subject: Link Building - Use Relative Links for Improved Search Engine Ranking [print this page] Link Building - Use Relative Links for Improved Search Engine Ranking
A growing method for increasing page ranking for your website is link building. Just as quality content is important for your website, so is the quality of the backlinks created.
A key consideration when using this traffic generating method is the utilization of not only links, but relevant links. What are relevant links? Relevant links are just that: relevant. They are relative to your specific content.
If your niche is, for example, about volleyball, then you want to find locations for your links that are topic related. The concept is simple; it just takes time to do.
You want to place your links on sites that offer content related to your niche or theme. Blog posts are a great way to achieve this. Naturally placed links among blog content is a very successful link building technique.
Be sure when you place links, or pay to have links placed, that you get permanent backlinks. Temporary links are not really worth your time or your money in the long run.
You also want to have your links placed on blog content that is written utilizing favorable SEO techniques. The more the content is structured for high quality search engine optimization, the more favorable the backlink.
To place backlinks in this fashion, you contact blog owners with quality blogs on your niche subject. You pay them a small fee for hosting your link on their blog.
You can work with the blog owner yourself if you wish. Most people prefer to use a link building service because it is so much faster. The services already have an established relationship with many blog owners, saving you a lot of time.
The link building service knows the quality of the blog content for the bloggers in their directory, taking some of the risk out of dealing with unknown content providers. The fee is usually very reasonable for this service.
As the blog grows in popularity, the link becomes more powerful. The blogs selected to host your backlinks are carefully chosen so they are profiled specifically for your niche anchor text.
Don't expect immediate results. It takes about a month for the results to show. Keep adding backlinks on a regular basis, and you'll see a continued level of growth.
Remember that quality matters, and your efforts are put to much better use if you do the process right from the beginning. You want relevant links appearing on high quality themed blogs that are tailored around your niche topic.
