Linkbacks and SEO

Much time and effort can be spent improving a website’s search engine rank, with the majority of tasks being large jobs that can take days or even weeks to accomplish depending on the nature and size of the website in question. While performing this larger tasks, you should not neglect to perform those smaller tasks that can yield massive results and improve a site’s ranking dramatically.

These ‘hour a day’ tasks can, as you guessed, be performed an hour each day to draw in inbound links and drive your website’s page rank through the roof.

You can contact webmasters of other sites and request for them to link back to you. Generally, you have to promise something in return, which can range between returning the favor to payment of some kind. Be sure that the website(s) you link to or trade links with sites are infamous for the use of reciprocal links. Thanks to spammers abusing them in the past, sites that participate in a great deal of link swapping may actually be penalized by search engines today, and any sites linking to theirs may drop a few places in search results with them thanks to the association. Generally, it can be easy to spot sites that may do more harm than good to your page rank.

It is also worth mentioning that inbound links from sites in the same field of business or study as yours can boost your rankings the most, as search engines interpret such links as a ‘vote of confidence’ from knowledgeable sources. Having a site about physics and the material laws of the universe link to your site about alternative cancer treatments would not benefit you much, or vice versa.

Having your website listed in several directories is also a good idea, as directory links can increase traffic and raise you search engine rank fairly quickly. With directories available on the Web for every subject imaginable today, there is no shortage of potential inbound links you can generate with a little effort an hour a day.

Soliciting links from blogs is also a brief, hour a day task that can potentially yield massive benefits. This is more true of highly viewed and respected blogs that cover the kind of service your website offers.

These tasks can fit into almost any schedule, and the potential benefits of such tasks are worth the hour a day you can spend performing them. Not only are such tasks an efficient use of time and money, but the continuing positive results can be an encouragement to yourself and keep you in positive standing with management, as increasing website traffic is what your boss is paying you for in the first place.