The Importance of One-Way Links Links for Bloggers

January 14, 2008 by Dorian
Filed under: Link Building 

One-way links are central to search engine optimization and they can spell success or failure for your blog. Probably the quickest and easiest way to generate a lot of high quality one-way links is to use a reliable blog pinging service. This should be part of any solid one way link building strategy. When you use a blog pinging service to notify blog directories, blog search engines and RSS feed aggregators that your blog has been updated, you immediately get high value one-way links to your blog from these sites themselves. You also gain a secondary benefit when some of their readers directly link to you from their own blogs and websites.

Traffic Generation through One-Way Links

One-way link building is an important traffic generating strategy for two main reasons. Firstly, one way links from relevant, respected, and high traffic sites are given high extra weighting in search engine page rank calculations. This means if you get a lot of inbound links from these kinds of sites you will gain a much higher page rank than if the links are coming from low traffic sites and those with unrelated content. The higher your page rank, the more likely you are to benefit from free targeted traffic from searches. Secondly, real visitors follow one-way links. The more your link is displayed across the web on high traffic sites targeting a similar audience, the more genuinely interested people will click on a link to your site. Blog search engines should be central to any link building strategy. Bloggers regularly research on blog search engines and if they discover useful blog posts, they are likely to link to them from their own blogs. More than a link, you will also get comments, which can generate discussion about your blog and create a ?buzz?. Three of the most effective blog search engines to attract people to your blog are Technorati, Sphere, and Ice Rocket.

RSS Feeds as One-way Link Building Strategies

The most effective link building strategies will utilize RSS Feeds. RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication and is simply an easy way to mass distribute and publish material on the web. You can easily build RSS feeds into your blog that incorporate your links to blog pages. Every time your feed is shown on another website it counts as another one-way link to your blog. You can use RSS building software to create RSS feed on your blog (RSS Builder is freeware), however many blogging platforms already have RSS feed capability built in. You just have to enable it. Once you have done this, you will be able to submit RSS feeds. These simple one-way link building strategies are possible by intelligently using a solid blog pinging service. Of course, you will need to write interesting and informative content and update your blog regularly for this strategy to work. However, if you provide good value to readers then blog pinging is a wonderful way to get the word out.