Ten Easy Linkbuilding Steps

If you have been blogging for quite a while, you must have realized that link building is the key to getting to the top placements on major search engine such as Google and Yahoo.

Building links through reciprocal link exchanges is a simple yet very powerful website promotional tool.

If done correctly, increasing your linkage will:

1. Increase your traffic significantly.
2. Improve your visibility in the search engines.
3. Provide an added resource to your website.
4. Save you a lot of advertising money.
5. Save you time.

Here are the top ten link building tips to help you start off:

1. Leave your links everywhere!

          Anywhere you can leave your link, do it! You may leave your link in chat rooms, shout boxes, guest book and forums. Your blog will have a big chance to be visited by at least the owner of that blog. You may even post your url in your friendster profile or inform your Facebook buddies of your new post.

     2. Exchange link with those blog that are related to yours. If you are blogging about business, then look for websites that have the same theme and exchange link with them. If you want to exchange  links with me, go to my blogroll

     3. Consider the PageRank of the linking page. Ideally, you should exchange link with those who have higher page rank than yours. It is one of the most important factors as it determines how much valuable importance is passed on to your page. For example, if you get a PR4 link, it will really do good to your website. The higher the PageRank of the page linking to you, the higher the value you get.

    4.  Check the number of links, linking to that page. It is better to link with a PR2 which has 10 links that with a PR8 that has 70 links. Why is that? Well, the value that your web page gets from a linking page is equal to the Total PageRank value of that page divided by the total number of outgoing links on that page.

    5. Consider the page relevance. Most sites offering links have several categories listed on their sites. Try to get a link from a category that closely matches your own industry. It will do good to your page.

   6. Make a good Anchor Text. Anchor text is the visible hyperlinked text on a Web page. Since anchor text is very important, make sure that your most important keywords appear in the anchor text from the link pointing to your site. For example, if your page is about SEO then, think of an effective anchor text that is closely related to your page.

   7.  Avoid getting a redirected link -- is a link that is first redirected to another page within your partner site before pointing to your site is a redirected link. Search engines do not give weight to such links.

   8. Avoid getting links from a framed sites as search engines do not consider them as well.

   9. Post your new articles in social networking sites such as Twitter, Digg or Del.icio,us. Ask your friend to tag it. If it gets on the front page of Digg, hundred more bloggers will see your site and potentially link to it.

 10. You may ask or answer questions on Yahoo!answers and Google groups and provide links to relevant resources.

So those are the Top Ten Easy Linkbuilding Steps. The bottom line is you should make link popularity building a part of your overall search engine marketing efforts. Spend a little time every week trying to find a few more links. Start building your links now!