Getting Links
Getting links from other websites is one of the oldest search engine optimization tricks in the book. Basically, the search engines rank you more highly based on the number of links you have. You can increase your ranking by exchanging or buying links from other webmasters.
Contact Webmasters
After your site is up and running the first thing you want to do is find highly ranked websites in your niche. See if they have a links page or similar linking area where it’s clear that they have sold links or exchanged links with other webmasters. If so, your chances are good that you can acquire link on that site as well.
Some of them will want to give you a link in exchange for a link on your website. Others will just want a straight-up payment to place your link on their site. This can work even better for you in the long run because Google often gives more weight to one-way links rather than reciprocal links. Three way links are an option as well if you have more than one website. That way you can add the webmaster’s link to one of your sites and they can add a link to your other site on their page.
Web rings
Web rings are another way to get traffic to your website through linking. These are groups of links in a certain niche that each webmaster displays on their site. If you join a web ring, you’ll be given a specific HTML code that you place on your website so that visitors to your site can visit the others in the web ring.
Likewise, a link to your website will be placed in the web ring on other websites. Web rings are generally free, so this is a free way to get extra visitors to your site.
Linking systems.
Linking systems are another way to get your links on other people’s websites. These are usually membership sites that you sign up for to gain access to a network of sites or blogs where you can play place your links.
An example of this is if you sign up for a network that owns several high page rank blogs that you can post to with a link to your site.
Some examples of this include:
Linkvana
HYPERLINK “http://www.OutsourceWeekly.com/kahuna.html”Syndicate Kahuna
Firepow Premium
These can work very well for increasing your search engine rankings and your overall traffic.
Getting people to link to you naturally.
If you create some really great content on your website, oftentimes it is enough to entice other people to link to it. This is often called “link bait” because you might write something that is so amazing or controversial that other people can’t help but talk about it. This works especially well on blogs, but you can use it on your website as well.
If you look at the websites that get the most visitors you’ll notice they often offer a lot of valuable content. It can take some time to build up this level of authority. Still, as long as you are offering quality content, this will happen for you.
It’s yet another side effect of becoming an expert in your niche.
Commenting on other people’s blogs.
When you comment on other people’s blogs you’ll often be able to leave a link to your website in the comments field. If you are commenting on a highly trafficked blog, you often get visitors to click through to your website right then and there.
Regardless of whether or not that happens for you, this will count as a link in search engines each time you leave a comment.
You can either comment on blogs manually, or even hire a freelancer to comment on blogs with a link for you. You should never spam a blog using automated software. Just do what you feel comfortable with, and remember that search engines like Google have ways of figuring out when you’re trying to game them.
Three way linking
There are certain membership sites out there that you can join to have access to a network of three way links. The site will match you up with someone who will link to you, and you’ll link to someone else.
These one-way links work well because it doesn’t appear that you’re trying to game the search engines.
Perhaps the most well known site that offers this is 3waylinks.com.
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