1. Optimize your incoming links. Check out who is linking to you, which pages they link to, and what anchor text they use to link to you. Make sure that the text they are using is relevant for the page they are linking to. Links with ‘click here’ as anchortext are an absolute nono! If needed, send the other webmaster a polite email, asking him to change the anchortext.
[ad] 2. Make sure that all incoming links point to the same type of URL. So, if you have others link to your pages using http://www.ican’tinternet.org then make sure it is used by all linkers, not without the www or with index.html added. This is important as google does not add these incoming links, nut rather looks at them as pointing to different pages. Not what we want!
3. Keep a close look on your 404 pages. This will allow you to catch all incoming links that are pointing to non-existing pages, or with typos. if you found them, send a polite email to the webmaster, asking them to correct it. This means an extra incoming link, and a visitor who has found what he was looking for, and possibly will return.
4. Create a ‘link to us’ page, where you provide the code and the anchortext you would like other webmasters to use. Possibly even provide banner and gadgets, as this can increase the number of links even more.
5. Leave your URL everywhere you can, tell friends and family, put it in your emailsignature, write it on your car ( but do it large enough, to avoid accidents), put it on your shirt…
It will not bring you links immediately, but it will bring extra visitors, and some will link to your site, others will pass your URL on to others.
Try these 5 simple steps, and you will see your number of incoming links grow.
And yeah, I know, I’m working on the ‘link to us’ page. I wanted to upgrade wordpress first 
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Hey there! I’m thinking about starting a blog of some kind and I’ve been reading your various adsense & linking posts and they’ve been very informative.
I have one question about this post. Now this may/may not become apparent when I actually start my website, but I just wanted to ask how you view your incoming links?
Thanks!
There are several ways to do this. The easiest is to type in “link:yoururl.com” in Google (without the quotes). This will give you a list of links towards your page, that Google can find. This trick, or similar also works for Yahoo! and MSN (Live). You can also open a Google Webmaster account (http://www.google.com/webmaster). This will give you the same info, plus much more, it will also tell you about errors they’ve found and stuff. A must for webmasters.
A link to yus page sounds like a good idea. I never thought about it. Looks like it’s time to add one to Blogging With Success.
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@Mr. I: Create a “Link to us”-page, and I will be the first to link to it!
Great Post. I find Internal Linking as an important technique on building links
Will share also an SEO Tip for Social Search: http://bit.ly/6waFZv
@Gino Carpio: True, internal linking is very underestimated.
Thanks for this post. SEO and back linking in particular is something I have only just started to touch upon. I’ve just started my blog and have been kind of overwhelmed with how much work is required to get even just a small amount of traffic to your site.
I will make sure to try to pay attention to those that link to me and hope that they are using valuable anchor text for me.
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