Building Link Popularity Effectively And For Free - 5 Point Plan
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Below is a 5 point plan for building effective and free link popularity...
1. Do a Google search for a similarly related but not necessarily exactly the same theme as that of your own website. Check the results for those that have a directory listing (Gray link on normal results). eg. for the ABAKUS Internet Marketing website a good category might be...
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Authoring/Webmaster_Resources/
Click the "Category:" link to land at the appropriate Google directory category listing.
2. One of the great things about the Google directory is that it lists websites in Google PageRank order. This makes the process of finding great sites to link to you that much easier.
3. Open excel or notepad and create a list of all the websites that have a Pagerank of 4 or more. No numeric value is given on mouse over, however, you can tell from the graphical bar the PageRank value (center = PR5). Create a list of all PR 4+ websites, you should also add a column for the webmasters / contact email address.
4. Create an "Other Resources" or "Related Sites" web page somewhere on your website where you list the links you have in your excel table. Of course commercial websites should not list their competitors, but websites that compliment their own site. In the case of ABAKUS for example that would be web design and web hosting websites amongst others.
Once you have created a resources page, link up to it from your home page and place it online. What you now have should be a webpage entitled "Other Resources", or "Related Sites" with all the PR4+ websites you researched in 1-3.
5. You are now ready to request the link! Keep your email short and personal. Something like the following should work well...
Next: Link Request Email >>
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