Links; Your Path to Top Search Engine Rankings

Except for worthwhile content, nothing can raise your rankings on major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN) faster than a good linking campaign. In fact, with enough good sites linking to you, you can be assured good search engine rankings. And, because a good linking campaign requires no investment or special talent, it is something all webmasters can do. Here are a few ways to find websites likely to link to you.

One way is to use your favorite search engine to find websites with information closely related to the content of your website. For example, if your website is about plants, search for terms like "plants", "gardening", and "plant feeding" to find websites whose webmasters may be interested in linking to you.

Alternatively, you can identify a few websites ranked highly for one or more keywords for which you would like to be highly ranked. Then, find the websites linking to the highly ranked sites. To do that, search for "link:" (without the quotation marks) and the complete URL of the website. For instance, link:http://flowers.com (and don't forget the colon after the word "link").

Once you've identified the websites most likely to link to yours, visit them, obtain the email addresses of their webmasters, and send an email requesting a link. To be effective, your email must:

1. be brief, well written, and polite. Always use "please" and "thank you".

2. describe your site succinctly and without hype. Explain why visitors to the webmaster's site would benefit from visiting yours.

3. offer the webmaster something in exchange for a link. For instance:

a. a banner or text link somewhere on your website.

b. information about how to submit their website to 300,000+ search engines, directories, and links pages for free. When they agree to link to you, send them to: .

If you email just ten webmasters a day and have a ten percent rate of success, you'll gain thirty links a month.

By using the methods discussed above, you may see a measurable increase in visitors to your site in as soon as a month or two. Significant increases in your search engine rankings may be a little slower, but they will come as more and more sites link to you.

If you are persistent, your link campaign can bring you great results. Many sites that began as hobbies became highly profitable as a result of good linking campaigns.

Daniel Kane is a longtime educator. Through good content and ongoing linking campaigns, his websites on online colleges and college scholarships have earned page one search engine rankings.
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