Link building campaign is an integral part of internet
business marketing. Building a web site is not enough for driving
targeted visitors. Search engines consider the popularity of your
inbound links as an important factor to determine the rank of your
site. To rank among the top ten results of the search engines you have
to adopt the right link building strategy.
Other sites link to a web page on your site to help visitors find
relevant information. Each link pointing towards the page counts as a
vote and its value is dependent on the importance of the page that
casts the vote. The votes can help increase your ranking. But the big
question is how do you get other sites, especially important sites, to
link yours?
The objective of internal and external link building is to
please both visitors and search engines. This means visitors find the
information they are looking for and search engine robots find all your
links. Here is the link building techniques:
Site map. A great way to help visitors and search engines find all your
web pages is to provide a site map. A site map contains the entire
links on your site. The links must be text links containing the
keywords related to the name of all web pages.
Internal links. Get the pages of your site linked internally with
rightly placed internal links. Place links hierarchically, from tier-2
pages to tier-3 pages, and topically, from a page to another relevant
page.
External links. Create outbound links to meet the needs of your
visitors. Connecting to other web sites that provide complementary
information to your site content makes your website user-friendly.
However, stress on the quality of the outgoing links rather than the
quantity.
If you have a new site developing good content should be the
first strategy for building one way inbound links. Before you request
other sites to link to yours make sure you have above average content.
There are many ways to obtain one way links: press releases, social
bookmarking and Yahoo Answers. Here some link building campaigns:
1. Press release. Sending out press releases is a good way to get
one-way links. Just write a high quality press release and you'll get
links from your press release service as well as the sites that post
your press release. The more thematically similar the publication sites
are to yours, the more value the links in the eye of search engines.
2. Social Bookmarking. Use social bookmarking sites to gain automatic
inbound links. Just add tags to your listing and you'll get a link to
your site on every single tag page. If you offer valuable content
people will bookmark your website. You have a chance to appear on the
front page of the sites and receive a large amount of traffic for the
effort.
3. Answer Questions on Yahoo. Yahoo Answers is one of the best places
for building links and attracting targeted visitors. You can post a
question as well as provide answers to questions related to your niche.
Simply answers the questions that are more likely asked by your ideal
customers and they'll visit your site looking for more information.
Those are link building campaigns that are worth your efforts. Consider
also other methods such as creating a "link to us" page, requesting a
link from sites that link to your competitors and many more. Experiment
one campaign or two and then create a massive link building campaign
based on what works.