How to Link Your Way to the Top of Google and Yahoo

Nobody creates a website or a blog to record their deepest, darkest secrets. If there is one thing those of us with websites have in common, it's the desire to generate more traffic...more visitors to our sites.

Of course, not all website visitors are equal. Ideally, a high percentage your website visitors should be folks interested in the subject of your site, not surfers who wind up there by accident.

Some websites get all their traffic via advertising. But, advertising can be expensive and most folks who advertise get "hit and miss" results. For those reasons, and others, organic search engine traffic is your best bet. And, for that, you'll need good search engine rankings.

Think about these things for a minute and the first million dollar "secret" becomes obvious. If you want your website to get as much traffic as possible...if you want that traffic to be targeted, good search engine rankings are critical.

Nobody can argue against the often made statement that "content is king" in developing a good website and in achieving enviable search engine rankings. And, if you emphasize the wrong keywords on your website and in your promotional activities, you're sunk. But, anything and everything else you do will not get you where you want to be in the search engine rankings without an aggressive, ongoing link building effort.

Writing articles can get you hundreds of links like those in the author box below. In fact, for less than the cost of a good lunch, freelance writers will produce articles for you. And, submitting articles to news outlets and other websites takes little time or effort, particular with one of several available pieces of software.

Requesting links on appropriate websites can also move you well up the search engine ladder. And, while you can do it manually, there are several relatively inexpensive pieces of software which can make link building far faster, easier, and less tedious. Most SEO software offers a free trial, so try a few options before making a purchase.

In the more than five years since our organization began offering free search engine optimization tutorials, hundreds of our students have achieved dramatic gains in their search engine rankings. Consistently, most of them have told us that the single most important factor in their success has been their focus on a continuing effort to acquire high quality links.

If boosting your website traffic is important to you, there is no better way to use your time than by conducting a focused, ongoing link building campaign.

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Daniel Z. Kane owns a popular website which offers 10 free lessons on search engine optimization and search engine marketing .

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