| Backlinks popularity has become so 'popular' | | | | put your links on your main page - you will |
| - for lack of a better word - online lately. | | | | bleed away too much of your search engine |
| The more backlinks one has from similarly | | | | rankings when they come from your main page. |
| themed websites, the more the search engines | | | | |
| tend to favor them in the search engine | | | | Second warning: Web sites to which you link |
| rankings. | | | | that have a Google pagerank of 0 can |
| | | | negatively impact you, so it is critical that |
| So how do you develop the links that help you | | | | you check the pr of your outbound links |
| develop strong link popularity? | | | | periodically, or especially if your search |
| | | | engine rankings fall. |
| 1) Exchange links with other web masters. | | | | |
| There are plenty of web masters online, many | | | | 2) Submit your web site to web directories |
| in your niche or market area, who would love | | | | online. There are several lists online of up |
| to exchange links with you, just as you want | | | | to 500 web directories; sort them by pagerank |
| to exchange links with them. | | | | and submit to the top 100. |
| | | | |
| So how do you do it? Type in your keyword to | | | | 3) Write articles, put text anchor links in |
| the search engines, and send a letter to each | | | | the articles, linking back to your web pages, |
| of the top-fifty web masters for that | | | | and submit them to them top 100 web |
| keyword. Many of them will ignore your email, | | | | directories online. Again, there are lists of |
| others will respond favorably. | | | | up to 900 online; sort them according to |
| | | | pagerank; helpful hint: there are about 120 |
| One warning: place your links on links page | | | | with pagerank of at least 4. |
| containing no more than 20 links each, and | | | | |
| link to that page from your main page. NEVER | | | | Do you want to learn more about how I do it? |