| Backlinks popularity has become so 'popular' - for lack | | | | Second warning: Web sites to which you link that |
| of a better word - online lately. The more backlinks | | | | have a Google pagerank of 0 can negatively impact |
| one has from similarly themed websites, the more | | | | you, so it is critical that you check the pr of your |
| the search engines tend to favor them in the search | | | | outbound links periodically, or especially if your search |
| engine rankings. | | | | engine rankings fall. |
| So how do you develop the links that help you | | | | 2) Submit your web site to web directories online. |
| develop strong link popularity? | | | | There are several lists online of up to 500 web |
| 1) Exchange links with other web masters. There are | | | | directories; sort them by pagerank and submit to the |
| plenty of web masters online, many in your niche or | | | | top 100. |
| market area, who would love to exchange links with | | | | 3) Write articles, put text anchor links in the articles, |
| you, just as you want to exchange links with them. | | | | linking back to your web pages, and submit them to |
| So how do you do it? Type in your keyword to the | | | | them top 100 web directories online. Again, there are |
| search engines, and send a letter to each of the | | | | lists of up to 900 online; sort them according to |
| top-fifty web masters for that keyword. Many of | | | | pagerank; helpful hint: there are about 120 with |
| them will ignore your email, others will respond | | | | pagerank of at least 4. |
| favorably. | | | | Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I |
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