Link Popularity Checker

For a search spider to find your website your website needs to be linked to from other websites.Such links are also called in-bound links(or backlinks)-. The number of links coming to your website from other websites as well as the search engine ranking of the websites linking to your website helps to determine how your website will rank in the search engines. Also the links going out of your website, and the ranking of the sites your website links to, will contribute to calculating your website's relevance. Even the links from your website back into your website will contribute to deciding your website's rank.

There are good and bad backlinks. Good backlinks are from reputable places - preferably from sites with a similar theme. These links do boost search engine ranking. Bad backlinks come from suspicious places – like link farms – and are something to be avoided. Well, if you are backlinked without your knowledge and consent, maybe you should drop the Webmaster a line, asking him or her to remove the back link.

• build links between your website and others
• link with websites that are popular
• link with websites that are related
• don't put to many outgoing links on a page
• concentrate on incoming links to your homepage
• avoid redirects and link-thrus for incoming links
• don't duplicate your website on multiple domains
• don't use an exotic location for your homepage
• pay for links to your website from search engines
• buy sponsorship or ad links from other websites
• list your website in major directories
• provide rss feeds
• don't require url arguments for content pages
• don't try to grow the number of your links to fast