SiteSell Value Exchange

There are two basic steps to building a successful Web site and business...

STEP 1) Create great Content. It takes care of the "ON-page" criteria of a quality page. Your information both W-O-W-S your targeted visitor and gives the Search Engines enough "hooks" to determine "first-look relevance." But mastering "on-page" is not enough anymore.

So next...

STEP 2) Start building momentum by getting some good inbound links (one of many "off-page" criteria that Search Engines factor in as they strive to recognize relevance and quality).

How do you get good inbound links?

Here's the "short answer" in a nutshell (details about the "long" answer to follow)...

First, create at least 20-30 quality content pages. It's hard to take smaller sites seriously. The absolute best way to garner links is by building a site of such high quality that people want to link to it, in order to increase the value of their own visitor's experience. What could be easier? Your link popularity builds itself!

And then...

1) Get IN-coming links from theme-specific sections of the major directories.

2) Get IN-coming links from theme-specific 2nd tier directories.

3) Get IN-coming links from themed directories and hub sites.

An excellent thread at the Forums provides several resources for 2nd Tier directories for your consideration. Check this thread often for new additions and feedback about specific directories...

http://forums.sitesell.com/viewtopic.php?t=19894

Also, investigate these two resources...

Strongest Links is a list of directories that you can sort by name, Google PR, Alexa ranking, whether they have free submissions, and the cost of paid submissions. Click on the link at the top of each column to sort the list. When you're done with that list, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the link to the geographic and niche directories.

InfoVileSilencer is another site with a list of directories (many are not included in Strongest Links).

Check out these TNT articles, too...

Search It! Finds Specialty Hubs For You! describes seven searches that will help you find niche directories and mini-hubs related to your niche. This article also provides directory assessment advice.

More Ideas To Find Good Mini-Hub Sites and Get Links has some great tips for using Search Engines to find directories and mini-hubs that accept URL submissions.

Don't Sweat A Directory Refusal: Instead, Get Even By Getting Better offers four take-home lessons about directory submissions.

4) Participate in SiteSell's Value Exchange, the most real way to identify high-value sites which want to link to your site.

5) OUTbound-link with high-quality theme-related, non-competing sites as you happen to discover them in the course of normal business or surfing -- exchange links with them, if possible.

Bottom line?

Content puts and keeps your successful business-building efforts in motion. Links give an extra push.

A few credentializing links from recognized resources and good sites (#1-4, just above) increase your relevance for related keywords with the Search Engines and thus, your page ranking score. They help keep your young, growing site from being dropped from the various Search Engine indices. And they get you into the no-submission engines.

Now for that "long answer"...

More in-depth guidance is available in Make Your Links WORK! (MYLW!), your ultimate "Help and Strategies" for building an effective links program. It gives you all the information you need... from the "big picture" view right down to immediate "ground-level" actions. This is absolutely a "must-read" resource.

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