Want to Get More Free Traffic? Start Using Keyword Links
Get traffic with keyword links. Adobe is living proof of this. Search the keywords “click here” and Adobe pops up first, out of almost 1.4 billion results. Want to know how this happened? Easy, the download link for Adobe on almost all sites is the keyword link “click here”. I’m sure its unintentional, so I’m not sure if they actually get traffic with that keyword phrase.
First off a definition of a keyword link. A keyword link is a link pointing to your website. Its very much like a back link, only much more shiny. A keyword link has the keyword phrase that you want you website to be associated with. What makes a keyword link so powerful is that the search engines look at both the back link and than also links the keywords in that link to your site.
So are you using keyword links to get traffic to your site? You should, because its actually quite easy to use keyword links to your great advantage. Your forum signatures should have keyword back licks. And your article resource boxes should definitely have keyword links in them. Youre not doing any extra work, but youre getting much higher quality back links.
This raises the question of what keywords your keyword links should have. Most of the search engines have dedicated tools to see how many searches are done on a specific keyword or keyword phrase, so be sure to make use of that. Some basic guidelines are to choose keywords for your link is the competition should not be to stiff and it should be very relevant to your site.
To put this in writing; you have a site about getting traffic to a new website. I would suggest that you use the keyword link get traffic or get traffic for free or want to get traffic. So you would put the following in your forum signature: Learn from the traffic kings, click here to get traffic. Your clickable keyword link should be get traffic and not click here. Trying to muscle Adobe from their famous triumph will leave you wanting.
I think its best to concentrate on one or two keyword links when you start out promoting your site. If you sow different keyword links all over the internet your efforts will take some time to start giving you some really hardcore results. You want to get traffic now, not later.
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