Backlink Popularity

Get Elected This Term With More Backlinks!

More votes are your marketing strategy if you want to be elected President, right?

The more votes (backlinks) you have for your candidate (website), the higher up in the election polls (search engines like Google, MSN, etc.) you'll be.

These votes (backlinks) are when another website gives your website a link on theirs. Basically other websites are telling the world they approve of your website and would recommend you.

The more votes -> approval/recommendations (backlinks) you have to your website, obviously, the more respected, admired and well-liked you are viewed to others. With everyone voting for your candidate (website), obviously you are trusted, well-informed and popular (great website content relevant to the user's search).

All search engines are competitors of one another and they want their search engine to be the best of the best! Therefore, they want the best of the best websites (The Presidents of all websites). Some search engines consider lots of backlinks to a website to mean that those are the best sites and will subsequently rank them higher than other websites with less backlinks in their search engine results pages. Check to see how many backlinks you have to your website in the form below or read more about the many ways to get more backlinks.

Google is a good example of a search engine that uses backlinks which they call Google PageRank. The amount of backlinks of a website aid Google in figuring out how high it will rank this website in their search engine results pages.

There are many ways to get backlinks on your own:

1. The one way we all know to get backlinks is to submit your website URL to search engines, online directories, themed portals, local or membership organizations relevent to your website content.

2. Got a niche? Write an article and submit it to a website or article submission service to use as website content, email blasts or for newsletters. People are always looking for original content. Always put a copyright notice on all your articles. For example:

Tawnya Sutherland, Copyright © 2011
This article may be freely reprinted in your ezine, e-book and/or on your web site so long as it provides a link back to the Mediamage Business Solution’s website at http://www.mediamage.com.

3. Write a witty testimonial for a product/service you love. Email to the company with a link to your webpage and 9 times out of 10 the webmaster will use it on their testimonial page with a backlink to your website.

I love MollyBo's Maid Services for my company and personal home cleaning. Housework can't kill me but why take a chance?
Tawnya Sutherland
http://www.mediamage.com

4. Set up an award program on your website. Have a form on your website that people can submit their website URL to for "The Business Website of the Week" or whatever award you want to give. Choose a winner each week, send them the graphic award to be put on their website which links to your website. Everyone loves to win something and be put in the limelight and most webmasters will proudly link back to your website if they have received some type of award to entice them to do so.

5. Haven't wrote a Press Release yet? Do so now and submit to all the places online that accept press releases with your business URL. Type "press release submission" into any search engine to find a realm of websites to submit your Press Release to.

6. Give away freebies or offer a download area of free things that others can use. People will often link to websites like this just to offer their own customers free stuff.

7. Start finding blogs to comment on. With every blog comment, you usually have to sign in to comment and it gives you the option to leave your link (URL)with your comment.  This is an excellent backlink source for you as it serves two purposes. The first is the backlink itself and the second is if you write something of value people will read it and may even click to check out your website so it pulls traffic your way instantly too!

8. Get into social networking like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. and start talking to your followers with a link now and then in your tweets back to your website and blog posts.

9. Add Google+ to your blog and start using it.

10. Last but not least...it never hurts to just ask! Here's a sample letter you can send to other webmasters below. Check out who your competitors backlinks are and approach these websites too!

Dear <Name>,

I recently discovered your website and loved your background image (or another comment of appreciation to smooze a bit).

I am seeking non-competitive, high quality, theme-related websites to exchange links with. I am impressed with your website and I would like to offer our visitors an opportunity to visit and benefit from your site. I’m sure your visitors would enjoy and benefit from the content we offer as well.

I took the liberty of posting a link to your website on our links page located at www.yourdomain.com/linkspage.htm

For your convenience, our website’s linking information where you will find HTML code, banners and text to link to us is located here: http://www.yourdomain.com/resources.html

Or you may use the following code to create a text link to our website:

<insert HTML coding to link to your website here>

Thank you for your time and if you have further suggestions for a partnership, or if you have any questions or comments, don't hesitate to drop me a line. You can also call me at
123-456-789.

Best regards,
Your name
http://www.yourdomain.com

There are a few ways above to keep you busy getting backlinks to your website. Remember think out-of-the-box for different ways you can get people to link to your website.

Avoid doing these backlink NO-NOs:

• Do not exchange links with "free-for-all" or "farm links". What are these? These are website pages which are a listing of 50 or more links all on one page that have no relevancy to each other or to the website they are on. Try to avoid these as they can be destroy all the hard work you have done to get backlinks if you get banned from the search engine. Read Google's policy on link farms...
• Do avoid linking with websites that are not relevent to yours. Remember your target market and who they are, how they surf the net and what websites they visit. If you are a website selling dog food, most likely a backlink coming from a website selling photocopying services will not get you a sale. A backlink on a local veternarian's website however may just snag you a sale or two.
• Do avoid webrings. Webrings are a bunch of similar websites who all join together under one banner that is put on all of their websites that when clicked on randomly pulls up one of the websites within the group. Reason I avoid these is that most want this banner on the main page of your webiste which takes away from the professionalism of your website plus when clicked on takes you directly to a competitor. Is it worth a backlink to lose a sale? Nah!

Or you can hire Mediamage to acquire high quality backlinks for you to increase your Link Popularity.

If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact us at your convenience.