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What is a good link?

The best links are natural links from a web site that has a high google page rank value.

What does that mean?

Natural Link = A link someone gives to you because your site is the authority or at least worth looking at in regards to whatever the topic at hand is. The best natural links are text, in the middle of a paragraph, with link text that is a good key-word phrase someone might use to find your site in Google.

Example:

If you're looking for the best Gainesville, Florida Real Estate Company, visit the Bosshardt Realty web site. They are localy owned and operated. They have been in business for over 20 years.

This is an ideal natural link. Notice I didn't make the link be "click here" or "www.xyz.com".

As I mentioned above, you want links from web sites with high google "Page Rank" you can tell a site's page reank by downloading the google bar for your web browser. Anything above 4 is good.

So your formula is:

Natural Link + Good Keyword Link Text + Site With Similar Content to Yours + High Page Rank = Very Helpful to Your Search Engine Ranking

Good luck!

Posted by Robert Krames - Gainesville, FL Real Estate on 12/13/2007 08:19 AM

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21 Comments on What is a good link?

DEC

2007

great inforamation thanks for sharing

Good morning Bob, Thanks for the excellent explanation . I appreciate it.

Robert, thanks for the clear example and definition on "natural link". I love AR for just this reason. Each day something is made clearer to me. Thanks for your generosity.

Thanks, I'm always looking for good tips on getting traffic to my website. www.dawncrawleyrealty.com

Great explanation of a "natural link". I have to say that I'm learning more on AR than anywhere else.

Robert thank you for this invaluable information. My goal for 2008 is to get my google rankings up. Your Orlando & Lake Mary Real Estate Expert, Heather Joubran

Robert, thanks for the explanation and example of a natural link!

Good stuff....yes....it's good for me to have a neat and clean explanation. Thanks.

Hey no problem, glad I could be of help to all of you. :)

Thanks for sharing the information.

Its tough to find free links on a page with a PR4 you can do well with pages that are 2 and above alos.

How do you actually create the natural link? I am embarrassed to ask, but have been wanting to know?

Thank you for the information you have put out there.

Don't be embarrassed, that's a very good question! I could probably write an entire blog post on just that. Buiding natural links is a fine art, and there are many methods. The easiest is to add them on web sites you already own, or make new web sites. Another method is to create "Link Bait" which is interesting or valuable content on your web site that people will want to link to. And another method could be to go around asking people to link to you, people like happy clients or friends.

Hopefully this gives you an idea of some natural link building strategies. Try a google search on it. :)

DEC

2007

How do you actually embed the link in the text on your page? Is this done with HTML? We have corporate webpages and I don't think we can actually do too much to them but this may be possible. Can you give either a small tutorial here or a link to somewhere we can learn to do this?

Thanks!

Yes, you would have to write the link in html on your web site. If you had an HTML editor like dreamweaver, you could simply highlight the text and link it to your web site. If you are manually writing an HTML link it would look like this:

Sample text sample text <a href="http://www.yourwebsitehere.com">Insert your key-word phrase link text</a> more sample text more sample text

Here is an online tutorial about how to write links.

I hope this answers your question.

That was a great post as it explains how things work and helps to give all of us someting to work towards. One thing that I would like on the posts and responses if for people to put where in the country or for that matter the world. This way we can get a better feel for how things are in other areas that agents of all kinds are working.

Thanks

Sterling, Illinois Realtor

DEC

2007

Interesting idea, it would certainly help with networking, that is the purpose of this site after all.

JAN

2008

Good post an explainig linkbait. I understand its value, now I need to create good content. Thanks

WOW! I have been doing this for a while now and never knew the reason my website is on page 1 most of the time.

Now you know. :)

APR

2008

Great explanation of a "natural link". So now I just need to figure out where to get some :-)

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