Link Popularity

Main off-the-page factors influencing your ranking

Link popularity

1. Constantly improve the link popularity of your page! This function shows how many other web pages are linking to yours. Link popularity is crucial for your search engines rankings. Remember that having few high-quality sites linking to you is far better than many irrelevant links. The only way to achieve Top-10 positions is to have very competitive keywords and good link popularity. IMPORTANT: ask other webmasters to include your keywords when they link to this page. Also, make it your everyday task to acquire new links, and follow the overall development of your thematic niche. Try to interest the sites that are ranked high for your keywords so that they link to you.

Open Directory Project listing (dmoz.org)

1. Submission to this leading Internet directory is an important step in website maintenance. As it is human-powered directory, all decisions are made by editors, not spiders. The presence of the site in the directory is the sign of high quality and informative value. Moreover, the leading search engines such as Google start indexing new web pages from DMOZ. Please, go to "Suggest URL" page and submit your site.

Rank details

1. Google Page Rank is one of the most important evaluating factors influencing your ranking. It is practically impossible to manipulate Google PageRank. Due to its workability, relevant and impartial results it gained great popularity. This algorithm defines your link popularity among other thematic resources. Every web page gets its own PageRank, it can vary in 0-10 scale on the Google Toolbar. Though well optimized, your pages will never get in the top results for very competitive keywords without high PageRank. The only way out is to increase constantly your link popularity. Get as many links as you can from authority relevant sites with high PageRank.

2. Alexa is an organization that analyzes world's web traffic. There is a community of people that use Alexa Toolbar, a small utility that gathers information about what websites they visit, how many pages they view. The information then transmitted to Alexa and analyzed. The quantity of Alexa toolbar users and the number of pages viewed by them are adjusted to approximate number of internet users. Then the popularity of different sites is approximately measured. In terms of the Alexa Traffic Rank, the closer a site gets to the number 1 position, the more traffic a site receives. For example, if to take Google, its main page has Alexa TR 3. That means that www.google.com is the third most visited page in the web. There are two main methods to heighten the traffic rank: 1) Work at the content of your site. Rouse interest of your visitors in your site. Interesting and informative content will certainly make them visit your site again and again and make them spread links to you among their friends; 2) Work at you rankings on the search engines. The better the rankings, the more frequently your site is found on the result pages of SEs, the more surfers will click on your site's link.