Links to your site is one of the things that Google looks for to decide how important your site is, and therefore its ranking.
Not all links are considered equal. It is very important to make sure that the links you have are relevant. The more relevant the page is to your site the better. If the site is relevant the link is worth more than if just a page was relevant.
Here are some methods you can use to create links to your site.
Reciprocal Links.
Reciprocal links were once of real value. Today they do not have the value they once had. It is still good to use them providing the site you are linking to is relevant to your industry or business.
Article Writing.
One of the best ways of improving your ranking and increasing relevant links to your site is article writing. You need to be a regular contributor of articles. Most article sites will allow you a link back to your site in the bio section. There are hundreds of article directories that you can post your articles to. Here are a few you really need to use: EzineArticles.com, ArticleCity.com, and GoArticles.com.
Link Farms
If you come across a link farm go the other way. A link farm is a site of scrolling pages with countless links. These links are bad. They can actually kill your rankings. They are really part of a spammer’s network. Never link to any of these sites as it can downgrade your ranking with Google.
Directories
Directories such as Yahoo, DMOZ and other reputable directories can greatly increase the value of your links. Try to get your site listed with DMOZ. It’s not easy but well worthwhile. To do so you will need to find the perfect category and submit your site. Keep submitting your site every 4 – 6 months until you are listed.
With Yahoo it is easier to list your site but it will cost you. Yahoo charges $299 per year to list your site. The listing can be very valuable as Google looks at Yahoo directory as an authority.
Another important thing you can keep in mind with regard to linking is anchor text. Anchor text is the words that are actually linked to the hyperlink. Here’s an example: To download this product click here. The click here is the anchor text. If you did a search with Google using the words click here, you will find that that keyword points to Adobe Acrobat reader. The reason is that many sites point their user to this page to download acrobat reader for free as this is needed to read PDF files.
So the key to making use of anchor text is to anchor keywords you have optimized your site for. For example; if your site was optimized for the phrase “cheap reliable hosting” you would use the phrase as the hyperlinked text. This will give the link greater relevance to the search engines.
This of course is just a few of the thing that will help to increase the ranking of your site with the search engines.

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