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Get Your Website Traffic Up

Just about every serious Internet Marketer and Webmaster want to drive more traffic to their website. There is a direct connection with being at the top of search engine results (SERP’s) and receiving more and more visitors from that high placement/rank for your keyword or keyword phrase. The question we receive most often, “How do we get to the top of the SERP’s for our keywords?” With a solid foundation of SEO best practices, the one key element, far and above the rest in terms of effect – link building. Link building is the process of getting links pointing to your site from other websites. The more incoming links your site has, the more value and relevance it represents for search engines and their rankings. But it isn’t just that simple. A key is in the quality of those incoming links.There are a few detailed pieces of information missing on exactly how to go about doing this, but you can always give us a call to find out how affordable our Link Building services are for new and existing online businesses.

In this article I’d like to suggest a few of the tools you can use to build quality links to your website:

1. Articles. Write the articles about the products or services you offer on your website and submit them to article directories. The idea is to include a link or two to your site into every article. Each article will be listed in many directories and has the potential to build thousands of links for you.
2. Forums. You can search for forums related to your business and participate in discussions. Include a link to your site with your signature and every post you make will become an inbound link. Don’t be too spammy about your intentions or you will get nuked/banned quickly. The more you participate, the more valued you (and your links) become.
3. Social Bookmarks. A great idea is to bookmark your articles with Social Bookmarking tools. Every time you bookmark an article, you are linking back to your website. You can bookmark the web pages with your articles with popular bookmark sites, for example digg.com and delicious.com, these sites are good for a huge burst in traffic if you write something relevant and interesting. Also, adding social bookmark links to your articles makes it easy for readers to save and share your content.
4. Web directories. The most powerful link juice comes from a couple of the biggest web directories, Yahoo and DMOZ. I highly suggest spending time to get yourself placement in each. Also, Business.com is a great tool for getting spread out across the web. Yahoo & Business.com both have fees associated with them (annual fee of between $200-400, depending on details). DMOZ is free, but you have to find the right category and editor to get placement. We’ve seen some people try for 6-12 months to get listed in DMOZ, others have gotten placement in less than 3 weeks.
5. Blogs. An off site blog is a great means for building links and gaining traffic because every post you make is a separate web page. Link to your website and you’ll have some good inbound links. Popular blogging tools can be found at WordPress.com and Blogger.com.
6. Social Networking. Social networking link building comes when you set up your profile. You’ll make friends and drive traffic to your website. Be sure to indicate exactly what you do, and easy to follow links so people can pass this on to their friends/followers. Sites like Facebook.com, MySpace.com, Twitter.com are good starting points.

Getting started with the above tools will help kick-off any good internet marketing campaign. Just understand there is no need to “trick” the search engines into thinking you are more relevant than you actually are for a specific search result. Stay focused on providing good quality and relevant information on your specific industry or topic, and the link building will occur in a natural progression.

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