Thursday, May 21, 2009

How To Increase Your Link Popularity!

Not all sites want to link to other sites, so you will have to do some research when you are looking for possible linking partners. Google is an excellent starting place for your search. Make sure you enter keywords that you think quality customers will also enter to find your own site. Remember, your criteria are quality, highly ranked, non-competing websites that have links or resources page. Go to these sites and objectively assess them. Look at the quality of the product, the graphics, and the ease of use. Then check out the other sites they are linked to, and determine if your own site would fit in with the crowd.

When you decide you have found a good prospect, you must set out to woo them. The first thing to do is to add a link on your own links page to their site. This is an essential first step; it shows good faith, and ups your chances significantly of their reciprocity. After you have added their link, you must contact the webmaster of their site. Since this is almost always done by email, you want to make sure it is immediately clear that your massage is not junk mail. This requires that you tell them right off the bat that you have added a link to their page on your site. A hook like this almost always insures the reader will read on.

Next, be sure to be flattering and let them know how much you appreciate their website. Make sure you emphasize that you have actually visited their site, and that their site is not just a random pick. Give them the address of your links page, and ask them to check out the link for themselves. It's a good idea to mention that they will not only benefit from the increased traffic your website will direct their way, but you will also increase their link popularity. Briefly,explain why link popularity is so essential, but do this in a sentence or two so you don't sound like a professor! Finally, tell them you would greatly appreciate if they would reciprocally add a link on their own links page to your website.

Go through this process with as many appropriate sites as you can find, bearing in mind the criteria of quality and non-competitiveness. After you have emailed all relevant sites, be sure to check these website frequently to see if they have added a link to your page. Give it about a month, and if no link appears, try another charming email. Then give it another month, and if your site is still absent from their links page, it's time to remove their link from your own links page. The only time you want to pursue a link further thatn this is if you believe a site is crucial to your link popularity and your business needs. Just remember to keep all your communications complimentary and cordial.

Then set up a schedule to check your ranking in search engines frequently to see if your link popularity has improved. This is not achievable in the blink of an eye. It will take some time and a good deal of work. There is no way around the labor-intensive quality of improving your link popularity, which is why search engines regard it with such importance.

By the way-make sure you have a beautiful, streamlined site or you will never persuade anyone to link up to you. Be prepared to keep plugging away at this process, as long as it takes, until you achieve link popularity stardom!

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6 comments:

Jacques said...

Great stuff as usual. I'm impressed with your knowledge in this area. Keep it up!

Peter Baca said...

Hi Dan & Deanna,

Thanks for your insightful article on links! In the internet world links are everything!

Thanks for the great info!

Pete Baca
The Car Enthusiast Online

Marketing Unscrambled, Home edition said...

Jacques, thank you for your nice comments. It is nice to hear from you. Have a good day.
Dan and Deanna "Marketing Unscrambled"

Marketing Unscrambled, Home edition said...

Peter, thank you for coming and leaving your comments. You are right links are very important.
Dan and Deanna "Marketing Unscrambled"

Hilary Melton-Butcher said...

Hi Dan & Deanna .. thanks for this 2nd post on link popularity ..and as you say everyone - be it web links - or people on the net .. we are communicating with need to know we're just there as friends and supporters .. non-threatening .. there's plenty of business for all ..
Thanks - Hilary Melton-Butcher
PositiveLetters.com

Marketing Unscrambled, Home edition said...

Hilary, Thank you for that comment. You are so right.
Dan and Deanna "Marketing Unscrambled"