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Inbound links are one of the most important assets in online business. In this article, you will find different linking strategies you can use without spending a fortune.
1. Submitting articles to article directories.
It is probably one of the most popular ways of getting inbound links to your site. A few of the article sites where you can submit to are ideamarketers.com, goarticles.com, ezinearticles.com, articlecity.com and articlesfactory.com.
Depending on what you want to promote or the theme of your website, you can also submit your own scripts, images, videos, jokes, 3d models, quotes or other types of work to different websites or directories. A lot of these directories have established page rank and can be a valuable link.
It’s good to think beyond just articles when it comes to directory submitting:
if you would like to demonstrate examples of your product or work
Some webmasters create scripts that are free to use provided the user supplies a link back to the creator’s website.
Use Google or another search engine to search terms like “submit cartoon”, “submit movie” if you want to submit your works other than articles.
2. Submitting your site to directories
If your website is directory-worthy, you may want to submit it. Visit Best Web Directories to find directories that accept paid or free submission, there are plenty of them, many of which are niche specific.
2. Posting in forums
Look for forums that relate to your website. You will have the opportunity to place your link in the signature line by participating in forums. Always strive to contribute good relevant content, whether your starting a thread are following up on a discussion in progress. Here’s a good place to search for forums: Big Boards
Similar to participating in forums, you can also get inbound link by leaving comments on blogs.
3. Creative Commons License
You can apply the Creative Commons License to your site and let Yahoo discover you. Through the creative commons search engines, your site can get many targeted inbound links.
To find out more about creative common license, you can visit CreativeCommons.org
4. Reciprocal Linking (Link Swaps)
With this strategy, you get links to your site by also giving links from your site to other websites. Although it seems that search engines appreciate one-way inbound links more than reciprocal links, it is still a traffic-producing method you may consider to use. There are a few services available to automate the linking process. Try checking Link Metro if you want to use this strategy. This well established service allows you to approve or disapprove link exchange requests from other webmasters.
Link Machine is a reciprocal linking software that could also help you to trade links with other webmasters automatically.
Of course the possibilities of getting inbound links to your website could be endless. Be creative. By doing it successfully, you will be able to get your site listed or boost your position in the search engine and then build enough streams of traffic to your site.
A hyperlink, also called simply “a link”, is a reference in a hypertext document to another document or other resource. It is an integral part of the hypertext transfer protocol (http) for World Wide Web, but it is used also in offline documents, such as .pdf (portable document file, Adobe Acrobat native format) and in .XML (extended markup language).
A hyperlink can be used to fetch content and save it, view it as a separate document or display as a part of the reference document.
The hyperlink first came into existance in 1965. Theodore Nelson in “the Xanadu Project” transposed the idea from fictional microfilm cross-referencing system into the computer world. In a series of books and articles published from 1964 through 1980 the general concept was changed from linking whole microfilm pages to connecting specific lines of computer text. Primary concept was intended for use on a single computer machine, however introduction of DARPA network boosted the idea towards creating links between documents and files stored on several networked machines. The idea of connecting parts of a single document via hyperlink arose independently, but was quickly merged to the hyperlink system. Both concepts combined together were fundamental for creating World Wide Web.
A hyperlink has two ends, called anchors, and a direction. The link starts at the source anchor and points to the destination anchor. However, the name hyperlink is often used for the source anchor, while the destination anchor is called the hyperlink target. Every browser shows text hyperlinks somewhat exposed (they usually mark it with a different color). Clicking on the hyperlink activates it and displays the target document.
Hyperlinks are not only the way we surf the Net. Life on the Web without search engines is almost impossible today, because of the unbelievable amount of networked information. Most search engines use so-called “page ranking” to measure which site may contain useful information. This mechanism is mostly based on hyperlink popularity. Although whole idea of “page rank” is more complicated, its general concept it’s based on a simple rule: the more pages that have a hyperlink pointing to the ranked page, the higher rank that page gets. Of course, each hyperlink has different value, based on the popularity of the “source” site (This means simply that if your website is a target for hyperlink placed on the big site like CNet of Microsoft, it has much higher page rank than a site with several hyperlink connections from private sites). This is based on a means of measuring a hyperlink’s quality. Although not perfect, both mechanisms usually works well enough to determine which website has got good content and which hasn’t.
…and you thought a hyperlink was just a couple of blue words on a webpage!