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If you would like to link to us, please use the following:

Linking Primer

Most of the time when people make a link to a site, they either use a graphic and attach the linking information to it, or they make the web site name or business name the clickable link, like this:

Check out the hand-made iPod stands at www.podstands.com

While that works, it doesn't tell the search engines much about the link. Search engines like it when the link itself tells them something relevant. It's much better to modify this to:

Check out the hand-made iPod stands at www.PodStands.com

In the table above, our link tells the SEs that the link-to site is about iPod stands. If the link-from site is about iPods or iPod accessories and the link-to site is about the iPods, then you have the best scenario, with both sites getting maximum benefit. When the sites aren't relevant to each other, the SEs don't attach much, if any, significance to the link. Viagra and vacuum cleaners are not topically related!

If the search engines don't think your site is very important to a particular subject and you're therefore burried on page 47 of a search, then few, if any, surfers will ever find your site.

SEs want to provide relevant information to those searching. If we don't provide them the information they need to determine this, then everybody loses. Other than your on-page factors-- relevant information, keywords and meta tags (though they're decreasing in importance), the biggest factor is the links *to* your site and what they *say* about the topic of your site. www.joesa1widgets.com doesn't tell the SEs anything - it's like the adults talking in a Charley Brown cartoon, "blah, blah, blah, blah."

So, while we appreciate any relevant link to us, a descriptive text link as we've provided above, is MOST appreciated! An additional graphic is cool too, but again, make the actual link (the part you click on) descriptive text! This is also good advice for you to follow as you ask for links to your site.

(Stepping down off soap box, taking a bow, "Thank you, thank you so very much." Put Elvis costume away till next halloween. . .)

Marty, the Evil WebMeister