Backlinks improve Google rankings

Every webmaster aims to have their website rank high in popularity searches and good webmasters know to achieve this is dependent on website content, style, search

engine optimization and the use of keywords to attract the main target audience and also the attention of search engine crawlers.

The first step in attracting more users from your target audience and thereby increasing website popularity is to submit your website to popular search engines such as Yahoo!, Google, AltaVista, Cuil, etc.

In many instances though your main keyword may be so broad that this strategy will only bring about limited success. Take for example the keyword €œweb design.€

When a person types €œweb design€ in the search engine window of their browser, whichever search engine they have selected will return all sites related to the words €œweb design.€ In the case of Google this is about 231 million references.

Trying to get your website on the first or second page of listings for such a topic is no easy task and submitting your site to search engines alone will have only a limited effect.

To try and increase page ranking a good webmaster will optimize their site with a range of keywords, descriptions, and most importantly, a number of external links and (hopefully) linkbacks from other websites.

External links and linkbacks are the placement of your URL on other websites. The more linkbacks you have from other peoples websites the more traffic you are likely to generate from people clicking these links and visiting your site.

By increasing traffic (visitors) to your site you have a better chance of increasing your page rank in search engine results.

Quite often people will link back to your site without telling you. They might find something interesting or useful on your site and post a link to your site on their own website for the benefit of their visitors.

Likewise you might do the same. Internet courtesy dictates that where a person links to your site, you should provide a similar link to that persons website on your own entries.

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