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Submit your website to the major search engines that will provide links and traffic to your website. See our Submitting to Search Engines page for more details.
Sign up with local business directories that will list your business for free. See our Local Search Results page for more details.
Search for your keywords and geographical location on your favorite search engine to identify specialized and regional business directories and sign up for them.
Join message boards, Facebook or other social networks and publish articles that include links to your website.
Multiple way links
They involve multiple parties but are very similar to reciprocal links. The reality is that it is almost impossible to verify that everybody involved in the agreement is honest and provides the promised link. I usually don't bother with these.
Site Maps
A site map lists all the pages of your website and provides links to each of them. This insures that each of your web page gets at least one incoming link. |
Free for all link farms
Some websites are designed with the sole purpose of providing "free" links. They are usually not organized by themes or regions and accept links from anybody. They bring no value, search engines know about them, and links from those websites will not increase your rankings.
Avoid being ripped off
There are certainly honest link partners but there are lots of scams out there. Periodically verify the links you are supposed to get from your link partners. Here are a few common traps to avoid:
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I found your wonderful website, please link to mine (and I will never link to yours). |
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I found your wonderful website, please link to mine. In exchange, I already placed your link here (in this free for all link farm that I don't own, that I don't care about, and that the search engines totally disregard). |
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I found your wonderful website, please link to mine. In exchange, I already placed your link at a specific (junk) page of my website (that page is hidden from the search engines so your link will never be found by my visitors anyways). |
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