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Get hundreds of free in-bound links to your site
I think I say this in just about every article I write on search engine optimization, but I'll say it again: If you want to rank well in the search engines, you have to have a lot of in-bound links to your pages.
The question becomes then, how do you get those links? In the last article I discussed the pros and cons of buying links. Now I'm going to tell you how to get a huge number of links to your site for free. Are you ready for this? Because it's complicated:
Write articles.
Ok, so it's not complicated. Yes, to get hundreds of free links, write articles and submit them to the top article submission sites. The one I like the most is Ezine Articles. Here's the link:
Ezine Articles is great because it is very popular, so you'll get lots of exposure to webmasters looking for content.
How do you get links from writing articles you ask? Simple: each article has an "about the author" box that is required to be kept with the article. And in that about box you can include a link to your website.
Ezine Articles is great because it lets you include an HTML link in your about box, whereas many of the submission sites do not allow any HTML at all.
That means that with Ezine Articles you can include your keywords in your link text, which is very important!
In time people will start using your articles on their own websites, and your about box will be included with the link. If your article is of high quality and in a fairly popular category, it is not unusual to get hundreds of links to your site this way. Hundreds of links, all with your keywords in them, means much more ranking power for your website.
So take a little time and write some high quality articles on your area of expertise. Be sure to check the spelling and grammar! You might even have a friend who is a good reader and/or writer look over it for you to make sure you didn't miss any errors. A second pair of eyes is always better than just one.
Another great benefit of syndicating your articles through Ezine Articles (and other good article directories) is that people reading the articles will often visit your site through the link in your about box. That's free traffic! Multiply that times hundreds of copies of your article and it can really add up.
And yet a third benefit is that once your article is on hundreds (or even thousands) of websites, you can state that on your site for added "authority value". "My articles appear on thousands of Widget websites across the web" really makes you sound like you know your stuff, doesn't it?
What are you waiting for? Get to work writing those articles!
About The Author
Jonathan Leger is a well known AdSense and Marketing guru, and he wants to give you $371 in free gifts for visiting his Google AdSense blog.
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- 10 Steps to Picking The Perfect Website Keywords
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- Search Engine Optimization Help for giving a thrust to your business!
- How to acquire one way links to your website
- The 8 Things You Must Do To Optimize Your Site For Search Engines - missed by over 98.4%
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