Get the people that matter to yoour business through your doors!

1. Join your chamber of commerce

There is one in most cities and suburbs – chambers of commerce are a place for all the shop owners in the area to meet and talk, well, shop. They usually have websites, and if you’re lucky they’ll be affiliaited with the local council, which gives you a .gov link. Great value in general business as well a s link building.

2. Check in with your local business partners

Send out an email, or make a few phone calls, to your local suppliers, agents, and other business partners asking if they would like to exchange links with you. There is a real possibility this will drive both foot traffic through your door, and net traffic through your home page.

3. Launch an affiliate program

Start an affiliate program where people are rewarded for recommending new customers to you. In many cases, they will do this via the internet … talking to people they know on Twitter and Facebook and Myspace. These links may have no Google juice, but the exposure they create could certainly lead to ordinary links.

4. Submit your site to relevant government resources

Government departments often create resource lists of businesses that can help people in an area do something. Take the time to look through your local and state government websites, seeing if your site fits into any of the categories. Write asking for inclusion if it does.

Making your site more attractive!

Today we’re looking at a few easy, very quick, and mostly fun ways to make your site more linkable. We’ll focus on making people want to link to you, not the ordinary (but very necessary) method of spreading your link across the net, all by yourself. They may not all take 5 minutes … but are close enough!

1. Write a ‘Top Ten Myths’ List for your industry

People can’t resist reading about either the misconceptions they had, or the misconceptions other people have. Myths-list often get Dugg, and can even go viral if they are useful, funny or amazing enough. Myths are often one of the major talking points within an industry – people rarely understand your business from outside, so this should be quick and easy!

2. Spellcheck your site

Print out every page of your site and go over it for grammar and spelling errors. If you want to get authority links from .edu and .gov domains, you need to be as slick and professional as possible.

3. Get a standard privacy policy

It doesn’t take much time to download a Privacy Policy form a standard forms site on the internet, or make a quick phone call to your usually company legal service to have one made up. Privacy policies are important for building trust in the site. People are choosy about who they link out to because Google will penalize for linking out to untrustworthy sites – putting a Privacy Policy up helps overcome this.

4. Tag sites related to your on Delicious

There is always the possibility that someone out there will see what fantastic taste you have in websites, follow the trail back to your company site, and link to you.

5. List your site on your local library’s website

Links are like an avalanche – build enough, and they start building themselves. This little SEO trick should be on every business’s list!

There is the best way of increasing your page rank for a more chances of getting rank higher in the SERP for the keywords that your site is optimized with. You have to write an article with anchor text in it (in which links leading to your site) is a great help. Links from reputed article submission sites are of quality. Also, dropping links in blog posts and blog comments, forums and site directory can help. However, these link building methods should be done carefully. You should not overdo these methods or Google will accuse you of spamming. Of course, you should not forget to always keep in mind the relevancy aspect while doing the link building tasks.

Link popularity is the basis of page rank. However, this does not mean quantity. If you want to increase the page rank of your site pages, you have to gather quality links. Quality links pertain to links that come from contents that is relevant to your site; it could be articles or contents of other relevant sites.

(d) The more volume of traffic that website gets, the more returns of investment you have.

This misconception can be true but by sense is not. You should also consider if the web traffic that your site gets are relevant. You have to ask questions if they are potential customers or just mere site surfers…

Continue reading here: About SEO Myths: Views from webmarketingexperts.com.au (Part 4)

However, the other side of light with nofollow links is that it can generate voluminous traffic, and even more than what you are targeting. Twitter, for instance, is a great tool in generating web traffic. The links that you post in your “tweets” may not contribute to the link popularity of your site; however, it would popularize your site through the traffic that it can generate if you have done your “twittering” more frequent.

In Twitter, it is more advantageous if you have more number of followed “Twitterers” as well as great number of “Twitterers” who are following you. The more followers and more people you have followed, the more audience for the link that you post in your “tweets” you have.

How does traffic be generated through Twitter?

…continue reading at Twitter for Link Building