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July 27, 2008 — 01:54 EST

ALERT: Google is currently updating their Toolbar Pageranks. We are editing the Pagerank values we show below as they get changed. Expect that these values may be temporary, and subject to change as the new official Google rankings evolve over the next few days. Check back for latest listings daily.

Most experts agree that increasing the number of highly ranked, high quality backlinks pointing to your site is the best way to increase organic traffic from search engines. The more popular sites that link to you (without a “nofollow” tag of course), then the more likely you may be to show up near the top of search result pages for most search engines. Like in high school, being successful online means being “in with the in crowd”.

And, the easiest way to do that is simply to go through the tedious process of submission to hundreds and hundreds of the most popular free listing sites. You might want to buy links from some of them, but Google has recently opposed this practice vigorously, and decreases their Pagerank and in some cases even bans them for the practice. So, we’re left with choices that require a bit of work from us.

So… there are really only 3 “safe and sure” ways to ensure that your site gets high quality incoming back links (IBLs):

• Free Article Sites (like eZineArticles.com)
• Free Web Site Directories or Indexes (like DMOZ.org, or Yahoo.com, which isn’t free)
• Free Press Release Sites (like PR.com)

Of course, the easiest way to get started is to submit your web-site to at least the top 100 free directories or so. Once you’re accepted by these sites, you will get free high quality backlinks without spending hours writing tedious articles or press releases.

That doesn’t mean that you should ignore the press release sites or article sites. I think that considering the work involved, most of us would want to start with the free directory or index lists.

Today, we’ve researched the actual current Google Pagerank of over 1,500 sites called “free web directories”. We’ve spent hours carefully logging the true popularity of these sites, trying to determine which are the best as of the moment (things change rapidly these days). Obviously, if you’re taking the time to fill out the forms on these sites to “join” their community and so on, you should start at the top, and work your way down.

One suggestion — work fast! We’ve found that some of these lists that purported to be currently only a few weeks ago are completely worthless. Hundreds of these sites have decreased in Google Pagerank by 2, 3 or even 4 whole positions merely over the last 2 or 3 months.

Here is the complete list. Enjoy it and tell your friends!

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Over the next few days, we will be researching hundreds of the free press release and also the free article sites. We’ll upload those as soon as they are finished, so come back soon to check.

Remember, it is important to act fast on these lists. In today’s world, the value of a “free” SEO web marketing site can increase or decrease overnight.

We say this is “guaranteed”. Okay, maybe we should have said “probable” or “likely”. After all, the only things in life that are guaranteed are death and taxes, right? But, this is, according to Google marketing experts or engineers like Matt Cutts and others, the right way to promote your new site and give it the best chance to get a good page ranking. (Matt didn’t specifically endorse my recommendations below, but these are the KINDS OF THINGS he has said in the past, less a detail here and there.)

So, you’ve just established a brand new shiny web-site. Chances are that after a month or two, it got a nice Pagerank from Google. Boy were you pleased, right?

Then something terrible happened… the page-rank it used to have suddenly disappeared or dropped down a notch or two. What happened?

Assuming that you’ve not done anything wrong or nasty, there is a good chance that what you’re seeing is all very natural.

Here’s what happened, and more important — what you can do to fix it!

Google often gives a new site a “first look rating” that’s pretty high… sometimes a PR-4 or 5, which seems outstanding. This is based on a couple things…

1. What the site’s first page has on it, the “contents” or “about-ness” of the page
2. What the overalll structure of the domain underneath the front page is like

These two factors only consider what the contents and structure of the ON PAGE elements are like. If everything is pretty good, your new site will get a “first look” rating that reflects Google’s estimate of what the site MIGHT deserve, based on some mathematical algorithm that we’re not party too, naturally, compared to other sites which were similarly-well (or not well, as the case may be) and those sites’ keyword relevancy outlines.

Ahem.

What that means is, a first look rating is basically worthless, or nearly so.

As you’ve read above, the REAL and more-or-less permanent (nothing is permanent these days) Page-rank will be based on a very complicated list of factors, probably only 40% of which have anything at all to do with what is actually ON YOUR PAGE. In fact, this figure may even be lower, considering the big changes in Google’s ranking system last October and again in December, March, etc.

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR “ON SITE” CHANGES

Your site probably looks okay, from what I could see in the code on the pages… looking at the source itself. I do have a couple of recommendations that apply to most new sites:

1) Remove any links to off-site page in your footers, site-wide. Move them to a credits page or about us page. Do not show them on every page. You don’t need those silly W3C buttons, page counters and other credits and links that amateurs often put at the bottom of their pages. Even “credibility logos” are probably a bad idea. Move them to the About Us page — anywhere but at the bottom of every page on your site. They create duplicated content and make it look like you’re selling links — which is a no-no.

2) Religiously apply a rel=”external nofollow” label inside EVERY external link that points off your site. Do this on every page. This tells Google that you are not selling links, which they are very sensitive about these days. Your links will end up looking like this…

<a href=”http://www.somesite.com/” rel=”external nofollow”>Some Site or Keyword Here</a>

You can also put a target=”_blank” label inside the tags, which tells the user’s browser to open the linked site’s page in a new window. Optional.

IncredibleHelp, a moderator at WebProWorld.com suggests that I’ve gone too far with this instruction. After investigating around the web, I think his remark that I’ve gone too far is most likely correct. So, we might want to apply the NOFOLLOW tags merely to external sites that we don’t trust. — Thanks, Incredible!

QUICK STEPS TO ENSURE YOU GET RE-RANKED

You need to build quality back-links pointing to your new site. These can be accomplished quickly and will cost you absolutely nothing. Depending on how well and how quickly you can write some new articles, this should only take you a couple of hours, from start to finish.

What you’re going to do is create 3 high quality back-links from 3 new free blogs, plus you’re going to write 2 free press releases or articles on highly ranked free press release or article sites.

CREATING THE FREE BLOGS

These are the 3 most popular free blogging systems:

1. Blogger.com — Pagerank: 10? (Google owns it!)
2. WordPress.com — Pagerank: 9
3. LiveJournal.com — Pagerank: 8

On each one of those, you will create a new account/blog.

1) Name the blog something related to your site, one of your main keyword phrases.

2) On each of these blogs, write one nice long article or “post” about your main topic related to your NEW or TARGET site. Do NOT write about the target site itself, nor any product you may be selling. Write these posts about the details of (your new site main keywords or topic), details about how to do things, the history of the craft, where to find good (your topic here), how to use (your topic), etc. Write about some related to your new target site, but avoid repeating stuff that’s already on that site. Do NOT duplicate something from any other site on the web, especially your own site. Make it completely, 100% original content. Organize the structure of the post nicely with a headline, sub-headings and topical paragraphs that reflect the keyword phrases (3 or 4 of them) that are similar to those of your main site. Make these posts at least 500 words. Longer is better. Remember NOT to duplicated phrases, sentences, headlines or anything between any of these new blogs and your main target site.

3) Near the top of your new article-post on each of these blogs, insert a link around the number-1 most important keyword phrase that your main site is about. Make this link point directly at the front page of your site, and do NOT “nofollow” this link. Be sure this link is in the first paragraph at the top of the page or post. Put it INSIDE the paragraph, not above or below it. Make sure that this link is surrounded by related “good content”. Do not put any other links on this post that point to any other site. Only one link, and it points to your target main site. Near the top of the post. In a well constructed paragraph. Check this post/article over carefully to ensure that it is spelled properly and uses excellent grammar. That’s important to Google.

4) Save that post and “publish” it so that it is available to the world.

If you’ve done this well on the 3 free blog sites above, these 3 posts will earn you some nice rating value from Google. You don’t need to “publicize” these blogs. They do that automatically, all by themselves. Blog technology magically notifies the world about each post you make in seconds.

There is only one more thing to do…

WRITE TWO PRESS RELEASES ABOUT YOUR MAIN SITE

Now you can write about your main site itself. Here’s the way we’re going to make these press releases “news worthy”. We’re going to debunk an idea or thought that people may have about your industry.

What does “debunking” mean?

To debunk is to take something that is commonly thought about a topic, and to prove conclusively that this thinking is NOT TRUE.

By doing this, you will guarantee that your press releases get accepted by the free press release sites, and that they will ultimately be READ by readers over the months and years to come!

Another thing, debunking is a negative. Readers and editors alike will find it irresistible. They get sick and tired of all the “positive” junk that is all over the web — fake press releases that are filled with repetitive claims about how wonderful something is. Debunking works!

In your press release you are going to quote yourself as the owner of your targeted main site as an “expert” in the field. You will say whatever needs to be said to disprove the common misconception that you are debunking. At the top and bottom of your press release, you will refer people to your main site, where they can find more information.

You will write these two press releases in a way that the most important stuff is near the top, and less important stuff is nearer the bottom. Mention your target site 2 or 3 times without links. Put a link somewhere near the top (if they allow it). Otherwise, they will give you one single link at the bottom as the “contact” person for the press release.

Here is a pretty-good list of well-ranked “free press release” sites. Most will try to sell you a wider distribution for $30 or more. Don’t do it. Just use their free distribution. You will have to sign up and give them your email address and site name, etc. Do it. Then submit the press releases you’ve written.

Here is high-to-low-Pagerank sorted list of some great “free press release” web-sites to try… it’s fairly current (as of this writing), but some sites may have gone “pay only” instead of “free”, by the time you read this article. Check them out. I recommend as “first bets” these — PRWeb.com (PR-7), NewswireToday.com (PR-6), PR.com (PR-6), PRLeap.com (PR-6), PRLog.com (PR-6) and finally PressBox.co.uk (PR-6). There is no limit to how many you can submit to, but those are great places to start. We recommend writing an all-new press release for each site, since it’s not nice to create duplicated content on the Internet, right? Here is the full list:

Pageranks were accurate on June 30, 2008:

1. PRWeb.com - PR 7
2. NewswireToday.com - PR 6
3. PR.com - PR 6
4. PRLeap.com - PR 6
5. PRlog.com - PR 6
6. PressBox.co.uk - PR 6
7. 1888PressRelease.com - PR 5
8. ClickPress.com - PR 5
9. eCommWire.com - PR 5
10. Free-News-Release.com - PR 5
11. Free-Press-Release.com - PR 5
12. Free-Press-Release-Center.info - PR 5
13. IndiaPRWire.com - PR 5
14. PRFree.com - PR 5
15. PRzoom.com - PR 5
16. PressAbout.com - PR 5
17. PressReleasePoint.com - PR 5
18. TheOpenPress.com - PR 5
19. AddPR.com - PR 4
20. FreePressReleases.co.uk - PR 4
21. i-Newswire.com - PR 4
22. MediaSyndicate.com - PR 4
23. PR9.net - PR 4
24. PR-Inside.com - PR 4
25. PRCompass.com - PR 4
26. PRurgent.com - PR 4
27. PressMethod.com - PR 4
28. Yudkin.com - PR 4
29. 24-7 Press Release - PR 3
30. BizEurope.com - PR 3
31. FreePressIndex.com - PR 3
32. MyFreePR.com - PR 3
33. PressRelease.com - PR 1
34. Express-Press-Release.com - PR n/a
35. FreePressRelease.co.cc - PR n/a
36. PageRelease.com - PR n/a
37. PressFlow.co.uk - PR n/a
38. TechPRSpider.com - PR n/a

Just pick 2 or 3 of these outfits that appeal to you. Visit their own front or home pages to see which of them is the highest page-ranked by Google at the moment. Of course this changes from time to time. So be sure to check. Give your best written press release to the highest ranked site.

Wait a few days. They usually publish your press release 2-3 days after it is submitted.

A few hours spent now the way I’ve outlined here will pay off big dividends in the months and years to come.

And, you have violated no “Google Rules”. Everything is white hat. Just do the steps, and wait. It does take time. How long? Well, maybe only a few weeks, but usually several months.

Good luck and happy promoting!

A first-edition, somewhat less detailed version of this post was created as one of my comments on WebProWorld.com. That site is a great web marketing resource for newbies and experts alike.

Here is the easiest way to generate free backlinks. Simply register with Qassia.com and write a couple of articles. This site appears to be the hottest social bookmarking site on the net lately. Quassia.com is in a closed beta, which means that you have to be invited from an existing verified user (like IdeaPro.com of course) to join their new promotional site at this time. So, here is our invitation to join Qassia.com:

Click this Qassia.com invitation registration link.

Is Qassia “spammy”?

We don’t think so. Qassia.com was created last November (2007). It has a Google Pagerank of 5/10, a PR5, with about 155,000 indexed pages, 860+ of which are NOT in the supplemental index. This is an excellent rating for a new site.

Incidentally, the site’s name is spelled Qassia, not Quassia.com. It does NOT have a “u” in it.

There are no ‘reciprocal links’ at Qassia.com.

This is NOT a link-trading site. Google doesn’t like link trading, but apparently Google DOES like Qassia.com. Why? Because they seem to follow the rules, and stay ‘legal’ considering Google’s Terms of Service. You earn links at Qassia the natural way you would earn them anywhere online. You write good content and get recognized by other users or Qassia.com members. It’s that simple. Linking is produced in organic, natural and thoroughly ‘legal’ ways.

The exciting thing about Qassia.com is that they have a clean, easy-to-use interface and a rapidly growing community of members who are themselves providing them with terrific content. They call their content ‘intel’. But check them out. We think you’ll be as excited about this popular new way of promoting your site like we are.

How Qassia gets you backlinks

You earn them by contributing articles and “intel” information on their site. This gives them traffic and Adsense income of course, for which they give you more link exposure and credit. They appear to be running a very legitimate, traditional site. That’s why they are growing so fast.

At the moment, Qassia only has about 18,000 registered users or members. So, you have a good chance to get in while they are still young, relatively speaking. Imagine becoming one of Google’s first few members!

We think Qassia.com membership is probably a good idea for most web marketing and SEO aware companies. Try it out — we think you’ll thank us. Membership in Qassia.com is still free.

By Contributor Steve Hetrick of DataWebPro.com

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Updated pageranks — July 6, 2008

DMOZ - (8)

Jayde - (6) Oooops! Now only a (4)
My Green Corner - (6)
The Living Link - (3) Was a 6, you missed out…
Can Links - (5)
Search Sight - (5)

Free Website Directory - (5)
Miri Black - (5)
Niche Listings - (6) was a 5, it’s moving up!
Esearch Research - (6) may be broken
Master Moz Directory - (5)

Domaining - (3)
Londovor - (6)
The Shoppings - (6)
Ldmstudio Directory - (5)
Directory Dice - (2)

SEO Court - (4)
Publimix Directory - (0)
Arakne Links - (4)
Dir Submission - (0)
Websites Promo Directory - (4)

Environment Page Directory - (3)
Directory Vault - (2)
Little Web Directory - (4)
Directory 365 - (0)
123 Hit Links - (2)

A List Sites - (2)
Sam’s Directory - (2)
Creative Agency - (4)
Prolink Directory - (2)
All Link Directory - (4)

Zunch Directory - (4)
One Mission - (4)
Wiki Web - (4)
Xakami Directory - (4)
Anaximander Directory - (4)

Invo Website Link Collection - (4)
Making Money Library - (2)
474 Directory - (3)
Name Directory - (4)
YHAY Directory - (4)

Ask Bee Directory - (4)
Monster Directory - (4)
Spongy Web Directory - (4)
PakAd Trader - (4)
Treshella - (4)

Dream Submitting Directory - (4)
Exo Spy Directory - (4)
Nick’s Year Directory - (4)
Name Directory - (4)
Playground-3 Directory - (4)

Seek Ways Directory - (4)
Adora Directory - (4)
New Web Directory - (4)
Effective Project - (4)
MXDU Directory - (4)

SEO Web Directory (4)
Web Directory (3)
Mergi Directory (3)
Ezweb Tools Directory (3)
King Of The Web (3)

Ilushkin Directory (3)
Infignos Directory (3)
Directory Storm (3)
Directory Link (3)
Skype Media (3)

Directory Global (3)
99 Kat Directory (3)
Red Lava Directory (3)
Link Directory (3)
Promoe Lab Directory (3)

The Help Line (3)
Ipsarion Weblinks (3)
Link Directory (3)
Lite Directory (3)
Midsussex Directory (3)

Yet Another Directory (3)
Business Directory (3)
SEO Executive Directory (3)
NC Directory (3)
Trade In Directory (3)

Rank Back Links (3)
K-Links Directory (3)
Directory Mania (3)
Links Premium (3)
100 Best Online (3)

Web Linker Directory (3)
All Sites Sorted (3)
Link Add URL (3)
Elite Web Directory (3)
Web Calibration (3)

Top Dot Directory (3)
Free Web Directory (3)
Back Link Directory (3)
Gray Directory (3)
All URLs Directory (3)

One Big Index (3)
Clarib Web Directory (3)
Site Directory (3)
Link Book Directory (3)

There are 5 basic ways you can develop backlinks for your web-site:

1. Affiliate Programs — join an affiliate program, or create one for your website. A good place to checkout is Commission Junction, the world's biggest affiliate network marketing site.
2. Invite your friends to post a link to you from their pages. Don't bother to ask to trade links with another site though, since trading links works to cancel-out the effect. The idea is to have your site thought-of by others as being more important. This is a zero-sum game, popularity. If you win, they lose. Everyone cannot be more popular than everyone.
3. Buy links on popular sites. Nothing wrong with that. Make sure those sites are page-ranked higher than you are currently, or what's the point? If you get links from UNpopular sites, then that proves that these nobodies think that you are somebody. That's a waste of time, and money too.
4. Write articles on subjects related to your site and post them to popular article sourcing sites. These are sites web-authors go to, to find new content for their own site. The rules are that people have to have one link in the article they republish back to the original authoring site. Works great!
5. Issue press releases to the many free press release sites now available. You can see a list of free press release sites at Yahoo's press release site list page. Your press release should be newsworthy. This means that you should be making a claim, announcing an event, or commenting on something else in the news, etc. Don't merely discuss how great your product, your store or your service is. Nobody cares about that. Talk about something that you think people would want to know about. Include your web-site URL of course, and also your contact information, including your phone number, email address, etc.

The last two of those five ways are actually the easiest, and pay the highest dividends over time, in our opinion. It may only take a few minutes or an hour or so at most to write an article or a press release about some aspect of your business or web site. And, using the existing social networking, press release, and article submission service sites, you can have that article out there working for you in only a few more minutes. And, it's free!

Nothing else compares to this power.  Free backlinks in minutes. Furthermore, some of these article and press release sites have a pagerank of 5, 6 or even 7 — wow!

How to Write an Article in a Few Minutes That Will Attract Backlinks (and traffic) for Years! 

For an example of how to get backlinks, here is a guy who did just what we're talking about — He wrote an article on writing articles on backlinks, and, sure enough here we are giving him one! Here is his article on "How to write articles to create backlinks", from his web site blog, called SEO Is Easy: 

Anyone should be able to write 250 words on a subject in which they are familiar.
It doesn’t really matter on what the topic or subject, as long as the article is not about illegal activity, is harmful or profane.

Create your article in a word processing program so that you can easily edit, spell check and format. Don’t worry about font sizes, bold, italics etc., because most submission services won’t keep that original formatting.

Copy your article into a text file for easy copy and paste when it is time to submit.

An author’s bio section for each article is available on each article submission service. The bio section allows you to insert an html hyperlink. Write one or two sentences referencing your website and include your name. Make sure you use proper hyper linking for your URL.

It is of utmost importance that you do create the proper true HTML hyperlink in the bio section of your article, otherwise the article will be re-published without a true live link to your main site.

Proper codes:

<a xhref="http://www.yourwebsitename"> Your Target Keyword Phrase – www.yoursitename</a>

This will show the words, Your Target Keyword Phrase – www.yoursitename .com with the entire line a live hyperlink.

Submit your Article to several article submission websites.

Here is a List of a few good ones:

• http://www.ezinearticles.com
• http://webpronews.com
• http://www.ideamarketers.com
• http://www.certificate.net
• http://www.goarticles.com
• http://www.articlecentral.com
• http://www.articlefinders.com

Most Article submission sites have RSS feed capability. This allows your article to be shown on multiple websites that utilize the RSS feeds. In addition many webmasters and blogs retrieve articles from article submission sites to add content article to their own sites. Every occurrence of your article “re-published” on a website, creats a free one-way back link to your site.

As time goes by, your articles will be re-published on mutiple sites. An article even on a non-popular topic can still be re-published on 75 or more sites. Popular category topical articles will be published on 100 to 1000’s of websites. Every instance of an republished article creates a backlink if the hyperlinked URL was correctly inserted in the original bio section area of the individual article.

As your articles age on the re-published sites, and the re-publisher work on their own SEO and Page Rank, your article on their site increases in Page Rank as well.

Additional tip for checking your back links.

Do a Google, Yahoo, or MSN search using quotations marks around the name of the article, For example search for “ My article title”, you will find all the results for that name that will consist of mainly the article that you have submitted. Daily you can easily see with a simple search the amount of back links you are gaining through the simple re-publishing of your article. You should check to make sure that the backlink is Live on the new site republishing your article. Also check over time the Page Rank of those new backlinks.

Most sites that house articles allow the option to make comments. You can then make a comment on your article and include a simple phrase to seek more information by going to the same site referenced in the bio while including another hyperlink. If you do make a comment, make sure you reference by name you are the author and don’t attempt to include a hyperlink not already in your article.

In a few months when the next Google Page Rank update occurs, all your articles should have page rank of their own, all passing Page rank back to your main site.

You should also notice some click through traffic in reference to your well written and informative on the article topic.

(End of the SEO Is Easy article.) 

 

How to Find Out What Your Pagerank Is

To monitor your Google Pagerank (PR) you will need to download and install the famous Google Toolbar from Google. Go here to get the Google Toolbar that.

It only takes about 1 or 2 minutes for the whole installation.

• For Windows PCs: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or newer, or Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or later
• For Macs: Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or later on Macintosh computers.

Once you get it installed, you'll see a little bar in the middle showing your pagerank. For new sites, it will usually be 0/10 or simply an empty white bar about a half-inch long. As your backlinks increase and your pagerank is raised by Google, you'll see the little bar become filled with green.

What does the Green Mean in the Google Toolbar?

When you finally DO get a Googe Pagerank, the green starts creeping across the toolbar. It grows in 1/10th segments until the bar is full. How many hits does it take to get to a 10/10 rating, showing all green in the Pagerank bar? Well, the page rank is not determined or related to your traffic. It does not relate to 'hits' or even to 'unique visitors'. Instead, it merely measures how many backlinks you have on other peoples' web pages, and to what those links say inside the link itself (the keywords used that are underlined on their page), and also to the actual pagerank of those pages who are pointing back to you. 

Visit a few well known sites and you'll see the Google.com page ranking system in action. The New York Times is usually a 10, and Walmart.com or OfficeDepot.com would also be highly ranked. That's because thousands and thousands of people have linked to their sites.

How Can You Monitor The Number of Backlinks You Have?

Go to Google.com and type "info:yourdomain.com" (using your domain, of course). Google will show you a short list of info pages with everything they want to reveal about your site. One of the lines will read: "Find web pages that link to ideapro.com". Click that link to phrase, and you'll see how many back link pages they think are important enough to list. It won't be as many as you think.

Google is VERY conservative. Other search engines will show more sites doing the linking. Microsoft's LiveSearch.com will be much more generous. Checkout your domain's back links at Microsoft using this link (making the change for your own domain):

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=link:yourdomain.com

How Long Does It Take to See My Pagerank Increase or Changes?

Google updates their pageranks continuously, but each incremental change in page ranking is displayed only every few weeks. Some updates have happened in only 4 or 5 weeks, but they usually take place about every 6 to 8 weeks. Don't worry about it. Have faith that more high quality, unreciprocated (non-traded), topically relevant and appropriate links from highly ranked sites will certainly increase your Google PR pageranking. It will come!

Now that you know the basics, go out there and get some backlinks and watch your Google Pagerank grow. 

Once you have a good website that’s “ready for search engines”, the most important way to increase the traffic and pagerank of your site is to increase the number and the quality of the back links to your site. (If you don’t know how to build a good “search engine ready” website, read our report: “How to design search engine friendly web pages“.)

Since you don’t control exactly HOW distant sites that you don’t own actually link back to you, and you can’t dictate exactly how MANY of them do the back linking nor how POPULAR those sites are, then why bother with mentioning backlinks? Well, because you CAN control how many sites link back to you, at least to some extent.

Here are some ways to do get good quality backlinks, from most important to least important:

1. Issue press releases about your site
2. Join discussion forums, support and professional online groups and make posts containing a link to your site
3. Ask your friends to add links to your pages on their own sites
4. Call site owners and local companies you do business with to add a link to your site
5. Call websites that you find showing up high in search results to add a link to your site, even if they compete with you
6. Email owners of websites to ask for links (this is the lowest priority)

Issue Press Releases About Your Site.

• Make them newsworthy. Make them short, from 1,000 to 2,000 words. Put the most important newsworthy information up front, using the “inverted pyramid” type system… answering the “who, what, when, where and why” of the news item in the first few lines. Make sure everything is spelled correctly and chopped into nice short, punchy paragraphs.
• To find free press release sites, do a search online for “free press release” and you’ll find several dozen good ones. In a few hours, you can have things lined up to produce 15 or 20 or even more “back links” pointing at your site from other sites that know how to link to you properly to increase your page rank. These free press release outfits usually post your links in a day or two. This works and works fast! And, it’s free — do this before you go out and spend money anywhere.
  

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• Another important thing about the free press release sites: Choose the most “popular” sites first. That means simply using the ones with the highest PR or pagerank from Google.com’s Pagerank Toolbar. I’d start with the guys who have a PR of at least 4, 5 or 6. Then do the others later. You may not even want to try the ones who have a rank of “0″ or 1 to 2. Sometimes being linked by UNpopular sites is worse than none at all. Although I tend to think that a few of the lower rank site doesn’t hurt much as long as you have a good number of the really popular press release sites, like the 4 to 6 ranked sites. If you need help here, call us and we’ll do the work for you.

Using Online Discussion Groups and Forums

• Another good place to get high quality free links is the joining and posting to discussion forums at your ISP or in your profession or trade or even your hobby or avocation interests. Do a search online for “discussion support forum” and add the topic you’re interested in; i.e. “bee keeping discussion forum” or “beekeeper support forum”, and so on. Try to get a few forums as close to the subject of your site as possible. Then visit those forums and join them, which means registering for their membership which is almost always free. Respond to their email confirming your membership and look for their posting rules to see if you can link to your site inside your comments. If you can, then great! Add a few comments and ask a few questions in each of the forums. Concentrate on those that are highly ranked and relate closely to your site’s subject. Make sure you add a link back to your site using a keyword or two that’s important to your site. This will really help your pagerank zoom to the top… or at least to the much-desired 4 or 5 level. This is another very fast way to get back links.
• Make sure notice whether these forums allow inserting links to your site. Many don’t. Some remove the links without telling you that they do it. The only way you can find out in some cases is to post to them and include a link and check to see if it shows up later.

Ask Your Friends, Relatives and Business Associates to Add Links From Their Sites to Your Pages

• A third way to get backlinks for free is to simply ask your friends. Sound like a wast of time? It isn’t. Practically every family member and friend you have will either have a persnal web site or know someone who does. They would usually be happy to add a link to your site to one of their pages. All you have to do is ask. Here is what you need to tell them to make this work for you in the best way possible:
• Name the page URL where you want their link to point to. Make it the full URL, such as: http://www.yourbeekeepersite.com/index.html
• Give them the words that should go inside the actual link itself, such as…Terrific Beekeeper’s Supplies Store: Smoker, nets, hives, honeycomb racks, everything but the honey itself!

  Note how the link above shows some good search terms for bee keeping supplies inside the link itself? That’s the way you want to give them the link request. Write it out completely for them.

• Give them a paragraph of text that places the link inside some related discussion of your subject matter. This should be a short sentence or two where the link makes sense to the reader. It can be something like this:
  

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  We love honey! If you or your friends love honey and honey bees like we do, then you will love this bee keeping store that we’ve found on the ‘net. It stocks lots and lots of stuff every bee lover and honey bee expert needs: Terrific Beekeeper’s Supplies Store: smoke-sprayer, protective hats, gloves, canvas coveralls in different sizes, nets, hives, honeycomb racks, everything but the honey itself! Vist that site today, you’ll love it!
  

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  You should print that out and hand it to them, or even offer to edit their pages and insert the link yourself for them. Remember, your friends, and social contacts are a ready resource of instant web back links. Use them. Offer to give them a back link if needed, but try to get a link to them without having to give them one in return.

Call or Email Other Site Owners That You Don’t Know Personally to Get Them to Add a Link or Trade a Link With You

• Don’t be afraid to call a web site owner to ask them to add a link to your site. Emailing them almost never works, but it’s worth a try. Be sure to include your own phone number in the email and a paragraph like the one above with the actual text you want included in and around the link. Only takes a few minutes to send the email, so why not? However, a good old fashioned phone call usually works much much better. Most of us, especially busy webmasters, ignore requests for anything that we receive by email from people we don’t know. A phone call is best (assuming you can find out their phone number). Don’t be shy about asking competing or “official” sites that you don’t think will be too receptive. Never hurts to ask.
• If you need more help, feel free to call us at 818-793-0339 or email us. We’re available for a reasonalble fee.
• Remember… getting good quality backlinks is probably the most important way you can improve the traffic of your web pages. Once you’ve got a well written, easy to understand web site, work on those back links. It’s the best way to promote your website!

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