Archive for July, 2010

Increasing traffic with backlinks

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

Whether your website is old or new, backlinks can play a major part in its success. When it comes to analysing their site using tools such as Google Analytics, many site owners become disheartened when they see that visitors numbers aren’t as high as they’d like.

However, with a little time, though and effort, rectifying this situation is extremely easy- especially when you concentrate on building and improving backlinks.

It goes without saying that you’ll want relevant banklinks which will result in return visits, so as tempting as it may be, don’t just opt for unrelated links which are easy to build- concentrate on quality.

Make sure your site is up to scratch when you build backlinks

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Backlinks are a great way of propelling your site to the dizzy heights of the Google search results, although it goes without saying that it isn’t the quickest or easiest of tasks.

However, before working on implementing a decent backlinking strategy, you do need to ensure that your site is fit for purpose.

Even though you might gain more visitors through your backlinking campaign, they’ll be clicking on the ‘back’ button on their browser in seconds if your site is difficult to navigate, full of useless or outdated content, or poorly designed.

So don’t rush your backlinking campaign- make sure the basics are in place first.

Spend time on quality link building

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Many people complain about a lack of links- even when they know that they haven’t spent adequate time building them.

Links don’t just magically appear overnight, and you need to set time aside to to build quality links which will provide results.

Simply spending half an hour here and there building links which have no relevance to your site will almost definitely not help your rankings, so make an effort to allocate sufficient time to enhancing your site with links which will benefit you in the long term.

Don’t think that you can get away with half-hearted link building- you can’t.