Getting your first links on a new site can seem like a daunting task if you have never built any links before and getting links is often the most important part of search engine optimisation. If you have built links before this post will not be much use to you.
W3 Sites is a directory of web designers, I would expect your web designer to have a page there. This page is a portfolio is the websites he/she has designed – of course they should take the time to add your site to their portfolio. If they don’t you can go along there and create your own account, just follow the link, the whole exercise will take less than ten minutes.
Next free and easy link I would expect would be a clean link from your web designer. I would expect any web designer to link to their clients sites as part of his portfolio from his own site. Unfortunately this happens more often the other way around…
And last for today I need to mention aboutus.org again. As I stated previously you should have your own site listed here and I do have mine listed there, but whatever happened that day I wrote almost nothing when entering my site. After my last post on about us I received an email from one of their staff reminding me that I could have done so much more on my own page there, adding contact details, adding images, address, you get the idea.
It all helps one little bit at a time. The problem with search engine marketing is that no one move gets the job done, it is a combination of many hundreds of little ones together. Therefore if you are doing this for your own company site do some work on it every day or at least once a week, and don’t expect to see the results quickly, SEO takes time.
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