways to improve your site's "link
popularity," and drive traffic at the same time:
1. Submit your site to the major directories. Yahoo
charges $299 a year for commercial sites, but there are
several popular directories, including dmoz.org,
goguides.org, and needsome.info, that will list your site
for free.
2. Trade links with related websites. You can help
each other, and your visitors, by linking to other good
websites.
3. Look for other sites that have resource
directories, and ask them to link to you.
What are the benefits of an effective linking strategy?
* Following a link is one of the most popular ways for
people to find new sites. If a site or a writer that you
respect gives a link to further resources, then because of
that respect you’re likely to follow it. Therefore, the more
inbound links you have to your site, the greater the
opportunities for people to find your valuable content.
* Search engines give sites with good inbound and outbound
links a higher ranking. The logic goes that if you provide
outbound links to other material you are providing a
valuable service: and, if other sites link to you then you
must have content of value.
* By providing links to other material you don't have to
re-invent the wheel and create it yourself. By developing
this directory, we provide lots of links to additional New
England resources. We see this as a valuable service to our
visitors and it also makes good use of the material we
collected in researching and developing our website.
* Having a linking strategy forces you to ask the
fundamental question, "Why would anyone want to link to
you?" The answer of course is that you provide something of
value: you need to be clear about what that value is.
* Inbound links help to build trust. If people see that a
popular or respected site links to you, then their level of
trust in what you say and what you offer is likely to be
higher.
* Perhaps most importantly, you become part of a community.
In every field of activity on the web there will be a number
of key sources. Linking to them and providing valuable
content that they can link to will make you a part of a
powerful virtual network.We offer our
website registrants the
opportunity to generate traffic in return for driving
traffic to our site.
There are three ways you
may drive traffic to our site
1. You may link to us
text link.
2. Link to us with our
logo on your site.
3. Place a voting booth
on your site and allow your users to rate your resource
on our site.
Also you must have a
website registered with us.
You may do that now by clicking here.
If you now have a
website registered with us please enter your email
address and the linking information will be sent to you.
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different opportunities for you to put your companies
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