What's the best linking strategy?

The real power of SEO is in one way incoming links from other sites. It's very simple in the minds of the search engines. If a lot of sites link to you, without you linking back to them then your site must be good one.

Well, how do you get the best links?

Do you wait for other sites to find you?

Not me. I'm not waiting around for other sites to find me.

As of Feb. 1st, this blog is less than a week old but it's already been indexed by Google.  I hear people crying all the time about taking 6 weeks to 3 months to get indexed by Google, so either I know what I'm talking about when it comes to the power of inbound links, or my grandma works at Google.  Since my grandma died in 1988, I guess I must know what I'm talking about, so you can take the advise below or get your grandma over to Google for a job interview.

Let me give you 3 quick ways to get inbound links.

• Article writing
• Forum participation.
• Creative thinking (ie: offer an affiliate program, eBay auctions with a link back to your site, brandable eBooks and software etc.)

Content + linking = Getting search engine indexed pages.

Great content + great inbound links = Search engine indexed movement.

It's not enough just to get indexed. You don't want to be on page 250 in the search engine list.

You want to be on page one or two and at the top for lots of visitors to find you.

So you need great content and great inbound links.

What's a great inbound link?

A great inbound link is a link from a high ranking site to a specific page on your site with in context keyword focused links.

Here's a normal everyday link that's not too powerful. "For a great look at SEO click here" and then when you click the word here, to arrive at a site. What's the site address? (www.yoursite.com) That's not a very powerful link.

How about this one. "For a great look at SEO, go to www.fyipromo.com/index.html Not a whole lot better is it?

Here's a very powerful link to your site. "Want to see how to use different linking strategies to get better search engine optimization? FYI Promo can show you the best linking strategies. Just click on fyipromo linking strategy to get some of the best linking strategies."

Now look at where you end up when you click on that link.

The keyword phrase "linking strategy" ends up taking you to the page www.fyipromo.com/linking-strategy.html

That's the best kind of link you can have! Numeral uno! ...the best incoming link from another site.

Now if that site happens to be about Internet marketing, you've got a link on steroids. Let that site have a page rank of 3-5 and stand back for an explosion. Do that with 30-50 sites and you'll get a tsunami of traffic.

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Until next time...