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10 Indirect Ways To Get To The Top Of Search Engines
There are millions of web sites trying to get listed in the top
20 spots of the major search engines. That amounts to an awful
lot of competition and even after spending hours and hours on
Search Engine Optimization techniques you may still not be able
to achieve a high ranking for your competitive keywords!
However, if it proves too difficult for you to get high rankings
directly, there are still ways that you can get to the
top.......indirectly!
So, just how do you do this?
Firstly, look up the top 20 web sites on the major search
engines under the keywords and phrases people would find your
web site. If you could either advertise on those sites, or get a
link from those sites to yours then that would be nearly as good
as having a top listing yourself.
The most expensive way to do this would be to buy ad space on
those web sites. However, if you don't want to spend any money
to do this, you could use the ten strategies below.
These strategies may not of course apply to every web site but
I'm sure there'll be at least two or three that you can make use
of straight away....
1. Participate on their discussion boards. You could post
questions, answer other peoples questions, and join in on
conversations. Just include your signature file and link to your
website at the end of your messages.
2. Ask the web site owner if they would like a free ebook to
giveaway to their visitors. You could have them link to your web
site or include your ad in the free ebook.
3. Submit content to their web site. You could write articles
for their web site and include your resource box and link at the
end of the article. If they publish it, you'll indirectly be at
the top of the search engines.
4. Write an excellent article review of their web site, products
or services. Then publish the review on your web site. E-mail
the web site owner and tell him or her about it. They may link
to your web site so their visitors read it.
5. Ask the owner of the web site if they would want to trade
advertising. If you don't get as much traffic as they do, you
could throw in some extra incentives.
6. Propose a cross promotion deal with the web site. You both
could promote each others products or services together in one
package deal. This means a mention and link back to your web
site.
7. Give the web site a testimonial for their product or service.
Include a little text link for your web site with the
testimonial. You never know; it could end up on their ad copy.
8. Post your advertisement on their free classified ad section
on their web site. You want to be sure you have an attractive
headline so they will read your ad.
9. Sign their guest book. You could leave a short compliment
about their web site on their guest book. Just include your
signature file and link at the end of your message.
10. Tweak your own website so that your pages are search engine
friendly. There are steps that you can take that don't take long
to implement but can dramatically improve the traffic you get
from the likes of Google and Yahoo! Louis Allport has a great
video guide which shows the quickest and easiest way to do this.
It can be found at:
http://69.44.170.93/google-friendly-ebook-software.htm
Chris Towland 2005
About the author:
Chris is the zookeeper at http://www.Elephant-On-Toast.com A
haven of no-cost and low-cost software and help for anyone who
runs (or wants to run) an online business.
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