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How Popular Are You… Online That Is
With the web today you "sorta haveta" have a rank in the major search engines if you want to be seen. I mean with
250,000,000, yes 250 million searches a day on Google™ alone, how are your visitors and potential customers going
to find you?
Now, there are numerous ways in which a Search Engine ranks a website; by keyword density, relevancy, content, etc.
etc.. But Link Popularity is an ever growing statistic in how the Search Engines continue to rank websites.
Link popularity, is how "popular" your website is. That is how popular your site is compared to other websites. To
put it another way; it is the number of "other websites" that have a link on their website to your website. Did you
get that? :)
Now, although Link Popularity "building" is a large science and art in itself, I'll briefly touch on a couple ways
in which you can see how popular you are and how to go about improving your link popularity.
A small side note though, is link popularity is a BIG way in which Google™ ranks their search results. They refer
to this as "PageRank". With the Search Engine, FAST, they call it "link score".
Now there are quite a few software programs and sites that can help build your link popularity as well as check
your popularity.
Now, there are many ways to check your link popularity. But if you simply want to get a small idea, a little way
for you to do this is go to any search engine and type in, "link popularity", without the quotes, and there will be
lots of results for you to choose from. And then simply pick a site and check your site popularity.
Now, a small way to build your popularity is by going to the altavista.com engine and type in "link:yourcompetitor.com",
and the results that show up will tell you what sites have posted links to your competitor's websites.
Then simply visit a site and look for a contact method, be it an email address, phone number, etc. and express an
interest to them in trading links. It is a win-win method for both sites so, you have nothing to lose. Some might
happily oblige, and some might not. It’s certainly worth a try.
In summary, link popularity can be a never ending chore if you have a website. This is because having links on
related websites to your website is a very good form of Targeted Traffic which never really quits, because most
related links stay up for a long period of time, thus providing a continuous stream of targeted traffic, which, by
the way is totally cost free.
And Search Engine traffic and reciprocal link traffic are the best forms of Targeted Traffic there is online. And
both are free.
Burke Ferguson holds both a BSc. degree in Computer Science as well Certification in Search Engine Optimization and
Marketing Strategies. He regularly publishes The ACE! newsletter, in which he shares his experience, methods, and
knowledge about what works and about what is 'BS'. He can be contacted by http://www.the-ace-ezine.com or http://www.altacanweb.com
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Google has been ordered to disclose personal information, including viewing habits and internet addresses to Viacom, in the latest phase of the ongoing legal battle between the two companies. Google must surrender its users' personal information to Viacom (Computing.co.uk)
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