Increase Your Social Networking Site Ranking and Traffic with Free Backlinks

Aug. 3, 2011 - PRLog -- One of the biggest challenges to running your own social networking site is increasing and maintaining the site’s search engine ranking.  It is especially difficult to get onto and stay on the first page of Google’s search results. The competition with other social networks is fierce. There are a few strategies to implement to ensure you are achieving SEO (Search Engine Optimization) standards and getting your site to the top of the search engine rankings. One of the best tools is the use of backlinks leading to your site.

Before employing backlinks or any other traffic generating tool, make sure your social networking site is at its best. If you have used social networking software to design your site, it should not be a problem, but you still want to test all of the applications and functions before you start funneling traffic. You don’t want to ruin the reputation of your site by prematurely marketing it. Make sure your social network script is functioning properly and that you have filled your content with relevant keywords and good quality information. Well written content is one of the most powerful keys to keeping a spot on Google’s first page in search results. There are some tricks to building and obtaining free backlinks.

Web 2.0 Sites
Good articles containing relevant keywords and placed on sites like Hubpages and Squido are perfect for placing backlinks to your social networking sites. The backlinks should be seamlessly incorporated into well written content that should work to bolster the popularity of your site.

Social Bookmarking
Submitting your social networking site to other sites for social bookmarking is not difficult and is free. Not only will you have instant backlinks, but you get more exposure for your site in relation to the hosting website’s popularity. That will increase your site’s search engine rankings. There are some software scripts which will automatically submit your social networking site to multiple sites for bookmarking which can be very convenient and save time.

Video Marketing
Although running a video on YouTube will not directly give your site backlinks, someone watching the video can become interested enough to link to your social networking site to check it out.

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