What Is Link Popularity And How Do I Get It?
Link popularity is something every website owner should be concerned about. But what is it and how do you get it?
Link popularity is the number of inbound links you have to your website. The downside to link popularity is it doesn’t measure the quality of your links. It only measures the quantity of them. That’s fine, but your PageRank and trust authority are based on quality more than quantity. Still, it’s nice to know how many links you have counting for you.
Currently, Google and Yahoo! report inbound links. MSN does not; however, it has in the past and may do so again.
There are several places you can go online to check your link popularity. You can go straight to the search engines or go to a third-party service and check the search engines simultaneously. Either way, it’s important to do every now and then.
Google’s inbound links policy is the strictest. Yahoo!s is the most liberal. You’ll find that Yahoo! counts nearly every link you have pointing to your site and may even count some internal links. Google, however, is very selective. Nevertheless, if you can ascertain your link popularity and get a good look at the sites linking to you then you can judge the quality of the links based on the URLs and reputations of those sites. The best ways to build links for your website are with articles, blogs, directory submissions, and forum postings. Build as many quality inbound links as you can to your site as these will help you achieve better rankings.
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Well written, but Many of us find it troublesome to figure out the actual performance of our link popularity.practically it is not possible for individual to aggregate the data from vast number of sites and prepare a real time report which you can rely on.I think Social media monitoring can help the website promoter in determining the opportunities and to evaluate the reputation of a brand.
What do you think about buying one of those sponsored links i see on pages from time to time?
I do not approve buy links on websites for the purpose of artifically increasing your link popularity for search engine optimization.
I do however, recommend purchasing text ADs (with no follow tags on the links) if they might generate sales for your business.
Thanks for reading and I hope this helps!
Another one of best ways to build links for your website is to having content, reference or information worth linking too.
How can I see what links google has registerred ?
@ Vintage Musical Instruments – Sure, the best product to find out this link popularity information is by Google Webmaster Tools:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/