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Three easy steps to optimize your existing
links
Link building is one of the hardest and one of the most important
things that you have to do if you want to get high rankings
on Google. As it takes so much time to get inbound links,
it is very important to make sure that the links to your website
contain the right keywords.
The basics about keywords in text links and link bombs
Google tries to find a relation between the words that are
used to link to your site and the content of your website.
If many websites link to your website with the word "tomatoes"
then Google's algorithm will come to the conclusion that your
website should be listed in the search results for the keyword
"tomatoes".
The keywords in the links to a website have been so important
for Google that people managed to get websites to the top
of Google's search results for very obscure keywords. For
example, some people started a scheme in which they asked
their friends to link to the official website of George W.
Bush with the keyword "miserable failure".
The result was that George W. Bush's website was #1 on Google
for that keyword. In the meantime, Google has learned to deal
with these so-called Google bombs and it's not as easy to
manipulate the results with the links as it has been.
What you should do if your website has no links
When you try to get links from other websites, you should
make sure that they help you to increase your rankings for
your keywords. That means that you must make sure that the
links to your website contain your keywords.
At the same time, you must make sure that the links to your
site don't look like a Google bomb. You need links to your
website that use keywords that are related to your site. If
many websites link to you with a special keyword, that will
increase your chances to be listed for that keyword. However,
the keyword should be varied.
For example, if you want to be listed for "tomatoes",
the other websites should link to your site with link texts
such as "tomatoes", "delicious tomatoes",
"great tomatoes", "tomatoes and other vegetables",
etc.
In addition, the web page to which the links point should
also contain content about tomatoes. If the linked page contains
the same keywords as the link texts then it is less likely
that the links are part of a Google bomb.
A good way to start link building is to contact the websites
that link to your competitors. To find the websites that link
to your competitors, select "Add sites > Find websites
that link to your competitors" in IBP's link manager.
IBP will find these websites for you and it will also help
you to contact these sites.
What you should do if your website already has some links
If your website already has some links then you should make
sure that the other websites link with the right link texts
to your site. Do the following to optimize the links to your
website:
Select "Add sites > Find websites that already link
to your site" in IBP's link manager. IBP will import
all websites that link to your site and that have been indexed
by search engines.
IBP will show the text that the other websites use to link
to your website in a clearly arranged list. (By the way, the
list also contains other information such as Google PageRank,
IP address, Alexa TrafficRank, number of outbound links on
the page, total number of links on the page, etc.)
If the other website links to you with a unrelated words such
as "click here" or "more information"
then use the built-in contact tools in IBP's link manager
to quickly contact the webmaster of the other site and politely
ask them to change the link text.
By optimizing your existing link texts, you'll greatly increase
the chances to be listed for the keywords that are relevant
to your website.
Optimizing the links to your website is not enough. You must
also optimize the content of your web pages to show Google
that your website is relevant to your keywords. The links
that point to your website should confirm that your website
is really relevant for the keywords for which you optimized
your pages.
Analyze your website to find out if the content of your website
matches the links that point to your site.
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