Effective Link Building
one of the biggest problems that face webmasters and bloggers alike is the off site seo practice of link building. unfortunately links are now a valuable part of website promotion and getting visibility on search engine results but they are extremely time consuming. with the number of websites constantly increasing search engines are constantly adjusting it's way of ranking sites on their importance to try and keep the quality sites on the first pages.
to achieve high ranking you need to continuously update your website, make sure all your headers and tags are accurate, keep the quality of content high and get busy with back linking to your site with relevant keywords and you could be well on your way to being on a search engine page one. to get the most benefit from your backlinks you need them on sites with topics that are relevant to your own also the higher ranked that site is for similar keywords the more value the search engines will associate to your site.
obtaining backlinks may seem straight forward but once you start trying to build them you soon find it's harder than it seems. most sites that you may be able to merge an article or reply in a comment box are either so low on the serps ranks that they provide little benefit in improving your own rank. on the other hand, the top listed sites often use a no follow' attribute which renders your backlink worthless for search engines although they do still have the benefit of passing traffic who may still visit your site.
one of the easiest manner to get do follow' links is to use free directories, it can take months before your submission gets accepted but if you merge your site to directories on a regular basis eventually you will start to get results and due to the timescales of directory submission approvals you won't get penalised for too many incoming links appearing all at once. the majority of directories are low authority as far as search engines are concerned apart from the major ones like and dmoz. to get any real benefit from directories you need to be continuously getting your site added to hundreds if not more a year.
writing and submitting articles is time consuming but also one of the best manner to get quality backlinks. to get accepted by the top article sites you do need to be able to show your competence in writing as well as putting across your knowledge on the subject, it must be relevant to your website, keywords or products if you want the full benefit of the time involved. if successful you get relevant traffic and do follow' backlinks assuming you managed to incorporate them into the text from the article directory. the other advantage of the article directories is that they allow other websites and blogs to publish your article including your links which will give you additional backlinks from other sources. some of the better article sites like ezinearticles can take a bit to get time for approval when you first begin and it takes a while to start getting hits but persevere and you will soon see the results come in
other manner to achieve those all important links is to comment on blogs, starting your own blog, press releases and of course forum posting. social networks are also gaining notice but they are more for generating traffic rather than improving search rank.
By : Bruce Nolan


