Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Easy Link Building Tips Explained

By Reed Slidell


Are you just getting started learning about search engine optimization or SEO as more widely known? One of the basic and also the most important things that you should learn are the different link building tips to help make your website rank.

In case you are not yet that knowledgeable, links are essential in any SEO campaign. Google and the other top search engines still use links are their main consideration in determining the importance of a website. Now there are other factors that you should think about when getting links such as the authority of the website giving you the link and the neighborhood of that link, but that's a more advanced topic.

Now, here are some of the link building tips that you may want to follow for an effective SEO strategy soon.

Do not be in a hurry to build links for a newly created website. This is important for any link building strategy. The search engines would suspect that you are trying to game the search results because it is not natural for a new website to get a lot of links within just a short period of time. So keep it steady and do not rush it.

Use your anchor text wisely. The anchor text is the most important part of a link because that is one way for the search engines to know what that link is all about and the same thing with identifying your website. So if your major keyword, for example, is 'dog training', then your anchor text should contain that keyword.

You should also vary your anchor text. This is where your keyword research will come in handy. Use a number of keywords to replace your main keyword in the anchor text of the links that you will be getting. This is important because nothing can best send a warning signal to Google than all of the backlinks of a website having the same anchor text.

You should also get a healthier variety of sources for getting links. Search wide online on where else you can go for this purpose. You can definitely get variety of links from blogs, but also from forums, online dashboards and bulletisocial bookmarking sites, directories, do follow blogs and a lot more to memorize. A good variety of getting these link sources is important because it gives the impression that these links are naturally coming in to your site as opposed to these being manually created everyday.


Do you want one great tip to build links? That is for you to consider doing some article marketing campaign in the next few weeks or so. You just need to write a number of articles. Then for each article, create a resource box where you can place at least two links, pointing back to your website and any of the deep pages. After that, just submit your articles to the top article directories for syndication. This means that your articles will be distributed by other website owners and will publish them on their own sites. That would mean additional backlinks for you.

These are just some of the basic link building tips that you should know, especially if you are just a beginner in search engine optimization. Again, do not be in a rush in building your links especially if your website is fairly new. Do the link building process as natural as you can so you will not be penalized by the search engines.




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