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LINK POPULARITY

Link popularity and click popularity are determined by each search engine. AltaVista may calculate a high popularity for your site, whereas Infoseek may calculate a low popularity for your site. Each search engine may also use the popularity information in different ways. It will all depend on their specific algorithms.

Popularity is becoming more widely used by search engines. Therefore, it is a very important consideration when trying to increase your ranks. Hypothetically, if you have two sites that have equal content and equal meta tags, then the site with more popularity will rank higher.

How to determine Link Popularity?

The link popularity of your site is determined by:
The number of web sites that are linking to your site (the web page that your link appears on, must be indexed by the search engine - just using those "free-for-all-links-pages" is not the kind of link that you're looking for.), The popularity of the sites are that are linking to your site and the similarity of the content on sites that link to your site. Link popularity is used by every search engine to some extent. Ways to increase link popularity will be discussed below.

Excite Type into search box: www.yourdomain.com This will give you a general estimate of your popularity. It will also tell you approximately how many pages from your site are listed with excite.

Infoseek Type into search box: link:yourdomain.com This will give you all of the pages which link to you, including your own. Link popularity is very important in getting good ranks in Infoseek. I just read some new info that said that if you link OUT to highly popular sites, this may increase your popularity. However, this may only work in Infoseek. Also, it needs to be a site which relates to your content.

AltaVista Type into search box: link:yourdomain.com This will give you all of the pages which link to you, the same as Infoseek.

Hotbot Type into search box: linkdomain:yourdomain.com Again, this may give you some of the pages which are linking to you from your own domain.

Webcrawler Type into search box: http://www.yourdomain.com Webcrawler may ask you what you want to do with this URL. Click on "Search for web pages containing the URL in the text." It will give you a general estimate of how many pages are linking to you and also tell you how many of your pages are listed in this engine.

LinkPartners is a free categorized directory of websites that reciprocal link with other sites. Also called link swapping and link exchange, swapping links with other quality sites increases website traffic and increases link popularity for your site. For more Info...