Linking Strategies

Visit the UK directories listed below to submit a website or alternatively see our in depth UK directory list.

All directories listed below are UK based as the title suggests, are human edited, family friendly and search engine friendly UK directories.

These UK directories are an excellent resource and a great place to start and, also continue your website promotion. Continued

In Web 2.0, linking is the primary way in which websites and web pages interact with one another. It’s how search engines measure the relevance and value of a given page. The quantity and, perhaps more importantly, the quality of the backlinks that point to your site thus has a huge effect on your search engine rankings.

What are Backlinks?

Backlinks are basically links that are incoming to a website. This means any link received by a web node (e.g. a web page, website, directory, top-level domain) from another web node. Backlinks are also known as inbound links, inward links and inlinks. Continued

In addition to being one of the most important SEO strategies, it is possibly one of the most controversially misunderstood and argued SEO topics in today’s 2009 market.

One thing that we as SEO experts can agree upon is that search engine algorithms have changed on a regular basis throughout the years and that over the years many factors have come to pass and new ones come into play with each having significant value in relation to how search engine search bots index our sites and ultimately determine our natural organic search term search rank. Continued

It’s no secret that link building is vital for your Internet business, but not everybody knows why.

Before search engines came about, people could only find your website by knowing the URL of the site or getting the link from someone else. The term Web defines the use of links as just that, a intertwining connection of sites linked to one another. Continued

Link Popularity has been the talk of the webmaster community for years.

You must be wondering why link popularity is so popular! I am going to explain it with some real life examples so to give a true understanding.

Link popularity can be explained simply as the total number of links pointing to your site. But, bare in mind that link popularity is not all about quantity. It is a mix between quantity and quality. Continued

There are many ways you can you check the amount of backlinks your website has.

Here we list the most frequently used and most popular methods that many a webmaster use on a daily basis. Continued