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Inbound Links to your website is one of the most important factors that affect your site rank in search engines.

In the following post I will review how to get Inbound Links to your website.

How to get inbound links ?

Directory Listing

Listing your site in directories and professional website in your field is an important step to increase the number of inbound links.

Before you list your site in the relevant sites please think of the

following issues:

1. My customers are from my country or International – If they are from my country it’s important to list your website in local directories websites.

2. What are the relevant sites that my client might look for my products – find these sites and make sure that you are registered there.

Reciprocal Link request

Send email to website owner and offer mutual links. This technique is not recommended to use due to the fact that it require a lot of work and might affect your page rank badly sometimes (If you have a link in your site to a banned site).

Post a link to your website in Forums, Blogs

Many websites enable their visitors to add a message. In the message add a link to your website. It’s important to post your message only in Forum \ Blogs that has a connection to your website theme.

Writing & Posting Articles

Writing an article in your field and publish it with a link to your website and post it in different websites or write an article and post it in share content websites is a good way to increase the inbound links.

Examples to share content websites: http://digg.com/, http://www.reddit.com/

Buying Links

Buying a link from a well established website might affect dramatically on your site position. It’s important you will check the Page rank of the site that you buy the link from. In order to do so you can use the following site to check the PR of this site : http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php

I didn’t understand how important this subject is until 3-4 months ago.

My brother created a new site for my father firm (www.bearing.co.il) and when people looked for his main product in Google, my father firm appears in page 5.

I looked at the sites that located in the first result page and I saw that in all aspects my father site is better.

Well there are many sites out there that tell you how to improve your page rank and how to be number one in all the search engines but many of them eventually give you one or two tips that might help but it’s not enough to improve your site rank.

I decided to write below what I did to improve my rank in Google and in other search engine as well in order to improve my rank.

The Actions

1.Get Inbound Links

Since Google ranks your pages according to the number of links points at your page, it important that you should try to get as many links pointing at your pages as possible. Don’t think only about the big search engine like Yahoo, MSN , Google but to register in search engine that related to your fields.

2. Title

Google seems to give weight to the title of your page. If you want to improve your site rank, put the word inside the title tag. Please note that the number of characters in the title should not be too long (65-80 characters).

3. Alt Attributes:

Search Engine index the Alt attributes of the images as well therefore use them. If you haven’t used any at all, then a quick fix will be to start adding them to navigation and other elements on every page.

4. Link around:

Internal links to your pages are just as important as external links. Besides the usability gain, you have the unique opportunity of specifying your link and title text.

5. Keyword Density

It has often been observed that Google considers keyword density a large factor in ranking pages in search engine results, more so than many other search engines.

6. Homepage Navigation

It’s important that from your homepage you will be able to access all your sites pages

7. Keep your website up.
If your website is not accessible for an extended period of time, Google may reduce the ranking of your site.

8. Register in Google

The registration is easy, Just go to

9. Submit Sitemap

Enter to the webmaster tool in Google and submit your sitemap. This action will make sure that Google see all the pages in your site.

10. Make sure that all the relevant words can be found in your site

It’s important that all the relevant words will appear in the site content. Make sure that your product name \ brand \ profession will appear many times as you can.