How to Get Quality Links to Your Site

How to Get Quality Links to Your Site

You can have the best website in the world. However, if it doesn’t show up in search engines then it doesn’t matter now does it. When people are looking to shop and they don’t know how to quickly and efficiently find your products or services, your not going to make a sale, your competitor is. One way to get your site shown up in the top pages of the search engines is to attain incoming links.

Obtaining incoming links is not a hard thing to do. There are plenty of companies out there on the Internet that specialize in this and one of them is Link Metro. I mention Link Metro because it is one of the companies that I use and have done well using them. There are other ways to obtain incoming links but first let me give you a tip.

When searching for incoming links make sure that the sites you get them from or swap with( you put their link on your site and they’ll put yours on theirs) are in your same market. The search engines like to see the incoming links to your site are from the same market or industry. They look at it as adding relevance to what people are searching for and this will increase your PR or Page Rank according to Google. Listed below are some other ways to obtain incoming links to your site.

(1)You can begin by emailing people who have quality sites and ask them to exchange links, placing their on a link page you set up just for this purpose. Anotherwords, have page on your site like: yourdomain.com/links.html and put their link on that page. Again, make sure the companies you decide to do link exchanges with are in your same market or industry.

(2)You can submit articles to article directories about topics in your market or industry. In the article you can either include a link to your website within the body, making sure not to make it sound like a “sales pitch” or you can include your website link in the about the author section. Do not overlook this way of getting incoming links. This alone has accounted for hundreds of incoming links on just one of my sites.

(3)You can get software that helps you find quality sites to link to that are compatible with your market or industry. Some of these software can submit link exchange requests and manage the process and link exchanges for you. Simply conduct a search for a phrase like this, “how to get quality links to your site” in your favorite search engine and see which software packages turn up in the listings.

(4)You can hire 3^rd party companies to find and submit your site to link directories, increasing your rank with one way text links. This is simple, just hire a high school kid to do this for you. Have them site down for a few hours during the week and give them like $10 an hour. Make sure you train them on exactly what you want and they can take care of the rest.

(5)You can find out who is linked to your competition, then email them and ask them to link to your site, too. Find out with free tools like Link Popularity Check located at: http://marketleap.com/publinkpop/default.htm . I use this often and have found it to be an invaluable tool. Be sure to check it out.

(6)You can follow these steps:

(a)Download the Google and Alexa toolbar. You can get the Google tool bar here: http://toolbar.google.com and the Alexa Toolbar here: http://download.alexa.com/index.cgi . The Google toolbar will show you a site PR and the Alexa toolbar with show the sites popularity ranking. The lower the number the more important the site.

(b)Type in keywords to find sites that would be compatible, not competing, with yours. Make sure the sites have good a Page Rank and a links page.

(c) For the ones you find in (b), create an Excel document and list the sites in one column, their contact email address in another. Put these sites on your links page and continue to step (d).

(d)After you’ve completed linking up on your end, email the site owners to ask for links back, showing them the links you’ve placed of theirs on your site. This will hopefully “nudge” some to link back. In your request, write out the specific link you would prefer with any keyword phrases.

That’s it. Make sure you get as many relevant links as possible. The more you have the better chance you have of increasing your PR and you search engine rankings.