Establishing Link Popularity and Increasing Exposure - Does it Have the Look?
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Make your website's appearance neat and impressive. Have good content that clearly explains the purpose of your website. Any online business tycoon would like to establish links with you, if they find your website inspiring and useful for their visitors. They need to be assured that a link to your website will benefit their business.
Keep checking the targeted websites to see if they have added a link to your page. Wait for a few days and if you still find no link, you can send another request and wait some more. If you still find no link to your website, you can remove the link to their site as you’ll be unnecessarily directing traffic to that site.
Keep checking the ranking of your website regularly to see if the popularity of your link has grown.
Another way of gaining link popularity is by listing in popular directories. Directories like Open Directory Project, Yahoo, and Looksmart will list both commercial and non-commercial websites. While Yahoo and Looksmart charge a nominal fee for commercial websites, Open Directory Project hosts listings for free. To get listed in these large directories, you need to follow up properly until you find your website listed.
Does writing interest you? Well, your hobby can help expose your website. You can write informative articles on your favorite topics and submit them to article directories. There are a number of article directories, like Ezine and Goarticles, where you can submit your article.
Such article directories let you add a link to your website. Many of those who read your article are likely to click the link provided. Hence, the number of hits to your site increases, thereby increasing the traffic.
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