How To Rate Sites Before Linking

Written by AndroidRed Thursday, 07 April 2011 06:09

Before taking final decision on which sites to link, this would be better for you to rate the sites you are about to link first. It is important since not all site and the links you want to get from them have equal importance. Some links out there are free, whereas some other may charge you a one-time listing fee, monthly or annually fee.

To be precise, this article will help you to make decision over the sites that charge money for links you want to obtain. From the sites you likely to go for, ensure that they allow you to make use the exact anchor text you want for your link. It helps you to include your most vital keywords.

The site should also offer a simple HREF code format. Keep in mind that you should avoid the site with javascript-based links or links that redirect to another particular page, or the links that display funny tracking characters in the URL.

Thus, you should conduct a View Source on the page on which your links will be placed and check important things as follow. The site should not use redirection on the link because it will not helpful to pass PageRank. It is apparently obvious that Javascripts is not used to code the link, major search engines like Google will not see the link.

Moreover, Google will also not follow the link with particular attribute like rel=NOFOLLOW. Meanwhile, the site should have the META robots tag for the page without “NOINDEX” which means the page will not be indexed.

For more specific result, you can make use particular tool available on in the internet to define the number of backlinks or incoming links the sites have. You should know that a link from a page with many inbound links is equal to the PR value of that page.

Afterward, you should check out the PageRank of the actual page on which your link will be listed. The PageRank of the actual page and PageRank of the home page can be different, so you should notice about it.

You can as well rate the sites by using Alexa Traffic since it offers a rough indication of the traffic the sites receive. The numbers suggested are lower the better. Lastly, make sure that the content contained in the links is relevant, meaning all links should have the same general category. This is another way to get quality links.