Hi again, here we are heading towards the cold weather, a good excuse to spend some time in the comfort of the office (office at home in my case) and get some marketing done.
As always I am spending some time building back links to my various sites, this is an essential way of getting your site recognised. If you have your website up and running but are not getting the traffic then make sure you have a links page set up and start filling it. The page does not need to be any more than a list of other relevant sites but some may want you to include a clickable picture or banner. You should always check that the site you are linking to has set up a link back to yours otherwise you will not gain any real benefit as far as the search engines are concerned. If you are new to this and don't know were to start here is what I recommend, first do a search on Google or any other search engine for sites in the same subject as your own (it is important for the links to be relevant to your sites content). Then with this list start contacting the owners and requesting a link exchange (aways be polite, please and thank you goes a long way).
You may find that sites run by manufacturers and the like are not able to link back to you for various reasons but you may still search their links pages to find other related sites.
I suggest writing a standard email message and save it then you just need to collect all the email addresses from the sites you visit. Do not expect to get replies to all your messages some will no doubt get labled as spam and not make it, others may just be disregarded. Keep at it and soon you will have a growing list of sites linking into yours, then the next time the search engines crawl your site they will see it's relevance in your niche and this should help with your ranking.
Monday, 4 October 2010
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