Indexing Step 2: Get links pointed to your site

Posted on September 28, 2007 
Filed Under Indexing

Step 2 in the ‘getting indexed‘ process is having links placed on other websites link to your website.

How?

  1. If you have other websites built, place a link there for the search engines to follow. What’s even better, if other site is related in content to your site: a real estate website linking to another real estate site, a geothermal site linking to another geothermal website, etc.
  2. Email or call your friends and ask them to link to your site.
  3. Forums. If you are active in forums and they allow links in their signatures, immediately place your link there. Especially if the forum is quick active and you have a number of posts there.

This step in the indexing process does not include submitting your links to web directories, blog postings, newsgroups and more … we’ll get to that later

What should your link look like?

The simplest form is your full website URL

Example: http://www.simplewebsiteguide.com

You can also place the name of your website in the link

Example: <a href=”http:// www. yousite.com”>Your company here</a>

Or if you are targetting for keywords, place the link with the keyword(s)

Example: <a href=”http:// www. yousite.com”>Keywords</a> 

We’ll cover social network link and website directories and their value in upcoming posts! Happy linking!

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