Linking Your Way To The Top Of The Search Engines
One of the most important things you can do to raise your search engine rankings and drive more traffic to your site is to convince other websites to link to yours. It’s free, of course, and very easy, but doing it properly does take some time and effort.
I recommend a couple of ways to find websites which might be willing to link to you.
One way is to do a simple search to find websites with information about the same subject as your site, or closely related information. If you have a website about flowers, for instance, you can use search terms such as “gardens”, “gardening”, “flowers”, “plants”, and “seedlings” to find sites which may be interested in linking to yours.
Or, you can take another route. Just identify a related site which is already highly popular, and find the websites which link to it. You can do that with a search in Google or http://alltheweb.com for “link:” (without the quotation marks) and the complete URL of the website. For example, link:
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