How to build quality links? Does link exchange work?
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009Finally, after lots of hard work involved, you have completed your new website. Everything is up and running. The site has a perfect design, offers worth information in the subject and may be thousand of visitors will love it.
But there are not more than a few visitors per day… why???
How many quality and relevant inbound links point back to your website?
There is not traffic without links! So you have to pay for links starting an AdWords PPC campaign at Google.com or you have to wait until Google index and rank your website in natural way for free.
SEO takes time and effort. But without necessary experience and knowledge you may waste your time with non-working methods.
Hiring a SEO expert is options but there are at least two issues – good SEO experts are expensive, and you may find a fake expert.
It’s time to take action now. Start link exchange campaign with quality and relevant websites.
How to build quality links?
One of the options is to write and distribute articles. Let say at least 10 per day. In case you are good writer and are willing to spend a few hours per day this is a very good option for you. It is free and proven to work. The main problem with article distribution is duplicate content. If search engines find the same articles published at many directories they may not index them and thus you will not get links at all. So you have to write unique articles for each directory you submit to. It’s a hard and boring task, isn’t it?
Another option for building links are link exchange directories. You have to find a good script to add such directory at your website to be able to track al links exchanges. There are many webmasters which will delete the link to your website without notice you. So be careful.
A good link exchange directory script can be downloaded at phplinkdirectory.com – it is very popular one so it won’t be an issue to find a good theme to match your website template as well as to find someone to help you in case you find it difficult to play with tpl and php files. Have a look at this link exchange directory – it is tweaked a bit to match blocks2 wordpress theme.
What you have to know when looking for link exchange partners?
Although inbound link could only help you in ranking you have to pay carefully attention on websites you link to. Avoid Viagra and similar pharmaceutical websites. Avoid websites with low quality design. Avoid links farms. Always look for a quality and relevant website with no more than a dozen outbound links per page.
Link exchange is a tickly game. There are many fearless players anywhere, so be careful. I suggest you to open a brand new website – blogs work very well – to establish link exchange directory on it. Then offer 3-way links – You put a link on your blog to website A. This website adds a link to your main website. But never ever add an outbound link at your main website. In case something wrong in ranking happens with your blog just open a brand new one and go on. Keep in mind most of webmasters have more than a few websites. Do not put all eggs in one basket.
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