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By now, you probably know PageRank comes from the number of incoming links to your web site; the higher the PageRank of the incoming links, the more PageRank your site will receive. The problem with link building campaigns is you rarely get out of them what you put in. You're doing pretty good if you get responses from one in four people you contact. In order to make things simpler, people often join traffic exchange programs, or simply post forms on their page and wait for link partners to come to them. The problem with these methods is you often get offers from sites you don't particularly want to link with. Maybe they're selling something you'd rather not be associated with, or their site is brand-new and sloppily put together, and it's not going to be much of a boost to your PageRank. Now, I'm not saying you should never link to a new site, because today's PR-nothing could be tomorrow's PR 6 or 7. Rather, I just want to offer a tip to help you capitalize on your link hunting time. Step 1: Do a Google search for your target keywords. Step 2: Visit the highest ranking sites, and use Google Toolbar to check their back links. Step 3: Ask for links from the sites that appear in the back links. Simple, hunh? What this does for you is thus: gets you in contact with people who are willing to exchange links with sites in your keyword area, and perhaps more importantly, gets you in contact with sites that have a high enough PageRank to appear in Google's back links (typically, only PageRank 4 sites and above appear here). This should help you find the links that can truly help you, and it should cut down on your wasted link hunting time. Now, don't you have some links to find? E-mail: webmaster@webmasterarticles.net Author's URL: http://www.webmasterarticles.net TC Thorn makes a living from advertising and affiliate programs. This article first appeared at Webmaster Articles. It may be reprinted so long as it is not altered and the link is included. $7.00 per month web hosting from MateMedia Increase your rank in the search engines! Check out our new search engine optimization plans Become a MateMedia Web Hosting Affiliate Web News $7.00 per month web hosting from MateMedia Online communication methods made the very top and the very bottom of the list of Internet activities, as measured by Harris Interactive. According to the poll of U.S. Internet users, conducted during December 2003, the majority of respondents use e- mail regularly, while very few participate in chat rooms or make phone calls via the Web. While relatively low in numbers, the U.S. Asian population exhibits financial strength. Measured at just 4 percent of the Internet population, according to Jupiter Research 42 percent of Asian Internet households earn $75,000 or more annually, compared to 35 percent of Caucasians and 26 percent of African-Americans. The Media Audit further revealed that while Hispanics outnumber Asians by more than double, the two groups nearly equal each other in the number of households that have annual incomes of $100,000 or more. Interactive marketing and technology company 24/7 Real Media Tuesday is expected to launch a behavioral targeting product that coordinates with its analytics and ad serving offerings, with major implications for the up- and-coming behavioral marketing arena. The company will also release Open AdStream 5.7, an upgrade of its ad management solution. With the new release, users can choose between four languages. There's also more inventory and reporting. Also, performance metrics and monitoring from Open AdStream 5.7 can be integrated with other enterprise systems. Copyright 2000-2004 MateMedia, Inc. |