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What is Link Popularity?
Link Popularity is the number of hyperlinks pointed to your website. It's also many times used
as term for Google's PageRank, Google's own method of search engine link popularity. The search engines have decided that if many sites are linking to your site, that site must be a better than the others and deserves a boost in their rankings. If you think about it, this makes a lot of sense. People are linking to good websites, not to bad ones.
Why is Link Popularity so important?
Now these days, inbounds links are the one of most important factor for getting a high
keyword ranking, the most search engines are ranking their search result on the link popularity from your site. Not the quantity from the links, but the quality of those links is important. It's also important that the inbound links are in the same tropic. Remember one good link can be more important than hundred bad links. Not only the search engines page ranking is important, good links creates also extra traffic to your website.
How do I know the PageRank from a website?
Google offers a free tool that displays the PageRank from the websites. You can download the
Google Toolbar for free at Google's website. Once installed, it appears at the top of the Internet Explorer browser. You can also take a free link popularity check with a link popularity checker.
How do I improve my Link Popularity?
First of all stay away from link farms, free for all links and similar schemes. They don't help you with your PageRank. You have a bigger change that your site get banned from the search engines than that you receive a PageRank boost.
- Get listed in the internet directories (Yahoo, DMOZ) and the main search engines. You can do this at Manual Submit.
- Ask other website owners to link to you. A great way to find other website owners who are maybe willing to link to you is to do a link popularity check on one of your competitors. These sites are most of the time in the same topic as you.
- Swap links with other website owners. Swapping links with other website owners is also useful for to boost your link popularity. The theory goes that you add a link to a website and they are adding a link to your site. One important thing is that a link ranks higher if the sites are in the same topic.
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