I’ve been doing a lot of research this last week on keywords and search engine optimization. I’m getting decent traffic on my site but, as always, I’d like better. After implementing a few things I’ve bumped my traffic almost 100%, but there is still more to be done.
The next thing I’d like to implement is popularity rankings. Using the Google Sitemaps tool I notice that only a few sites link to me. For those of you not familiar with some of the Google tools you can find sites linking to you by using the “link:” tool. For example, “link:ubuntu-tutorials.com” will show you the sites known to link to my site.
Link Sharing benefits your traffic due to a few reasons. “Popularity by Association” is the idea of ranking your site based on its popularity. If more sites link to you you inherit some of their rank standing. Link Sharing also helps by directly driving traffic from one site to another. I like Site A, which links to Site B, therefore I read Site B as well. Both sites get traffic.
If anyone would like to talk about sharing links just drop a comment. Hopefully we can mutually benefit.