How to get improved search engine placement without spending money or time
If you want improved search engine placement you will need to invest one of two things.
Your choices are to invest your time or your money.
You cannot just magically improve your results without giving anything in return.
You do not need to spend both, so pick the one that you have the most of, either money or extra time.
One of the most powerful ways to improve your results is to increase your link popularity.
The more inbound links that a website has, the better they look in the eyes of the search engines, and the more website traffic you will generate both directly from the links as well as from better search engine listings.
Getting at least 30 inbound links is a great start, but the more you have the better your overall performance will be.
As I said you can either increase your link popularity by spending your time or your money, the choice is yours.
There are hundreds of quality web directories that will list your website for a review fee.
Depending on the popularity of the directory, this can be anywhere from $10.00 to $300.
If you have some extra money that you’re willing to invest to improve your Internet Marketing campaign, getting your website listed in some of these respectable directories is a great thing to do.
But I realize that not everyone has the money to spend on their business, and at one time I was one of them.
When I first decided to build a search engine optimized website, I had no money to spend so that I had to look for ways to do things for free.
You can increase your link popularity without spending any money.
There are some directories that are still free, but they do not offer as powerful of links as some paid directories.
This is OK, it simply means that you need to have more of them to compensate.
And because many of these free directories have had so many submissions, it can take several months for them to review and list your website.
If you take time and submit to many web directories, some of them will be able to list you rather quickly and therefore you can increase your link popularity, but this takes time.
Another option is to exchange links with other webmasters who have quality sites that are related to yours.
Keep in mind that do not want to link to a website that is a direct competitor to your business, or one that does not meet your standards.
And beware that not all webmasters are as honest as you or I, so it is always good to make regular checks to make sure that your link is still up and active.
I know that increasing your link popularity for free can be time consuming but also effective.
If you’d rather save your time for other important search engine optimization practices like choosing profitable keywords and building content rich web pages, you may want to invest a couple hundred dollars to secure some high quality inbound links.
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