The Importance Of Links, Make Your Way Up The Search Engine Rankings.

In the search engine’s eyes links are like votes for your website. The more links you have pointing to your website, the more popular you are and therefore the likes of Google and Bing will rank you higher.

Ideas For Generating Links:

• Set up a blog with articles that other websites will want to link to.
• Submit your website to directories. Click here to add your Devon website to Stairway to Devon Directory.
• Write articles and submit them to article directory websites like ezine.com.
• Create videos and submit them to YouTube.com, Google owns YouTube and you can now see videos in Google’s search results.
• Arrange or pay for a link to your website from a well respected, relevant website – do this as much as possible!
• Try to get links to your website on prominent areas of other websites like a footer or header. Links from different websites and sources hold different weights in the search engines. A link from a relevant website with lots of traffic is better than a link from a comment field in a forum.
• If you have products on your website, submit them to price comparison websites like Google Shopping.
• Create some discount codes for your products/services and submit them to voucher websites like myvouchercodes.co.uk.
• Get setup on the social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook.
• Do some free work for a well respected website in exchange for a link or two!

Your on-page SEO could be perfect but without links to your website it’ll mean nothing. Spend 85% of your SEO efforts on off-page SEO.

It’s all very well having a well coded website but without links to it no one will find you in the search engines. Come up with a definitive list of keywords and use these keywords in any anchor text of links pointing to your website, you’d be surprised how important this is.

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