To Rank In The SERP's You Have To Have The Right Kind of Links

If you are want­ing to get high rank­ings in the search results you have to do more than cre­ate a web­site. There are lit­er­ally mil­lions of web­sites own­ers out there that have spent good money on hav­ing a state of the art web­site to find that they get absolutely no traf­fic. In order to get listed in the search results you have to have links from other web­sites that point you out to the search engines. The search engines are basi­cally a vote count­ing machine. The more links (votes) you have point­ing to your web­site,the more impor­tance they put on your site. The value of these links vary,but to be sure,each and every­one of them count.

Here are the 12 kinds of sites you should be get­ting links from:

1. Internal Links: These are links from your site to other pages in your site. Linking to your own rel­e­vant con­tent,or site-wide links like “Home.” In some blogs,like this one,you’ll see links below each post to related arti­cles. These are all inter­nal links.
2. Directories:Directories list web­sites,usu­ally under dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories of inter­est. The clas­sic is DMOZ,but there are a lot of oth­ers out there you should sub­mit your URL to and get a link from. There is one hitch to this how­ever. It seems that when direc­to­ries find your site on their own by fol­low­ing links to your site,that your site will rise faster than if you actively sub­mit­ted them to your search direc­to­ries. See "Social Bookmarking" and "RSS" for a means of hav­ing search engines find and crawl your web­site in a mat­ter of min­utes.
3. Press Releases: Press release sub­mis­sion and dis­tri­b­u­tion ser­vices,like PRWeb,allow you to sub­mit a press release (gotta come up with some­thing news­wor­thy to say and have an inter­est­ing way to say it). That press release will be dis­trib­uted to syn­di­ca­tion ser­vices and repub­lished – with your link.
4. Article Directories: Getting a link from arti­cle direc­to­ries is as sim­ple as pen­ning an arti­cle and sub­mit­ting it. Usually your link will be in the “About the Author” bio box. There are hun­dreds,prob­a­bly thou­sands,of arti­cle direc­to­ries out there for you to sub­mit to. There are also soft­ware pro­gram avail­able to auto­mate the process of sub­mis­sions. (See SEO Resources page on this web­site.)
5. RSS/Blog Syndication: Submitting your blogs RSS feed to syn­di­ca­tion ser­vices will usu­ally not only give you a link,but each time you pub­lish a new blog post that indi­vid­ual arti­cle will get a link. There are WordPress plu­g­ins that you can use to help auto­mate this process.
6. Blog Comments:Easy enough – leave a com­ment on rel­e­vant blogs in your niche to get these kinds of links. Don’t be a jerk though,use your name and say some­thing rel­e­vant and inter­est­ing.
7. Videos: Sites like YouTube,and the many oth­ers,often allow you to link to your site either in your video’s descrip­tion or on your pro­file page. Some let you do both. You can use a ser­vice like TubeMogul or Traffic Geyser to auto­mate this as well.
8. Forums: Forums usu­ally cen­ter around a par­tic­u­lar topic,so they’re great in pro­vid­ing very rel­e­vant links back to your web­site. You can link in your pro­file and/or sig­na­ture line on most forums.
9. .edu Links: From edu­ca­tional sites – col­leges,local school dis­tricts,etc.
10. .gov links: Like .edu links these links usu­ally carry a lot of weight,but it can be tough to get the gov­ern­ment to link to your site!
11. Social Bookmarking:Social book­mark­ing ser­vices allow peo­ple to col­lect their favorite links in one place. If you book­mark your own stuff (there are ser­vices that help you do this auto­mat­i­cally also) you get a link from the ser­vice. Even bet­ter if you pro­duce con­tent your read­ers love and book­mark them­selves to refer back to.
12. Social Media sites: Kind of a catch-all here,but this can refer to places like Twitter and Facebook,where peo­ple net­work with each other,to places like Squidoo and Hubpages,where you can place your con­tent on a page on their site and link out to your site.

There’s are other places and ways to get links,like buy­ing text links,trad­ing links with another site owner or par­tic­i­pat­ing in a link exchange ser­vice. The list above will get you started.

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