Top Ranked Website

There are many ways to get others to link to your website but the most successful require effort on your part. Since links are increasingly considered blog “real estate”, bloggers are no longer willing to simply give links away.  Building relationships with individuals in targeted niches and your readers is essential.

Employ any combination of the below tips to build links to your website:

• Ask. This may sound overly simple but providing a “Link to Us” page on your site with a few buttons and text descriptions can garner new links to your site.  At the end of every post or page, encourage visitors to add a link to your site.  Not only does it never hurt to ask, sometimes it gets you exactly what you want!

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One of the oldest and most established ways to attract visitors and grow your website traffic is to write and publish articles. The reason? It still works! Articles mean content and the old adage that “content is king” is just as true now as it was in 1998 when the ‘Net was just becoming commercialised.

However, if you want to build links to your site using articles, you need to do it right. The best way to build links using articles is to provide quality articles. Writing an “article” that is nothing more than a sales letter, or hiring a writer who can’t even speak your language will never work to build links to your website. Period.

The great thing about building links with articles is that they offer valid, and valuable, information to your visitors. The Internet is all about learning. Selling, sure, but even learning to sell! It’s about information. People online are used to scanning content to see if it’s really something they want to read. Here are some tips to consider when writing articles: Read the rest of this entry »

Twitter and other social networking sites are “all the rage” right now, and for good reason… they work!  Building links with Twitter is a fast, free way to grow your online business and create backlinks and traffic for your website.

Here are a number of “best practices” for using Twitter.  These tips apply to both link building as well as good Twitter strategy in general.

• Growing your number of followers and building links with Twitter go hand in hand. Regular updates is important to building your Twitter followers.  If someone visits your Twitter profile and it’s been weeks or months since you have updated,  it is likely they will not be interested in following you.

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With all the attention on Social Media Marketing these days I have seen little talk on some of the fundamental building blocks for search engine optimisation and ranking, one of those being Link Building.

There are a number of ways you can build backlinks to your site, some of them use the power of Social Media to do this, so I’ve decided to write a 10 Part Series on Building Backlinks to give you some ideas you can follow.

Link Building Basics.

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