Make Money from a Mini Website – Part 7
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Building Links to Your Mini Website
In this part we will look at the link building process for your Mini Website. The efforts you have put on your site so far will be pretty much useless unless you start building links to your site. Link building will enable your Mini Website to rank well in Google searches bringing you more traffic. More traffic means more money!
There are number of ways to build links to your site.
1. Commenting on dofollow blogs
Many blogs allow you to link to your website when commenting on them. In most cases the link to your website does not bring you any SEO benefits. This is because most of the time the link to your website is specified as a nofollow link. The nofollow attribute informs Google that the author of the blog does not want Google to follow that link. Bloggers who belong to the dofollow movement believe that some link love should be passed to your website because you commented in their blogs. Therefore, dofollow blogs do not use the nofollow attribute. By commenting on dofollow blogs you can get inbound links that Google will follow bringing you SEO benefits. For more details on how to find dofollow blogs please read my article titled “Commenting smart on dofollow blogs”.
2. Article Marketing
By writing articles and submitting them to article directories you can get valuable back links to your website. Usually an article is published along with a byline or author bio where you can link to your Mini Website. There are number of article directories. The one I use is EzineArticles.com.
3. Link Exchanges
If you have friends who have blogs or websites ask them for a link exchange. If you do not have any online friends it is time to make some! Go to popular blogs or forums in your niche. Leave comments and interact with others in the forums. Once you have made some friends you could ask them for a link exchange.
4. Social Bookmarking Sites
Social bookmarking sites allow you to submit a webpage. When a webpage from your Mini Website is submitted to a bookmarking site a link is created to your website. Popular bookmarking sites include Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon.
5. Directory Submissions
Submit your Mini Website to directories. There are number of free web directories where you can submit your website details. You want to make sure that you are building links to your Mini Website from good and trustworthy directories. When looking for a free web directory look for one that has a good page rank, good Alexa ranking and lot of back links.
Note: During the link building process try to get more links from websites that are in your niche. Google gives more value to a link when it is from a website that is related to your website’s topic. Many SEO experts also believe that few links from very high ranking website is much preferred than lot of back links from low ranking websites. Remember, link building is not a one day activity, it’s an ongoing process. You have to be patient during this process until you get your website to the number one position in Google for your chosen keywords. If you quit early you will not reap the maximum profits from your Mini Website.
In part 8, we will wrap up this series by providing WordPress tips to make your site more SEO friendly.
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