First Steps to Link Building
Posted On Friday, July 30th, 2010 By Records
Link building campaigns are critical to the condition of any business’s website. Ensuring that you have enough incoming links to your web content is crucial, because these are signals to the search websites that your website is worth ranking highly. The first step in getting links to your website is to form good content. Even if you follow all of the other steps which will can aid in getting your website out there in front of potential backlinks, you’ll get far better results if your internet site provides info that people are prepared to link to. One of the first steps to get you started is to submit your website or blog to the big search engines which are AOLSearch, AllTheWeb, Ask, Bing, Google, LookSmart, Lycos, and Yahoo. First check on each one of these to be certain your site isn’t already listed. Some of these sites are paid and some are free. If you do not have a budget, submit your site only to the free ones till you have enough that you can invest in one or more of the paid sites. Next, you’ll go to the minor search engines. There are twenty-six of these to date: A9, About, Accoona, Alexa, AltaVista, Answers, AvivaDirectory, Dmoz, Excite, Gigablast, Gimpsy, GoGuides, Jayde, JoeAnt, LinkCentre, MozDex, MyGreenCorner, NetQuantum, Netscape, Qango, SearchMonster, Skaffe, TowerSearch, UmdumWebDirectory, WoWDirectory, and iWon. Then you’ll want to go into some Niche search websites and Directories that are specialised to your target market. Just go into your search engine and try a search for directories and search websites in your market. You could be surprised at how many come up!
Now you’ll go into an area that many overlook. That is the area of search websites that minister to a specific geographical area.
Remember when you are submitting your sites, and making the descriptions for them that you do not need to be overly promotional. You may avoid repeating the name of your website or blog within the description (contrary to keyword optimization intuition).
After you’ve submitted your site or blog everywhere that you wanted to, wait a couple of months and then check to see if it is listed. Also keep under consideration that certain directories may reject your website without notifying you in any way. Do not let this discourage your link building campaigns. Target the excellent results.