A Word Or Two About Good Link Building - Part 1
Since there's been a lot of confusion and questions lately about the "importance of", the "how to's" and "what if's" regarding link building, I thought I'd post a few tips on how to go about getting some link love for your site or business.
First of all, without getting links to your website, it's very hard, almost impossible, to rank for your search term(s). That's why it's important. You need some links pointing to your site and content. Website submission services do not work. In fact, I would not recommend that you submit your new website to Google.
Submitting your site to Google basically informs Google that your website is new and what Google will do is then put it in the dreaded "sandbox". Once in the sandbox, Google will monitor your site to make sure it's not a spammy site and that it can be trusted. This process can take from a few months to a year.
So the best way to avoid all that is to have other sites (the popular, the better) linking to you. The Google spider bots will find your links on those popular sites and then index your site that way. Your site won't need to spend time in the sandbox with no traffic.
So now that we have established the importance of getting links, let's see how to get those links.
Using community websites and forums.
There's literally a forum for every topic out there. All you need to do is Google "your topic name+the word forum". Register and post on these forums. Do not spam. Just post helpful tips and advice that help the other users on the forum. That way, you will gain trust and more business.
And if you get an itch to post about how wonderful your site is, just remember, people nowadays are bombarded with ads everyday. So do not actively promote your website or even say how good your company or amazing it's products are.
Another thing to do on a forum, is to set up your signature link in your forum profile. This signature is actually a link to your site and on very popular forums that are crawled a lot by the bots, it is always a good thing to have your signature. Some forums may require a few posts from you before allowing you to put a link in your signature. So do it and then move on to another forum.
Make sure that the posts you write in the forums are meaningful otherwise the other members of the forum will turn you in quickly and get you removed.
Write and Submit articles to news sites and social sites.
Everybody has a story to tell. If you create interesting readable content people will link to it.
So just write your story, in the most exciting way possible, and submit it to the social news sites out there. If it is interesting, people will link to it. Lots of people.
Next time we will look at even more methods of gaining inbound links.
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