Three (easy) Ways to Build Links to Your Website

We've been focusing like mad on link building lately for our search optimization efforts at www.HMDhome.com.

Two things to check out before reading further if this topic is of interest to you:

1. Visit http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/ to find out vital stats such as how many websites link to your website and search engine saturation.
2. Check your 1-10 rating according to Google Pagerank at http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php

Here are three quick and easy, down and dirty ways to jumpstart the link building process:

1. Create an account at www.linkmarket.net, its kind of like a dating site for website owners
2. Create a google alert (see an earlier HMD blog posting on the topic) for your industry or keywords and instruct it to forward you new "blog" postings on a daily basis... then when you see a blog of interest once or twice a day, comment and include your web address.
3. Looks for web destinations where you can create a free profiles about your business. www.Blogger.com, www.aboutus.org, www.mineeds.com, www.craigslist.com, and even HMD certified related sites such as www.HMDpro.com and www.interior-designer-directory.com

By using these online resources you will create powerful connections to your website that search engines such as google, msn and yahoo will use to determine how far up the search results you appear.

These techniques work well especially for keyword searches paired with cities in your local community, so for example for my personal website, www.AmandaZettel.net, if you search for Ineterior Designer and any combination of the following cities (ladera ranch, nellie gail, mission viejo, laguna beach, laguna hills, san clemente, etc.) we pop up on page one almost every time.

If you are looking to hire an SEO expert to do this for you, expect to pay about $1K to get started and $400'ish a month. Not cheap, but perhaps a far greater ROI if you stick with it long enough.

PS > If I can help with more advice on brand building or web marketing, dont hesitate to drop me a note at http://www.amandazettel.net/interior-designer-newport-beach-ca.htm ... see what I did there ;-)