Some SEO Basic Tips
- Inbound Links
A course on SEO, or search engine optimization, could fill up a book.
Actually several books. So obviously, it is beyond the scope of this article to
teach you everything there is to know about SEO. Instead, we're going to focus
on one part of SEO and hopefully give you some tips that will be of use to you
and improve your SEO strategy over the long haul.
One of the things that people seem to forget is that SEO is not just what
you do on your web page. Yes, you have to make sure your meta tags are
optimized and that you use header tags and format your links properly, making
sure you have links from each page of your site going to other pages, but SEO
is more than just what you do to the pages of your site. SEO is also about what
we call off page SEO. These are things that
you do that have nothing to do with making changes to your web pages
themselves. We're going to point out what some of these things are.
One of these things is getting inbound links. These
are links that are on other people's pages that point to your page. The
more inbound links you have, the higher up the search engines you go,
especially if these inbound links are on pages with high PR numbers. Okay, we
should probably go over what a PR number is,
at least briefly, so you understand why this is important.
A PR number is a number that Google assigns to a web page. This
number is a relative indication of how important that page is to the keywords
it is targeting. A page with no relevance will have a PR of 0. A page with the
highest relevance will have a PR of 10. So ideally, you want as many links as
you can on these higher PR pages. Now, getting them is not so easy. The
more relevant pages are going to want something in return for putting your link
on their page. They're either going to want
you to link to their site and be an equally ranked page, or if you're not,
they're going to want you to pay through the nose for the privilege of linking
to your site. So, like I said, it isn't easy.
The best way to go about getting inbound
links is to write articles. Some of the top article directories on the Internet
have pretty high PR numbers. E-zine Articles is one site that comes to mind. Their
PR number is somewhere around 7. So, if you submit your articles to their site
and get links pointing back to yours, you should start to see a gradual rise in
your rankings. Of course, you are going to need more inbound links than just
E-zine Articles to really move your site up.
Getting inbound links is a very time consuming but important practice. If
you take the time to do it properly, you will definitely see your site climbing
up the search engine rankings.
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