The more traffic you have to your site, the more visitors you get, and the more often you are able to expose new people to what you’re doing.
One of the fastest ways to get traffic to your site is by getting outside websites to link to you. When other sites link to you, you benefit from real human visitors clicking through to your site.
But there’s another huge benefit - called “backlinks” - that should never be ignored.
The more outside sites that link to your site, the more “important” the search engines thing you are. The more important the search engines this you are, the higher they will place your website in the search engine result pages. The higher you are ranked in the search engine result pages, the more traffic you will get from the search engines. People will search for a term, see your site in the results, and click through to visit your site.
So how do you get other sites to link to you so you can benefit from more traffic plus increased “importance” in the eyes of the search engines?
- If you have friends that have a website, ask them to link to your site.
- Submit articles about your site’s topic to article directories like EzineArticles.com.
- Submit your site to directories like Dmoz.
- Make certain you add your website URL to your profile page on sites like YouTube, MySpace, Facebook & Pownce.
You’ll get a boost in traffic from visitors of all of these sites clicking through to your site, and you’ll benefit from higher search engine ranking (and traffic) because the search engines will see all the sites linking to you and will increase your rank, or “importance” in their listings.
Use the 30 Minute Backlinks system to add juice to your link building. It’s a simple tutorial for geingin those ultra-important backlinks and reaping the benefits of increased traffic.
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Can you repeat that… I was busy looking at your cat in the background. lol
February 4, 2008
Oh yeah - I forgot to caption the video, “Pardon the cat party in the background.”
It was very informative, and definately entertaining.
I think if you fast forwarded the video, you’d see cats flying back and forth. Would be awesome to see timelapsed. 
I wonder what you’re feeding your cats…
- Aaron Brandon
You know how Frank Kern is the “surfer dude” in IM, and Ed Dale likes Mac’s and Guitars? Part of being human and all that. So maybe I could position myself as the cat lady? Would people identify with that?
LOL.
Hi,
I have a new site that is less than 2 months old and was wondering that if i submit the software to 1000 software directories, wont google see that i have gained too many backlinks too fast?
About the cats, what breeds are they?..they look like tabby cats from here. Perhaps you can upload their photos on my cat site
http://www.mycatishot.com
Hi Michelle,
Good points about the importance of inbound links!
In regards to submitting articles, Ezinearticles.com is certainly the top dog of all the article directories (as you indicate).
However there are some other high Google PR directories that get spidered as often and have tons of traffic, but are a bit less crowded/competitive…
I have a list of article directory sites ranked by Google PR that you and your readers can check out - linked to in my name here - and along with those high PR sites, I’d suggest taking a look at the directories listed in the “Niche” section for any that might have the same theme as the article being submitted.
The search engines like seeing inbound links from websites of a similar topic, and they may also bring in human traffic since people reading your article will be very targeted… which can, in turn, result in newsletter or RSS subscribers, product or service purchases, adsense clicks, etc.
Just FYI and hope my resource page is of some use.
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