Link popularity is how many links are pointing to your Domain name (the amount of links other websites have pointing to your website). Link popularity is starting to become one of the most important factors when search engines rank your site. A site with heavy link popularity will have top search results. Google paved the way for link popularity as a relevance factor. Search engines are placing more and more weight to how many other sites are linking to the page, what kind of sites are they and what kind of text is located in/near the links. It seems that links from sites dealing with the same subject as you and links from very popular sites (such as human-edited directories like ODP and Yahoo) can help your ranking in the search engines. The logic is that pages other people think are valuable resources will often get linked by other webmasters, while pages that are of low quality or contain little information at all will not gain many links - thus, the Top10 places will be filled with sites people regard as useful. I'm afraid that this change might make it even more difficult for small and new sites to make it to the top and favor big, high-traffic commercial sites.
How To Build Your Link Popularity
An emphasis on link popularity makes two things even more important than what they have been in the past. The first thing we’ll talk about is Content. Quality content ensures that other webmasters link to your website. They do this because they think your website is a valuable resource to their visitors. So by linking to your website they give you traffic from the links and also a boost in search engine ranking. The second thing will talk about is reciprocal links. That is when a site links to you and you link back to them. This will also have a double effect by increasing your visitors from the links and from search engines. The more links you have pointing to your site, the better.
So What Is A Link-Share Service?
They are designed to boost your link popularity. The way they work is simple-
Each member of a link-share program places a machine-generated page on his site and links to that page from his front page. The machine-generated page has links to all other sites participating in the program. Each member submits his machine-generated page to all search engines, and the result is that each member has a link to his site from everyone else. A Link-Share Service Is Also Known As A Link Farm!
Link-Share Services/Link Farms Will Get You Banned! I really want you to know about this. These programs have produced some positive effects in the past, but many search engines now regard them as spam and some completely ban sites that participate in these programs. Additionally, given the current emphasis on links from similar sites by the search engines, they are in most cases completely useless or even harmful, which is why I would strongly recommend that you do not participate in them. Focus on creating good content and establishing reciprocal links instead. Acquiring Links By Using Reciprocal Links
When acquiring links by using reciprocal links or any other methods, try to get your primary keywords into the link text. For example, getting someone to link me like this –Domain Name Information
If you still don’t understand the code would look like this –
<a href="http://www.domaininform.net”>Domain name information</a>
On the other hand, a link such as this - click here to see a cool site wouldn't be as good, because it doesn't contain any words that are related to Domain name information resource. You can aid this process by naming your Domain name so that it contains at least one of your important keywords.
People often times will use the title of your Domain name when linking to you. In order for all these tricks to work, you must remember to submit any pages that link to your site to the search engines, unless they have already been submitted by the site owner. People will often link to your site without letting you know they have done so, so some will fall trough the cracks, but at least submit those you have knowledge of.
A Word On Reciprocal Links - You Need BackLinks Gone is the day when Reciprocal Links were thought of good by search engines. This method of gaining links is not as valuable as it used to be. A good linking structure within a website will help you very much in page rank and search results. Also getting a lot of backlinks will help you will help you much more than reciprocal links will. This is much more helpful. and if you can get a BackLink from a webpage with high PageRank This will give you a major boost in search results. Also don't link to bad websites or websites that are banned as this will hurt you and you will loss your ranking in search results or even get banned all together. Also make sure the webpage you get a link from is indexed in Google otherwise the Link is worth nothing to. If somebody offers a a link exchange get the URL and check to see if it's indexed if it's not they get rank and you loss rank and if you do a Link exchange make sure to follow up and check to make sure they are not using rel=nofollow or rel=external nofollow as this will make the link worthless also.
rel=nofollow & rel=external nofollow what does this mean?
This is a code contained in a link that make the value of page rank and link popularity = nothing! Search engines will still follow the link but no value is passed to the website. this make every link worth with this code worth nothing. To check to see if a link has this code check the source code of the webpage. These types of links are worth nothing not even your time. If you want to link to a website you can use this code and you will not loss any link popularity or page rank to the outside website. this is also called a link condom! Webmasters hate this code. blogs have this code in almost every link. Their are a couple out their that don't though but you have to be smart.
Paid Links Are Becoming Worthless To Google
Just recently Google has made Paid Links worth nothing. Google Is asking webmasters to include the rel=nofollow in their paid links. they also have said that they can figure out about 90% of paid links and make them worthless. My advice If you use a paid link service make sure their is no way of tell that it is a paid link. If their is then you will be paying for nothing. So please keep that in mind. If you use a paid link service then you need to get smart other wise this will not help you. Just go to matt cutts blog. If you don't know who this guy is this is the voice of Google. Whatever the case Just don't waste your budget on links that are worth nothing.
How Can I Check My Link Popularity?
You can check your link popularity by going to this site
submit express.
Tip For Building Links
Forums and Blogs are a great source of building links. Most Blogs have a rel=”nofollow” and also a rel=”external nofollow”. Most forums don't have this code so a great place to get links in forums. Their are blogs out their that have no nofollow (they don't use the code at all) this will give a massive PageRank boost. You just have to search in the right places. A wonderful website is all about getting rid of the nofollow code.
this site is called www.yesfollow.org
You should try to get links on pages with a high PR. Higher PR pages make the link worth more, and have a greater effect compared to low or 0 PR.
A link value is divided by the Page Rank to how many links are on a page.
If I have a PR 5 will a 300 links vs. a PR 2 with 15 links the PR 2 page would be worth more. So with that in mind a page with many links is worth less than with pages with little links.
You should try to get high PR pages with less links, 15-30 is a good Page to get.
Also getting a Link from a Page that's about the same as your site will give you a even better boost!