Using Social Media for Link Building
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The internet is filled with many different social media or Web 2.0 sites as some people call them. And the number is growing almost daily. These sites are excellent for getting traffic and helping to build links that point back to your main site. Below are the ones I use to build links. There are, of course many more.
With Weebly (I love that name) for example, you can create a page with information about your market niche. Pages on sites like this are well respected by the search engines. You can monitize these pages or use them to link directly to your main site.
Setting up a page on these sites is pretty easy. You have to join the site and then simply follow the directions for setting up your page. Wow…following directions…what a concept….well maybe not for a guy ok, for me! But they are easy to set up!
The most important rule to follow is to use unique content on each site. You can't just write one article and post it everywhere. Google and the other search engines frown on that big time! They call it duplicate content.
You should also use your main keywords once or twice through out the article. Sometimes it useful to Bold or underline a keyword. It catches the attention of the search engines. Such as two of my main keywords: blog builder or blog setup. See how easy it is to put in a couple of keywords! But don't over do it. The search engines call that keyword stuffing and they frown on that as well.
Once the article is written be sure to include a link back to your main site. It can be something as easy as saying, "If you would like more information please visit Mysite.com ". It is also a good idea to use a keyword as anchor text. For more information on anchor text visit the blog builder. That is anchor text that will take you to a page explaining anchor text.
As I said before there are many such sites and if you would like a more complete list let me know and I'll get them to you!
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