The Importance of Inbound Links

by Peter Slevin

Having links from other sites pointing to your site is the holy grail of search engine optimisation. It is crucial for any successful website, and is the single most important part of your website marketing efforts in order to increase overall reach, link popularity and website traffic. Having quality inbound links will improve your search engine results, which will in the end bring you more visitors. Acquiring new links from other websites, using your keywords as anchor text, will help you improve search engine rankings.

Search engines have also begun to rank the importance of the sites that link to you. In other words if a highly ranked website links to you, it is considered more important than if an unranked site links to you. Therefore, it is important that you try and achieve inbound links from sites that are trusted by search engines. The ideal way to do this is to use Google’s page rank facility to determine how Google views the site. It is important to remember that 85% of world wide web visitors use the search engines on a regular basis. Search engines beat all other media in driving visitors to websites. Moreover, the majority of users believe companies found in top search results are major brands which equals brand equity for you.

Trying to obtain inbound links can be a lengthy process if you don’t know where to source these out. Employing an internet marketing company to do this for you can save you lots of time spent on research and work.

The first place to get good links are from human edited directories such as DMOX and the Google directory. Being listed in these places will do your website lots of good.

There are thousands of world wide web directories out there that you can submit your site to. Choose the ones that have a good Google Page Rank as these will have a better effect on your search engine rankings.

Ask suppliers, friends, and associates to link to your site from theirs. Because of your existing relationship with them, this should prove quite simple for you.

PR and article submission is an effective means of acquiring links. Press releases and articles with your URL embedded in the resource box will help you secure links in news articles about your company. It will also help with creating awareness which may lead to unsolicited links from interested celebrations.

Add information and fresh content to your website on a frequent basis, and the search engines will love you for it. If you have a CMS system, I suggest that you add a new page every week. Make sure that it is quality relevant content.

Employing a consultant to do your SEO and link building for you will take the pain out of the process, and produce quicker results. Which ever way you decide to go about, link building is an essential part of developing your online presence.

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