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One-Way Link Building Using Articles: Part 1

By Richard Day

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Published: 19Aug2008
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Writing quality articles is one of the best, free ways to build traffic to your website or blog. One-way links pointing to your website or blog is what you need to build your traffic.

One-way links are links that point to your website without your having to put a link on another website. Formerly, people would trade links: "I will link to your website if you link to mine." Although this works to some extent, they balance each other out and aren't very effective. In addition, when your site is about health food and you trade links with a site that is about ball bearings, it can do you harm.

Google and other search engines are on the prowl for good content. When they find it, they will send more traffic to a website or blog that produces consistent, quality informative articles.

One point about consistency: Consistency is very important: For example, if you write two to three articles per week, be consistent. Don't write four articles, and then skip a couple of weeks. If you work hard and put together a large number of articles, don't post them all at once. . . space them out.

One-way link building is more effective if you write about a topic using a keyword phrase that you are targeting. For example, if you don't have access to software such as Word Tracker, or Ad Word Analyzer or a number of other analysis tools, you can go to http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/ Seobook offers all you need, and it is free. Make sure that you put quotes around your keyword search phrase. For example, look for "one way link building" with quotes rather than one way link building. This will tell the search tool that you are looking for the exact phrase.

Spend some time searching for keyword phrases that show greater than 2000 searches per month and have a total number of results less than 10,000. It is even better if the total number of results is less than 5,000. You are looking for a keyword phrase that is popular enough to be used in searches, but that brings up a reasonable number of results so that your article has a chance of being shown on the first search page. Granted, this will take some time finding the phrase you want to feature, but the results are worth it. Just come as close as you can to these metrics.

Once you have found the particular phrase you want to write about, you need to use the keyword phrase: - In the title of the article, - Three times per one-hundred words, - In the last sentence of your article, - In the link to your article or webpage.

One-way link building can have a tremendous effect on the traffic you receive.

Richard helps train and inform internet marketers how to increase website traffic. He employs the use of articles and videos to make it easy to learn the secrets of website promotion. visit http://www.trafficbumper.com to unlock the secrets.

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