Link popularity is important to your website receiving the maximum amount of traffic. This is because the search engines, like Google, Yahoo and MSN look for other websites linking to your website to help determine how popular your website is. The more outside websites that link to your website, the higher your link popularity is and therefore the more traffic you will receive from the search engines.
Building link popularity is easy enough, and there are both for fee and for free ways to do so. As a beginner, you want to start with the free methods. This is important so that you know how things work. A foundation of understanding is important so you can later train outsourcers.
One way to begin building your link popularity is with blogs. Not your own blog, but by using other people’s blogs. It’s a simple process that you can begin right now to increase you backlinks.
So first of all, go to Google and click the ‘Blogs’ link at the top. You’re going to put in a keyword that is about the topic of your site. After that, Google will give you a list of all blogs that have articles about the topic, and you’ll go to them.
Ninety-nine percent of blogs allow visitors like yourself to leave comments. First skim through the blog post and make sure it’s about your topic. After that, hit the button for “Comments” and respond to the article.
You’ll fill out the required fields within the commenting area. It usually asks for your email addy, name (you can just put your first name if you want) and, if you have one, a website address. This is the most important field, so make sure you fill it out completely.
The bigger box is for you to actually input the comment you want to add. Never, ever spam the blog you are trying to get a link from because they will probably just delete your comment.
What’s important is to ensure that the comment you leave is actually interesting and contributes to the conversation already going on at the blog. Saying something nice about what the blog author wrote is always a good idea, people love compliments. You can even take part in discussion that’s already going on with other people that have left comments.
Then you hit “Submit.” A lot of blogs will make your comment immediately appear and you’ll get your backlink right away. But in these days of SPAM, some blogs to make the blog owner personally approve the comment. If this is the case, you’ll probably get a notice that your comment is waiting for approval.
Once you’re done with your comment, get back to Google’s Blog Search and find all the other entries on your niche. Then leave comments on ALL of them. The more places you leave comments, the more links you are getting in return, which will increase your own traffic.
This is simple enough for even the most beginning internet marketer to do. What’s more, if you do it on a fairly repetitive schedule, your links will build slowly over time. All the while increasing your rank.
Recent Comments