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Top 10 ways to link popularity, part 2
Link popularity has become an important factor in the ranking
algorithms of most search engines. If many quality Web sites
link to your site, you'll have a good position in the search
engines.There are a number of ways to improve the link popularity
of your Web site. Here's the second half of our top 10 list
on how to improve your link popularity.5. List your Web site
with Yahoo
If you have a business Web site, you might want to pay
US$299 yearly to Yahoo to have your Web site listed: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/busexpress.html
If you have a non-business site, you can submit to Yahoo
without paying:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/
Is
it still worth to submit to Yahoo?
4. List your Web site with Open Directory Project (ODP)
If your Web site is listed in the popular directory ODP,
then your Web site will have a good base for the link popularity.Rumor
has it that Google starts crawling Web sites with the Web
sites listed in the ODP directory.
Best of all, you can add
your Web site to ODP without paying a fee.
3. List your Web site in regional and industry-specific directories.
We've already covered this topic in depth here:
http://www.axandra.com/news/newsletter27.htm
2. Write articles for your audience
Write articles about the topics that your Web site visitors
are interested in. After a while, other Web sites will link
back to your articles.
You can also send your articles to syndicate Web sites.
They'll offer your articles to other Web sites. Just make
sure that your article contains a link to your Web site
so that other sites who publish your article will automatically
link to you.
Here's a list
of some syndicate sites .
1. Get reciprocal links from complementary sites
Search the major search engines for your keywords. They
will return many Web sites that don't compete with your
site, or which offer complementary things.
Visit their site and then write them an email message to
request a link to your site. If you link back to them first,
they'll be more likely to link to you.
Consider using the reciprocal
links management software "ARELIS" which saves
you much time. It also lists which Web sites link to your
competitors so that you can request a reciprocal link to your
site, too.
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