Link popularity
Only about 25% of your SEO efforts occur on your website. The rest come from off-site throughout the Internet. This means that you need to find appropriate places on other websites to place links to your site. Driving traffic to your website takes time.
Before you head off your site, check the links within your website. If you have a site map or links within your pages, the search engines are better able to navigate the entire site. The more pages crawled, the better your search results.
There are several locations throughout the Internet where you can place content and include your URL with a link back to your site. Do some reading and find blogs and forums that interest you or relate to your area of interest or the topic of your website. Make comments on these blogs with a link back to your site. And make sure your comment adds value to the blog, otherwise it’s just shameless self-promotion.
It goes without saying that joining Social Media Networks is a must. Whatever your opinion of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn (to name but a few), they are the rage at the moment and you would be well served to at least investigate one or two to get a sense of what they do and how people are interacting. There are tools and techniques you can use to update several of your social networks at one time.
Before you head off your site, check the links within your website. If you have a site map or links within your pages, the search engines are better able to navigate the entire site. The more pages crawled, the better your search results.
There are several locations throughout the Internet where you can place content and include your URL with a link back to your site. Do some reading and find blogs and forums that interest you or relate to your area of interest or the topic of your website. Make comments on these blogs with a link back to your site. And make sure your comment adds value to the blog, otherwise it’s just shameless self-promotion.
It goes without saying that joining Social Media Networks is a must. Whatever your opinion of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn (to name but a few), they are the rage at the moment and you would be well served to at least investigate one or two to get a sense of what they do and how people are interacting. There are tools and techniques you can use to update several of your social networks at one time.