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The major search engines all operate on the same way. Namely, automated search robots crawl the web, following links and indexing content in massive databases.

Link Building is the most difficult task of Search Engine Optimization for most webmasters. Many blogs or websites failed because they can not get enough links and therefore receiving less traffic.

Links Stand for Popularity

The Search Engines discover how pages are related to other pages and in what ways by crawling the web through links. Since the late 1990′s links have also served as a stand-in for votes, which represent what pages are important and popular. SEO professionals consider a very important portion of the search engines’ algorithms to link-based factors, please refer to Search Engine Ranking Factors. Through links, search engines analyze the popularity of a site and page based on the number of pages linking to them, as well as metrics like trust, spam, and authority. Trustworthy websites tend to link to other trusted sites, while spam websites receive very few links from trusted sites.

Topic-Specific Popularity

The concept of “local” popularity suggests that links from sites within a topic-specific community matters more than links from general or off-topic sites.

Anchor Text

One of the strongest signals the search engines use in rankings is anchor text. If dozens of links point to a page with the right keywords, that page has a very good probability of ranking well for the targeted phrase in that anchor text.

Trust Rank

Since there are massive amounts of spam on the web, search engines use systems for measuring trust, many of which are based on the link graph. Earning links from highly trusted domains can result in a significant boost to this scoring metric.

Link Neighborhood

Spam detection and information retrieval use the sites that link to a domain as well as the sites that domain links to. Therefore, to choose those sites you link to carefully is equally selective with the sites you attempt to earn links from.

Link Building Basic Approaches

Building links is the most challenging part of Search Engine Optimization. It is critical to achieving long term online success. There are three basic approaches to build links for your website.

1. Get links by creating quality content

If your webpage offers high quality content that people want to refer to, they will link to your page. To build this kind of links does not need specific effort from the SEO, these links came naturally because of the creation of citation-worthy content. Google recommend this link approach most.

2. Get links by submitting your site to directories

Submitting your site to directories, or paying for listings of any kind fit into your industry and submitting your articles to article directories. Find the directories that have authority, usually they have high PageRanks.

3. Get links by networking with other sites’ owners

Creating links through guest posts, forum signatures, blog comments, or user profiles. These are usually links that use the rel=”nofollow” attribute, therefore they have typically low value, but they can have a significant impact in aggregate.

The more popular and important a site is, the more links from that site matter to the search engines. Getting lots of topic-specific links is great, but to earn trust and authority with the engines, you will need the help of some powerful link partners.

Some webmasters say that usually links do not come naturally, even you have “the king content”. I definitely agree that “the King Content” does not guarantee incoming links.

If you do not have money to register your site to paid directories or buy links, you just started your site from scratch, how can you achieve earning trust and authority with the search engines?

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