A common question when starting out in the internet world is, "how can I increase the number of links to my website?" Well, here are 5 easy ways that you can use, right now, that will quickly produce more incoming links to your website or blog. But why do you need them? Well, firstly, as you begin to get more incoming links to your website, these are taken by search engines to be an indication of your sites popularity and relevance. Consequently, your site will get bonus points with the search engines and the more incoming links to your website, the better your site's search engine ranking. Then, your website will come higher up the list of natural search results returned by the search engines to anyone searching for your website's keywords or key phrases. Secondly, each link you have on another site gives you exposure to all their traffic and, the opportunity for some of that traffic to visit your site. So, you can see how much your site presence on the web is increased by every link you create. Incoming links to your website are the source of substantial amounts of effectively free traffic. That's why experienced marketers are so keen on developing them and why you should be using them too. Here are five easy ways, that you can use, right now, to get more incoming links to your website and, all you have to spend, is some of your time. 1. Submit Articles Article marketing has always been promoted as a very effective way of building links to a website. If the articles you produce are of good quality, engaging and full of useful information relevant to your market, then they will get published and they will be read. Equally important for generating direct traffic, is your article resource box, which needs to be compelling enough to make the reader click through to your site. 2. Create a list People love lists. When you create lists of resources, top 10's, how to's etc you are giving other websites a good reason to link to you. You can put this idea into action by incorporating a link to another site in your niche, as part of a resource list. Then contact them and tell them about your article or blog post. They'll often be willing to put a link to that page on their site. 3. Use Social Bookmarking Sites Social bookmarking sites like Digg and Folkd, are places where you can post bookmarks to your favourite web pages. Create accounts with these sites and bookmark pages of your website or blog. These then act as links back to your site. And you'll also get some direct traffic from interested readers who look at your bookmarks. Using free services like Socialmarker.com can help you reduce the time input required, by partly automating this process. 4. Leave Comments On Other Sites Leaving a helpful comment on another site, which incorporates a link to a useful resource on your own site, is a good way of establishing more incoming links to your website or blog. To be acceptable, the link must be to something relevant and useful. To find places to leave comments, try Google Alerts. This free service will send you regular emails listing, news stories, articles and blog posts related to any keywords you specify. Just check through the stories, pick the suitable ones and visit their websites to see if you can leave your helpful comment. 5. Create Free Blog Sites Creating more sites of your own, means you can incorporate your own links back to your main site. Use any of the services like wordpress.com, blogger.com, squidoo.com, hubpages.com, etc., to create these sites for free. Then, write some articles and post them to the various sites. This gives you the power to link to your main site using whatever keywords you want. By putting up more blog sites and posting some articles with links back to your main site, not only will you will get more incoming links to your website, you'll also get some direct traffic to these blogs. So make sure your name capture box is included on each of them as well. These are 5 easy ways you can use to get more incoming links to your website and, with some imagination, you'll discover many more. When you just give some time everyday to building your incoming links, you will be amazed how quickly you see your traffic increase.
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