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Internet Marketing Strategy:44 Link Popularity Secrets
by Robert A. Kearse

Enjoy These BENEFITS:

-Quality targeted traffic from backlink & reciprocal
link partners

-Sustained long-term free search engine traffic

-Recognition as an authority in your specific field

There are enormous benefits to be had if you
master and use these link popularity secrets.
These 44 linking strategies and tactics are
organized into three sections:


Link Popularity Resources, Tools, & Techniques
(1-11)

Backlinks (Incoming Links)
(12-37)

Reciprocal Links
(38-44)


(1-11) Link Popularity Resources, Tools, & Techniques


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You will need a comprehensive script to manage
the many tasks of a complete link popularity
strategy.

First step:

Download and install Duncan Carver's Link
Management Assistant (LMA):

http://www.onlinemarketingtoday.com...ink-management/
The best link popularity software.

Other leading link building products are:

Arelis4
http://www.axandra.com/

Reciprocal Manager
http://reciprocalmanager.com/

Zeus
http://www.cyber-robotics.com/

. . .but all have significant price tags attached.

LMA is the Rolls Royce of link popularity software.

In a class by itself!

Oh yes, did I mention that it is free!

This link building software is the best option
for building a niche directory for a mini site
or niche site.

Even if you currently use other link popularity
software, you should add LMA to your Internet
marketing arsenal.

Download now or bookmark this page:

http://www.onlinemarketingtoday.com...ink-management/

For an example of a link directory established with
LMA see the "Work At Home Website Directory" that I
have started to develop on this website:

http://100FreeWorkAtHomeTools.com/lma/directory



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Read this important article:

Keyword Phrases In Linking text:
http://linkingmatters.com/linkingtext.html

Linking text, sometimes called anchor text is
the clickable text that takes people to another
page or resource.

Mastering the skill of using keyword phrases
in your linking text is one of the critical
secrets to understand in developing an effective
link building strategy.

Take special notice of the importance of using
this technique in your internal links within
your website!


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You should be aware of the penalties search engines
can inflict.

Vary keywords in linking text:

http://www.articlecity.com/articles...icle_1287.shtml



In your linking strategy you should offer multiple
anchor text options for other webmasters to choose
in linking to your website.

Change these options AT LEAST ONCE PER MONTH.


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Subscribe to these link popularity newsletters:

http://linkingmatters.com/Newsletter_Subscription.html
Linking Matters Newsletter

http://www.linking101.com/newsletter.htm
LinkingNews Newsletter

The dynamics of what's effective on the Internet
can change at a frightening pace. Subscribe to
these ezines and keep current.


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Bookmark this website:

http://www.ericward.com/articles/index.html

Free articles on strategic link building, linking
strategies and tactics, and link popularity.

Eric Ward is one of the most knowledgeable individuals
in terms of link popularity on the entire Internet.

Visit this site on a REGULAR BASIS.


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Use keywords in your domain name.

The links that you are sowing all over the Internet
will show up more often in search engine results,
if you are using important keywords in your domain
name.

Use the knowledge you gained from SECRET #2
concerning "keyword phrases in linking text".


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Download this ebook which contains a collection of
link building tactics:

http://www.searchengineworkshops.com/131LinkPop.html

An array of link popularity strategies that you
won't find anywhere else.

The strategies are not numbered so make a page
notation for link building tactics that fit your
situation.


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Download and install the Alexa Toolbar.

http://download.alexa.com/index.cgi?p=Dest_W_b_40_T1/

Important toolbar to improve your link popularity.

Use of the toolbar positively affects your Alexa
ranking. Since some webmasters take into account
your website's Alexa ranking the better your ranking
the higher your success rate in getting reciprocal
links.


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Install a robots.txt file in root directory of your
website (server).

Google's robots (and other SE robots) need to track
your links (both internal and external). Give them
help and proper guidance with the robot.txt file.

For a valuable tutorial on this technique visit:

http://www.searchengineworld.com/ro...ts_tutorial.htm
Robots.txt Tutorial

For other helpful robots.text info visit:

http://www.searchengineworld.com/cg...robotcheck.cgi/
Robots.txt Validator

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum93/
Robots.txt Forum

Search engine spiders particularly need help
indexing pages that are MORE THAN TWO LEVELS
removed from the home page.


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Use this Text-to-Hyperlink Conversion Tool

http://thephantomwriters.com/link-builder.pl

If you have an HTML ezine or publish articles
online, you should MAKE SURE ALL OF THE
URLS IN THE ARTICLE ARE HYPERLINKED.
Hyperlinking only the url in the resource box is
not enough.

If your articles are online, and you have referenced
your own website in the article, check to make sure
the links are live.

You will find some article banks where the urls
within articles are not hyperlinked. Whenever you
encounter this state, alert the editor to the above
easy-to-use tool.

Also, express your strong preference for articles
with live links.

By the way, you can edit your own articles with
some article banks to include live hyperlinks.
Where appropriate use the above tool to make your
article links live and improve your link popularity.


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Download this powerful free ebook on time management.

http://www.howtomanageyourtime.com/

This is a talking ebook, plus a written transcript
of the audio.

You will learn the powerful concept of the TIME
QUADRANT, plus 12 critical time management rules.

No one can take advantage of all 44 link popularity
secrets in a couple of days or weeks. There are a
tremendous amount of productive steps you can take
overall.

Therefore, you should SET GOALS of completing a
certain step or number of steps by a SPECIFIC DATE.

Once you have put all of these link popularity secrets
in place, your website will become a powerful force
on the Internet!

http://www.howtomanageyourtime.com/


(12-37) Backlinks (Incoming Links)


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Write and publish articles online.

Informed opinion has it that BACKLINKS, that is,
one-way, incoming links are MORE VALUABLE than
reciprocal links.

If the backlink is from a high PR, high traffic
site, it should prove to be extremely valuable both
in terms of traffic and link popularity.

The absolute best way to get backlinks from high
quality sites is to write and publish articles online.

Therefore, I have included extensive data for you to
utilize.

There are five main distribution channels for your
articles that you should concentrate on:


(1)Article Banks or Directories

(2)Announcement Lists

(3)Ezines that have an online archive

(4)Ezine Editors

(5)Individual websites that publish articles


Article Banks or Directories

Here are a number of different sources:

http://www.coachmaria.com/articles/articlebanks.html

http://www.arcanaweb.com/resources/...irectories.html


Announcement Lists

http://www.homebiztools.com/article-lists.htm

http://1clickprofitst.com/article-directories.html


Yahoo Groups

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Free-Content/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/article_announce_list/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/artic...2use4promotion/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/articlesubmission/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/free-reprint-articles

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Free_eContent/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freecontentarticles/


Ezines That Have An Online Archive

You should make it a top priority to start and build
a file that lists ezines with an online archive.

SUBMIT TO THESE EZINES FIRST.

Use your judgement. How up to date is the archive?
How many subscribers?? What's the Alexa rating?

By the way, if you ADVERTISE in ezines that have an
online archive, any links in the ad that reference
your own websites will add to your link popularity.


Ezine Editors

You will be using mainly ezine directories:

Some editors print their ezine online but do not
have an online archive.

http://eclaunchsite.com/ECLezinedirectories.htm
Important list of ezine directories.

http://www.internetmarketing-succes...directories.htm
Comprehensive list of ezine directories.

Copy and paste this list of urls in your email
program and send it to yourself so you will have
a hyperlinked list.

Here is a PAID alternative.

This list is selective so it should contain quality
ezines with no out-of-date listings:

http://www.ezine-editors-list.com/


Individual Websites That Publish Articles


If you go to http://Google.com, type in:

"target keyword phrase + articles"

You will find websites where you can post articles
for that keyword. As an example:

"link popularity + articles" yields this:

http://tinyurl.com/85z2j


Submit Articles To Web Rings


Here is an individual website that has integrated
the online publishing of articles with submission
to web rings:

http://www.e-syndicate.net/a17492.htm


Fee Based Article Distribution


Here are two paid article distribution services
that I have used with good results:

http://thephantomwriters.com/x.pl/t...tion/index.html

The service above was the first I used for the
article below:

"Internet Marketing Strategy:The Advertising Co-op"

If you copy and paste the article title above,
including quotes, at http://google.com, you will
see the extent of this article's distribution.

Most of these links are BACKLINKS!

I manually submitted this article to about 10-15
websites, but it was very time consuming. After
using Phantom Writers the distribution grew to about
250.

After six months I used isnare for further paid
distribution.

http://isnare.com/distribution.php?...63e0 3c8c4ffd3

This service has a very moderate cost.


Blog Posts Re: Articles


Look for June 20th post at:

http://wetrack.it/eza/af.cgi?aid=733&ent=28

Click on "Oh no... here come the critics:

http://www.joltinc.com/blog/?p=3

Then read comment #12.

Then read comment #19:

http://www.joltinc.com/blog/?p=1#comments

Powerful stuff!


Critical Secret Re Article Titles


Article Marketing & Copywriting Secret:
How To Make Your Article TITLE Sell

http://100freeworkathometools.com/a...me6_issue10.php

After reading this article you should realize
that you can get two gigantic benefits from
your online articles:

improved link popularity

free website traffic from search engines when your
article shows up


If Your Writing Skills Are Poor Or Insufficient


Writing and publishing articles online has such
a tremendous benefit, but what if you can't write
well, or worse, don't feel you have enough
knowledge??

Pick a hot topic and get a ghost writer!

A ghost written article means the article is
published with your name as the author.

http://guru.com/category.cfm/505

The benefits you receive will more than make up for
the cost when your ghost written article becomes
widely distributed.


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Submit your website to these directory sites:

http://www.dmoz.org

The single most important directory listing you can
have. There may be long delays in getting your site
listed. Be prepared to follow up. A free listing but
very powerful.

https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/submit/intro/

WARNING: Paying the fee does not guarantee inclusion
in the directory.

http://joeant.com

You can avoid the listing fee by becoming an editor.

http://www.Business.com

An important widely used business directory. To
submit your site click "Advertise With Us" at
bottom of page.

http://www.directory-pages.com/

A comprehensive resource that is very valuable
if fully utilized. Ranks directories by how
"powerful" they are.

http://www.best-web-directories.com/

Great structure. Offers separate FREE and PAID
directory listings.

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Here are some meta directories that list directory
sites where you can submit your Web site:

http://www.beaucoup.com/

Beaucoup.com is a large directory which lists more
than 2,500 search engines and directories.

http://www.search-engine-index.co.uk/

This directory lists more than 900 specialized search
engines and directories.


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List your link or niche website directory with these
directories:

http://www.incominglinks.com/
Extraordinary resource!

http://www.directoryarchives.com/

http://www.wmdirectory.com/

http://www.internet-search-engines-...directory.shtml
Valuable resource! An annotated directory.

http://www.talkingcity.com/showthread.php?t=12
See multiple post re lists of directories by Megri

http://www.massivelinks.com/

http://www.incrawler.com/

Be sure to give your directory a name that includes
important keywords.

Having a niche directory with a narrow focus can add
tremendous value to your website since it can save
an interested party a huge amount of time in locating
valuable resources.


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If you have your own website or niche directory,
PROMOTE IT!

Submit it to the directories of directories
referenced above.

Advertise your link or niche directory using free
advertising resources such as:

http://www.free-internet-advertising.co.uk/index.htm

http://freesoloads.100freeworkathometools.com

http://freeadvertisingforum.com

http://www.dailyclassifieds.co.uk

http://www.subscribeme.net

http://adlandpro.100freeworkathometools.com


The focus is not on promoting your overall website
but on advertising your link or niche directory
specifically.

Your intent is to promote and secure backlinks.

You hope that other websites, once they discover it,
will want to link to a valuable resource, YOUR
DIRECTORY.

So make your directory exceptional and link within it
to high quality websites.

Your Promotion should be RELENTLESS.



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Submit your blog and RSS feeds to directories:

http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

For details on setting up your syndicated feed, read
this article by William Bontrager:

http://www.homebiztools.com/syndication.htm


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If you have the appropriate files, submit your site
to directories for .pdf files, multimedia files and
image files.

http://searchpdf.adobe.com

http://www.blinkx.tv/

http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/submit.html


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List your ezine in these ezine directories. Make sure
you have a SEPARATE sign-up page for your newsletter
or ezine.

Such listings will give you a permanent backlink to
your website.

http://emailuniverse.com/bestezines

http://ezinelocater.com

http://www.topezineads.com/demo.html

This site has a comprehensive list of ezine
directories:

http://internetmarketing-success.co...irectories.htm/


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Post to forums, blogs, and newsgroups.

When your website has appropriate useful information,
your responsive answers to forum members' requests
can include a direct link to the appropriate page of
your website.

Your post must be DIRECTLY RESPONSIVE to the topic,
not just an attempt to gain a backlink.

In addition, many forums allow a signature file,
where you can include a backlink to your website.
Use the knowledge from SECRET #2 in your signature file.

Here is a link to a site with solid information on
forums complete with a list of active and prominent
forums to investigate.

http://www.imarketing-university.co...ng-forums.html/
Valuable resource for Internet Marketing forums.

An extremely valuable FREE ebook on posting at forums
can be obtained at:

http://100FreeWorkAtHomeTools.com/forumsupertips.php
Link popularity and posting at forums

All of the powerful knowledge and wisdom in this
ebook can be applied to posting at blogs and newsgroups.

Highly recommended!

*******

Google indexes the content of newsgroups.

An easy way to post messages in newsgroups is to
create a Google account and to post via their Web
interface:

http://groups.google.com


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Get free publicity, free traffic, and valuable
backlinks through using free press release
distribution services.

http://www.prweb.com/

http://www.prfree.com/

If you want a serious infusion of valuable publicity
and public relations knowledge, an excellent place to
start would be subscribing to George McKenzie's FREE
Publicity Pro Newsletter.

Learn from a pro and master this knowledge, and
your mastery should pay huge dividends, in terms
of valuable backlinks, increased traffic and increased
profitability.

http://www.publicitygoldmine.com/newsletter/


Key Paid Service


URLwire is one of the best fee based services
available. URLwire is a web site announcement
network started in 1994.

URLwire reaches the KEY ONLINE CONTACTS who
specifically write about, review, and link to
new web content.

An investment of your resources that rates to
pay very big dividends.

http://www.urlwire.com/


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Post a helpful "comment" to Google Answers.

http://answers.google.com/answers

http://answers.google.com/answers/faq.html

http://answers.google.com/answers/f...providecomments

Use your IMAGINATION!

You want questions that are relevant to valuable
information and answers supplied by your website.


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Set up an affiliate program. Here is a source of
affiliate scripts:

http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scrip...liate_Programs/

Make certain that the script you choose is reliable.

Under no circumstances should you start to use a
script without asking on at least a couple of forums
whether anyone has had experience with your script of
choice.

You can also use affiliate management software such
as easyClickMate. See the link below for a free ebook
that explains in detail this strategy.

http://www.supertips.com/vm/

A successful affiliate strategy should result in
thousands of backlinks from theme related websites.


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Develop a simple strategy to induce members of
Furl.net to establish a public link to one or more
of your website pages.

You want them to store your website page with the
PUBLIC SAVE FUNCTION in their individual Furl.net
accounts!

http://Furl.net

This free system is one of the absolute best
information resource tools you can use to store
valuable information in a format that you design
and use with ease.

Highly recommended. Act now!


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Link to http://amazon.com

Have someone write a review of your website for
Amazon.com, and you will be automatically included
in the Alexa.com. data base.

http://alexa.com

The reviewer should first do a search with your
complete url in the search box at the above link.

Then look for:

User Reviews for your website.com

Be the first person to write a review of this site
on Amazon.com!

The reviewer clicks the hyperlink and writes the
review for Amazon.com


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List your ebook for sale with http://amazon.com.

Click "Sell Your Stuff" from the top menu.

You will enjoy listings and links from other major
retailers such as:

Target.com, CDnow.com, Borders.com, & Waldenbooks.com.

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Use testimonials as a linking strategy.

These are testimonials that you provide to webmasters
of high traffic, high page rank websites.

Give genuine testimonials of appreciation for tools
or resources of a particular website.

When you send the webmaster the testimonial, give
permission to quote you using your FULL NAME and
specific city, state, and country.

Politely, request that a hyperlink back to your
website be included in the citation.

By the way, what Internet marketer has used this
technique the most?

By a wide margin I'd say it's Joe Vitale!


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Write a review of a high traffic website.

Contact the webmaster and offer the free use of
your review (in whole or in part) in return for
a backlink.

Use keyword rich anchor text in your backlink.


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Develop niche website software where the user must
leave intact a small notice that links to your website.

LMA uses this concept. Over time Duncan Carver,
the originator of LMA, is likely to have hundreds of
thousands of websites linking to his chosen website
or sites through their use of LMA.

You must give this tactic some deep thought and
try to come up with suitable software that would
be installed on a user's website.

All you have to do is come up with the IDEA.

You can always go to an appropriate website and hire
a programmer to develop the software for you such as:

http://www.guru.com/index.cfm

The return on investment could be huge!

Be sure to have a Confidentiality Agreement prepared,
that interested parties have to sign and return to
you before you reveal your software idea.

http://www.bitlaw.com/forms/nda.html

Make sense??


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Develop software that can be downloaded free from
your website, and have download websites list it
and link to it.

http://download.com

http://www.simtel.net/welcome.php

Also, post to forums, blogs, and newsgroups to alert
them to your free software and state anyone can link
to it.

As an alternative you may have the software resource,
exclusively to be used at your site (no download
function).

By the way, do you think it would be a good idea
to make the linking text keyword rich?? (lol)

Remember to vary the suggested anchor text as you
post notices around the net. (SECRET #3)



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Be Interviewed!

Complete with backlinks to your site or sites, of
course.

Use your imagination. Radio, TV, print media, ezines,
even an email interview.


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Join associations or trade groups within your industry.
Make sure their online sites have good page rank and
have backlinks to their members websites.


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B2B websites should have contract language that
specifically requires a backlink in pages that
have already been indexed by search engines.
This contract language should apply to all:

partners
subcontractors
suppliers or vendors
resellers or affiliates


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Host a Top Site

You will need a cgi program.

"Top Sites" are a ranking system. Websites that
sign up with your "Top Site" are given a text
link or button with their id, and they post this
link to you on their site.

The more visitors the website sends to you, the
higher it ranks. You know which sites send traffic
due to the cgi script and the imbedded id.

A source for scripts:

http://return.to/topsite1



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Host a web ring.

All the links on every Web ring banner point to your
site and redirect to member sites.

You will need a script to host your web ring, and a
source is:

http://return.to/webring1


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Use paid link text advertising.

Placing paid text link ads on high traffic websites
that have a theme directly related to your website
is a powerful strategy when used in combination with
the above link building strategies.

Below are two good sources that have two different
processes for you to achieve this goal:

http://www.linkadage.com
Text link ads through an auction process.

http://www.linkworth.com
Direct placement of text link ads.


Trade One-Way Text Link Ads that are Relevant
and Human Edited.

http://www.relevantadvertising.com/


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Get backlinks from these 100 top rated websites:

http://www.pubsub.com/linkcounts_top100_inlinks.php

As part of your link popularity strategy you should
make it a goal to get an incoming link from at least
several of the sites listed in the 100 top websites.

Devise a strategy so that something you produce,
an article, press release, etc., is picked up
and linked to by one of these highly rated sites.

You can always benefit from news or media backlinks,
but otherwise seek backlinks from theme related
websites.

Knowledge that you gain from an authoritative
source such as Publicity Pro Newsletter (see
SECRET #21) should help you get backlinks from
these high profile sites.

http://www.pubsub.com/linkcounts_top100_inlinks.php



(38-44) Reciprocal Links


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Use existing link partners and online ezine archives
as sources for reciprocal links.

Search the resource pages and link directories of
sites that already link to you. Seek links with high
quality websites that would offer significant value
to your website visitors.

Do AD SWAPS with ezines that have an online archive
of past issues. Naturally, in your ad you will have
an url leading to your own site.

Of course your ad will include anchor text rich in
appropriate keywords!


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Find quality websites with this reciprocal link
exchange:

http://value-exchange.sitesell.com/tuition.html/

Take this step once you have installed LMA and are
ready to request reciprocal links.

If you have other link management software in place,
fine, but you should have a defined procedure for
adding and maintaining links.

This exchange, originates from Ken Evoy of
SiteSell.com, so you know it is a highly valuable
asset. A good place for QUALITY reciprocal links.

Also, take advantage and download the free ebook,
Make Your Links Work, while you are on this site.



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Sign up with these 4 additional link exchange
programs:

First a point of clarification:

Your primary goal in using these exchanges is to
find useful and valuable info and resources for
your website visitors. A by-product of your listing
valuable websites is increased link popularity.

SO LINK TO QUALITY WEBSITES.

http://linkpartners.com/
Valuable directory of quality websites that trade
reciprocal links with other sites.

http://www.links-pal.com/how-it-works.html
Join this human-compiled directory that lists
websites who actively swap links.

Your referring page will need to have a page rank of
5 since that is the minimum required by this exchange.

http://coopadnetwork.100freeworkathometools.com
This is a free-to-join coop advertising network.

You exchange text links within this network on regular
web pages not inside link directories.

Highly recommended!

******

http://links-for-you.com/
This program emails willing reciprocal link partners
to your inbox.

Taking advantage of these programs should be a very
productive use of your time, because the other
program members have joined with the specific intent
of developing reciprocal links.

Be selective!

Approve links to quality sites that have a similar
theme to yours or offer goods or services you know
your website visitors would be interested in.


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I'll be the first to confess that I was on the
Internet for five years before I knew that there
was such a thing as The Google Directory ?!?

You can use this directory to find websites with
a high page rank and request reciprocal links with
appropriate sites.

Check out the Google directory at:

http://directory.google.com/

If you locate the category or theme of the websites
you want to target, they will be listed with the
highest Page Rank (PR) websites at the top of the
list.

Most of the sites near the top of the list will be
PR4, PR5 or higher. These are the websites to target
as priorities for reciprocal links.


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Obtain reciprocal links from websites that are linking
to your competitors.

(A)Determine which websites are your main competitors.
Make up a list.

(B)Sign up with Google alerts to determine who is
linking to your competitors.

http://www.google.com/alerts
(Due to technical difficulties you may have to
"copy and paste" this url to bring the site up).


Enter link:www.yourcompetitorsurl.com in the
"Search terms" box.

For "Type" choose web.

For "how often" choose once a day.

Be aware that you can use multiple queries and keep
tabs on multiple competitors.

This is easily done by adding an "OR". For example:

link:www.xyz.com OR link:www.abc.com
OR link:www.roi.com

(C)Request a reciprocal link from suitable sites that
link to your competitors.

These requests should have a HIGH SUCCESS RATE since
you know for sure the target sites are actively
adding links.


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Find theme related websites that offer reciprocal
links.

http://yahoo.com

Your search inquiry should look like this:

"Submit a link" + "Your keyword goes here"

So a request for websites based on the keyword
phrase "link building" would look like this:

"Submit a link" + "link building"
Be sure to include the quotes.

You can use other phrases instead of "submit
your link" including:


"add your site"
"submit a url"
"add a url"
"add a link"

This is a sound technique to use for niche or mini
sites, because it can be very hard to get search
engine traffic for a mini site.

Add the link to your site first, then invite the
reciprocal link.


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Exchange teaser articles with other webmasters.

What's that??

A teaser article is one that has been cut short,
and the reader has to go to another location,
like your website, to finish reading the article.

If you get a few teaser articles on high traffic,
high PR websites, you will get two huge benefits:


free targeted traffic

improved link popularity


I don't have to lecture you about how much more
valuable TARGETED traffic is than random website
traffic. Obviously, you want to tease an article
of yours that is relevant to your website content.

You should tease both articles in the exchange.

By tease I mean deciding where the cut off point
should be. In other words do all the work and present
a completely done package to the other webmaster.

Of course, you will have keyword rich anchor texts
for both links (yours and the other webmasters
links) as part of the package. And you will explain
the value of keyword rich anchor text to your
reciprocal partner.

Lastly, make the links open in a new window.

Tease outstanding articles and you will definitely
see positive results with this technique.


Final Thoughts


Implementing all these secrets will take a long
time and considerable effort.

Therefore, break the overall task down into several
small manageable steps (MINI-GOALS) that you can meet
by a SERIES OF SPECIFIC DATES.

The time management resource detailed in SECRET #11
is a powerful force that you can apply to maximize
the tremendous impact you should get from following
these link building strategies.

Start RIGHT NOW!

Best of success!

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