Best Places to Get Incoming Links For Your Site

Posted by vinai

April 9, 2008

You probably know that to get a high ranking in search engines, you need great content, and lots of it. Most people don’t realize the other factors that search engines look to rank your site high in search engines.

The key other factors to rank your site is its link popularity. After all, if you have great content, wouldn’t other people want to link to it? That’s the nature of Internet - people link to content they like.

Now the question is - how to get other people to link to you? Well, the answer is not too difficult. You can get started by building some of the links from other websites to your own site yourself… and it is completely free. Yes, FREE!

Some of the Best Places to Get Links from Other Websites are Directories. Directories are listings of websites, using categories and subcategories. The Yahoo Directory is the most popular - it was the first directory on the web. But unfortunately it is no longer free to get listed there.

But fear not! There are other, equally good or better web directories that you can submit your site to for free.

1. DMOZ - This is the best and most reputable directory on the web. And it is completely Free. Because it is free, and is humanly edited for inclusion, it takes time to get an entry here. But it is worth the wait. So go ahead and submit your website to the most appropriate category.

2. JoeAnt - This is a very good directory edited by reputable editors. Only editors can add new sites to it. Or else you can pay a one time fee of $39 to get listed forever. Of course the trick to submit your site for free is to become an editor yourself, which in itself is free. Keep in mind that the submission guidelines are stringent, and you can’t just post any description to get listed. Read it carefully, and then submit your site. Inclusion gives you a number of permanent, one way links.

3. Regional Directories like Singapore Business Directory - This is a regional, Singapore based list. For your business, the best thing is to get listed in regional, local directories catering to your segment. These are a good source of traffic, and the regional flavor adds more credibility to your link that associates your site with your local region, even if you hold a .com domain. You can find a local or regional directory for your country at IndexUdirectory.com

4. In-Links - Links from within your website to other pages on your site. Try to link to some of your deep pages and cross link them. This helps to create some links for your own site, and is most often overlooked. The best way to do so is to implement a Breadcrumb trail navigation on your site. This way, the important pages get links from other pages, and all this works to a great navigational experience for your visitors - now they know where they are on any given page, and can move up or down without getting lost.

There you are! Use these ideas to create some links for your site. If you do directory submissions regularly, you will soon have a good number of links coming to your site, and eventually, it will start to have an effect on your site and it’s ranking in search engines.

Cheers,
Vinai
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