Link popularity is measured according to the number of links made for your site. It is important because aside from being the basis of Google in defining your PR which is a factor of your site’s credibility in your niche, it is also a factor in getting higher ranking in the search engine results page. Link is important in getting voluminous web traffic for your site; the more links scattered in any site, the more chances that you get more visitors because of the online visibility. Only in getting more inbound links for your site that you can be assured of having the desired SEO results.
1. In submitting article to various electronic magazines, you may not be allowed to put anchor text within the article unless you get paid membership, but there is resource box provided at the bottom. Use the resource box for your own benefit; here you can put anchor text. The links that are generated through resource boxes are crawled by the search engine spiders. This way, you get quality inbound links for your site.
2. Create a blog account and post blog entries with anchor texts which URLs are leading to specific pages of your site. After that, submit your blog posts to social directories or popularly known as social bookmarking. With social bookmarking, you get valuable links and these links contributes in the ranking of your site.
to be continued here: 5 Steps in Getting Inbound Links (Continuation)