Wednesday, November 5, 2008

First Thing for SEO starter

So how do you do get those first links in order to get your site indexed? Easy! Go to Google, type in the broad topic of your website, for example "Busby Web Solutions Search Engine Optimisation Challenge" and then start contacting the Webmasters of websites in the top 10 or 20 results. This might mean telephoning or sending an email to the Webmaster – do anything to persuade them to link to you. One thing you should always do when trying to get links to your site is to try your utmost to get links from relevant sites, like websites that have the same or similar topic as you own website.

The hardest task for a new website is to get those first links. As a participants of Busby SEO Test World Cup 2 a popular method of getting inbound links is to set-up link exchanges with other websites for example you provide a link to their website and ask that they then provide one to you (this is also known as reciprocal linking). The reason it’s hard is because if you contact the Webmaster of another website to see if you can set-up a link exchange, then the Webmaster of the other website can see your website’s PR is 0 and won’t be interested in exchanging links – after all what’s in it for them? It’s a catch 22 situation, they won’t link to you because you have low PR, but to get a higher PR you need people to provide links to your site. It’s tough, but stick at it and soon enough you will start to see results – Rome wasn’t built in a day!

Also, if you have any other websites be sure to interlink these sites – a great method of getting those first few links!

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